The University of Louisville, a public university, has announced the suspension of several cheerleaders for Twitter activity on Election Night. Only one of the cheerleaders has been named, Brynn Baker. The university would not release the names of the other cheerleaders who have been suspended.
“This was a tremendous honor and I was completely star-struck, it was a humbling experience,” said Barker-Figueroa. “I don’t want the awards to be about me, I want it to be a conduit for education and bringing awareness to current Native American issues.”
“I’m so completely in love with the military, so [I thought] I’m gonna go there,” she said. “I was 21 and I arrived in Japan in February of ’47; the occupation was only a year and-a-half old.”
McCormick has served in the armed forces for nearly 14 years. While she has held a variety of positions with the military, her recent achievement of becoming the first female in MSARNG to be an Apache helicopter pilot stands out as one of her biggest accomplishments.
The news media have been full of the threat to unborn children from an infection with the Zika virus. Yet, there exists a common virus that presents a far more serious threat to a fetus. That virus is called cytomegalovirus, or CMV. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), half of all Americans will have contracted this illness by age 40. There is no cure and the illness can reactivate at any time.
