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☆ Cashing in on recruitment: Families shell out thousands for sorority rush coaching
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailCashing in on recruitment: Families shell out thousands for sorority rush coachingHosted by Brian Sullivan, “Last Call” is a fast-paced, entertaining business show that explores the intersection of money, culture and policy. Tune in Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. ET on CNBC. Stacia Damron, Hiking in Heels founder and CEO, joins the show to discuss the trend of professional sorority consultants.

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☆ Parents Hire $4,000 Sorority Consultants to Help Daughters Dress and Impress During Rush
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Tara Weiss | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ After a ‘safe sex’ lecture, this 30-year-old co-founded a company to bring at-home STD tests to the LGBTQ community
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In 2019, he co-founded Ash Wellness, which now offers at-home diagnostic testing for "everything from HIV, cholesterol, lipids," he says, and more. Thus far, the company has raised $6.6 million in funding, according to Crunchbase. People at the facility where he was getting tested "start to give me a lecture on safe sex," he says. "It cost us $150 to acquire a patient and our testing kits sold for just under $150." They sold them about 250 testing kits and over the next month sold kits to three more B2B clients.

Persons: David Stein, Stein, He's, Cornell Tech's, Kyle Waters, Mio Akasako, Nick Sempere Organizations: U.S, Ash Wellness, George Washington University, Cornell, Villanova, University, PrEP Locations: Philadelphia, San Francisco

☆ At This Texas Campus Ministry, ‘Inclusive Love’ Is the Mission
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Eli Durst | Jennifer Harlan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Sydney Cox, 21, arrived on the University of Texas’s Austin campus in fall 2021, she was eager to find her people. During the worst of the pandemic, she had spent her freshman year attending classes over Zoom. Then, at the beginning of the second semester, she attended a kickoff event for the Texas Wesley Foundation, a Methodist campus ministry group founded at the school in 1923. Sydney had grown up Methodist and thought she knew what to expect from a Christian student organization. And that was huge to me.”It was the community Sydney had been looking for.

Persons: Sydney Cox, Wesley, “ It’s, ” Organizations: University of Texas’s, Texas Wesley Foundation, Methodist Locations: Sydney

☆ 35-year-old who makes more than $5,000/month in passive income on her best career advice: Find ‘different communities of people’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Jen Glantz wasn't sure which career path to take when she graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2010. But outside of her professional life, Glantz noticed she was constantly being asked to be people's bridesmaid. Altogether her various income streams bring in more than $5,000 in passive income per month. You can do this by taking online courses like those on LinkedIn Learning or Udemy, taking in-person courses at a local college or university or by doing some one-on-one coaching with a professional in a skill you're looking to hone. "I learned a lot of those skills by taking online courses, a lot of them free courses that I found just to teach me the structure and the baseline."

☆ 'Quiet rooms' are being built by companies to help employees relax and decompress on the clock
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Bethany Biron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Offices are increasingly adding designated "quiet rooms" for employees to recharge, WSJ reported. Companies like Adobe now have a craft room and private music rooms for staffers. The spaces are the next evolution of the nap and meditation rooms made popular by tech companies like Google. Now, workplaces are installing "quiet rooms" designed to help staffers cope with over-stimulation from open offices in today's post-pandemic workplaces. In an effort to better prioritize the mental health of employees, a growing number of companies are creating places for employees to relax and recharge, the Wall Street Journal reported.

☆ Macy's CEO to step down. Here's what the future of the brand looks like and the strategy to engage younger consumers
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Macy's CEO Jeff Gennette will retire in February, the company announced on Wednesday. Tony Spring will take his place and continue shifting Macy's strategy based on consumer changes. Here's how Macy's "Polaris Strategy" is preparing the brand for the future. A shift in supply chain proceduresJeff Gennette spoke about the future of Macy's. Astrid Stawiarz/Getty ImagesThe supply chain has been a pain point for many businesses over the last three years.

☆ A day in the life of a sorority house interior designer, from picking out makeup mirrors to transforming closets into mental wellness spaces
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Liz Toombs is a Lexington, Kentucky-based interior designer who mostly works with sororities. Her work varies from designing a newly built sorority house to styling one room in a facility. After refreshing some rooms in the house, Toombs was approached by a sorority who needed work on their house, too. "When we're building a new sorority house, we're doing everything. For a new sorority house, Toombs said whatever furniture goes in one bedroom goes in all of them.

☆ I'm a Black woman who left her job at an architecture firm to go out on her own and I've never been happier
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Marguerite Ward | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Xena Stryker left corporate America several years ago after feeling discriminated against. The company, Xena Design + Marketing Firm, has offices in Atlanta and Beverly Hills, California. At a previous job, I was the only Black woman at an architectural firm with hundreds of designers. I started my own company, Xena Design + Marketing Firm, and life is phenomenal right now. If you're in a similar position as I was previously in corporate America, my advice is: dream big, determine your unique selling point, find a supportive dream team, and get out.

