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Another violent incident at Hofstra University is adding to concerns about safety on the school’s campus. Students are walking around campus with more vigilance this week following the reported gang rape on Sunday and an armed robbery on campus Wednesday.

University officials said they’re re-evaluating their safety policies as students say something needs to be done.

“Basically, you can sign in anybody and they’re free to roam until they leave so anything can happen anywhere,” said Hofstra student Christine Lauture.

Added student Jonathan Rodriguez: “The Hofstra Public safety office, I think they do the best job they can possible to make sure this campus is safe for all students involved.”

The gang rape in a dorm has some students feeling uneasy, but questioning if the crime could have been prevented since the lone student suspect, Rondell Bedward, did not break any rules when he checked in the four other suspects.

HUGE UPDATE!!!! :

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Authorities in New York say the Hofstra University student who told police that she had been gang-raped by five men on campus has recanted her story.

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said in a statement released late Wednesday that the 18-year-old told law enforcement officials that the sex was consensual.

Rice says Nassau County Judge Robert Bruno then dismissed the charges against four of the men and ordered their release.

The woman had accused the men, including a Hofstra student, of taking her cell phone at an on-campus nightclub and luring her into a dormitory men’s room and sexually assaulting her early Sunday.

Four of them, Rondell Bedward, Jesus Ortiz, Kevin Taveras and Stalin Felipe, were arrested and arraigned on rape and other charges.

Clearly got his bodyguard on site…LMAO…society is wrong for this one

While Ri-Ri chills with no bra in the streets of NYC, I know Chris is extra salty…smh

Ah Well….Young Love

Anger Management Anyone? Breathe Serena..Breathe (someone get VENUS or COMMON please..lol..thanks!)

WHAT DO YOU HONESTLY THINK?  DUDE WAS ALMOST TO THE POINT OF TEARS, ADMITTED HE NEEDED “TIME OFF” & ”HELP” 

If there is one thing I agree about during the Whitney Houston/Oprah Winfrey interview Part I is that “A Man Must Have His Own” or it (the relationship) WILL NOT WORK…that has and always will apply in my love life and that is why my love life has changed..TRUST

Yale graduate student Annie Le had been missing for five days before authorities  found what is believed to be her body.

Police  found a body Sunday behind a basement wall in the Yale research facility.  Police believe it to be Annie Le, a Yale student who was missing for the past five days.  The case has now been ruled as a homicide and will be investigated by the New Haven Police Department.  Seeing as the building is only accessible to students with magnetic entry cards, people believe the crime was committed by someone who had access to the building.

University President Richard Levin says:

“The investigation will continue,”  adding that authorities are conducting an autopsy and identification of the remains. “We have every hope that it will be successfully resolved.”

Police first learned Annie was missing after her roommate reported her missing last Tuesday, September 8th. She was set to be married to her fiance Jonathan Widawsky Sunday, September 13th; friends and supporters left wedding gifts outside of Jonathan’s home.

 WHO GOT BEEF? LOL

Here is a letter from former Executive Editor of Music at BET.COM

Mr. Andreas Hale to apparently everyone  in the industry…Read Below

As of today (September 8, 2009) I am no longer the Executive Editor of Music at BET.com.

Upon entering the position at BET I said that I needed one year to see what really went on inside the belly of the beast. I needed 365 days to sleep with the enemy and infiltrate the system. One year to see if they REALLY wanted change at BET.

As someone who has been critical of BET for many years, it surprised many that I would leave my post at HipHopDX last year to take a position at BET. But it was an opportunity I absolutely had to take. I could no longer be critical of this company without accepting the opportunity to change it when given. Although I was hired to bring about change, I was systematically shut down. I wasn’t hired to make noise, I was hired to be silenced.

The truth of the matter is that everything that you thought was wrong with BET is true.

Over the past year I’ve seen a lot to reinforce my position that BET is too far gone in the negative to turn into a positive. We have all always thought the worst, but to actually see it in action is another thing in its entirety. The unprofessionalism, the tom foolery, the favors, the misappropriation of resources, the bad ideas that reinforce negative stereotypes, the emasculation of men, the meetings that break down in full fledged cursing battles, the unpaid overtime, the tears from employees scared for their underpaid and overworked positions and ultimately the unwillingness to change are all harsh realities that I’ve witnessed firsthand.

That is not to say that there aren’t some good people who have sat in the offices of BET. Unfortunately, the good people are not in positions of power to instill any change. Instead, they work their fingers to the bone just to keep their jobs in this harsh economic climate. The other good people ran out of the door as soon as an another employment opportunity presented itself. To say BET was a revolving door would be an understatement.

