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December 6, 2011
When the first snowfall of 2011 came, one snowman got attacked in the apartment courtyard by a man and a rope.
Many of you might see him Saturday afternoons in the fall, down at Elwood Olsen Football field playing for the Morningside Mustangs. But not many know the real Tyler Anvil Sinsabaugh.
Born in Mesa Arizona, Anvil, as most call him, has lived in the same house for his entire life upon coming to college. He played many sports growing up, but one talent not many people know about is his roping skills. Starting from when he could remember, Anvil has been roping competitively.
From age five all the way to age fifteen he was ranked third in the state in competitive roping. Anvil practiced his roping skills daily, and twice a month he had shows to do. He had to give it up once he got to high school, because it took up too much of his time.
Coming from Arizona you may ask, why did Anvil choose Morningside College all the way in Sioux City, Iowa? The now sophomore chose Morningside because one of his high school coache is an alum and recommended it to him. Anvil is majoring in secondary education, hoping to become a math teacher.
“Math has always been my favorite subject, I enjoy the whole process, and want to teach it to people someday.” Sinsabaugh said smiling.
Anvil plays J-back for the Mustangs football team, which is a slot receiver and tight end combination. Other than football he enjoys playing basketball and squirrel watching from a far.
From his roping career down in Arizona all the way to playing football in Iowa, Anvil sure has had an interesting life. Next time you see him roping around campus make sure you don’t get roped down by him. This future math teacher will be roping his students in class if they act up at him.
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December 1, 2011
A Kentucky church has decided to ban interracial couples from getting married or attending worship services. The Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church made the vote in response to a longtime member who is engaged to a man whose birthplace is in Zimbabwe. The church has roughly 40 members and passed the vote to ban the interracial couples. The county the church is in is 98% white, and many believe this is not promoting unity or civil peace.
The way this church is going about this doesn’t seem right, they should be able to adapt to change. It seems as if they don’t want to have change at their church. With 98% of the county being white, I’m sure they are not used to anything like this. From the outside the church is getting bad views right now with how they are going about this. They will pry have to make changes to make everyone happy.
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November 17, 2011
http://www.hlntv.com/article/2011/11/16/social-media-study-adults-online?hpt=hp_bn6
Social Media is taking over. More and more people now are getting on to social media. The numbers now are up to, 2 out of every 3 people are using social media. Most of them are just trying to get in touch with old friends and family. The Pew Research Center found the largest motivating factor for adults to use sites like Facebook or Twitter was keeping in touch with friends.
It’s getting to the point that almost everyone now is relying on the internet and social media to stay in the loop with things. It was back in the late 90’s when no one knew what the internet was and many people thought the internet would never be to where it is today. Within five to ten more years those numbers will continue to rise and almost everyone will be depending on social media to get news, and stay in touch with family and friends.
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November 15, 2011
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November 10, 2011
Presidential Candidate is in Deep Water
With the election right around the corner, the Republican Party is having a heated race to see who will represent them next November for the presidential election.
GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain faced a new claim of sexually inappropriate behavior. Cain, is strong favorite after the release of his “9-9-9” tax plan that sets flat 9% rates for corporate and income taxes and also creates a 9% national sales tax.
Cain has denied all allegations against him. The incident occurred in 1997, while Cain was at a dinner with the women, and he is being accused trying to caress her. He has come forward and stated, “I’ve never acted inappropriately.”
Sophomore Josh Calhoon had this to say, “I think this could negatively effect his chances at winning the presidency.”
Gender Neutral Locker Rooms Added to One College
A gender-neutral locker room has been added to Grinnell College. Grinnell, a private liberal arts college in Iowa, added gender-neutral locker rooms this year. This adds along to their already gender-neutral dorm rooms, bathroom, and shower rooms.
Three years ago Grinnell College joined a growing college movement and allowed for people of the opposite sex could live in the same room and shower in the same facility.
Sophomore Chaps Wilcke states, “This idea would be a controversial idea on campus, and some people would be for the idea, while some would be against it.”
The school finds this to be an advantage for people of all sexes and races to feel comfortable around each other.
Morningside Mens Basketball Preview
High Expectations have been set for this years Morningside basketball team. Coming off last season disappointing 15-17 record, the Morningside Mustangs men’s basketball team opened up their season last week.
Going into the season the team returns four starters, including scoring leader Garth Hamilton. Hamilton scored 12.9 points and 6.4 rebounds per game. Along with Hamilton, the team’s leader in assists, Trent Miller returns to give a healthy balance for Hamilton on the court. With those two, Kevin Zoz and Bryan Borchers also return to the starting lineup.
The off-season went well says sophomore basketball player Garrett Smith-Keller.
The team is currently 2-2
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This week the only thing that has been in the news is Penn State University. They have not been in the news for good reasons, but rather their football team has gotten into some trouble. Back in the late 90’s former defensive coordinator got in trouble for sexually harassing a ten year old boy. One of the assistant coaches saw what had happened and reported it to the head coach Joe Paterno. Paterno then reported it to his higher authority, and nothing was done after that. Investigations slowly started in 2002 and they were slow enough former defensive coordinator was arrested last Saturday. That’s when things started going downhill for the program. Penn State ended up clearing house, by firing the President of the University and head coach Joe Paterno last night.
The thing that amazes me is the fact that the man who saw this all happen back when it happened, still has a job on the coaching staff. The way the University went about getting rid of people was not right. They should have let Paterno finish out the football season, then deal with everything after the season. Yes, Paterno was morally wrong, but did everything legally right. For more information visit ESPN.
Filed by Andrew at November 10th, 2011 under News Comments
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November 3, 2011
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This Sunday is daylight savings time and clocks will be turned back one hour. Everyone looks forward to that extra hour of sleep Saturday night. But what one doctor says that seasonal changes can greatly affect the public’s outlook and mood. The transition can be a struggle for some and can really misaligned people.
Not many people probably knew about there are more affects than you think when daylight savings time occurs. It can affect some people’s health and sleep pattern. The best way to get sleep is take some medicine to help you sleep. It should only take two to three weeks to get used to adjusting to winter and get back on schedule. Dr.Sharp warns that just because it gets dark earlier doesn’t mean it is ok to start happy hour earlier or Daylight Saving could leave you with a hangover. For more information on daylight savings time look at some of these tips.
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November 1, 2011
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October 20, 2011
America has been embraced with new superheroes. They are not your typical superheroes, they are Islam-inspired superheroes. With Marvel and DC comics helping create this new comic book called “The 99”. The goal is to try and reposition Islam to Muslims. The past most superheroes in comics have been white. The creator’s ultimate goal of creating the Islam-inspired superheroes was for children to get a better image on Islam. He didn’t want people imaging suicide bombers when they think of Islam; he wanted children to get the true meaning of being Islam. The group of superheroes in the comic book each represents the 99 characteristics of Allah.
This idea is a good idea to get the stereotypical idea of Islams, that they are all terrorists. To make a comic book of superheroes based on Islamic characters will help rebuild the image of Islam.
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