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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

 

 

 

Filed by Andrew at November 10th, 2011 under Other Posts



The woman Cain went to dinner with isn’t alleged. That makes it sound like he went out with a man, who is now being accused of being a woman. While that’s pretty funny, it’s not accurate. The second topic is very interesting and I’d like to know some more back story if you had the time.

   Peter — November 10, 2011 @ 3:08 PM

What you have so far seems pretty good. Short and simple declarative sentences make it easier to read and understand over the air. The only thing that stuck out to me was in your first story when you used the term “groping her”. To me it seems a little odd in the sentence. Maybe try a synonym of the word that doesn’t stick out so much.

   Alisa — November 10, 2011 @ 3:10 PM

Good short sentences. I would go further into detail about the articles. Maybe take different views on each of the problems.

   Brittany — November 10, 2011 @ 3:12 PM

You are definitely going to need some more quotes and clean up some of your grammar mistakes. Good stories otherwise. It seems like you have one national, one state, and one local story so you could run your newscast thing by saying things like “and in Iowa news,Grinnell college…..”

   Josh Meredith — November 10, 2011 @ 3:17 PM

Most of the comments so far agree with mine, Andrew. Both are good stories that need some more explanation. For example, what’s the advantage of a co-ed locker room? Just seems to be asking for trouble.

   fuglsang — November 14, 2011 @ 4:55 PM