In The News: College of Liberal Arts

Travel Weekly

In late August, India-based budget lodging brand Oyo announced that it had acquired the Hooters Casino Hotel, unveiling plans to relaunch it as the Oyo Hotel & Casino, its first flagship U.S. property.

Vice

The ubiquitous masturbation device marketed to men was ahead of its time—and became the bellwether for a more fluid, inclusive future.

Thrive Global

You probably haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about what you think about, or how you think about it. But there is a fascinating, and growing, body of research about our inner experiences — or, as Kelly Oakes writes for the BBC, “what you were thinking about just before you started trying to figure out what you were thinking about,” and how paying more attention to these thought patterns can actually bring us closer to ourselves.

Las Vegas Review Journal

College of Southern Nevada grad Monique Moreno wasn’t afraid to put in the long hours she’d need to pay for college. After all, she’d been working since she was 14 — first alongside her mom in CSN’s computer lab, then scooping ice cream at Baskin-Robbins, before eventually becoming a field technician in a casino on the Strip — juggling jobs in addition to her classes.

Daily Bruin

A UCLA study found that societies in which men are more invested in the care of their children show signs of more jealousy in response to infidelity.

Austin American-Statesman

Julián Castro cuts a slight figure at 5-foot-8 and 155 pounds. He’s lost 10 pounds in the eight months he has been running for president.

Washington Post

Here’s the 10th and final article in our series on the gender gap in political science.

Maryland Matters

It should come as no surprise that the Bread and Roses Party, a socialist leaning self-described utopian group, announced Jerome Segal as its 2020 presidential nominee this week — during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Hill

Twelve years after Nevada debuted as one of the four states that sets the tone and tempo of a presidential nominating contest, party strategists are working to boost their visibility in a Democratic primary that has so far disproportionately focused on the other three early states.

Conversation

In 2007, the pornography website Pornhub averaged 1 million visits per day. By 2018 this had increased to 92 million visits per day – or 33.5 billion views over the course of a year.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Less than a week remains for Clark County lawyers to rate judges in the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Judicial Performance Evaluation.

USA Today

Liliana Campos was on a train from Los Angeles to San Francisco when she got a text from her brother alerting her of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in San Bruno, California.