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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 2017
Page
3
Residents of Los Angeles and surrounding areas misread a twilight rocket lift off from Vandenberg Air Force Base as an alien event. Officials confirmed SpaceX's Iridium-4 launch was visible across the region, with a public web cast available for observers.
Sam Haskell, head of the Miss America Organization, resigns after HuffPost reports show emails insulting former winners. Board chair Lynn Weidner and member Tammy Haddad also step down as 49 former winners call for leadership change.
Vice Media co founders Shane Smith and Suroosh Alvi apologized for a boys club atmosphere that allowed harassment. The NYT report cites four settlements involving harassment or defamation and more than two dozen women affected. They said three employees were fired and vowed HR overhaul and equal pay by 2018.
The American Talent Initiative grows from 30 to 86 members as colleges including the University of Virginia and the rest of the Ivy League join the effort to add 50,000 high achieving students with financial need by 2025. Michael Bloomberg backs the program, saying top colleges must improve access while noting results are good but could be better. Aspen Institute Ithaka S R assist in setting goals and tracking progress nationwide.
Big Ten schools Maryland Michigan Minnesota Northwestern Ohio State Rutgers and Wisconsin join the American Talent initiative alongside Baylor and Texas in growing need based aid. Wake Forest Yale Georgia Tech and Franklin & Marshall outline specific Pell related targets while Bloomberg stresses that policy shifts should not stall progress.
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