In The News: College of Liberal Arts

Las Vegas Review Journal

Wes Duncan has made it a point on the campaign trail to say that he left the attorney general’s office because he didn’t want to run for public office as a state employee.

Las Vegas Weekly

If for no other reason, the Believer Festival—coming to assorted venues April 13 and 14—deserves our admiration and support for not scheduling a single overlapping showcase. “No one should have to choose between events,” says Joshua Wolf Shenk, executive director of the festival’s sponsoring entity, the Beverly C. Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute. Unlike the Coachellas of this world, Believer Fest unfolds leisurely over just two days and four events. Life itself should be so easy.

Study International

Your good-looking lab partner at university is more likely to think the world is fair than your less genetically-blessed peers, a new study has found.

Los Angeles Times

Turns out, bookmakers have feelings, too. And that makes things a little complicated when it comes to the improbable success of the Vegas Golden Knights.

KSNV-TV: News 3

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. paved the way for social justice and his actions are still making a difference 50 years after his assassination in 1968.

Las Vegas Weekly

In 2000, Aimee Mann and her husband Michael Penn co-headlined an unlikely but engrossing show at the old Joint, the two sharing the stage, performing each other’s songs and having comedian Andy Kindler do bits in lieu of awkward stage banter. It was called Acoustic Vaudeville, and it felt like a singer-songwriter showcase turned into a variety show.

PSY Post

Beautiful people tend to believe that life is fundamentally fair and just, according to new research conducted with college students.

ZME Science

The study analyzed an unlikely connection between attractiveness and the belief in a just world, finding a strong correlation between the two.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Stacie Armentrout felt nauseated watching surveillance video of Stephen Paddock roaming Mandalay Bay in the days before the Oct. 1 shooting on the Strip.

Campus Reform

The University of California, Davis is offering professors grants of up to $10,000 to conduct research that employs “feminist ethics and methodologies.”

Daily Mail

Single men hoping to find love may have more luck if they own a dog, studies suggest.

Independent

Something happens whenever Aaron Morrill takes his large and fluffy mutt, Donut, for her daily walk, and it’s something that always catches him a bit by surprise.