{"id":92447,"date":"2024-04-26T15:13:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T19:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=92447"},"modified":"2024-04-26T18:32:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T22:32:26","slug":"in-the-news-police-suspensions-and-gender-based-violence-brocks-new-ubisoft-toronto-scholarship-and-wnba-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/04\/in-the-news-police-suspensions-and-gender-based-violence-brocks-new-ubisoft-toronto-scholarship-and-wnba-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE NEWS: Police suspensions, game design scholarships, WNBA salaries and Swift&#8217;s poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent media appearances, Brock experts discussed police suspensions and gender-based violence, a new scholarship for Brock game design students, outrage over Caitlin Clark\u2019s WNBA salary and Taylor Swift\u2019s lyrics as poetry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Blue wall of silence&#8217; protects police officers accused of gender-based violence, victims say:<\/strong> Assistant Professor of Political Science Danielle McNabb spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/paid-to-stay-home-one-third-officers-accused-gender-based-violence-1.7181385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBC News<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/MediaView\/?c3RhdGlvbj0xNDQ5NSZtb2RzaGFyaW5nZW5hYmxlPXRydWUmY3VzdG9tZXJpZGVudGlmaWVyPTU1NjE5JlN0YXJ0RGF0ZVRpbWU9MDQlMmYyNCUyZjIwMjQrMTAlM2E1OCUzYTI0JkVuZERhdGVUaW1lPTA0JTJmMjQlMmYyMDI0KzExJTNhMDYlM2ExNyYmbW9kZWRpdG9yZW5hYmxlPWZhbHNlJm1vZGVkaXRvcmRlc3RpbmF0aW9ucz0xMCUyYzQmcGFydG5lcmlkPTE2MDg3JiYmZXhwaXJhdGlvbj0wNSUyZjI0JTJmMjAyNCsxMCUzYTU4JTNhMjQuMDAwJmluc3RhbnRQbGF5PVRydWUmc2lnbmF0dXJlPTA3NDFmZjdjNzAzMjQ5ZGYxNGM1YzczMTA1YmQyOTlk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBC Radio One<\/a> about new data on police suspensions and gender-based violence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ubisoft Toronto establishes scholarship for Brock University game development students:<\/strong> Associate Professor of Digital Humanities Aaron Mauro was featured in a <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/news\/ubisoft-toronto-establishes-scholarship-for-brock-university-game-development-students\/article_6bf0e878-c207-569b-a11f-905167b91806.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a> <\/em>article about a new scholarship established by Ubisoft Toronto for students in Brock\u2019s GAME program. Mauro also spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/962-the-drive-audio-bites-158320254\/episode\/karl-dockstader-with-brock-us-aaron-169171020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newstalk 610 CKTB<\/a> about Brock game design students competing in the recent Level Up Showcase in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Where the hell have you been?&#8217; ask WNBA followers over the outrage at Caitlin Clark&#8217;s salary:<\/strong> Assistant Professor of Sport Management Michele Donnelly spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/caitlin-clark-salary-wnba-1.7177262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBC News<\/a> about controversy over the salary of Women&#8217;s National Basketball Association No. 1 draft pick Caitlin Clark.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do Taylor Swift\u2019s lyrics stand up as poetry? We invited three Toronto poets to weigh in on her new album: <\/strong>Professor of English Language and Literature Adam Dickinson spoke with the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/music\/do-taylor-swift-s-lyrics-stand-up-as-poetry-we-invited-three-toronto-poets-to\/article_f32ab198-00c4-11ef-a08c-7b5778a0b301.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toronto Star<\/a> <\/em>about Taylor Swift\u2019s new album, <em>The Tortured Poets Department. <\/em>Dickinson also appeared on the outlet\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/podcasts\/this-matters\/poets-discuss-taylor-swift-s-the-tortured-poets-department-lyrics-as-poetry\/article_b0db7cdc-00dd-11ef-b5b4-13038cc84b18.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Matters<\/a> <\/em>podcast to discuss poetry and Swift\u2019s lyrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent media appearances, Brock experts discussed police suspensions and gender-based violence, a new scholarship for Brock game design students, outrage over Caitlin Clark\u2019s WNBA salary and Taylor Swift\u2019s lyrics as poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":92455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,37,6,38],"tags":[8542,4662,13029,263,2200,4104,4753,7488,384,522,8463],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92459,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92447\/revisions\/92459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}