Professors: ‘Diversity Educators’ Suffer From Burnout Due To Microaggressions

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Lonely college student needs to get a grip  

So-called “Diversity Educators” are suffering from burnout due to the “emotional weight” of their jobs, according to a recent academic journal article published this week in the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice.

The study, written by University of North Carolina-Charlotte professor Ryan Miller and six colleagues from the University of North Texas, interviewed seven interviewed diversity educators from a “predominantly white research institution” who claim that they suffer from “compassion fatigue,” “burnout,” and “racial battle fatigue” in their efforts to combat microaggressions on campus.

According to Miller, the burnout is caused by the diversity educators’ “consistent exposure to various microaggressions” from students who don’t see things their way. He notes that these microaggressions have been conceptualized by some scholars “as forms of assault and torture.”

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 LOACH cockpit, smokes and Frag bag. Photo by Lovell Ricky Smith.

Feinstein Can’t Name Any Laws That Would Have Prevented Vegas Massacre

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) couldn't name any laws in an interview airing Sunday that might have prevented last week's massacre in Las Vegas.

NBC host Chuck Todd asked Feinstein what laws could have prevented the massacre if she had her way with writing all laws.

"Let me ask you this: give me the slate of laws that if you could wave your wand and have enacted that could have prevented Vegas?" Todd said.

"Well, I don't know. I would have to take a good look at that and really study it," Feinstein said. "I'm not sure there is any set of laws that could have prevented it."

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Hannah Scherlacher pushes back against SPLC hate labels

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Emails reveal UMich president's undisguised disdain for Trump influenced his public work

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The Mackinac Center for Public Policy has settled a lawsuit against the University of Michigan after the school finally agreed to release emails exposing President Mark Schlissel’s anti-Trump sentiments.

As Campus Reform reported in March, the university was sued by the Mackinac Center for repeatedly failing to release internal correspondences related to Donald Trump’s election.

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After missing several self-imposed deadlines, the school finally provided a mere four documents on February 27 and then March 2, more than 100 days after the initial request, even though school officials had disclosed that the request would take only three hours to fulfill.

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Kaepernick says he'll stand for anthem if signed to NFL team

NFL free agent Colin Kaepernick told CBS that he would stand for the national anthem if signed to an NFL team.

CBS Sports’ Jason La Canfora spent time with Kaepernick this week. The former San Fransisco 49ers quarterback told him that he was constantly working out in hopes of being signed to an NFL team and if he was signed, he would stand for the anthem.

“He’s not planning on kneeling, he’s planning on standing for the anthem, if given the opportunity to,” La Canfora said. 

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The Civil War (sic) Sketches of Adolph Metzner (1861–64)

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From gilt-framed ambrotypes of glassy-eyed new recruits to grim and grainy shots of the muddy dead, the American Civil War was the first major conflict to leave behind an extensive photographic record. Apart from the stylised scenes of battle that found their way on to painted canvas, it is perhaps to these photographs that one might automatically tend if asked to think of the visual record of the war. However, in both the photographic record and the more official war art, as engaging as they can be, there does seem to be something important missing: the immediacy and intimacy of everyday life as a soldier.  

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FEMA Administrator Rips San Juan Mayor’s Criticisms: ‘We Don’t Have Time for the Political Noise’

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Spanish leader Rajoy mulls suspending Catalonia autonomy

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"We are going to stop independence from happening. On that, I can tell you with absolute frankness, that it will not happen. 

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will consider taking the dramatic measure of suspending Catalonia's autonomous status, as the region's leaders escalate threats to declare independence from the country.

Spanish politics has been plunged into disarray since Catalonia held an independence referendum a week ago. Catalan leaders say the people voted overwhelmingly to split, but Madrid has declared the vote illegal.

 

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Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock calculated where to shoot to kill maximum number of people

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Police found a note in the hotel room of Stephen Paddock, the gunman behind the mass shooting in Las Vegas, that had hand-written calculations about where he needed to aim to kill as many people as possible.

In an interview that will be aired Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes," Officer Dave Newton from the Las Vegas Police Department's K-9 unit said he noticed a note on the shooter's bedside table after officers entered the room. The note was next to one of the windows that Paddock smashed with a hammer to clear an opening to fire into the crowd from his 32nd-floor hotel suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.

"I could see on it he had written the distance, the elevation he was on, the drop of what his bullet was gonna be for for the crowd," Newton said. "So he had had that written down and figured out so he would know where to shoot to hit his targets from there."

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