☆ Text by Text, Students Sorted Fact From Fiction in Michigan State Mass Shooting
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Douglas Belkin | Joe Barrett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

EAST LANSING, Mich.—Hailee Maynard, a junior at Michigan State University, arrived at the Creole Burger Bar in Lansing Monday evening with six friends—mostly her sorority sisters—excited to celebrate a 22nd birthday. “We were talking about how surprised Payton (the birthday girl) was going to be,” she said.

Four people were arrested in connection with the alleged rape of Madison Brooks, a Louisiana State University student who was fatally hit by a car shortly after the suspects dropped her off in an East Baton Rouge subdivision. Lee is Washington's uncle, the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office said. Carver told investigators that he, his friends and Lee did not know Brooks prior to meeting her at Reggie's, the report said. When they were about to leave, Brooks asked for a ride home, Carver told detectives. He told CBS affiliate WAFB of Baton Rouge that a rape did not occur.

☆ Here's how Macy's is doing business differently, according to the brand's Chairman and CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Macy's CEO Jeff Gennette joined the National Retail Federation's "Retail's Big Show" event this month. Retail leaders can predict consumer trends with pricing science and credit card data. One way the store is predicting consumer trends is with digital strategy, allocation science, and pricing science. A shift in supply chain proceduresThe supply chain has been a pain point for many businesses over the last three years. In recent years, Macy's has "totally redone" its supply chain, said Gennette, adding that it's reducing its dependence on China and shifting to more duty-free countries.

☆ Gen Z loves the flip phone
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Now, Gen-Z’s latest “vintage” obsession is the flip phone – that mid-1990s era phone that has suddenly become oh so popular with millennials. “I’m team flip phone revolution,” singer Camila Cabello tweeted Thursday, posing with a TCL flip phone, vintage. Maybe I can write the theme song guys 💪💪💪💪 pic.twitter.com/yOJgCdAgNq — camila (@Camila_Cabello) January 13, 2023“I found a little 90s, Matrix-y flip phone,” Cameron said. “At parties people will say, ‘oh my goodness, is that a flip phone?,’” Palazzolo said. And yes, new Nokia flip phones are still available – the Nokia 2760 Flip is sold at Walmart from prepaid brands such as Verizon for $19.99.

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☆ Sister of murdered Idaho student, Kaylee Goncalves, says it's chilling to learn 'true evil was watching'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

I had no idea that true evil was genuinely watching them,” Alivea Goncalves, 26, sister of victim Kaylee Goncalves, 21, said in an interview with NewsNation on Sunday. "That’s really difficult, it’s really difficult, not to wish that you had done more and wish that you had known more." A private security officer sits in a vehicle on Jan. 3 in front of the house in Moscow, Idaho, where four University of Idaho students were killed in November. It's unclear if Alivea was there, but she told NewsNation she plans to be at "every single" hearing throughout the case. In a previous interview with NBC's “TODAY,” Alivea Goncalves called her sister “the ultimate go-getter.”

☆ Sorority House Design in the Age of Instagram and RushTok
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Kelsey Ogletree | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Curled up on the couch in the traditionally decorated TV room of the Alpha Gamma Delta house at University of Kentucky in 2002, freshman Liz Toombs watched an episode of the reality show “Trading Spaces” that featured a sorority house redesign. “I didn’t think it was real, just that it was a made-for-TV moment,” she said. Years later, Mrs. Toombs, who launched her Lexington, Ky.-based interior design firm, PDR Interiors, in 2009, was approached by a Greek organization that needed help updating its 1970s home at the University of Kentucky. She took the project, and has since gone all-in on this niche design space, even adapting her company logo to a Greek key. Sorority design is now about 90% of her business, she said.

In early October, my family of three got dressed up in green and posed for our local family photographer. I’d planned to print the photo on 75 Christmas cards and send them to everyone we knew. The reality TV star famously edited her daughter into her Christmas card one year when the girl “refused” to participate in the photo shoot. I knew the people on my Christmas card list wouldn’t be cruel about my daughter’s stains. I’ll keep the edited photo on my computer, just in case she wants me to reprint another canvas and Christmas card for our photo book.

☆ I Got Popular on TikTok by Doxxing People With Their Permission
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Adrienne Matei | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Kristen, 32, a Chicago-based server best known for her TikTok account, @NotKahnJunior. Kristen uses her TikTok account to "consensually dox" users and reveal their birthdays using just social media. I get a lot of comments that say, "There's no way you can find me because I don't have any information about myself on my TikTok. I'm just the TikTok birthday woman, you know? I don't know if more people want to be anonymous.

