Weekly Digest 1

Federal investigation into Colorado students' version of the Harlem Shake, performed on an airplane : Members of the Colorado College ultimate frisbee team are being investigated by the FAA for performing and filming their rendition of the viral video The Harlem Shake. They did this during flight time (not during take off or landing). I thought it was a pretty good version of the video, much better than the Rhodes University one, which I felt could have at least been done from different angles, or performed with fewer people just doing boring and generic fist-pumping (though, granted, Rhodie was very cool, and there were very original and unusual costumes that people donned for the occasion). I think that because of the masses (of course EVERYONE has to be involved...) a lot of good aspects of it were lost...

Four-year-old hospitalised after being given the wrong medicine - Eastern cape : while the events leading up to the situation are unclear, a four-year-old girl has nevertheless had a bad reaction to the medication that she received after she went into hospital allegedly for vomiting and diarrhoea. Her reaction to the medicine that she received (after what the girl's mother describes as dismissive treatment by the nurse) resulted in her being further hospitalised. While the circumstances are not entirely clear, it is suspected that she was given medicine that is usually prescribed to adults for the same symptoms she was experiencing. 

Mass spaying of Grahamstown dog population : Last weekend there was a drive to spay 57 dogs. With the support of the SPCA, 53 of these dogs were "fixed", with the others not being operated on. This effort works towards reducing the number of breeding dogs in a town where unwanted litters could pose a serious problem, for both the people and for the animals, who might otherwise be left homeless.