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News Comment #13 comes from the New York Times

The Reepct for Marriag Act which would enshrine Same-Sex and Interacial Marriage into law.

The overall support for Same-Sex Marriage has gone up to 70 percent of voter according to the New York Times. The New York Times also outlines that this is widely accepted by both political parties.

The bill made its way tot he United States Senate in which some provisions were added to the bill. This would cause worry for some Republicans citing Religious Freedoms according to the New York Times.

The reason for the big push to pass this bill why Democrats have control of both chambers is when Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thompson hinted at the reconsidering of the case that allowed Same-Sex Marriage according to the New York Times. According to the New York Times this all happened in June after the Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade.

A member of the United States Senate, Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin a Democrat was the sponsor of the bill in the Senate according to the New York Times. Senator Baldwin is the first lesbian elected to congress and said this about the bill “put to rest the worries of millions of loving couples who are concerned that someday and activist Supreme Court may take their rights and freedoms away.”

This bill had its fair share of backlash. An example is from Republican Missouri Congresswoman Vicki Hartzler giving an emotional and teary eyed emotional plea to vote no on the Respect for Marriage act in the House of Representative citing “This bill only serves to further demonize biblical values.” According to the New York Times.

This article is is important too many people because Same Sex Marriage is a big topic too many people. This article also relates to college students sho are gay and allows them to full be covered and respected knowing this is going to be enshrined in federal law. This also has to be a big relief of stress off of t heir holder.

Kylie Chandler is a Sophomore here at Morningside University getting ready to wrap up her fist semester as a Sophomore before heading off to new adventures. 

Kylie grew up in a small Iowa town named Casey. Casey is situated right along Iowa’s Interstate 80. 

Kylie is from a big family. Having grown up with 6 siblings Kylie has had her fair share of sibling rivalries. But one sibling Kylie is closest to. That is Jay. Kylie’s older brother Jay is the reason she does what she does. 

Here at Morningside Kylie studies Elementary Education and Special Education. Kylie’s brother Jay has autism. He has inspired her to become a Special Education Teacher. Kylie also says Jay “Motivates” her to keep striving to help people with Special Needs. 

Kylie chose Morningside because of its thriving Sharon Walker School of Education. Kylie also believed that Morningside could help accomplish her goals and get her on the path to success. 

Here at Morningside Kylie joined the ISEA which is the Iowa State Education Association. Last year, halfway through her freshman year Kylie took over as President of ISEA at Morningside. After getting elected President Kylie was offered the position of Delegate to the State Association to represent Morningside. 

Kylie has learned a lot of new ideas, concepts, and many other things with her time spent in ISEA. Kylie has since stepped down as President of the Morningside ISEA but has continued to represent Morningside as a State Delegate. Kylie will leave her position at the end of the semester but will continue to work as a Delegate to ISEA with her new University come next spring. 

When asked to describe Kylie Chandler and her passion fellow Morningside Education Student Sophomore ALuxus Devall has this to say “her dedication is honestly amazing” and goes on to say “she goes out of her way to go to events to help benefit her future.” Alexus also states that “She really enjoys the fact (Kylie) will someday be a teacher and is excited.”

Another student, Jadie Duryee, has gotten to know Kylie Chandler. Jadie and Kylee are roommates and they met during an Education Class. Jadie says that Kylie is “Dedicated” to becoming a teacher. Jadie also says that Kylie “thrives to help kids with special needs.”

Both Alexus and Jaide agree that Kylie will make a good teacher in the future. They also agreed that her dedication is like another when it comes to Kylie and teaching Special Need Students.

We have some heart breaking news coming from Midland Zoo today. We are sad to announce the passing of Homer the Bear.

Homer the bear has been a longtime resident of the zoo and is the oldest living bear at the zoo with an age of 16 years.

Homer was found around 7 am this morning unresponsive floating in the pool in the exhibit. The two other Polar Bears Yukon and Mckenzie were removed from the exhibit and are bing watched by Veterinary Staff. They are doing good.

Chris Bacon the Director of the zoo has this to say “We will do everything in our power to determine how this bear died. Animal welfare and the preservation of species are our primary goals here at the zoo.”

The zoo is very saddened by the passing of Homer citing “Homer was a very curious and playful bear and we will miss him terribly.”

Midland Zoo has some sad news to announce. Homer the Polar Bear has died.

Homer a 16 year old Polar Bear here at Midland Zoo and was the oldest Polar Bear at the zoo.

At 7 am this morning Homer was found floating in the exhibit pool and was unresponsive. The two other Polar Bears in the exhibit Yukon and Mckenzie were removed form the exhibit but are doing ok.

The Zoos director, Chris Bacon has indicated that and investigation will be held about the incident. He said “We will do everything in our power to determine how this bear died. Animal welfare and the preservation of species are our primary goals here at the zoo.” said Chris Bacon.

Polar Bears have and continue to thrive at our zoo. They have since 1985. The uniques exhibit here at Midland Zoo allow the Polar Bears to thrive in an environment and do activated like snow, hunting trout, and digging, and playing in the chilled pool.

Here at Midland Zoo we are immensely upset about the passing of Homer and more info will be released at a later date.

