It’s week 10 at the University of Oregon, AKA the first time that some students visit the Knight Library. In case you’ve been in a Red Bull-induced haze, here’s the major headlines from around the web this week.
“Call Me Caitlyn”
Caitlyn Jenner introduced herself to the world on the cover of Vanity Fair, Monday. Since shedding her male identity as Bruce, the 65 year old olympian gained two million Twitter followers and counting, will receive the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2015 ESPYS, and was the subject of dozens of opinion editorials. Many praised Jenner for her bravery, President Barack Obama tweeted about Jenner’s courage.
In a post on her Tumblr blog Orange Is The New Black actress and trans activist Laverne Cox wrote her support for Jenner. In the same post Cox wrote about the need to support trans women who do not or do not want, “to embody certain cisnormative beauty standards.” Tuesday, Cox started the hashtag, #TransIsBeautiful, and many trans women are creating their own “Call Me ____” Vanity Fair covers.
Not all reactions were positive. An online petition requested that Jenner’s olympic medals be stripped, the International Olympic Committee has since responded that it was not an issue.
I’m so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world Caitlyn. Can’t wait for you to get to know her/me.
— Caitlyn Jenner (@Caitlyn_Jenner) June 1, 2015
Oregon Olympic silver medalist accused of doping
University of Oregon alumni and Olympic silver medalist Galen Rupp was accused of using performance enhancing drugs, Wednesday. An investigation by ProPublica and the BBC alleges that Rupp has used a banned form of testosterone since his high school running career at Central Catholic High School.
In response to the allegations Rupp said, “I expressly told these reporters that these allegations were not true and their sources admit they have no evidence, yet they print ‘suspicions’ attacking me and sullying my reputation.”