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Today at the library, Suzie taught the Journalism 310 class how to search for things on the internet, specifically through UNLV Library website, www.unlvlibrary.edu.

The one thing I found very useful was using the Google website effectively. You can put whatever you’re searching for in the toolbox on Google and hit search, from then you can hit the link Advanced Search, add .org at the end of your search to get more government sites or more reliable sites; you can search by date, to get the recent stuff; also you can hit the News link on top of the Google page and get news stories on whatever you’re searching for.

We did have an in-class, group assignment. My group chose the Entertainment topic and we searched the Broadway megahit musical Jersey Boys which consist of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. They are performing at the Palazzo hotel and casino here in Las Vegas which is off the strip. The band is consisted of Bob Gaudio, Tommy Devito, Nick Massi and Frankie Valli. Nick Massi died of cancer on Dec 24, 2000 at the age of 73.

The musical opened on Nov 7, 2005 on Broadway. They won one Tony Award on 2006 for best musical performance.

1 in 4 teenage American girls has a sexually transmitted disease, according to the researchers at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The most common one is a virus that can cause cervical cancer, and the second most common can cause infertility. Nearly half the black teens in the study had at least one sexually transmitted infection, versus 20 percent among both whites and Mexican-American teens.

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20080312/HEALTH/339995142

“I was twenty seven years old, I had long blonde hair and drove a red car. People pulled up to me and asked, how much?” said Dr. Kathryn Hausbeck, Senior Associate Dean at UNLV.

Hausbeck is an associate professor of Sociology at UNLV. She is also a co-founder of the Sex and Body Industry Research Project (The SABIR Project) with Barb Brents.

“I was overwhelmed by how visible illegal prostitution is in Las Vegas. I assumed a lot of people were doing research on it, and when I started asking around I found that no one was doing research on it and I decided to do it. It was an area ripe for studying,” said Hausbeck.

Hausbeck found herself offended at being mistaken for a prostitute. “I was a little bit offended and asked myself why would I be offended? I shouldn’t judge them. I was not comfortable with that as a feminist,” said Hausbeck.

Legalizing prostitution in Las Vegas has been a topic for discussion for some time now and Hausbeck is not an advocate for legalization generally. “I have thoughts and opinions on it but legalization is tricky. States put certain rules in place and women end up down the chain. The model I support is the decriminalization model,” said Hausbeck.

“Decriminalization means that you protect women and others who may work as prostitutes. You protect their human rights, labor rights, you protect them as individuals, you empower them to work as independent contractors and don’t force them to be subservient to others,” said Hausbeck.

Hausbeck said, “Prostitution can be degrading to women but criminalization doesn’t solve the problem and it’s very expensive to tax payers. Criminalization is ineffective because there has never been a social system without prostitution.”

“Prostitution is just like any other business. The women need to be protected and empowered. But this doesn’t mean that there should be prostitutes in every corner, or that this needs to become the dominant industry,” said Hausbeck.

“The people I know best in the industry are the women who are doing great, are very educated and don’t need to be prostitutes”, said Hausbeck. “Of course, there are those who do it not of their own free will but for a whole set of other reasons, whether it is forced, drug addiction or so on. There are those who succeed and do well and are empowered by it and there are those who are not.”

Hausbeck also said, “when we talk about prostitution, we tend to talk about saving prostitutes, because we assume that other category violated, but there are a lot of women who choose it, who have very good reason in choosing it and are successful doing it.”

Hausbeck said, “We live in a world where really high paying jobs are few and far in between and women have come a long way.”

There was a live webinar last Tuesday on the NewsU website.

A Webinar is a live seminar on the web. This particular webinar’s topic was the Online Credibility Gap. There were two speakers, J. “Bart” Bartosek, editor of The Palm Beach Post in West Palm Beach, Fla and the Webinar host Howard Finberg, NewsU’s director and co-author of the ONA Digital Credibility Study in 2001.
The audience got a chance to ask questions live via a question box at the end. Also, there were close ended questions for the audience to answer throughout the webinar.

The webinar was about the relationship between editors and readers. The major issue discussed was if readers and editors agreed with each other in most instances and the answer was yes. There are a few things that the editors need to change to make their readers happier, but as a whole, they are on the right track.

According to Channel 8 news, Jacob Canto had an underage prostitution ring on the Strip. Canto is charged with child pandering, kidnapping and other charges. The girls in the ring were between 15 and 17 years old. Ceasars Palace and Mandalay Bay were the two places the girls were forced to work at.

More about this on http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=8103665&nav=168Y.

The Family Dollar Store in Las Vegas is the place to go for meals that cost one dollar or less. There are a few dollar stores in town located in different areas. By googling “the dollar stores in Las Vegas,” one can find a whole list of stores.

There are a bunch of canned foods, snacks, drinks, grains, bread and much more. One can definitely eat a meal for a dollar or less.