This News Comment comes from the Associated Press

The Biden Administration had laid out a plan for Loan Forgiveness. This program was struck down by a Federal Judge in Texas and therefore the Supreme Court will hear the case and determine it constitutionality hopefully by early summer according to the Associated Press.

The program was going to to cost 400 Billion dollars over the coming three decades. The program had about 26 million applicants in which 16 million had already been approved. The program is being talked about right now and the pause on loan payments is set to expire here in a few months all according to the Associated Press.

Many conservative lawmakers are saying that the President and his Administration overstepped in the creation of the program according to the Associated Press.

This applies to college student like many here at Morningside. This applies because many of us have to take out loans to pay for college and regardless of what everyone thinks we are all impacted. Many students who I have talked too had gotten an email regarding this plan are kinda disappointed when they received another email talking about this program being put on pause until the Supreme Court makes a design next year.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/12/01/remarks-by-president-biden-and-president-emmanuel-macron-of-france-at-arrival-ceremony/

The story is about the arrival of the French President and the statements made by President Biden about French and Unites States Relations

The press briefing room and the American People also it could appeal to the French people to see what is going on and see what the American President has to say about French and us relations.

The benefit is the reading of what was said and the conversation exchanged and the importance of the French, U.S. Relations.

The benefit for the company the “White House” is that it allows the American People to see for themselves what was going on

Its like many of the stories I have done for his class as I have done many things and the thing about this press release is its a transcript. Now its good to release transcripts but I feel that this story is a uniques to show what actually happened and what word were exchanged. This is important at least to me since I live off of this stuff.

Morningside has announced its new school of aviation for the Fall 2023 Academic Year.

This article is news as it shows that Morningside is examining its opportunities to a wider variety of students and shows the school is growing in a positive way. I would say the audience for this is Alumni and Future Students. Future Students to attract them to this program and Alumni to show their commitment to Morningside.

The purpose of the story is to inform the public and people of what Morningside is doing to expand. The readers from his story will gain understanding to why Morningside is adding this program. Morningside gets the benefit of good standing and publicity and the possibility of attracting new students.

This weeks News Comment comes from the New York Times

Taylor Swifts concert has been a pretty popular hit latley with he popular stars tickets being a very big priority for some people. The popular site Ticketmaster has went down and it has been very hard for people to get their cancer tickets.

Taylor swift according to the New York Times has called the situation “excruciating” after a post on instagram.

The company who’s website had crashed multiple times with people buying tickets blame the fame of Taylor Swift as part of the problem. They quote “The reality is, Taylor Swift hasn’t been on the road for three or four years and that’s caused a huge issue.” Gregg Maffei, the Chairman of Live Stream Entertainment said according to the New York Times.

Live Stream Entertainment owns Ticketmaster the place where you buy Taylor Swift tickets.

With increasing demand for Taylor Swift the popular singer tickets this has caused a great deal of stress for the star, company, and fans.

Many college students these day listen to music and a popular hobby for some college students is to go to concerts. College students are in their prime and a young age where they like to go out with friends and have fun and concerts are big part of that. This can negatively affect college student because who knows when she will go on tour again and the fact that this could happen to Ticketmaster again with more stars. Where will college students go to get their tickets. Although this is not a pressing matter some students on the Morningside campus could not get tickets and are deeply saddened.

Back in 2021 Byanka was in Mexico with her father. Her and her father were in Mexico walking through the plaza where you can buy stuff and they were approached by a young 13 year old gentleman who was a shoe shiner. Her father got her shoe shined and they had a conversation with the child. Byanka and her father took this thirteen year old shoe shiner out for dinner and then gave him some more money for him to have and some extra money for the boy to get some ice cream.

Byanka said this was “very heartwarming” for then to help a 13 year old little boy in need. The word Generous describes Byanka because she was able to help someone that day.

This story comes from the Wall Street Journal.

Last Tuesday we saw another election come and go. The interesting part about this election is the hopes for a Red Wave for the 2022 midterm but that ultimately did not happen. There were some highly contested and close races fro the United States Senate but in the end Democrats have taken control of the Senate. This comes from the Incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly and Incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez-Masto of Nevada also won reelection.

The Story from the Wall Street Journal Focuses on the House of Representatives. The United States House of Representatives fate has not been decided yet. Some highly contested Congressional Races according to Wall Street Journal are Incumbent Rep. Katie Porter D-Cali, Rep Mark Levin D-Cali, and many others. Some close races in the Arizona, Colorado, and Oregon will determine the fate of the House.

This is important to us as college students because many of these people running for office will impact our lives with their political agendas they want to get passed in Congress. One main issue that we see members of the Democrat Party running on is Student Debt Relief and Loan Forgiveness and that impact college student very hard. And Finally many college students get very politically active and control of both chambers mobilizes many college students.

It will be interesting seeing what will happen in the coming week as we see re counts and things rap up. We also will be seeing and interesting Senate Run-off in Georgia for Incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock D-Georgia and Candidate Herschel Walker. Warnock and fellow Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff flipped both Senate seats from Republican to Democrat in the last presidential election which was a big upset for Republican Party and they depend on Georgia for their electoral college votes that ultimately went to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. We are seeing history made and the poetical landscape changing.