Innovator, 1985-11-11

The Innovator was a student newspaper published at Governors State University between March 1972 and October 2000. The newspaper featured student reporting, opinions, news, photos, poetry, and original graphics

Addressing vaccine inequity during the COVID-19 pandemic: the TRIPS intellectual property waiver proposal & beyond

This article examines global vaccine inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic. We critique intellectual property (IP) law under the 1995 WTO TRIPS Agreement, and specifically, the role that IP plays in enabling the inequities of production, distribution and pricing in the COVID-19 vaccine context. Given the failure of international response mechanisms, including COVAX and C-TAP, to address vaccine inequity, we argue the TRIPS waiver proposal offers a necessary and proportionate legal measure for clearing IP barriers that cannot be achieved by TRIPS flexibilities. Finally, we reflect on the waiver in the wider context of TRIPS

Employee Internet Privacy: A Proposed Act that Balances Legitimate Employer Rights and Employee Privacy

When Justin Basset interviewed for a job in New York City in 2012, he expected to respond to questions one is typically asked in a job interview. However, his interview took a modern technological twist when the interviewer opened her computer and attempted to look at Mr. Basset’s Facebook profile on her computer. Unable to see the details of his profile because he had taken advantage of Facebook’s privacy options to limit public viewing, she asked for his login information to access his account. He declined and withdrew his application.1 In 2010, Robert Collins, a Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services employee, was interviewed to determine whether he was eligible for reinstatement after taking a leave of absence following a death in the family. His supervisors asked for his Facebook password during the interview so they could look at his profile to help them determine whether he was involved in gang-related activity. He complied, reluctantly.2 In 2009, the City of Bozeman, Montana, employed a practice of asking job applicants for password information for their e-mail, social networking, and other online accounts.3 Similar incidents in Illinois, Virginia, and Michigan have also been reported.

Hire Education: Mastery, Modularization and the Workforce Revolution

This new research identifies online competency-based learning as the solution to shifting demands for specialized workforce skills and the front runner for disrupting higher education

Secret Consumer Scores and Segmentations: Separating “Haves” from “Have-Nots”

Article published in the Michigan State Law Review

Beyond the Rainbow Cake: Queer Food as Care

This thesis explores queer food: its creation consciousnesses and context in modern America, its current reality, and its possibilities for pleasure, caregiving, and expansive future-oriented worlding. While the concept of “queer food” circulates on media platforms, no concrete school of thought or technique is associated with it; instead, it is a category defined by wide social speculation. By analyzing "queer food" examples in popular media, literature, and personal experiences, this study offers a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the uses and meanings of "queer food" through the lenses of queer theory, critical food studies, and ethics of care. By addressing questions of performative power, identity, and consumption, this thesis posits "queer food" as both a practical and radical basis for mutual-aid and person-to-person food-based care.Bachelor of Art