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Despite insecurities in pursu
ing this career, she chose to
major in chemistry/biology dur
ing the beginning of her college
education. A lack of interest with
laboratory work and research led
her to pursue psychology.
Having initial presumptions
that psychology did not conduct
laboratory experimentation and
research, she switched her major
to psychology due to its involve
ment with people and discovered
that laboratory experiments and
research were a significant aspect
in the major.
Her prior experience and skills
with laboratory work only bene
fited her advancement within this
career, even though her ulterior
motives for switching majors
were driven by the gender stereo
type that women have more
skills in the area of communica
tion and working with others.
Blasco emphasized fixing these
problematic attitudes by elimi
nating gender stereotyping in
grade school. In an interview after
the conference, she stated that the
Feminist movement aims
towards equali' between the
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Pmfessor Smith Whitney discussed the issue of gender a a Behtynd conference.
What's Inside
Lecturer in Economics Edward Miseta examines the causes of the
Penguins and Sabres push to earn playoff
spot down regular season stretch
With just over 20 games left to to go right down to the wire in
play in the regular season, things the eastern conference.
are heating up in the NHL's east- Spots fourth through eighth are
em conference in the race for the currently separated by three
playoffs. points or less. One win could
move you up two spots, but one
loss could move down two spots.
The Buffalo Sabres are current
ly sitting in the eighth spot with
66 points. Their record is (30-22-
6), and they are third in their divi
sion, but only one point out of
second
Hockey works off of a points
system. When a team wins a
game, they get two points, a loss
earns a team zero points and if the
game goes to overtime, the win
ner gets two points and the loser
gets one point.
The top eight teams in each
conference get a spot in the play
offs and it looks like it's going
comedy troupe The Lonely Island sailing through an ocean of media
What happens when three cre
ative and very imaginative child
hood friends grow up together
watching movies and aspire to
create their own?
First, they have to make it big
in the mainstream media (with
the help of the Internet and
You Tube). Then, they have to
audition for Sceutrilly Night Lire,
hoping their talent is good
enough; from their they have to
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male and female
She noted that the movement and inequalities present today
has progressed significantly in
achieving its goals of equality;
economic crises in Perspectives on page 6.
They never thought they'd be on a boat:
sign contracts and basically sell
themselves to different agencies.
Finally, they have to sit through
a year or so of SNL to finally be
able to produce and write their
own scripts.
Technicalities aside, the come
dy troupe known as The Lonely
Island has gone from nothing to
everything in a typical fashion.
The Lonely Island (TLI) was
officially created in 2001 when
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however, there are still injustices
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founding (and still only) mem
bers and life-long friends Andy
Samberg, Joima Taccone, and
Akiva Schaffer lived together in
Berkeley, California. The group
now resides in New York, where
it has produced numerous
comedic short-films, song paro
dies, You Tube videos and music
videos.
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