NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
1_ Canada wall: Failed Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker may feel some vindication in this number: 41 percent of Americans say that if a wall is built along the Mexican border, one should also be erected on the Canadian one. The latest Bloomberg Politics poll shows the same percentage favors a wall erected along the nation’s southern border.
2_ Coach resigns: A Texas assistant football coach accused of instructing two players to hit a referee during a game has resigned, school officials said Thursday. The principal and head football coach at John Jay High School in San Antonio told state officials Thursday they believe assistant Mack Breed told players to retaliate against an official in the closing minutes of a game earlier this month. The players told their coaches earlier in the game that referees had been directing racial slurs at them. Robert Watts, the referee who was hit, denied using any racial slur.
3_ Hulk Hogan lawsuit: A group of media outlets is asking a Florida judge to make records in the Hulk Hogan sex video case public. Hogan, a former WWE wrestler whose real name is Terry Bollea, is suing the news website Gawker for posting a video of him having sex with the then-wife of Hogan’s friend. He’s claiming that Gawker invaded his privacy when it posted a clip of the video that showed him having sex with Heather Clem, the then-wife of radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge Clem.
4_ Transgender inmate: A transgender inmate who says she was called “it” and “some kind of animal” by guards who watched her shower has won a legal victory that forces the Maryland prison system to better train for how to treat transgender people, advocates say. Neon Brown, who goes by Sandy, said in a grievance that she was sent to the state prison at Patuxent in 2014 for a psychological screening. Brown said she was placed in solitary confinement, and kept there for 66 days despite a directive from the jail warden that staff shouldn’t segregate her from the rest of the population. During that time, she was routinely harassed by guards.
5_ Newspaper boycott: At Wesleyan University, known for its liberal culture, a campaign to shut down the campus newspaper is coming from an unlikely source: its students. The student government for the liberal arts school in Middletown, Conn., is weighing a petition to strip the Wesleyan Argus of funding after some objected to an opinion piece on the Black Lives Matter movement. The student opinion piece questioned whether the Black Lives Matter movement is achieving anything positive.
6_ Cosby degree rescinded: Marquette University said Thursday that it is rescinding an honorary degree it awarded to comedian and father figure Bill Cosby when he was commencement speaker for the class of 2013, amid compounding allegations the actor was a serial rapist. It’s the first time the Jesuit university in Milwaukee has taken back an honorary degree.