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On May 3, 2010, Yeardley Love was tragically murdered at the hands of her boyfriend while attending the University of Virginia. Love, a senior on the women’s lacrosse team, was in the midst of her final weeks of being a college student-athlete.
Her death sent shockwaves through the lacrosse community and beyond, opening the nation’s eyes to the heartbreaking realities of domestic violence.
Out of tragedy came action:
“I founded One Love [after] my daughter Yeardley Love, a 4th year student at the University of Virginia, was beaten to death by her ex-boyfriend just weeks short of her college graduation,” Yeardley’s mother, Sharon, wrote in 2017. “It didn’t seem possible on that day and quite honestly it is still incredibly hard to believe. When I sent Yeardley to college, I worried about her being in a car accident or injured on the lacrosse field. I had never thought about relationship abuse and I never imagined that my own strong, fun
Following the news of the reinstatement, rumors started to trickle out later in the evening that Syracuse players were unhappy with the decision to bring Scanlan back and that a meeting between head coach John Desko and the Orange s captains was scheduled for Tuesday morning, effectively making it clear that if Scanlan showed up to practice, the players wouldn t participate.
In a press conference held on Wednesday, Syracuse men s head coach John Desko told the media, “It s my decision to reinstate him and that s all I ll say at this time. Though Scanlan has officially been reinstated on the team, he did not travel with the team to take on Notre Dame this weekend.
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Gay Agenda • April 30, 2021
Apr 30, 2021 |
The Gay Agenda
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Every Monday: THRIVE
Resource Center’s THRIVE Support Group for people 50 and older meets virtually from 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. led by a SMU Intern from their counseling program. A secure Zoom Room opens at 11:30 a.m. for people to join and chat. Email THRIVE@myresourcecenter.org to request the link.
18 SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras Airmen with the 612th Air Base Squadron traveled to the Children of Love Foundation Orphanage, April 25, 2021, and delivered donations to the 18 orphans who call the sanctuary home in La Paz, Honduras.
Most units on base have a local orphanage they sponsor, but for Airmen with the 612th ABS, this visit marks the second time they’ve visited their newly sponsored orphanage. This particular orphanage is one my Lieutenant, back at Davis-Monthan [Air Force Base, Arizona], told me about since her and her family come to visit an orphanage, every year,” said U.S. Air Force Maj. Duane Reid, director of operations with the 612th ABS. “So when I got orders to go here, she told me about the orphanage in La Paz and I reached out to them to see if they already had a sponsorship - they did not.”