The Clarion, Vol. 86, Issue #6, Sept. 23, 2020
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clarion.brevard.edu Volume 86, Issue 6 Web Edition SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935 September 23, 2020 Remembering RBG Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87 By Margaret Correll Harvard but she transferred to Columbia Law appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Editor in Chief and graduated at the top of her class in 1959. 1980. She had a hard time finding a job after college, In 1993 she was appointed to the Supreme Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court but after being recommended she clerked under Court by former president Bill Clinton. She Justice and feminist icon, passed away in her U.S. District Judge Edmund L. Palmieri. She had continued her fight for gender equality while Washington, D.C. home on Friday, Sept. 18, been offered jobs at different law firms but the serving on the court. She was the second female 2020 from complications due to her metastatic salary was alway significantly lower than her justice and first Jewish female justice on the pancreatic cancer. She was 87. potential male coworkers. court. A legendary woman who took on the fight for Ginsburg accepted a position with the Columbia She tackled many important cases while on equal justice for women in the workplace and Project on International Civil Procedure where the Supreme Court, one of them being the 1996 served 27 long years on the Supreme Court of the she was immersed in Swedish culture and lived casem United States v. Virginia. She held that United States. She faced much adversity during abroad for a brief time to do research for her qualified women should not be denied admission her years but never failed to have her head held book on Swedish civil procedures. to Virginia Military Institute. high and showed that she was more than her male She accepted a teaching position at Rutgers She used her time well while serving on the counterparts thought of her. University Law School in 1963 and stayed until highest court in the United States. Even through Born Joan Ruth Bader on March 15, 1933 in 1972 after accepting a position at Columbia. her cancer, her husband’s death in 2010 and Brooklyn, New York to Celia Amster and Nathan She became the first female professor to receive her worsening health she proved that she was a Bader. Her father was a furrier, a trade that deals tenure at Columbia. capable member of the court and role model to in furs, during the Great Depression and her During the 1970s, Ginsburg directed the young women who aspire to be equal. mother worked in a garment factory. Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil The Supreme Court released an official Ginsburg attended James Madison High Liberties Union and fought for equality in statement on Saturday, Sept. 19, regarding her School in Brooklyn before her mother was the workplace for both women and men. She death and praising her for her dedication to her diagnosed with cancer and passed away the accepted former president Jimmy Carter’s work and the United States during her lifetime. day before her graduation. She continued her education by enrolling at Cornell University, graduating at the top of her class in 1954. During the same year of her graduation, she married Martin Ginsburg, who also attended Cornell as a law student. She had her first child in 1955 and her husband spent two years drafted in the military and upon his return she enrolled in Harvard Law. When her husband was diagnosed with cancer in 1956, she helped him with his studies while also staying at the top of her class at Harvard. She faced some severe gender discrimination while studying at Harvard, being a mother and one of nine women in a 500-person class. She was chastised by many for “taking a man’s place at Harvard”. See ‘Chernobyl fire’ on page 3 She was the first woman to serve on the Harvard Law Review. Her husband graduated from Harvard after recovering from cancer and accepted a position at a law firm in New York City. Ginsburg had only one year left at Ruth Bader Ginsburg We accept Letters to the Editor, feedback and any article that Clarionmay Writers fit in any of our four Wanted! categories! Page 2 Campus News The Clarion | September 23, 2020 Continued from Page 1 By Julie Carter Hurricane Sally follows Laura Opinion Editor A month has passed since Hurricane Laura conference on Sept. 18., which could take weeks It highlights our human ingenuity in dealing made landfall on the United States, wreaking to restore. with whatever problems we may face together, devastation on coastal counties in the states Natural disasters reveal the critical importance as a nation, as a state, or as a community, and is along the Gulf of Mexico and causing flash of first responders during times of crisis, and reason for optimism. flood and tornado warnings to be issued in local, regional, or national programs or agencies landlocked states; however, the long process of designed to rescue, assist, and assuage those — Isaac Ford recovery that occurs after natural disasters was affected, as well as those created to assess compounded by the onset of a new hurricane- damages. Sally. Forming out over the Caribbean on Sept. 10, 2020, Sally developed into a hurricane and was projected to make landfall in the U.S. By Mickayla Smith In anticipation of Hurricane Sally, warnings Staff Writer and watches were issued, and evacuations undergone in threatened coastal counties along the Gulf Coast. Sally made landfall in Alabama on Sept. 16., lessening in intensity, and weakening into a remnant low on Sept. 17. Numerous areas were affected by flooding and storm surges, particularly in Alabama, and Florida. Over a hundred thousand people lost power in one Alabama county alone, according Photo from ABC News to Alabama Governor Kay Ivey in a news Hurricane Sally causes dangerous flooding. THE CLARION SENIOR STAFF Editor in Chief Margaret Correll U.S. News and Managing Editor Copy Editor Aia Andonovska Campus News Eleanor Flannery Opinion Eleanor Flannery Arts & Life Kym Caldwell World Report Sports Layout & Design Margaret Correll . Kym Caldwell . 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September 23, 2020 | The Clarion Campus News Page 3 Whistleblower outs alleged ICE improper practices Allegations of mass hysterectomies and threats of COVID-19 By Aia Andonovska Henrietta Lacks, to the horror of the Tuskegee records, allowing employees to work while Copy Editor Syphilis Study, to the forced sterilizations of symptomatic and awaiting COVID-19 test Black women that Fannie Lou Hamer and so results, withholding information from detainees A nurse who worked at an immigration many others underwent and fought." and employees about who has tested positive, detention center in Ocilla, Georgia filed a Last week, 168 members of Congress sent underreporting COVID-19 cases, and allowing whistleblower complaint alluding to the lack of a letter to DHS inspector General Joseph the transfer of detained immigrants, including medical care and improper work practices that Cuffari, urging him to investigate the mass those who have tested positive for the virus. advanced the spread of COVID-19. She also hysterectomies. The Congressmen have ICE told NPR it "vehemently disputes stated that immigrant women underwent the demanded an urgent response and briefing by the implication that detainees are used for process of having questionable hysterectomies. Sept. 25. experimental medical procedures." ICE also House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Dawn Wooten, the nurse who filed the said it does not comment prematurely on the Leader Steny Hoyer, Congressman Joaquin whistleblower complaint, worked at the Irwin allegations out of respect for the process of Castro, and Senators Cory Booker and Richard County Detention Center until her sudden matters pending before the inspector general.