In The News: College of Liberal Arts

Mirror

An increasing number of women are choosing to keep their maiden name upon marrying.

Huffington Post

These days, it's not assumed that a woman will take her husband's surname when they tie the knot, and many are keeping their own.

KSNV-TV: News 3

Thirty-seven-years-ago on November 21, 1980, an electrical fire at the MGM Grand killed 85 people and injured more than 700.

Science Daily

When a woman chooses not to take her husband's surname after marriage, people perceive her husband as being higher in traits related to femininity and lower in traits related to masculinity. He is also perceived as having less power in the relationship. This is according to a study led by Rachael Robnett of the University of Nevada in the US. The research is published in Springer's journal Sex Roles and is the first to examine whether people's perceptions of a man's personality vary depending on whether his wife adopts his surname or retains her own.

UPI.com

Increasingly, women are keeping their surname when they get married. But they remain a minority, and some researchers suggest the social costs of bucking tradition may explain why.

New York Times

Back in 1976, when Chad Braverman’s father, Ron, invested a small grubstake in a manufacturing start-up, consumers bought his products at the back of seedy bookstores and scurried out with their purchases concealed in brown paper bags.

Komo News

It’s been less than eight weeks since the mass shooting in Las Vegas and the first research on the mental trauma suffered by those at the Route 91 country music festival has been completed.

Las Vegas Review Journal

President Donald Trump’s top budget man, Mick Mulvaney, solved a mystery Tuesday. Asked who put $120 million into Trump’s spending plan to restart licensing for a Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository and other interim storage, Mulvaney said he did.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Someone who didn’t witness a traumatic event or have a loved one who lived through it can’t be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under the textbook definition of the mental malady.

New York Times

Mere days after the truck attack in Manhattan that killed eight people on Halloween, a man opened fire inside a church in Texas, killing 26 congregants. How do we reckon with these senseless acts of violence? In these three books, writers explore post-traumatic stress disorder and how others have healed after past national tragedies.

The Kansas City Star

Afraid of taking on massive debt, a growing number of college students are turning to an unconventional source to pay for school: sugar daddies.

KSNV-TV: News 3

“I think last night was a great night for Democrats, and we’re going to carry that forward into next year,” Donna West, chairperson of the Clark County Democratic Party, told me Wednesday, the day after her party swept some high-profile off-year elections nationwide.