Malala's story By: Kate Rapp

I know sometimes it may be tough for college students to stop what they're doing and watch the news once in a while. But after learning about a story from my professor this morning I'll be sure to do so more often. My professor was talking about how disorders are prone to more women because of social pressure, he then brought up how this teenage girl in the news would probably suffer from trauma from many of those pressures she feels from the Taliban. He asked us if we had heard what happened and none of us did. I later read up on the article which informed me that a young 14 year old girl was shot in the head by the Taliban on her school bus because of what she wrote in her blog. This girl Malala was recognized by Pakistan by winning the National Peace Prize and encouraged people to take a stand against the Taliban. She had written about how she wished for education for girls in Pakistan because she has hopes to become a doctor one day. The Taliban does not stand for people speaking against them and certainly the idea of women going to school is out of the question. So because she had written about women's rights and was an advocate she was shot in the head- BUT thankfully she survived and is now in Britain for treatment, even though she is in serious condition. the Taliban made a note of this though: "The Taliban, who say no girl should be educated, have claimed responsibility for the shooting. They have threatened to go after Malala again if she survives. 'We do not tolerate people like Malala speaking against us,' Taliban spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan said." After reading this, it terrifies me and I don't even live close to Pakistan. Stories and events like these make you re-think about what your complaining about and how lucky we are to have some of our rights. I'll be thinking about Malala a lot and hoping for a full recovery.