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As a covered entity under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City of Los Angeles does not discriminate on the basis of disability and upon request, will provide reasonable accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services and activities. 2 CAMPUS CIRCLE June 5-18, 2014 Film | Music | Culture TABLE OF CONTENTS June 5-18, 2014 Vol. 24 Issue 11 WHAT’SINSIDE Editor-in-Chief Sydney Champion [email protected] Art Director Sean Michael Beyer 15 8 Film Editor [email protected] NEWS 04 The Latest from L.A. and Beyond Music Editor [email protected] Calendar Editor COLLEGE CENTRAL REAL 911 Calls sure to make you... Frederick Mintchell 06 “Crowdfunding-Like” Site Helps [email protected] Laugh Your Students Pay for College Editorial Interns Diego Girgado 07 Calif. Colleges Offer More than Arse Off! Blanca Palacios Truth is by far funnier than fiction, and this collection of real calls Laura Koeller Just Academic Help to law enforcement in Hometown Police Blotter is exactly that. Whether you give it a gander atop the throne, or share it with Luyi Yang friends, it’s sure to bring a smile to everyone’s face and then some. Available in Paperback, Hard Cover and ePub. FILM Contributing Writers www.HometownPoliceBlotter.com Cooper Copeland 08 Review: Obvious Child Barbara Estrada 08 Review: Gore Vidal: Angela Matano The United States of Amnesia SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY Contributing Writers Angel Aguilar Center for Esthetic Dentistry Blanca Palacios MUSIC 13 Affordable Live Music in L.A. ® ADVERTISING 14 Vans Warped Tour— Sean Bello [email protected] Are You Ready?! 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UCLA School of Dentistry, Westwood Campus All rights reserved. Hot Without Breaking Your Wallet www.CampusCircle.com CAMPUS CIRCLE June 5-18, 2014 3 NEWS JOhn WALkER/FRESnO BEE/MCT NEWS &VIEWS The Latest from L.A. and Beyond BY CAMPUS CIRCLE staFF STUDY: RICH COLLEGE WOMEN MORE But, on the bright side, the class of 2014 is also “part of the This includes stripping. GUILTY OF ‘SLUT SHAMING’ largest, most diverse cohort of collegians in American history.” In an interview with ABC News, a college student named If you’ve ever hung out with a group of college women (or just Ah, there’s the silver lining. Maggie spoke openly about balancing being a straight-A, women for that matter), you’ve probably heard one or two double major student and stripping at a club. conversations similar to this one: COLLEGE STUDENTS BECOME STRIPPERS “People] assume that we’re damaged and it’s like, no, we “Oh my god, did you hear that Becky hooked up with Roger TO PAY TUITION BILLS just want to make three times the amount of money we’re last night at the register?” We know a few college students do some pretty radical things going to make when we graduate, before we graduate. That’s “Really? She’s such a slut!” to pay their tuition bills, like getting a “Sugar Daddy” or why I’m trying to save now,” she said. This is a version of “slut shaming,” which is often defined as becoming a porn star. But honestly, who’s to blame or judge Maggie reportedly makes about $180,000 a year stripping, making a woman feel ashamed for having sexual experiences or them? which is much more than what she’ll probably make if she encounters by calling her a “slut,” “skank,” “slutty,” “trashy,” etc. With tuition continuing to increase every year, student graduates and becomes a lawyer as planned. University of Michigan researchers found that when it loan interest rates increasing and an economy that’s suffering And women aren’t the only ones turning to stripping -- comes to “slut shaming,” rich college women seem to be more men are too. One 21-year-old male stripper named Dino told likely to do it than poorer women. ABC, “I started doing this just to pay for the books. Then I NBC News reports the study found rich girls who exhibit realized how much I could make from this, and just as a part- the same sexual behaviors as poorer girls call their own sexual “The average time job, it’s great.” escapades “classy,” but call the poorer girls’ sexual experiences “slutty.” This indicates that slut shaming is actually not so much BOSTON COLLEGE STUDENTS TERRORIZED about one’s sexual acts -- it’s about one’s economic and social college student BY SERIAL…TICKLER? status. Yes, you read the headline correctly. A serial tickler has been As a result, richer women are able to enjoy their sexual targeting students at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass., escapades without the fear of being called a derogatory name in the class reports Boston.com. like “slut,” while poorer girls must endure the damaging word. Over the last two years, there have reportedly been “High-status women can be hooking up, making out, and 10 sightings of the “Tickler,” who has been sneaking into engaging in oral sex, but since they were from affluence, they of 2014 will residences, watching students sleep and tickling their feet. defined themselves as classy, and they did it at the expense of However, there seems to be conflicting reports. On other women not in their social circles,” one researcher of the Wednesday, the Boston Police Department reportedly said study reportedly told NBC News. graduate with there was only one incident where a foot was touched, but a sergeant supposedly said there have been multiple incidents CLASS OF 2014 HAS SOME SERIOUS STUDENT LOAN DEBT and that the “Tickler” was not a myth. As 2014 college graduates walk across the stage, grab their Regardless, this “Tickler” situation is beyond creepy! One degrees, take photos with their families and enter the glorious nearly $33,000 male student told Boston.com he saw the “Tickler” in his room world of post-grad life, more than half of them will soon have to at 3:45 a.m. start worrying about paying off their student loans. “Someone was standing at the end of the bed, and by the MSNBC reports the “average college student in the class of in debt.” time I realized there was someone really there, he was booking 2014 will graduate with nearly $33,000 in debt, with nearly 60 from student loan debt, it makes sense that some students will it right out my door,” he said. percent having taken out a student loan.” As a result, the total resort to seemingly drastic measures to make as much money The “Tickler” is described as a 5-foot-8 black male student loan debt in the U.S. has reached $1.2 trillion. as they can before graduating so they can pay off their tuition. wearing dark clothes and a hoodie. 4 CAMPUS CIRCLE June 5-18, 2014 Film | Music | Culture CSULB INVITE YOU AND SUMMER SESSIONS 2014 A GUEST TO SEE No formal admission to Earn units toward Enroll on a CSULB required your degree “space available” basis Two 6 - Week Sessions May 27–July 3 (S1S) July 7–August 15 (S3S) One 12 - Week Session May 27–August 15 (SSD) More than 75 Online Summer Classes Register Now! 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