fringe lawmakers make really sort of grotesque comments about democratic colleagues. i mean, just two weeks paul gosar, the republican from arizona who is sort of in this fringe wing posted a video of himself murdering another congresswoman, alexandria ocasio-cortez. mccarthy said nothing about this. did not encourage a sit-down and democrats ended up taking him off his committee and censuring him. he called her and he issued a public apology. will he say with that a jay. she will walk it back and is clearly getting pressure from others to walk back that apology but the fact she said that she was sorry and that she s reached out toil han omar s office is something that we haven t seen these republicans do in the past, and so i think in that regard democrats would say that this is a welcome first step. obviously they are going to want to see more in terms of, you know, future actions. they don t want to see this sort
house minority leader kevin mccarthy says he s spoken to gop congresswoman lauren boesch in the wake of her anti-muslim remarks and the republican leader is encouraging boebert to meet with the democratic lawmaker she targeted minnesota congresswoman ilhan omar. the colorado republican was heard on video making islamophobic making comments implying that omar was a suicide bomber. rachel, thanks for being with me. absolutely. thanks for having me. here s an idea that these two folks should sit down and talk about this. it s not a disagreement. it s not a dispute. it s a racist islamophobic comment that one made to the other. is there really anything to be gained from these two women and lawmakers sitting down and talking about this. look, i would say that what mccarthy is doing here is a lot more than we ve seen the gop leader do in the past few weeks and few months when we saw the
2021 ASTC-USITT Venue Renovation Challenge Awards
USA – A team from the University of Virginia was awarded the top prize in the 2021 ASTC-USITT Venue Renovation Challenge competition on 9th April, 2021. The ASTC Edgar L. Lustig Award of $2,000 was presented to the University of Virginia team during a live YouTube video broadcast for their proposed renovation of the McIntire Amphitheater on the UVA campus. The theoretical project transformed a limited use outdoor amphitheatre into a venue that can support a large variety of performing arts events along with additional functional support spaces.
Teams of students from Florida State University, Colorado State University and the University of Virginia participated in the Venue Renovation Challenge competition. The Florida State University team received the USITT Director’s Award of $1,000 for a project that is unique to FSU, the renovation and upgrade of the FSU “Flying High” Circus audience entry and backstage support faciliti