Universities across Iran have announced that almost 80 subjects in both the liberal arts and sciences will be off limits to incoming female scholars.
Female students learned of the bans, which will affect 77 fields across 36 universities, in letters received throughout the past couple of weeks, according to the Telegraph.
The San Francisco 49ers have become the first professional football team to join the online antibullying It Gets Better campaign intended to build confidence and spark optimism in gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youths.
"Something you should never experience is being bullied, intimidated or being pressured to being a someone or something that you are not," 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks said, looking straight into the camera for the one-minute video that was posted Thursday on YouTube.
Remember this fabulous front yard garden in Drummondville, Quebec that city officials, in all their wisdom, wanted to dig up? It's staying, thanks to a 30,000-signature petition, media attention and much grousing from sensible people. City council members even invited its creators, Josée Landry and Michel Beauchamp, to help shape the city's new guidelines for urban food gardens. Speak up. It matters.
"It will now be allowed to Drummondville this type of garden in the front yard."
The University of Utah was recently named as one of the country's top 25 friendly
One student said,"I'm happy about it, I'm proud to be part of the community."
Kai Medina Martinez is the director at the L-G-B-T resource center, and also an alumn from the class of '87 when acceptance was hard to come by.
"It's tremendous, it's great. I never thought we'd be here."
California state legislators passed a bill Friday that seeks to protect undocumented immigrants charged with relatively minor crimes from being deported.
The bill, by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, would prohibit local police from detaining anyone on an immigration hold if the person is not charged with or has not been convicted of a serious or violent crime.
