The Supreme Court on affirmative action would have impacted the University of California’s admission policies and changed the story of application rates for minorities. The hashtag #StayMadAbby was trending following the ruling of Fisher vs. University of Texas at Austin. Abby, short for Abigail Fisher, is a white applicant that claimed the University of Texas at Austin denied her admissions on the grounds of race in 2008. This case was a test for affirmative action, a policy
In some states, a survivor's rape kit gets destroyed without the victim’s knowledge, and Amanda Nguyen, a 24-year-old Harvard alum, is fighting to have the kits preserved and victims’ rights protected. In Nguyen’s case, she had conflicting information from authorities about the storage of her kit, and technicians moved it without her knowledge even though an extension was successfully filed. Frustrated by the burden of renewing the fight of keeping her rape kit preserved ever