“Welcome to Sunday NFL Countdown” is what I heard Sunday morning at 11:00 AM when I rolled out of bed. When I rolled out of bed, I took one of the world’s slowest showers, because I had no energy to do anything else. I then go out, put on my Chiefs jersey. And I sat on the couch, not being productive from 11:30 AM to 10:30 PM at night until football was over. I watch the Chiefs vs. 49ers game, the Vikings vs. Bills game, the Cowboys vs. the Seahawks and the Patriots vs. the Lions.  I was so lazy, that I even ordered pizza to the house for both meals because I had a coupon. I was so lazy I didn’t even comb my hair in the morning because I thought it took too much effort. The delivery driver for the pizza even gave me a funny look because it probably looked like I just rolled out of bed. I even hesitated to get up to the bathroom to pee. I only got up when I needed to do something else, like grab my computer or something to drink. I am so lazy that I am even struggling to type this paper the next day, because after yesterday I become accustomed to a certain style of life.

“Do you feel entitled?” The class was asked this question on the first week of school after the professor asked the class to raise their hand if they share passwords to Netflix, Hulu, or Spotify.

 

The overwhelming majority of the class did in fact raise their hand. Technically it is illegal based off an ancient law saying that “the sharing of an account password is a federal crime.” So why does Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify not do anything.

 

“I get login’s for Netflix from my cousin Greg.” This is a quote from the famous rapper Lil Dicky in his hit song “$ave Dat Money.” Lil Dicky is a millionaire and still borrows Netflix passwords. Does this influence the public? Or does this say a lot about the society we live in today.

 

That is the age old question. Do Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify actually care about this issue? More people would probably lose loyalty to these companies if they started suing everybody for sharing passwords.

 

So ten people were interviewed and ask if they share passwords for any of these services and seven of the ten said they only share Netflix and all were with family members.

 

“I’ve been bumming off my parents for Netflix forever” said freshmen Tenna Beel. She also went on to say that she “doesn’t plan to change that anytime soon.”

 

“Do you feel entitled,” Beal was asked. This was followed by a long pause and aggressive, yet defensive “No!” But is she?

 

The three that said they borrow or use other’s password outside their family interested me as I got into more detail with them. “I watch Hulu with my girlfriend thanks to my ex-girlfriend,” said junior Chase Hiser as he described the why he still uses his ex-girlfriend’s Hulu account.

 

“She never uses and still has no idea I use it, so why stop?” Hiser went on to say. “I don’t even think about how it is my ex’s until I’m forced to log back in with her email every now and then.”

 

“Do you feel entitled,” Hiser was asked. Again, this was followed by an abrupt pause and a hesitant “I don’t think am I.” But again, is he?

 

“Would she mind if you borrowed her Hulu,” Hiser was asked. He responded quickly with “I don’t think she would tell me no, she’s too nice and would want to avoid the awkward request.”

 

Also spoke to was junior Natalie Lambert, a frequent Spotify sharer. “I share Spotify with all three of my roommates.”

 

Knowing how Spotify operates, you know you can only have one person on it at a time. “It gets heated sometimes over who has been using it the most or who had it first. Sometimes it is even over even who needs it more.”

 

Lambert went on to say that she has a lot of quiet drives home as her radio is broken in her vehicle. “If somebody is already playing music, there is nothing I can do on my drives home, which sucks in the mornings.”

 

“Do you ever think about buying your own,” Lambert was asked. She responded with a questionable “maybe someday, like when I live on my own, but then again I may just share with my roommate or husband then.”

 

“Do you feel entitled,” Natalie was asked, a quick response of “no,” was all that was said with no reasoning explaining herself.

 

The last person interviewed is what people would call an abuser of the system. Drew Schiltz is a sixth year student coming back for his third degree. He does more then share one or two passwords.

 

“I share passwords with people from Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, Apple Music, Fox Sports, and ESPN, and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head,” said Schiltz.

 

Schiltz refers to this system of living as “smart.” “I save a ton of money this way and my friends don’t care so why wouldn’t I? I think everybody should do it.”

