Copy Edit the World

1. US Magazine (online)..."Before They Were Hunks" "The father of eight was a a preppy n peppy hubby in 2008." There should only be one a.

2. US Magazine (online)..."Before They Were Hunks" "Now a multi-Emmy winner, Piven, now 44, flashes more bravado--and hair?--today." I don't think the second dash and today is necessary.

3.US Magazine (online)..."Before They Were Hunks" "Blondes have more fun? Cooper with a shaggy 'do in 2001." "Blondes have more fun," is a statement not a question.

4. US Magazine (online)... "Can You Believe these Couples' Age Difference?" "Madonna, 49, and Guy Ritchie, 39, got married at Scotland's Skibo Castle in Dec. 2000. They filed for divorce in 2008." At should be changed to "in".

5. US Magazine (online)... "Stylish Moms on the Go!" "The actress accessorized her casual-cool J Brand jeans and satin top ensemble with a Valentino bag and YSL platforms March 23." The copy doesn't need the word ensemble.

Japanese Interment Memorial

 In 1942 Executive order, 9066, was signed by President Franklin Roosevelt.  This order demanded that thousands of Japanese people were to be rounded up and placed in “War Relocation Centers” in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado and Arkansas.  9066 caused chaos in the lives of thousands of Japanese families.  The interment of Japanese Americans was fueled by several factors, including one of the most well known – the general publics’ fear of Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor.  Many people felt that it was to dangerous to have a mass amount of Japanese people on the West Coast, as it made it easier to orchestrate other potential attacks on the United States.

Ruth Asawa is a Japanese American artist that lives in San Francisco.  Her work is on display in many notable venues including the Mermaid Fountain in Ghirardelli Square.  When Asawa was 16, she and her family were placed in an internment camp, it was here that her love for art began.  Asawa also constructed a Japanese Internment Memorial that was put up in San Jose.

In 1941 almost every Japanese American living in Santa Clara county was evicted and forced to live at Heart Mountin, Wyoming, an interment camp.  With the eviction of these people fifty-three businesses, in San Jose’s Japantown, were forced to close.  By 1944 when the interment policy finally ended 40 of the 53 businesses re-opened and families once again returned to this area.  San Jose State University sent magazines, newspapers and books to the Japanese Americans being held in the interment camps.

Fish Out of Water

Many people are not aware that San Jose State University has multiple programs for the LGBT community and their supporters.  These groups range from the Queer Asian Pacific Islanders, Urban Pride, Transgender Association and more are popping up every year.   Last semester I had an opportunity to sit in on a LGBT meeting that was held on campus with a group known as QTIP, Queers Thoughtfully Interrupting Prejudice. 

The meeting was conducted in a small room in building BB. Every wall in the small room was decorated with rainbow flags and posters.  The words on the posters promoted equality and were desperate to end the hate that the people of the LGBT community so often face.  At first I was a little nervous to sit in with this group.  I am not homophobic at all and I am very accepting of most groups of people.  But I was meeting them in their environment and I did not know how receptive the group would react to me. 

When I arrived I immediately realized the meeting was going to be a bit more on the informal side.  There were about five other girls there, mostly stopping in between classes and they were all very pleased to have me there.  Prop. 8 had just been voted down and it was an issue that was definitely up for discussion, as most of the girls wanted to get the frustrations of inequality off of their chests.  I spoke privately with one member of the group and she felt that the opposition Prop. 8 faced was a set back but as a whole, America was moving forward and progressing towards a future where equality for gay couples would be a reality.

 The girls were also very excited for the next Pride Parade in San Francisco.  Some had never gone before and were anxious to have the opportunity to be with hundreds of other people who supported them.  I was at the meeting as a journalist and one of the girls didn’t want her picture, or any video taken of her, as she had not come out to her family yet.  It was the first setting I had been in where there were limitations on what I could and could not report.  The meeting was very informative and any time you can meet in such an intimate and un-rehearsed setting you truly get the opportunity to see who people really are.  It reminded me that San Jose State is truly opened to all types of diversity, not just the diversity that is based on the color of your skin.  

Word of the week #10

- Putative

- Vogue The Extraordinary Hilary Clinton

- "Her voracious curiosity about the world around her is never sacrificed to the putative requirements of her position—the personal self isn't buried within the vault of the public persona, but rather appropriates its official role as a fuller means of self-expression."

- (adjective) commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed - The authenticity of the couples romance are linked to putative rumors as of now.

Word of the Week #9

-Feted

- Vogue The World in Vogue

- "Last night at the Calvin Klein store in New York, Vogue editors Alexandra Kotur and Hamish Bowles were fêted on the occasion of the publication of their book The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places."

- (verb) 1. To celebrate or honor with a festival, a feast, or an elaborate entertainment. 2. To pay honor to.

- I will be feted on May 18th for my birthday.

INMHO #1

The decision to legalize marijuana is one that America has been battling with for years.  I am all for legalizing and taxing the drug.  If the country took the step to pass a bill legalizing marijuana the potential positives far outweigh the negatives.  If marijuana were legal, it would provide a huge helping hand to get California out of its  disastrous economic state.  According to TIME magazine, the crop would provide a huge revenue boost, "The state's tax collectors estimate the bill would bring in about $1.3 billion."  A.B 390 is California's Marijuana Control; Regulation and Education Act, it will allow people who are over the age of 21 to grow up to 10 mature plants among other regulations.  One major influence A.B 390 will have is allowing the state to charge retailers $50 per ounce of marijuana sold; this would help to regulate the drug.  

Housing marijuana violators in jail costs the state millions of dollars.  The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, also known as NORML, has alarming statistics about this issue, “More than 700,000 thousand Americans have been arrested for marijuana offenses in the past decade.  Almost 90 percent of these arrests are for simple possession, not trafficking or sale.”  Retaining these people is another avenue California is taking to drain valuable law enforcement funds and resources.  

Word of the Week #8

-Luxe

-Say Yes to the Dress

-(noun) Luxury, elegance sumptuousness

- "Donald Trump's mansion is the epitome of luxe"