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Emmy Awards are often the shining point of a career for those in broadcast media. A group of UNLV journalism students netted the prestigious award for work they conducted before graduating college.
Jon Castagnino
Social Media Sports Coordinator, Journalism and Media Studies
There is a memorable episode in the now-classic sitcom Scrubs in which the conniving Dr. Kelso unveils a plan to peddle useless “full body scans” as a new revenue stream for the perpetually cash-strapped Sacred Heart Hospital. The irascible but ultimately patient-protecting Dr. Cox objects loudly. “I think showing perfectly healthy people every harmless imperfection in their body just to scare them into taking invasive and often pointless tests is an unholy sin,” he says. Undeterred, Kelso launches an advertising campaign that promotes the scans in a tear-jerking television commercial and a billboard screaming “YOU may already be DYING.”
The wave of lawsuits alleging over-priced investment choices in employer retirement plan programs has extended to the creators of automated investing platforms offered by plan sponsors. Michael Green, who works for pest control company Rollins Inc. claimed in a federal suit filed earlier this month that Morningstar Associates “Goalmaker” software marketed by Prudential Investment Management steers plan participants to expensive funds in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
Both were great generals. Both Virginians. Both came from slave-owning plantation families. Is it really so far-fetched to put Robert E. Lee in the same category as George Washington, as President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday? Many historians say yes.
Michael Green
Associate Professor, History
Both were great generals. Both Virginians. Both came from slave-owning plantation families. Is it really so far-fetched to put Robert E. Lee in the same category as George Washington, as President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday?
Michael Green
Associate Professor, History
