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After 20 painstaking years of research, Eva Ramon Gallegos, a Mexican scientist has finally developed a cure to eliminate 100 percent human papillomavirus and prevent the spread of cervical cancer among women. (x) (x) (x) Y’all they cured HPV

Happy Black History Month! Here you’ll find Middle Grade and Young Adult books with Black WLW main characters by Black authors. An * indicates WLW authors.

Middle Grade

Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender

Young Adult

The Weight of the Stars (The Wicker King #2) by K. Ancrum *

This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow *

Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert

Snow in Love: Four Stories by Melissa de la Cruz, Nic Stone, Aimee Friedman and Kasie West (WLW stories include ‘Grounded’ by Nic Stone *)

Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett *

Dream Country by Shannon Gibney

M+O 4EVR by Tonya Cherie Hegamin *

Dread Nation (Dread Nation #1) by Justina Ireland *

Untitled (Dread Nation #2) by Justina Ireland *

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann

If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour *

37 Things I Love (In No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon

A Blade So Black (A Blade So Black #1) by L. L. McKinney *

A Dream So Dark (A Blade So Black #2) by L. L. McKinney *

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus

Welcome Home: An Anthology on Love and Adoption edited by Eric Smith (WLW stories include ‘Happy Beginning’ by Nic Stone *)

Odd One Out by Nic Stone *

The Mark of Noba (The Sterling Wayfairer #1) by G. L. Tomas *

The City of Fallen Stars (The Sterling Wayfairer #2) by G. L. Tomas *

The Noban King (The Sterling Wayfairer #3) by G. L. Tomas *

End of All Worlds (The Sterling Wayfairer #4) by G. L. Tomas *

The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson *

Orphea Proud by Sharon Dennis Wyeth

Paying for your phone month-by-month is not a new concept, as shown in this ad from the August 29, 1984 issue of the Post. AT&T even allowed customers to choose their own color and offered free repair.

Nor is using your phone to get a date a new idea. Instead of swiping one way or the other, however, 1980s student singles paid by the minute to search for mates. (October 30, 1986)

And if your date went badly, you could also use your phone to get a bit of revenge. This service, advertised to UWM students in March 1984, offered to deliver dead flowers as a way of sending a message to someone who had wronged you.

With the box office smash Urban Cowboy setting the trend, mechanical bull riding became a brief national fad. In this August 27, 1980 ad, Teddy’s on Farwell Avenue boasted of its new bucking bronco. This location is now home to Shank Hall.

The 1980s also saw the stand-up comedy craze hit campus. Jay Leno was one of a number of national acts to appear in the UWM Union Ballroom, and ads billing these appearances were advertised regularly in the Post. (September 19, 1985)

I was given this notebook years ago by a dear friend. I have this thing where I fear writing in new journals and messing them up. However, this year one of my dreams is finding confidence in my voice and to assist, this book of lists.

- 1 half marathon (in March, that nearly broke me)

- 11 of 15 non-school books, with two sitting on my nightstand for winter break

- joint publication in Knowledge Organization 45(4)

- 2018 travel: Florida (March), Regina, Saskatchewan (May), London (August), Ann Arbor (October), Nashville (November)

- 2 rolls shot, still not developed (3 or 4 instax cartridges)

Here’s what Donald Trump doesn’t want you to know: ACA open enrollment begins TODAY!

Hey there US friends! If you’re voting using these machines (Hart eSlate) or similar ones right now or in the near future, make sure that the machine has NOT changed your ballot before casting it, ‘k? It’s apparently an already known problem, and has been for years, but has never been fixed.

Bristol photographed a young crewman of a US Navy “Dumbo” PBY rescue mission, manning his gun after having stripped naked and jumped into the water of Rabaul Harbor to rescue a badly burned Marine pilot. The Marine was shot down while bombing the Japanese-held fortress of Rabaul.

“…we got a call to pick up an airman who was down in the Bay. The Japanese were shooting at him from the island, and when they saw us they started shooting at us. The man who was shot down was temporarily blinded, so one of our crew stripped off his clothes and jumped in to bring him aboard. He couldn’t have swum very well wearing his boots and clothes. As soon as we could, we took off. We weren’t waiting around for anybody to put on formal clothes. We were being shot at and wanted to get the hell out of there. The naked man got back into his position at his gun in the blister of the plane.”