Astronauts may no longer have to go far to be able to find water on the moon.

According to the New York Times, a team of scientists used SOFIA an infrared telescope mounted inside a 747 jumbo jet, to make observations that showed clear data that there is water on the side of the moon where the sun shines.

“This discovery reveals that water might be distributed across the lunar surface and not limited to the cold shadowed places near the lunar poles,” Paul Hertz, the director of NASA’s astrophysics division, said during a news conference on Monday.

This discovery could be a real game-changer, not only could it be used as water for astronauts to drink but it could also be broken down into its constituent atoms to create oxygen for the astronauts to breathe.

Hydrogen and oxygen could also possibly be used as rocket propellant to help space missions make it back to earth and even help them in their quest to get to Mars.

I chose the Eppley Auditorium lobby because I have only ever passed through it, and I was wondering what it would be like to sit here and see what the room is actually like.

The Eppley Auditorium lobby is a long hall that is mostly white and has many chairs for people to sit in. It is used as the main entrance to Eppley Auditorium and is also where the box office is located for the performances that are given here.

While I am sitting here there isn’t much activity going on. There is only one other person down the whole length of the hall and they are lounging on a couch doing their homework with their earbuds in. Various other people have walked through but only for a brief moment before either going upstairs or walking in the direction of the music wing.

From where I am sitting, I can hear the band and choir practicing. It is soothing but when you hear both at the same time, it becomes a little discordant. I know that I recognize the piece of music that the band is playing, but I can’t remember the name of it.

At the moment, this room feels large for how little is going on in it. I’m sure that when there is an actual performance the room probably gets much fuller.

Gaming is serious business for Morningside’s esports team.

Morningside esports was founded, in 2016, as a club that people could join to play video games and compete in local and online tournaments. Morningside esports has since grown to be a 25-person roster over three separate teams.

In previous years Morningside esports was run by Dean Stevens, whose idea it was to form an esports team at Morningside. This worked okay for the first few years, but as new Head Coach, Jared Amundson said, “I have a lot of respect for what they were able to do, but I believe they maxed out what they were able to do with the program. This team needed someone who’s primary job is to help us win and not someone who can maybe help after they have finished with their grading.”

Amundson, who is in his first year as head coach, played for the League of Legends team during his college career. After graduating, Morningside hired him on to become the League coach, where he went on to help his team win Morningside its first GGLeagues championship in the fall of 2019.
In June of 2020, it was announced that Amundson would be taking over as the head coach for the program. As head coach, Amundson’s jobs include coaching and managing his players, managing his assistant coaches, and recruiting new talent.

Under Amundson, there have been many changes to the program, with the most important being how serious people are taking it.
“In previous years, it was a lot laxer, and it would sometimes be hard to even get a full team together for our actual matches,” said Sebastian Tovar, a League of Legends and Valorant player. “This year, we are treating it as an actual collegiate sport and not like a place where we can play video games with our friends.”

This year all three teams practice daily for two hours, spread out over a six-hour block, while in previous years, teams would practice two times a week at most.

Another thing that has changed with the new management is what league the teams are playing in. Previously it was up to the team captain to find a tournament for their team to play in. The problem with this is that they would be facing teams of a much higher skill level (picture the Mustangs going up against the Hawkeyes.) This year, all three teams are competing in GGLeagues, which puts teams together based on their skill rating.

One of the problems facing esports is that it is hard for people who do not understand the games to get involved. Describing how people react when he tells them that he is an esports player Tovar said, “They are generally confused, even though esports is bigger than it ever has been, a lot of people still don’t understand how video games can be considered a sport.”

Amundson hopes to work on this, saying in an interview from August, “I want to get this program up to the point where people are in freshman orientation and hear about esports.” He then admitted. “I want students to go around in introductions and hear ‘I play football,’ ‘I play basketball,’ ‘I play esports.’ With that kind of word of mouth following, I know we will be on the respect level we need to be.”

Morningside esports has started the year off strong, having already played seven games among the three teams.

As of this writing, The Overwatch team is 2-1 with their next match scheduled for Wednesday, October 7th, where they will face off against the 3-0 AC Badgers. Quentin Charbonneau, assistant coach for Overwatch, has said, “We have a good chance of beating them, as long as we counterplay and focus on targets, we should be able to get an easy win.”

The League of Legends team has started the year off 1-1 dropping a close game against Davenport university last week. They go on to face the 0-2 Alma College team this Thursday.

Valorant has had a rough start getting blown out and going 0-2 in their first two matches. They have a bye week this week. Tovar has said that the beginning of the season has been rough, but they need to focus and get better.

All of Morningside’s games can be watched live or on-demand at https://www.twitch.tv/msideesports.

