As of next fall (2023), all entering students must take one math, computer science, and foreign language course in order to graduate.
Recent study showed that of all the students attending Backwater State University only 15 percent took a foreign language course and only 20 percent took a math course. The president of the university, David French, decided to make changes in these course requirements. Recently, he announced this to all the students at Backwater State University and to all the students that are entering next fall. “We feel that these new course requirements will allow us to turn out better-educated persons.”, French said.
Thursday night, five people were killed on a TWA jet that crashed on its takeoff at Kennedy International Airport.
On Thursday night, a TWA jet took off at Kennedy International Airport with forty-five passengers and crew members aboard. On their takeoff, the plane crashed, killing five of the people aboard the jet. Among the passengers on the jet were associate professor of rural sociology Dumont and associate professor of English George Johnson, both from Backwater State University. The professors were returning Thursday night from separate conferences in New York City, ready to go home after a busy event. But they couldn’t have imagined that they would barely make it off the ground on their way home. Both of the professors were able to escape injury in this tragic event.
Brooklyn Prosecutors Seek to Throw Out Scores of Convictions
“These convictions continue to hang around people and impact them in all kinds of ways,” Mr. Gonzalez said. “Had we known about these officers, we would never have brought these cases.” Prosecutors in Brooklyn are seeking to throw out 378 criminal convictions, dating to 1999, that relied on 13 former New York Police Department officers because these officers were later convicted of crimes related to their work. This movement would be among the largest mass dismissal of convictions in the country. They are even expecting the total to rise to 496 cases that will be dismissed.
The Brooklyn cases that were involved in this dismissal of convictions originated from arrests that took place between 1999 and 2017. Nobody is currently incarcerated as a result of these convictions and none of the 13 officers that were involved in these cases remain on the force. “Quick hits with little oversight,” said Charles Linehan, a former Manhattan prosecutor who has run the Brooklyn district attorney’s conviction review unit since January. “They almost do more damage in terms of eroding people’s trust and confidence in the system.”
The office spent 10 months reviewing every Brooklyn conviction in which the 13 former officers were involved, flagging for dismissal cases in which they served as the primary witnesses.
It is very common to hear that people do not trust police officers or the policing system, and this article mentions a big reason as to why that is. However, this article is trying to show people that the Police Department is trying to earn that trust back. And that is what makes this news article very newsworthy. The article shows a flaw in the policing system which not only has a negative impact on the Police Department’s reputation, but also on the people that were convicted in the cases in question. The good thing about this article is that they are being honest about the flaw that the found and that they are giving examples of what went wrong in these cases. And to add another positive factor to this article, it also mentions the Police Department’s solution in trying to fix the mistakes that have been made. Because the officers that handled these cases were not treating these cases in a fair way, a lot of people have been impacted negatively in the process. With trying to dismiss all these unfair convictions, the Police Department is trying to set this all right and earn back the trust of the people.
Putin Aims to Shape a New Generation of Supporters, Through Schools
“We need to know how to infect them with our ideology,” Mr. Novikov said. “Our ideological work is aimed at changing consciousness.” The Russian government is attempting, led by president Vladimir V. Putin, to impart a state ideology to schoolchildren, starting in first grade. Students in Russia will soon have to sit through weekly classes featuring war movies and other lectures on topics like “the geopolitical situation” and “traditional values.” These education initiatives are happening worldwide and they are a part of the Russian government’s scramble to indoctrinate children with Putin’s militarized and anti-Western version of patriotism.
Students are already noticing changes in their classes and among their classmates. Irina, a ninth-grader, said that one of her classes was replaced by the viewing of a state television report on Ukrainians surrendering to Russian troops and a lecture explaining that only information from official Russian sources was to be trusted. Suddenly, some of her classmates started to repeat everything after the television report. They started saying that this was all deserved and that it had to happen. At another school, fifth and sixth graders pretend to be Russian soldiers during recess, and they would call the people that they don’t like very much Ukrainians. “Patriotism should be the dominant value of our people,” another senior Kremlin official, Aleksandr Kharichev, said.
This propaganda infrastructure aimed at children remains far more limited than it was during the Soviet era. During that time, young people actively sought out underground cultural exports smuggled in from the West. Mr. Chernyshov, the Novosibirsk school director, believes that the Kremlin’s attempts to sell its militarism to children will now also eventually run up against the young mind’s common sense.
In my opinion, this is a very well written article with strong points. The set up of the article is very clear. It is meant to inform people of the events that are happening in Russia. It starts with explaining some of the background and basic information about this event. But later in the article, a lot of real life experiences are being shared. The results in the fact that people can put themselves in other people’s experiences and understand better what is actually going on in situations like these. The children in Russia are only being told and shown one side of the story. Their minds are shaped to not have an option of their own and, in my eyes, that’s unbelievable and ridiculous. This post is very informative and it gives a clear view on how this situation is playing out in Russia. It is definitely a newsworthy topic, considering that the entire world is aware of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
