AAA7, SSU offer Functional Fridays
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The topic of managing function in your everyday life is the feature of Functional Fridays, a weekly livestream presented by the Area Agency on Aging District 7 (AAA7) and the Shawnee State University (SSU) Occupational Therapy program. The series is ongoing each Friday now through April 30 on the AAA7 Facebook page.
Each Friday at 10 a.m., two graduate students in the Occupational Therapy Program at Shawnee State discuss a specific topic related to managing function.
According to the American Occupational Therapy Association, occupational therapy is the only profession that helps people across the lifespan to do the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of daily activities (occupations). Occupational therapy practitioners enable people of all ages to live life to its fullest by helping them promote health and prevent or live better with injury, illness or disability. The students in the Occupational Ther
A lawsuit filed by a Shawnee State University professor could potentially have consequences for students preferred pronouns on college campuses.
And it could potentially lead to discrimination in the classroom beyond preferred pronoun use, according to a constitutional law expert and the head of a nonprofit group that advocates for equality for the LGBTQ community.
“If this case were to come out poorly, the implications are devastating, honestly, for young people on college campuses,” said Siobhan Boyd-Nelson, Equality Ohio acting executive director and director of development and external relations.
“Essentially, if the case turned out badly, it would be saying that we don’t have to respect another person’s human dignity in such an important space such as an educational space, she said.
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A U.S. court has sided with a university professor who refused to use the preferred pronouns of a transgender student.
The Shawnee State University in Ohio disciplined Nicholas Meriwether, a professor of philosophy, triggering a legal battle.
Citing his religious beliefs, Meriwhether he did not follow the institution’s policy for university personnel to use pronouns that reflect a student’s claimed gender identity.
Throughout the semester, the professor used the person’s last name to refer to the student, who identifies as a woman.
Meriwether was disciplined and sued Shawnee State, claiming the university violated his freedom of speech and expression.
Ann Rostow: Slip Slidin’ Away
By Ann Rostow–
The
New York Times, recently called attention to the Roberts Court’s significant shift in favor of Christian litigants. A report on the subject, “The Roberts Court and the Transformation of Constitutional Protections for Religion: A Statistical Portrait,” was just published by Lee Epstein and Eric A. Posner, and although mine is a lazy approach, I can explain it most clearly by simply regurgitating the official abstract:
“The Roberts Court has ruled in favor of religious organizations far more frequently than its predecessors over 81% of the time, compared to about 50% for all previous eras since 1953. In most of these cases, the winning religion was a mainstream Christian organization, whereas in the past pro-religion outcomes more frequently favored minority or marginal religious organizations. A statistical analysis suggests that this transformation is largely the result of changes in the Court’s personnel: a majorit