Sarah Rubinstein is a freshman journalism major at MU. She is an opinion columnist who writes about politics and societal observations for The Maneater.
When recounting this year’s March Madness tournament, it is impossible to ignore the NCAA’s obvious sexism.
The attention started when Oregon’s Sedona Prince posted a TikTok comparing the men’s and women’s weight rooms for the NCAA March Madness tournament.The men’s workout area was one large space decked out with equipment and the women’s small area was supplied with a single rack of 5-pound dumbbells and some yoga mats. The NCAA responded by expanding the weight room, but the incident never should have occurred in the first place.
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This past May marked a turning point for many Americans.
More Americans began to reflect inward on the systemic racism that the policing system was founded on, our country’s history of racism and our own internal racial biases.
Video footage of the murder of George Floyd particularly struck people with the disturbing issue of police brutality, even though it has been going on for centuries. Not only was the public aware of the event, they remembered his face, his name and his last words. People were shocked because they saw it as an isolated incident, rather than an ongoing problem that recently spiked in attention.
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This Local Motion features parts of Allan Savory s presentation Hope for Humanity in Holistic Management from the 9th Annual Western Colorado Food and Farm Forum.
Allan Savory was born in Zimbabwe and educated in South Africa. In the 1960s he made a significant breakthrough in understanding what was causing the degradation and desertification of the world’s grassland ecosystems and, as a resource management consultant, worked with numerous managers on four continents to develop sustainable solutions.
In 1992 Savory and his wife, Jody Butterfield, formed a non-profit organization in Zimbabwe, the Africa Centre for Holistic Management, AND In 2009 Savory, Butterfield, and a group of colleagues co-founded the Savory Institute in Boulder, Colorado to serve the world through an international network of entrepreneurial innovators and leaders committed to serving their regions with the highest standards of Holistic Management training and implementation support.