In 2016, Morningside esports was founded as a club that people could join to play video games with each other and compete in local and online tournaments. Morningside esports has since grown to a 25 person roster over three separate teams who take things very seriously.

In previous years Morningside esports was run by Dean Stevens, whose idea it was to make an esports team at Morningside. This would work okay for the first few years, but as new Head Coach, Jared Amundson said, “I have a lot of respect for what they were able to do, but I believe they maxed out what they were able to do with the program. This team needed someone who’s primary job is to help us win and not someone who can maybe help after they are finished with their grading.”

Amundson, who is in his first year as head coach, played for the League of Legends team during his college career. After graduating from college, Morningside hired him on to become the League coach, where he went on to help his team win Morningside its first esports title in the fall of 2019. In June of 2020, it was announced, that Amundson would be taking over as the head coach for the program. As head coach Amundson’s jobs include coaching and managing his players, managing his assistant coaches, and recruiting new talent.

Under Amundson, there have been many changes to the program, with the most important being how much more seriously people are taking it. “In previous years it was a lot laxer and it would sometimes be hard to even get a full team together for our actual matches,” said Sebastian Tovar, a Senior League of Legends and Valorant player. “This year we are treating it as an actual collegiate sport and not like a place where we can play video games with our friends.” This year all three teams have practice daily for two hours, spread out over an eight-hour block, while in previous years teams would practice two times a week at most.

Another thing that has changed with the new management is what league the teams are playing in. Previously it was up to the team captain to find a tournament for their team to play in. The problem with this is that they would be facing teams of a much higher skill level, (picture the Mustangs going up against the Hawkeyes.) This year, all three teams are competing in GGLeagues which puts teams together based on their skill rating.

One of the problems facing esports is that it is hard for people who don’t understand the games to get involved. When asked how people react when he tells them that he is an esports player Tovar said, “They are generally confused, even though esports is bigger than it ever has been, a lot of people still don’t understand how video games can be considered a sport.” Amundson hopes to work on this, saying in an interview from August, “I want to get this program up to the point where people are in freshman orientation and hear about esports,” he admitted. “I want students to go around in introductions and hear ‘I play football,’ ‘I play basketball,’ ‘I play esports.’ With that kind of word of mouth following, I know we will be on the respect level we need to be.”

Morningside esports has started the year off strong, having already played seven games among the three teams.

As of this writing, The Overwatch team is 2-1 with their next match scheduled for Wednesday, October 7th, where they will face off against the 3-0 AC Badgers. Quentin Charbonneau, assistant coach for Overwatch, has said, “We have a really good chance of beating them, as long as we counterplay and focus on targets, we should be able to get an easy win.”

The League of Legends team has started the year off 1-1 dropping a close game against Davenport university last week. They go on to face the 0-2 Alma College team this Thursday.

Valorant has had a rough start getting blown out and going 0-2 in their first two matches. They have a bye week this week. Tovar who also plays on the Valorant team has said that the beginning of the season has been rough but they just need to focus and get better.

All of Morningside’s games can be watched live or on-demand at https://www.twitch.tv/msideesports.

https://www.vox.com/2018/10/15/17978358/proud-boys-trump-biden-debate-violence

This article talks about the history and present of the Proud Boys after they were named dropped at the First presidential debate.

I found this article interesting for various reasons. I liked it because when they were name dropped at the debate I didn’t know who they were so it was nice that this article explained that. What I really found interesting though was that this article wasn’t afraid at all to use curse words. Typically you don’t see people put curse words in their articles even when it is online.

Steven Postolka is a lawyer who graduated from Morningside in 2011. After graduating from Morningside, Postolka went to the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) for three years to complete law school, graduating in 2014.

After graduating from law school, he worked as a court clerk for two years. A court clerk’s job is to maintain a record of the court proceedings and to administer oaths to witnesses.

After these two years, Postolka opened his private practice in Spencer, Iowa, where he worked for four years before coming back to Sioux City, where he now works for the city council.

When asked what the most difficult part of being a lawyer is, Postolka said, “The clients are the hardest part job because these are people that are coming to you on their worse day ever and they’re expecting you to help them out of it.”

When asked how Morningside helped him to succeed in his career, he said, “Morningside Prepared me for grad school because at Morningside you have to interact with your professor’s, which you have to do a lot of in law school, I was used to it while other people in my classes weren’t.” He also said that Morningside prepared him by helping him learn how to write clearly and concisely.

When asked how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected his work, he said, “I’ve never made more money and worked less.” He says this because since the pandemic started, he has yet to try a case yet. He is, however, preparing a case that will be tried next month.