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Sleep deprivation can be a dangerous thing. I know that if I go without enough sleep (which to me is 7 hours or less a night – we all have our own comfort zone) I feel as if I have a hangover (I don’t drink alcohol but can keenly remember…
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(My blog this week was written by Djaq Morris, a political science major at Knox College in Galesburg, IL, her first investigative article for Unify Galesburg.) John, the man who sat across the desk from me, was alive because of a miss of less than a centimeter. That centimeter was…
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My outrage at finding out about Dennis Hastert’s history as a child molester reached its limits when I saw the news during this past week. I was stunned into complete silence, my head shaking back and forth in disbelief. Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Wednesday admitted to sexually abusing…
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A recent article in the Huffington Post by Evie Blad posted on April 4th and coming from Education Week is something near and dear to my heart, More States Are Requiring Sex-Abuse Training in Schools. If you wish to read the article in its entirety, click here. Studies by David Finkelhor,…
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Become a Lamplighter, a soldier in the army! Come out, come out, wherever you are . . . The single most important reason why child sexual abuse is epidemic is because survivors don’t want to talk about what happened to them. They want to remain silent and anonymous. Perpetrators know this….
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