Your Uber And Lyft Driver Are Keeping It In Park Due To A Strike

Bella Breakdown By this time today, you may have noticed that there were less Uber and Lyft drivers on the road. That’s because employees of the ride-share companies planned a massive strike for today demanding more compensation. The news of the strike comes just before Uber goes public, which is scheduled to take place this Friday. The company is estimated to be worth up to $91.5 billion after raising $9 billion from investors. This wouldn’t be the first time employees of Uber and Lyft tried to organize a protest. The same thing happened just last month around the time...

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Cornell Student Presents Thesis In Bra And Underwear

    Bella Breakdown A student of Cornell University, Letitia Chai, stripped down to her bra and underwear during a thesis presentation to protest professor and “oppressive beliefs.” Days prior to this presentation protest her professor, Rebekah Maggor, questioned Chai in her choice of wearing denim cutoff shorts during a test run of the presentation. Chai says, “The first thing that the professor said to me was ‘is that really what you would wear?'”. The professor goes onto say that she is ‘inviting the male gaze away from the content of her presentation onto her body,’ in front of...

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