Monday, December 1, 2008
Article Analysis
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Article Summary
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Press Release
Grace Chung Becker, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Crime Story
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Religion Scholar Speaks About Historic Court Case
KALAMAZOO, Mich.—US Catholicism scholar Kathleen Hoscher spoke this past Wednesday about the separation between church and state in a New Mexico town during the 1950s and 60s and the national controversy that would follow.
Reading from a dissertation, Hoscher discussed a town’s anger against the local public school, which was predominantly staffed by catholic nuns. Concerned Protestants contacted the Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a national organization at the time that sought to keep catholic nuns out of public schools. This confrontation sparked a series of court cases that have shaped the public school system that exists today.
Speaking with no microphone to a crown of 31, the event took place at 7 p.m. in the Olmstead Room of Mandelle. Among them was Shreena Gandhi, Religion instructor and friend of Hoscher. Gandhi opened the speech with an introduction about her friend, repeating how pleased she was to have Hoscher at K. The room was scattered with rows of couches and chairs brought in from other areas of the building, but the room was only spotted with listeners.
At the conclusion of the speech, questions were asked, mostly about legislation and court cases that followed the controversy. Hoscher answered all questions with detailed information, as she was clearly very knowledgeable about the topic. Many students felt the talk was informative. “I learned a lot about something I didn’t even know happened,” Kyle Thomas said after the event. “I was hapy I made the trip.” The overall consensus was that the event was a success.
Five LACs remain for the rest of the month. No LACs remain that involve religion faculty.
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Story Analysis 10/21
The article from the New York Times is titled “More Alzheimer’s Risk for Hispanics, Studies Suggest.” The link follows: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/us/21alzheimers.html?ref=us
The lede was typical of a soft news story because it focuses on a person instead of discussing an event. “Antonio Vasquez was just 60 when Alzheimer’s disease derailed him.”
The first graf discusses how this happened in Vasquez’s life and two other victims of the disease. It sets up the article talking about the horrors of Alzheimer’s and establishes a personal familiarity between the reader and the subjects.
The second graf goes on to talk about the susceptibility of Hispanics to developing Alzheimer’s.
The nut graph is a quote from the president of the Natonal Hispanic Council on Aging. “This is the tip of the iceberg of a huge public health challenge,” said Yanira L. Cruz, president of the National Hispanic Council on Aging. “We really need to do more research in this population to really understand why is it that we’re developing these conditions much earlier.” This sets up the narrative to give more details about what the causes may be. Low income or something called “cultural dislocation” puts this group at greater risk for dementia, as well as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and hypertension.
More stories about victims of the disease follow this part of the narrative. Quotes from them and family paint a grim picture of the effects of the disease. Following this, the author discusses the actual study and what has been uncovered. It uses quotes from doctors explaining some of the risk factors and the evidence supporting them. The kicker is a series of quotes again about the victims and their struggles.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Summary
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/us/07bus.html?ref=us
This story is about a bus accident that occurred in California that killed 8 and injured 35. The driver was taken into custody under the suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. The bus was on the way to a popular casino and resort when it crashed in Williams, Calif.
This story is a hard story because it is reporting about a factual event that happened recently. The lede is a summary lede covering most of the 5 “W”s, including who (8 killed and 35 injured), what (a bus accident), and where (a highway north of Sacramento). The second paragraph is the second graf because it explains who the driver was and what may have caused the crash. The third paragraph is the nut graf, which begins a discussion into the history of the driver, following into a background/history narrative that talks more about the driver’s history in commercial driving and the upcoming results of his blood test. More events leading up to the crash follow in chronological order. The ending is a fizzle ending that discusses other bus accidents.