News Comment #4
Mom: Substitute teacher duct-taped kid’s mouth shut
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Down in Louisiana, a mother is taking legal action against a substitute who has been accused of duct-taping her child’s mouth shut. I’m not sure if they’ve actually proven that the teacher is guilty or not, but I believe the family is pressing charges. I think this article is news because of public concern. The fact that this is going on in the public school system is embarrassing. The mother quoted, “He just told me he didn’t want to go back to school no more.” I think this quote makes the mother/family sound not intelligent. I think for the family’s sake of embarrassment in their grammer I would have rephrased the quote to saying, “He just told me he didn’t want to go back to school ANY more
The Jefferson Nickel
As I was handed this assignment, my eyes shot to the bottom of the page to see what my task was. Your Object: A Jefferson nickel. A Jefferson nickel, I asked myself, “don’t all nickels have Jefferson on them?” Yes, yes they do but there are now new nickels that have the front view of Jefferson rather than the profile view. At 10:30, I set out on my journey for the nickel.
I started by first heading to Lewis Hall. I approached the desk on the main level. A freshman named Colin Higgins was working. I introduced myself and explained that I needed a “new” nickel for my Journalism class. A slight chuckle came out of his mouth as I asked, probably because already multiple students had approached him for similar requests. He emptied his wallet only to find one quarter.
Next, I ventured into the admissions office. Char Jorgensen was sitting behind her desk, greeting me with a smile. Once again, I asked if she had a “new” nickel for my Journalism class. She grabbed her wallet out of her purse and dumped all of the loose change onto her desk. We sorted through the coins and found one nickel! Unfortunately, it was not what I needed. I then approached the students working at the table behind her desk: James La Pointe, Mary Froeshel, Kaylee Betteron, and Maria Bohling. I asked them the same repetitive question that I had been asking. They all just looked at me and gave me a blank stare. OK, obviously the answer to that question is a no!
Finally, my last destination was the Post Office. Kaleb Horton, a sophomore was working at the time. I asked if they had any “new” nickels in their change drawer. He asked me, “Is this that scavenger hung. I already had someone come here. I don’t know if we have any nickels.” I responded back, “Well I sure hope you do!” As he was digging through their change I was hoping and praying for the right nickel. And surely enough after 20 minutes of searching, there it was! A shiny new, 2011 Jefferson nickel.