Drexel Cancels Abortion Course Mid Trimester

Drexel University has decided to cancel its controversial course on abortion after just 7 weeks.  Drexel made local headlines when they decided to offer a course that solely focused on the topic of abortion, now amid national criticism the university has decided to end the course. 

Drexel is a university that has routinely done things a little differently to get noticed.  The school has long lived in the shadow of the prestigious University of Pennsylvania and other Big 5 schools.  Drexel has been run on trimesters instead of semesters and they have placed an emphasis on internships. 

The recent decision to shutdown Abortion 101 by President John Anderson Fry was difficult.  "Drexel University is committed to offering courses you cannot find anywhere else.  However in this case university administrators realized that the offering of the course was not well thought out but rather started on a whim.  Rather than let the course run through the rest of the trimester we decided it was best to end things as soon as possible. We just wanted this problem to go away and did not want to deal with this for years to come."

14 students were enrolled in Abortion 101, taught by Professor Maureen Roe. The students will receive their money back for the course and a free course to be used in the future.  The course consisted of freshman and sophomores.

In recent weeks the course had drawn protesters to 34th and Market St. in Philadelphia.  There was confusion as to what was being taught in the course and both pro life and pro choice protesters were concerned about the course.

Pro Life activist Moucho Vil Derra stated "Drexel should know better than to have course on abortion.  You can't talk about that stuff in schools it ain't right."  Pro Choice activist Mary Thurston did not want students to be steered against abortion. "I don't know what they are teaching those kids but it better be that abortion be good."

One Drexel University administrator discussed the protests on the condition of anonymity.  "These people are out here on their bullhorns for 6 hours a day protesting about a course they never attended.  Imagine if they put this much effort into finding a job.  I assure you that Drexel was allowing the students in the course to make their own informed decision but once again we have given into political correctness." 




HT:everythreeweekly.com (I heard they ran a similar headline in the past but I never found the story)

ESPN Announces New Programing Lineup

Denise Austin,Tony Randall, Chuck Norris, and Suzanne Somers are coming back to ESPN Programing. ESPN has decided to bring back paid programming to fill their 24 hours of coverage across ESPN, ESPN 2, and ESPN News.

“We finally realized how difficult it is to fill the 24 hours news cycle on 3 cable networks. Customers can only hear about Brett Farve’s retirement and penis so many times throughout the day” Said one ESPN rep

ESPN has decided to fill 8 of the 24 hours on ESPN and ESPN 2 with Paid Programming. Only live games will override the planned change of paid programming so no worries WAC Football fans. In addition to the paid programming, ESPN will add coverage of previously seen on ESPN 3 to regular cable TV. This will mean addition games and additional sports genres will be added. Sports like Men’s rugby will once again appear on ESPN.

One ESPN network executive warned that network favorites such as First and Ten, Around the Horn, SportsNation will be terminated with extreme prejudice. The Sports Reporters and Pardon the Interruption are expected to be retained. ESPN News is expected to run highlights and news for 24 hours straight. ESPN Classic will remain largely unchanged.

Fan reactions were mixed. Jimmy from Jersey said I won’t be able to get through my day without breaking stories such as Deron Williams may play in Turkey if there is an NBA lockout. This is something that needs to be discussed every five minutes and every ESPN personality should give his opinion on the matter. The paid programming and actual live sports events will severely cut into discussion time.

Doyle from Texas had another take. I cannot stand to watch ESPN unless there is a live event I need to see. This new programming initiative should be positive because things cannot get any worse then they are right now. Paid programming with the bottom line running across the bottom of the screen sounds like a plan. I just want sports news and live events the talking heads must be stopped.

ESPN is expected to phase in the new changes starting August 1 of this year.

Transgender to Play Women's Basketball

Which one, is not like the other?

From ESPN.com

A female-to-male transgender member of the George Washington women's basketball team wants to be identified as a man this season.

Junior Kye Allums -- who used to be known as Kay-Kay -- is referred to on the school's website as a "male member of George Washington's women's basketball team."

"GW has been supportive during this transition. This means a lot. I didn't choose to be born in this body and feel the way I do. I decided to transition -- that is, change my name and pronouns -- because it bothered me to hide who I am, and I am trying to help myself and others to be who they are," Allums said in a statement posted Tuesday on the website.

"I told my teammates first, and they, including my coaches, have supported me. My teammates have embraced me as the big brother of the team," continued Allums, who turned 21 last month. "They have been my family, and I love them all."

A story posted Monday on outsports.com reported that "Allums will be the first publicly transgender person" to play NCAA Division I college basketball. NCAA spokesman Rick Nixon did not immediately reply to a request for comment Tuesday from the AP.

Not to worry, NAGAYT has tracked down the story and has received comment from NCAA Spokesman Rick Nixon. Nixon was surprised to learn of the story yesterday and when asked what the NCAA intends to do he was candid.

 "How the hell should I know? I mean what do you do with something like that? This Shim seems to be using an unfair advantage playing on the women's team.  The good thing is that with this being women's basketball, no one cares.  This story will pass in a few days and everyone can go back to ignoring the sport. 

George Washington has throw their support behind Kyle, formerly know as Kye.  Nixon believes GW is at a loss for what has taken place.  "I mean in this day in age you can't ask someone to drop their pants before they play.  You can't check the equipment down there, coaches have gotten in trouble for that in the past.  GW is being PC and is taking the high road.  Its the female sport with possibly the lowest form of entertainment so what do they care? 

Allums started 20 games for George Washington last season, averaging 7.4 points and 4.6 rebounds in 24.9 minutes. Allums scored a career-high 21 points in a 58-50 victory over La Salle on Jan. 24.

La Salle's coach last season has since been fired.  Some believe it was in large part to the embarrassing defeat to GW.  Tom Locker disagreed with the fact that Kye impact made a big difference.  "I could have used our whole men's team and we still would have lost the game.  I mean have you seen how awful Giannini's team is?"

A side note, there is a former Cherry Hill East player on this team.