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Lede Exercise 4a
Thursday, September 14th, 2017

Story 1: Christy Wapniarski died suddenly yesterday night after a leisurely afternoon sailing with three of her friends turned dangerous. Randy Cohen, one of the three who accompanied Christy during this trip, tells how the events occurred from his hospital room in Halifax Hospital in Daytona. The four friends went out to sea in a 16-foot […]

Students Make Bad Sleepers (Story #1 Final)
Thursday, September 14th, 2017

College students aren’t getting the amount of sleep they really need. Sleep is one of the things everyone needs in order to live and work well. Sleep is one thing college students become good at making time for, whether it is a quick nap in some free time after a bad night, or scheduling it […]

Students Make Bad Sleepers (Story #1 RD)
Tuesday, September 12th, 2017

Sleep is needed for all humans to correctly function. It’s one thing college students become good at is making time for, whether it is a quick nap in some free time after a bad night, or scheduling it in when so they can wake up for class on time. However, college students might not be getting as much sleep as they […]

News Comment #3/Lede
Thursday, September 7th, 2017

The first thing to catch my attention when it came to Tim Mulkerin’s article “How exposure therapy helped me hack my OCD brain and eliminate my greatest fear” on mic.com was his lede. The first thing he mentions in his article is knives, and connecting the lede with the title, I knew I wanted to continue […]

Suspensions Cause Unrest Among East High Students (Lede Exercise #1)
Thursday, September 7th, 2017

Last Monday, five students at East High were put on week-long suspension for being caught smoking marijuana in the school parking lot. Disgruntled students protested the suspensions by causing a cafeteria-closing food fight Tuesday, followed by three false alarms sounding on Wednesday. Principal Laura Vibelius reported there was general unrest among the students, “Not so much unrest because of […]

News Comment #2
Thursday, August 31st, 2017

In the mic.com article “Want to save money and grow richer? This is the best way to rank financial priorities, experts say” by Anita Hamilton, she starts with telling the reader to write down their financial goals in their lives. Following these goals, Hamilton says a “financial plan” will help the reader get to these […]

Get to know Jesseca Ormond
Tuesday, August 29th, 2017

Jesseca Ormand, an international student here at Morningside, has come to us from the Caribbean nation of Antigua. She was born in 1993 on the island known as St. Martin. She has a total of four siblings, though two of them come from her father’s previous relationship before meeting her mother. Jesseca is a Mass Comm […]

News Comment #1
Friday, August 25th, 2017

In the mic.com article “Donald Trump signs memorandum banning transgender people from joining the military” published by Stacey Leasca, she tells about exactly what the title describes: banning transgender people from being able to join the military. Using other sources in her article, she tells details of how many possible transgender people are in the […]