FAIRFIELD
How Fairfield takes part in Super Tuesday In accordance with this past Tuesday’s elections, commonly known as Super Tuesday, Fairfield University offered local media and other members of the community new perspectives on this historic day. The Center for Catholic Studies, Fairfield’s Women Forum and the Council of Churches of Greater Bridgeport and Fairfield University held three different panels. The first was on the religious issues of the elections, another on female political pundits, which was hosted by five Fairfield professors, and the last was on becoming an informed electorate: issues and values and the role of the media. The latter will be held this Thursday, two days after the elections.
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POLITICS
Election results are in for the Primaries Super Tuesday raked in primary results for 24 states, ultimately propelling candidates into party nomination slots for the general election. There was a tie in the number of states won between Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, while Sen. John McCain was the Republican party winner. Obama and McCain were the victors in Connecticut, according to CNN.com.
NATIONAL
Tobacco companies going to college Many college campuses across the nation are saying no to cigarettes – well, to tobacco companies, at least, according to a New York Times article . Corporations in the industry have, for years, provided colleges with funding for student groups and faculty research. Recently, however, there have been moves to ban tobacco money on campuses. As cited in the article, 15 public health and medical schools have turned down the industrial donations made by tobacco companies. Currently, however, there is no national ban in place.
INTERNATIONAL
STDs a ‘worldwide epidemic’ According to a medical paper published in an Australian journal on Monday, sexually transmitted diseases are spreading dramatically in the Australian Aborigines. The two authors of the paper, both doctors, concluded that the problem could be addressed by mass treatment without any individual testing, which would be ineffective because people are moving around too much. People ages 20 and over are expected to receive these treatments.
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