current events finale

1. The Labay family wants to demolish a  problematic century old house in West Austin so that they might pay for the costs of operating the half-century old drug store nearby. I think that the Labays are in the right here, but the compromise in which the house is restored and sold off seems promising as well.

2. UT and A&M (and the University of New Mexico)  have proposed that they join forces to restart the Cold War by contributing to the already massive surplus of WMDs. They will be researching at Sandia, where the non-nuclear parts of city-killing nuclear packages will be researched. A true victory for all who want to see our glorious nation bring us from 3 minutes to midnight down to 2!

Fuck nukes.

3. The Bill Cosby sexual assault trial will proceed, and Bill will finally have to (maybe) face the consequences of his actions. His lawyers argue that this is a ploy to make Bill confess to a previous civil suit, something the former district attorney had said they would not do. They are being stupid. This story needs to be on the front page so that people do not forget that this is an ongoing matter, and that the right thing needs to be done. This is relevant, and plays with the idea of timeliness as well as justice. (conflict)

4. The school formerly known as Robert E. Lee has now been planned to be renamed as Russell Lee, but there was a dissenting vote who called for it to be named after Bettie Mann, the school's first African American teacher. Russell Lee was a photographer, but that isn't really the important part of the story because the only purpose of the renaming was to stop glorifying confederate generals and warriors who fought for slavery in the south. It will still be named Lee school, but at (Lee)ast the memory of R. Lee will no longer be honored there.

5. The Baylor sexual scandal will likely result in Ken Starr being fired. The scandal is over the abnormally large amounts of sexual assault done by the football players at Baylor, and the kind of investigations there are to these accusations at Baylor. I think that ALL universities are in need of serious reform in terms of how they deal with sexual assault, as it is becoming more and more clear that these kinds of activities are still happening, which is bad.

Newsparper!

1. I liked the Missoulian front page, simply because i cannot believe that thats what they call it. It also has a strange column method, putting the big column header in the center.

2. Little Fuss in Oaths of Office. I forgot fuss was a word, and now i am happier having remembered this.

3. 4 stories

4. They all have a big column with a bunch of smaller columns in squares

5.  Theres different numbers of stories and different topics of stories.

wahtever

Teaser

Flag

Folios 

Bylines

Jumps 

Story dividers

Screens 

Infographics
visual image taht represents data
Masthead/staff box

the nameplate of a newspaper

Bastard measure

breakung up of columns to show importance

Raw wrap

text tgat extends into a column alongisde its headline

Reefer

a referral to a different story

Wild art

a feature shot

Pull quote

quote pulled out of the story in large lettering

Ears

notice box in the upper corner of a page

Banner

logo at the top of the front page

Kicker headline

smaller head above main headline

Wicket headline

2+ lines of secondary headline

Tripod headline

two line primary next to a single line secondary

Hammer headline

type line is big and main line is smaller

Modular design

everything is built in a block grid pattern

Text wrap

text wrapped around a graphic

L-shaped text flow

text is in an L shape

U-shaped text flow

text is in a U shape

DOMINANCE
a thing that grabs attexntion and is hugeCONTRAST
has different shadesBALANCE
placement of design elementsUNITY
similar designRHYTHM

similar styles

wouldnt it be nice

Do you remember the first day of high school? You showed up, a young freshman, ready to take on the world! You were assigned eight different classes, all of which challenged and captivated you. You were finally going to escape the dark middle school years, and find a specialized group of people who shared your interests and desires. It was great!

Except, thats not what really happened. Odds are, you were shoved off from the theater class of your dreams into some business course that nobody wanted to be in or actually took seriously. A "Dump Class", that one shared experience that broke the illusion that the current American school system is actually functional. But can it be changed?

All around the board the schooling system is mostly the same. There are five(ish) core required classes; a math class, a science class, a history class, an english class, and a semi-optional foreign language class of your choice. But, as we mentioned earlier, there are eight different classes, leaving you with the amazing choice of either doing a half assed P.E. class or a different half assed health class. Wouldn't it be better to include a study hall in the place of these? Around half of the people in David Winter's journalism class applied for a different, in some cases required class, and were switched in, leaving the class composed of students unhappy and deprived of their right as a student

to learn what they want, not what the school wants.

Essentially, its kinda messed up that we have all taken the dump class aspect of high school for something that can't be changed, and not as something that can be minimized, if not outright eradicated with more funding or a serious retooling of the American High school system. 

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