 

“Do you feel entitled,” Schiltz was asked, he quickly respond with a “heck no!” Schiltz went on to say “that is how the system is run and that is forever how it is going to be.”

 

So do we feel entitled enough to share passwords and why do we feel that way. That question may never be answered. But many people are still hesitant to even considered their own selfs “entitled.”

 

 

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/07/is_it_really_illegal_to_share_your_netflix_password.html

 

Tenna Beal – tlb014@morningside.edu

Drew Schiltz – (712) 253-4416, dts001@morningside.edu

Natalie Lambert – (515) 351-1566, njl003@morningside.edu

Chase Hiser – (712) 233-9736, crh008@morningside.edu

My name is Hunter Davis. I was told to write about it for the next ten minutes. I’ve never liked the name Hunter. It is often pronounced Hunner, which often makes me cringe. I’ve always known there are a ton of Hunter Davis’s, I have meet one other. I have meet a lot of Hunters, all seem to be quite a bit different then me. I’ve never had an issue with my last name of Davis. My dad’s name is often on TV with professional sports considering his name is Mike Davis and it seems like there is a black Mike Davis in every aspect of sports and across all major sports. I’ve always wanted to change my first name to Ron, not Ronald, but Ron. In high school, my nickname was Rondo. It was based off the professional basketball player Rajon Rondo. In high school, the only time I was every called Hunter was by substitute teachers or for sporting events. I’ve wanted to change it to Ron because as I progressed with the nickname Rondo, it slowly got shortened to Ron from Rondo, which I loved it. Hunter is a name as I get older is too kiddish to me, sounds like a little boy’s name.

 

Hi, my name is Hunter. I am five years old. My name is Hunter like hunting if animals. Even though I don’t go hunting which is funny. My name is from a comic book that came from my mom and my dad. I like my name because I like everything so far in life. I would like to go hunting someday so my name is true because I don’t want to come off as a not a truth teller.

“Do you feel entitled?” The class was asked this question on the first week of school after the professor asked the class to raise their hand if they share passwords to Netflix, Hulu, or Spotify.

 

The overwhelming majority of the class did in fact raise their hand. Technically it is illegal based off an ancient law saying that “the sharing of an account password is a federal crime.” So why does Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify not do anything.

 

“I get login’s for Netflix from my cousin Greg.” This is a quote from the famous rapper Lil Dicky in his hit song “$ave Dat Money.” Lil Dicky is a millionaire and still borrows Netflix passwords. Does this influence the public?

 

That is the age old question. Does Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify actually care about this issue? More people would probably lose loyalty to these companies if they started suing everybody for sharing passwords.

 

So I picked out ten people I planned to interview and ask if they share passwords for any of these services and seven of the ten said they only share Netflix and all were with family members.

 

“I’ve been bumming off my parents for Netflix forever” said freshmen Tenna Beel. She also went on to say that she “doesn’t plan to change that anytime soon.”

 

The three that said they borrow or use other’s password outside their family interested me as I got into more detail with them. “I watch Hulu with my girlfriend thanks to my ex-girlfriend,” said junior Chase Hiser as described the why he still uses his ex-girlfriend’s Hulu account.

 

“She never uses and still has no idea I use it, so why stop?” Hiser went on to say. “I don’t even think about how it is my ex’s until I’m forced to log back in with her email every now and then.”

 

I also spoke with junior Natalie Lambert, a frequent Spotify sharer. “I share Spotify with all three of my roommates.”

 

Knowing how Spotify operates, I know you can only have one person on it at a time. “It gets heated sometimes over who has been using it the most or who had it first. Sometimes it is even over even who needs it more.”

 

Lambert went on to say that she has a lot of quiet drives home as her radio is broken. “If somebody is already playing music, there is nothing I can do on my drives home, which sucks in the mornings.

 

The last person I sat down with is what I would call an abuser of the system. Drew Schiltz is a sixth year student coming back for his third degree. He does more then share one or two passwords.

 

“I share passwords with people from Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, Apple Music, Fox Sports, and ESPN, and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head,” said Schiltz.

 

Schiltz refers to this system of living as “smart.” “I save a ton of money this way and my friends don’t care so why wouldn’t I? I think everybody should do it.”

