Portland area professor suspended for transphobic comments April 26 2021
Pacific University Professor Richard Paxton s suspension raises concerns around culture, process at Forest Grove university.
Pacific University is on the defensive again, as its handling of student complaints against a professor have attracted criticism from the higher education community.
Richard Paxton, a tenured professor of education at the private university in Forest Grove, was placed on leave last October amid a Title IX investigation. The university says it received multiple complaints about Paxton from students, including that he made allegedly transphobic comments on more than one occasion.
Paxton s attorney, Robin DesCamp, says the problems run deeper. As she sees it, the case against her client is just one example of how Pacific is pushing out employees without justification.
A LOW key Oscars this year struck a tasteful tone given the year we’ve had, and the 2021 awards were spread throughout a group of deserving and interesting films.
By Diane Bartz, Stephen Nellis and Paresh Dave WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A panel of U.S. senators questioned officials from Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc s Google on Wednesday about the dominance of their mobile app stores and whether the companies abuse their power at the expense of smaller competitors. Amy Klobuchar, the top Senate Democrat on antitrust issues, said Apple and Google can use their power to exclude or suppress apps that compete with their own products and charge excessive fees that affect competition. App makers like music streaming service Spotify Technology SA and dating services giant Match Group, which owns the Tinder app, have long complained that mandatory revenue sharing for sales of digital goods and strict inclusion rules set by Apple s App Store for iPhones and iPads, along with Google s Play store for Android devices, amount to anticompetitive behavior.
The company erected a 130-foot pole without a permit; city seeks $500 fine per day.
The Wilsonville government filed legal action Monday, April 12 against Camping World, as well as Symonds Flags and Poles, for placing a flagpole without a permit at its location on SW Boones Ferry Road in March.
The city s legal department first sent a letter to Camping World March 4 demanding it remove the 130-foot pole, which has yet to carry a flag, by March 21. Poles over 30 feet require permitting.
After Camping World met with legal staff, the city extended the deadline to April 2 but the pole had yet to be removed. The city sent another notice to Camping World April 6 saying if it didn t reach out by April 9 the city would file a complaint with Clackamas County Circuit Court, and followed through with that action today.
LONDON (Reuters) - Food delivery company Deliveroo said its orders more than doubled in the quarter to end-March in its first trading update since its highly-anticipated listing in London last month flopped. Growth accelerated for the fourth consecutive quarter, the company said, with group orders up 114% year-on-year to 71 million and gross transaction value (GTV) up 130% year-on-year to 1.65 billion pounds ($2.27 billion). Chief Executive Will Shu said demand was strong in both UK and Ireland and its international markets, driven by record new customer growth and sustained demand from existing customers. This is our fourth consecutive quarter of accelerating growth, but we are mindful of the uncertain impact of the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, he said on Thursday.