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Petition: FAU Needs Gender-Neutral Bathrooms to Accommodate Transgender Students (Updated)

By Ryan Cortes
Sep 24, 2014

Faculty and students at FAU are petitioning the university to make its restrooms more trans-accessible, though so far there hasn't been a response in nearly a month. Currently, there are 23 gender-neutral public restrooms on campus. But where they are isn't listed on the university's handbook or website and the...
Volunteer of the Year to Boys & Girls Clubs: Stop Partnering With the Rodeo

By Ryan Cortes
Sep 3, 2014

Andrew Kirschner -- the 2012 Volunteer of the Year for the Boys & Girls Club of Broward County -- got an email recently asking about volunteers for an upcoming event the club was holding with Davie Pro Rodeo. It's unclear how long the rodeo and the local club have done...
New Artificial Reef Created in Hollywood -- by Sinking a Cement Sailboat

By Ryan Cortes
Aug 29, 2014

Look, Hollywood Beach was already cool. Segways, the Broadwalk, bar after bar after bar. But now? There's a cement vessel named Usikusiku (Swahili for "twilight," of course) that's been sunk. It's a part of a number of artificial reefs that Broward has created over the past 20-plus years, and divers...
Fan Who Released Great Miami Heat Song Unveils Miami Dolphins Parody

By Ryan Cortes
Aug 28, 2014

Last month, we told you about a listener to a local sports radio program who released an excellent Miami Heat parody song called So Rude (Riley Ain't Scared). Now, the Zaslow and Joy show on the Ticket Miami is soliciting Miami Dolphins parody songs in exchange for tickets, and the...
Florida Group to Amazon, Google: Ban Fat-Shaming Apps

By Ryan Cortes
Aug 28, 2014

Tampa-based Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) and a number of organizations -- including the American Board of Obesity Medicine -- submitted formal letters to the leaders of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft on Wednesday. The letters ask that the companies remove fat-shaming apps the groups deem offensive. The apps -- among...

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