There’s a person behind the webpage
Slavery in the U.S. didn’t end over 150 years ago. Flaws in our laws allow it to happen within our own borders. The Senate needs to pass the Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation Act of 2014. The bill, which was passed by the House of Representatives on May 20, would make it illegal to post prostitution ads online. It would also prohibit knowingly benefitting financially from commercial sex acts that violate laws against sex trafficking of children or of any person by force, fraud or coercion. The bill was introduced to the Senate on July 14 and given to a committee to be considered further.
Week of September 15
Logical Fallacy by William Luo Here’s a Better Idea by Shannon Wright
Food trucks mobilize, come to campus
Several students, new and old, were offered a taste this weekend of one of Richmond’s up-and-coming staples in its ever growing culinary scene: mobile food.
A call for diverse television
We are in the midst of a culturally critical era of television in both refreshingly positive and severely negative lights, and both are important to note. Always formerly known and ridiculed for being the lesser creative outlet to cinema, TV shows have been elevated to a much higher status due to a revelation of beautiful art direction and skilled writing and acting.
Staff Senate hosts 10th walk-a-thon
The VCU Staff Senate hosted their 10th annual Walk-a-thon on Thursday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Commons Plaza.