 

So do we feel entitled enough to share passwords and why do we feel that way. That question may never be answered.

 

 

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/07/is_it_really_illegal_to_share_your_netflix_password.html

 

Tenna Beal – tlb014@morningside.edu

Drew Schiltz – (712) 253-4416, dts001@morningside.edu

Natalie Lambert – (515) 351-1566, njl003@morningside.edu

Chase Hiser – (712) 233-9736, crh008@morningside.edu

It wasn’t just your average Monday night for Joey. Joey had rehearsal from 6:30-10:00 PM in Klinger-Neal auditorium for the rock opera that she was the lead for called “Next to Normal.” It’s a popular musical with a six person cast about a bipolar girl and her medical journey through that emotional disease and her family. Joey was joined at rehearsal by her husband and daughter in the musical. Played by Engels and Amy they were working on a certain scene where they weren’t worried about the singing, but using props in a certain way along with the music as they were watched by the director, Taylor Clemens. They were going through the prop actions during the entitles “Better then Before,” it’s was a sarcastic song in the musical. Some of the props including taking Tic-Tacs multiples times during rehearsal to act as pills. They even had to show pictures they found in the prop closet and one in particular made everybody laugh during the rehearsal of somebody in a very revealing Tarzan costume.

For this assignment I am focusing on the theft happening by millions of people around the world. Most people don’t realize they are doing it though. Millions of people around the world are sharing passwords to Netflix, Hulu, HBOnow, Spotify, and many more. The one I am going to focus on is Netflix. Many people share Netflix password so they don’t have buy their own account and everybody is okay with it and don’t think twice about it.

For this assignment I took it to a whole another level, instead of handing out Scooby snacks to friends and or with a free sign. I sat in the HPER center for an hour and tried to be as sketchy as possible with this. Essentially when I asked somebody if they want some snacks they would say no right away, especially when I reached into my backpack to give them the snack. One guy in particular seemed a little on edge about the whole thing and started to tell his friends about it. When I asked him his name he refused to give me it and threatened me. When I then explained that this was all for a class and I was trying to weird about it, he laughed and told me his name was Drew. Drew then took the snacks and thanked me. Another girl was also scared of my snack filled backpack. She said no and continued to walk in very hesitantly, when she came back up after her workout she tried to avoid eye contact with me and it was very obvious. I then again explained myself and again got a yes after all that a laugh. The rest of it went pretty normal. It was people that I think trusted me and they would just come in and take some of the Scooby snacks. Overall I think this experience made me realize a lot of things. That in this day and age everybody things the worst of people. They all thought I was hinting at drugs or something worse (I don’t know what is actually worse then drugs though) and couldn’t trust the true nature of a person anymore. Back when my parents were growing up I think most people would have no problem when they were offered a free snack and most wouldn’t hesitate. Now-a-days we don’t even see lemonade stands with little kids because the world is so dark that many people think their kids will get abducted or robbed while running a lemonade stand.

A women driving a taxi at night would scare most girls to death, but not Kris Evans. The Iowa City native of over a decade isn’t scare of anything, “I’m a big woman.” Evans, drives the night shift wearing her leather jacket and black pants every night for Old Capital Cab service.

 

Most people would laugh at the thought of a night shift taxi driver, but not Kris Evans. The Iowa City 25 year old was born to drive the streets of her hometown and loves every minute of her job.

The lead drew me in because mysteries draw people in and you want to see if you are right on whether predator or prey or find out more about something that interest you. It works because it leaves a question in your head and you are curious about what is going on within the article. “Predator or Prey to J.D. Salinger?”

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24574454/braylon-edwards-michigan-wolverines-tweets-excessive-stance-same

 

In the article above it discusses Braylon Edward, the main character in the story. He was a former University of Michigan wide receiver and was an All-American while there before going on to the NFL. Now he is an analyst for Big Ten Network. He went after particular players after their game Saturday saying they need to be better. He is now suspended indefinitely from the network. The articles also how he apologized, but still has his stance that Michigan football needs to be better This is the theme, that now-a-days you can’t tweet anything when having a job without getting into trouble. The structure is a typical sports article just looking to inform the readers.