Daily Archives: March 31, 2012

Women May Receive Pelvic Exams Without Their Consent

March 31, 2012   Rebecca Welk   No comments

Canadian women may be subjected to pelvic exams during procedures, even if they did not consent to the examination, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Medical professionals have often performed these examinations without the patient knowing.

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In September 2010, Canada updated its guidelines, making it mandatory for patients to give consent before the procedure. However, the CMAJ claims that these new rules do not apply to medical residents, therefore the students can still perform the pelvic exam without asking.

When a study was performed in 2010, 70% of the women polled said they expected to be asked for permission before anyone performed a pelvic exam. According to Professor Elaine Gibson of Dalhousie University, the current practices “show a lack of respect for women.”

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Single Mother Found Strangled, Covered in Bleach

March 31, 2012   Lindsay Robbins   No comments

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A 33-year old mother, Melissa Jenkins, was found in the Connecticut River after being strangled to death and covered in bleach.

The suspects arrested were Alan Prue, 30, and his wife Patricia Prue, 33. They lured Jenkins out of her house by calling and her and asking for help because their car had broken down. When she arrived, Alan strangled her, then put her in the backseat of their car to take it home, where they put the body on a tarp and poured bleach all over it. They weighed the body down with cement blocks before throwing the body in the Connecticut River, which separates New Hampshire from Vermont.

Allan Prue had asked out Jenkins before, and she had said that she felt uncomfortable around him. Also, Prue had told police that he was trying to “get a girl.” Prue, that Sunday night, showed up an hour late to work. His mother, Donna Prue, believes that her son is innocent.

The police were first alerted when a friend called the police because Jenkins’s two-year old son was found unharmed, idling in the back of her SUV.  She was a single mother and a science teacher at St. Johnsbury Academy.

The Prues were arrested on Wednesday, and are facing charges of 2nd degree murder charges and improperly disposing of a body.

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Man Lights Himself On Fire to Protest China’s Rule

March 31, 2012   Brittany Gasper   No comments

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On March 26, Jamphel Yeshi, an escapee from Tibet, lit himself on fire in protest of the Chinese government’s rule of Tibet.

Before Chinese President Hu Jintao’s arrival, Yeshi, 27, lit himself on fire and ran 50 meters before collapsing. Despite fellow protestors’ efforts to put out the flames, 98% of Yeshi’s body suffered burns. He later died in the hospital.

Tenzin Dorjee, a protester who witnessed Yeshi’s act, told reporters, “This is what China faces unless they give freedom to Tibet.”

In this year alone, already 30 people have set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule over Tibet.

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University Basketball Player Uploads Sex Tapes on Facebook

March 31, 2012   Brittany Gasper   No comments

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University of Rhode Island basketball player, Jonothan Holton, was arrested on March 27 after allegedly posting two sex tapes to social media site, Facebook.

Campus police arrested Holton, a freshman, after two students said he recorded two separate sexual encounters with them and proceeded to post them to Facebook. Police say while the encounters took place on campus last fall and were consensual, neither victim knew about the video taping.

According to Holton’s lawyer, the basketball player did not post the videos to Facebook or distribute them to other people. The lawyer maintains Holton’s account had been hacked and the videos were sent to approximately thirty other people.

Holton has been suspended from the basketball team and it is possible he will be suspended from school. He is facing three years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Both counts of video voyeurism are considered felonies.

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Jennifer Lawrence: Too Full-Figured to be Katniss?

March 31, 2012   Brittany Gasper   No comments

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As always with highly anticipated book-turned films, “The Hunger Games” has seen its fair share of criticism since opening. The actors portraying the book’s characters have been given positive reviews for their performances, but have received backlash over their appearances.

Jennifer Lawrence plays the protagonist of the film, Katniss Everdeen, a famine-stricken teen living in dystopian America. Some critics have voiced Lawrence’s fuller figure does not represent the struggle Everdeen’s character faces in the book.

Manohla Dargis, a New York Times film critic, wrote, “A few years ago Ms. Lawrence might have looked hungry enough to play Katniss, but now, at 21, her seductive, womanly figure makes for a bad fit for a dystopian fantasy about a people starved into submission.”

Dargis’s  critique has created a wave of backlash.

Gabby Vittoria of TheHob.org said, “Katniss may not have been as thin or small in stature as depicted in the book, but it’s not unfathomable that her hunting prowess would have allowed her to have some meat on her bones.” Vittoria continued, “For me Jennifer’s acting and the quality of the film makes her weight a non-issue.”

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