I came in with a plan to provide balance and to deliver good music to the masses and help make BET relevant again – at least in the dot com world. Those attempts were shut down by out of touch executives who run a dot com but could barely turn on a computer. By those who judge their metrics by page views over absolute unique visitors (that‘s ad sales talk). By those who simply don’t understand the internet.

They brought me in because of my track record but never once took a look at my body of work. If they did, they would have known that I was the pen behind editorials such as “BET’s Coon Picnic” or were aware of the many times I have been critical of their award shows and programming. All they knew is that I played a major role in making a once unknown website into a online media outlet that surpassed theirs and they wanted a piece of the action. Too bad they never researched who I really was.

During my tenure I worked long hours and sometimes succeeded at bringing in decent content to try to reflect the change I wanted to achieve. But it wasn’t without opposition. While some interviews and content initiatives were able to make it through, many others were either shut down or met with ridicule. I offered ideas to incorporate the blog world and to spotlight new talent before MTV did. Those ideas were met with comments such as “This isn’t HipHopDX” or “You don’t know what you are talking about.”

BET is not about the quality of your work. Rather, BET is about the relationships you have with powerful people within the company. BET is not about challenging. Instead, BET is about accepting and saying “yes.” If you have known or followed me over the years, you would know that these are things that simply are not in my character and ultimately resulted in my removal.

For the artists and labels that I have worked with for years, I tried. I did whatever I could to achieve that balance many of us wanted to see happen. To the writers who wanted to writer for BET, I made an attempt but was never given a budget to work with.

Upon my arrival, I was told I would be given a staff. Not true. I had a staff of one to carry out daily operations on a website. I fought tooth and nail to accomplish the minimum (an embeddable player and a site people could navigate) and was constantly brushed off. It was a position that was set up for failure. But I endured as long as I could.

Alas, I have been removed from my position after infiltrating the system and the timing was perfect. I wasn’t let go because the site’s numbers were down. Not because I didn’t work hard. Simply because of a personality clash with an individual whose proverbial ass I didn’t kiss enough. Again, not about the work you do but about the relationships you keep and the sides you take.

I’d like to thank BET for covering the cost of my relocation to bring me to the great city of New York/New Jersey. I’d also like to thank them for putting me in close quarters with people who think like me and will hopefully work with in the near future. I’d also like to thank them for providing me enough controversial content that I observed firsthand and will make for many tales to be told.

I said it and I meant in: One year to either make changes or move on. I left HipHopDX on September 16th 2008. Today is September 8, 2009. Eight days short of a year. Most thought I wouldn’t even last that long. But in that year I’ve had my greatest fears about Black Entertainment Television affirmed.

There is so much wrong with BET that I’d rather not break it down in a single email.

It is pretty good fodder for a book don’t you think?

As of today, Andreas Hale is a free agent.

So What do you think? 

 Since the departure of Top-rated radio personality Wendy Williams better known to us New Yorkers as either “The Queen of All Media.” “Shock-Jock Diva.”  or “The Mouth Almighty.”  the biggest task for WBLS-FM has been to find a suitable replacement!  Should the station focus on finding someone that is perhaps “like Wendy” or re-invent middays at BLS with a whole new fresh perspective?!?!  To help you with your decision, WBLS-FM has been auditioning several high profile talent that could possibly in the next few months be the next VOICE of middays on the station.  And here they are (which one would you choose..honestly?)

JEFF FOXX (Formerly of 98.7 Kiss FM’s Morning Show w/Raqiyah & Talent)

SALT-N-PEPA  (Yes! You heard & Read Right!)

Osei The Dark Secret (of V-103 in Atlanta)

Chubb Rock

Adimu (formerly and briefly a host on 107.5 WBLS years back)

or

EGYPT (formerly of Power 105.1FM Morning Show with Ed Lover & Ashy Larry)

SO WHAT’S YOUR PICK?  CAN YOU REALLY HEAR ANY OF THESE VOICES ON WBLS-FM?  HELP THE STATION MAKE ITS CHOICE BY LOGGING ONTO

www.wbls.com

Or Should A Certain Somebody Be on from 2-6..making your days officially beautiful…. lol

Barbara De Laleu, The Beautiful Stranger of 106.1 WBLI-FM

ITS YOUR CHOICE; YOUR VOTE!!!

EITHER WAY…WE WILL ALL KNOW SOON ENOUGH SO KEEP IT LOCKED TO NY’S STATION FOR TODAY’S R&B & CLASSIC SOUL CELEBRATING 35 YEARS OF SERVICE!!