This month the NCAA enacted a policy preventing colleges and universities from retracting athletes’ scholarships because of, among other things, pregnancy. Such decisions had been left up to the schools, which had some athletes losing their scholarships or considering abortions. UWIRE affiliates fill us in on the new NCAA policy and examine the lives of student-athletes who serve simultaneously as student, athlete and parent.

In the fall of 2006, Kirsten Haglund beat out 700-plus auditioners to be one of only 20 students selected to the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. Less than two years later, the musical theatre major, in only her third pageant appearance, became a member of an even more exclusive organization, outlasting a 52-contestant field to win the Miss America 2008 crown.

Some blame Carrie Bradshaw’s initial penchant for short-term flings in “Sex and the City.” Some credit the gyrating hips of Carmen Electra in her Striptease Aerobics series.

Change is brewing in the Hispanic community’s traditional gender roles — research shows an increasing number of Hispanic women are pursuing postsecondary education.

Roe ought to be overturned and the responsibility of regulating abortion returned to the states. We will not, as these appeals to fear suggest, experience the reproductive rights version of Armageddon, and we will not have an onslaught of women committing sepuku-by-clotheshanger in the streets — it didn’t happen then, it won’t happen now. Ultimately, Roe v. Wade is little more than shoddy case law built on a bedrock of lies. The ultimate irony of the pro-choice movement is that without the truth, there is no choice.

My mother’s and grandmother’s generations often blame the baggy jeans, promiscuity and disrespectful nature of my generation on the music we listen to. They claim that the hip-hop and R&B they created has been transformed into a self-glorifying and obnoxious genre that sends us into degradation.