May 14, 2012
By Haley Potter College students sometimes face the stereotype of being reckless drinkers, but now that characterization has begun to trickle down to younger individuals. A recent USA Today article reports that Los Angeles emergency rooms have had to deal with increasing numbers of teenagers drinking hand sanitizer in order to get drunk. Possible dangers of hand sanitizer have long been a concern for children who might accidentally ingest it, but the distillation of 62% ethyl alcohol hand sanitizers using salt appears to be an extremely dangerous developing trendamong high school-aged students. This is, of course, not the first alarming trend making [Read more...]
May 14, 2012
Albany, CA: University of California police raided a four-week Occupy encampment at a college-owned farm used for agriculture research early Monday, arresting nine people after protesters ignored yet another weekend deadline to leave. About 100 officers clad in riot gear arrived shortly after 6 a.m. at the camp known as Occupy the Farm, but there was no violence, university spokesman Dan Mogulof said. Officers moved in after issuing a dispersal order to about 10 protesters sleeping at the Gill Tract in Albany, a 10-acre plot used primarily by UC Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources. Two protesters, both women, were arrested [Read more...]