☆ Kobe Bryant's daughter Natalia, 19, seeks restraining order against alleged stalker
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Natalia Bryant, the daughter of the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant, has filed a request for a restraining order against an alleged stalker in Los Angeles, court records show. The 19-year-old University of Southern California student filed for a civil harassment restraining order on Monday against Dwayne Cortez Toliver Kemp, 32, of Sun Valley, California. The filing states that Kemp allegedly started to harass her on social media in 2020 when she was just 17-years-old and he was 30. "Thankful For Him Birthing You, Hopefully We Can Birth Him… ‘Kobe,’” he wrote, the filing said. Vanessa Bryant and Kobe Bryant with daughters Natalia Bryant and Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant, right, at a 2018 premiere in Los Angeles.

☆ What we know about the 4 Idaho college students found dead in an off-campus home
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Phil-Helsel-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Phil Helsel | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

The killings of four University of Idaho students Sunday elicited shock and sadness on campus, in the college city of Moscow, Idaho, and beyond. Mogen planned to move to Boise after graduating this spring, family friend Jessie Frost told the Idaho Statesman newspaper. Chapin had just turned 20, and was a triplet, his parents, Stacy and Jim Chapin, told NBC affiliate KING of Seattle. “Everything we do, is all of us, together,” Stacy Chapin told the station. “I am lucky to have had her as a sister,” her sister, Jazzmin Kernodle, said in a statement.

☆ Idaho college town scared — and frustrated — after four students found dead near campus
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

MOSCOW, Idaho — In this college town mourning four students killed in a quadruple homicide, the fear and frustration are hard to miss. University of Idaho students said Tuesday they were frightened because the culprit in the attack not far from campus had not yet been caught and frustrated at what they viewed as too little information about the killings from officials. Officers on Monday investigate the deaths of four University of Idaho students at an apartment complex south of campus. So many students left that school officials canceled a vigil planned for Wednesday, according to an email from the dean of students. Candles and flowers at a makeshift memorial honoring four slain University of Idaho students outside the Mad Greek restaurant in downtown Moscow, Idaho, on Tuesday.

Officers investigate the deaths of four University of Idaho students at an apartment complex south of campus Monday. The slain students were identified Monday as Ethan Chapin, 20; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21. In a memo to students, university President Scott Green said he and his wife were "heartbroken." Kernodle, of Post Falls, Idaho, was a junior and a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority majoring in marketing. And Goncalves, of Rathdrum, Idaho, was a senior and a member of the Alpha Phi sorority majoring in general studies.

☆ No clear answers in deaths of 4 Idaho students found dead near campus, mayor says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The mayor of a small Idaho town where four college students were found dead said the “senseless” killings could be blamed on "most any scenario." In a memo to students Monday, University of Idaho President Scott Green said he and his wife were "heartbroken" over the deaths. Kernodle, of Post Falls, Idaho, was a junior and member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority majoring in marketing. Mogen, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, was also a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority and a senior majoring in marketing. And Goncalves, of Rathdrum, Idaho, was a senior and member of the Alpha Phi sorority majoring in general studies.

☆ A New Sister Act: College Students Move Into a Convent
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Melissa Korn | Photographs Michelle Gustafson For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ASTON, Pa.—A group of students at Neumann University here spent an evening last month painting pumpkins, making s’mores and dancing to a DJ’s playlist. Their neighbors—a bunch of sisters, and not the sorority kind—joined in the fun. Call it a match made in heaven: Neumann wanted to increase campus housing for students. The Catholic Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia had extra space in their convent.

☆ A Michigan judge tried to block an abortion rights measure. His ex-wife says he helped her get an abortion in college.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Jonathan-Allen-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Jonathan Allen | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +12 min

On May 18 that year, Jones said, Zahra drove her to the clinic and paid for her abortion. Michigan Supreme Court Justice Brian Zahra. Michigan CourtsAside from Zahra, Jones said she did not immediately tell anyone that she was pregnant in May 1983. The abortion-rights coalition sued to place it on the ballot, and the state Supreme Court ruled in favor of the coalition — ordering state officials to put the proposed amendment to voters on Nov. 8. She calculated her menstrual cycle and told Zahra she thought she might be pregnant.

Welcome back to Insider Weekly, a roundup of some of our top stories. The industry took a beating after Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft reported poorer-than-expected earnings, wiping nearly $1 trillion off their collective market caps. Microsoft and Amazon reported slower growth in their usually outperforming cloud divisions, with Amazon also warning of slower holiday sales. Stephen Lam/Getty ImagesAmid a streak of disappointing financial results, inflation, and global turmoil, companies like Meta, Microsoft, and Google are looking to rein in runaway costs. For years, Big Tech companies competed on pay and perks to lure workers in a tight labor market.

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