Blog Proj Week 9
Hotel Prices continue to surge, impacting Oxford Visitors. By Mckenna Sliver, published on April 1st, 2024. This article covers the statistics of various hotel prices around Oxford, in the coming months and how they are more expensive during certain times of the year that is based around the university’s school events such as graduation. There were two interviews, one was a student who was talking about how her family was barely able to book hotels or Airbnb’s 8 months out of her graduation dates because of the prices and limited spaces available. The other interview in this article was with an Airbnb owner discussing how the algorithm helps her know when hotel rooms and Airbnb’s are more in demand and so she sets her prices higher to compete with business. How she feels for the anxious families and such. And how stressful the situation is. I think the writer got an interesting array of different points of view and I could see a little bit of an opinion being brought forth by the author, on why not just make the prices the same and lower like in the off season.
With the spirit of creating a balance in my blog projects since last week was more so on the interesting scale to me I wanted to choose a story that had a little more meaning to it. With that said, this week from the Daily Free Press I chose a story by Brenda Gonzalez titled BU engineering club to raise money for clean water project in Kenya. Which is raising awareness about not only an important matter but as well as a source to support and aid this matter. Gonzalez sets out to highlight an important group EWB or engineers, a non-profit organization with an estimated 228 chapters open. Also sharing the importance that each of these chapters holds where as each of them are partnering with “underserved communities” from all over to build a more sustainable world. While EWB is a more widespread organization this article is focusing on the recent work they have done in Kenya. Overall I found this to be a very well written article that was very informational on a topic that I don’t have a lot of knowledge about.
In early November, the Mohawk Harbor in Schenectady City forward forward with their plans of building an ice rink. The article brings into question how the rink will affect Union students and the community of the city. The rink will be open for lease through Union College as a replacement for the Messa rink. The idea is that the new structure would bring in more viewers for the college hockey games, and create more parking space for the campus. However, this plan created a few issues such as interfering with parking at the local casino close by. It also causes a separation between campus life and the student body, the location isn’t convent for students to travel off campus while crossing multiple lanes of traffic. The ratio of crowds of people to traffic is a safety concern and an issue of timing. The convenience of the Messa rink is that students could disperse onto campus instead of dealing with pedestrian accessibility. Despite the project adding another 222 parking spots, they might not always be accessible to Union students due to fees and availability. The author clearly expresses his distaste for this plan and hopes for other options and further consideration for the student.
For this article, the author sat down with Tim Forte, the Director of Hospitality, and Matt Milless, Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs to discuss declining meal dollars and the schools meal plans. Union has six meal plan options like meal swipes and declining dollars. Meal swipes can be used at facilities like West and Upper Dining Hall, the Market, Garlic Nott, and others. Meal plans range from infinite meal swipes and zero declining dollars or 30 meal swipes and a $750 declining balance. Declining dollars are similar to UNE’s flex dollars. While students can add money to declining funds, they can’t add meal swipes. Swipes don’t equal U.S. dollars because it’s part of the school’s comprehensive fee. However, community members can use U.S. dollars for purchases at the same locations where students use declining balances. As for first-year students, they can choose unlimited meal swipes with $0 in declining balance, or 15 meal swipes per week with $250 in declining balance. In Febuary 2023, Union changed their services to allow any first-year to use any meal plan option due to a pipe burst and it’s effects on the dining situations. Throughout the dining areas, theres options for sandwiches, entrees, sushi, desserts, drinks, and more. The article closes with an email provided to give feedback and get in contact with the Hospitality Services.
Story #1: BC Raises Cost of Attendance to $88,632 for 2024–25, 4.3 Percent Increase by Will Martino https://www.bcheights.com/2024/03/29/bc-raises-cost-of-attendance-to-88632-for-2024-25-4-3-percent-increase/
This article is set up as a hard news type report with direct quotes, a straight-to-the-point lede, and a nut graph with few extras. One thing that drew me to look at the rest of this article was their addition of a graph that laid out the cost of attendance at Boston College over the past ten years. The graph image comes right after the lede and the start of the nut graph, which I think was a great move as it made me visualize what Martino opened with and gave me context as to why this rise in the cost of attendance might be seen as a bigger deal than past increases. The article then broke down what that $88,632 was in terms of room and board and how BC announced that financial aid would also increase with the tuition as they remain dedicated to their need-based financial aid. The article’s conclusion looks to surrounding colleges in the Boston area, which also gives some context as to other schools that have raised their cost of attendance even higher. One thing that stuck out to me in this article was how Martino, as the journalist, does not weigh in whatsoever, but with his format, word choice, and the craft of the piece, can show without forgoing the reporting of the necessary information that this cost might be seen as controversial.
Story #2: Annual Edible Books Festival Returns with Pun-Filled Creations by Kate Cugno https://www.bcheights.com/2024/04/05/annual-edible-books-festival-returns-with-pun-filled-creations/
The second article I looked into this week is less of a hard news report and more of a soft news report of a fun campus event. After reading the first article, what jumped out to me was how much of a tonal difference the journalist can create from the beginning. Cugno begins with a more creative lede, setting the environment’s mood by discussing the cold and dreary day in contrast to the creative and cozy atmosphere in the library where the edible book festival takes place. This online news story also employs a lot of visuals, which broke up the story and kept me reading along with a story like this. I think it would be so important to have those images that readers can connect with the literary baking festival, and with a less hard-hitting news story like this one, those creative decisions can make the story very eye-catching. Cugno interviewed key individuals, such as the event organizer, Scott Britto, and students who were happily surprised to see the event on their regular day in the library.
This article primarily discusses the 2024 Student Government elections at MIT, announcing the victors, voting statistics, and status of the referendums proposed on the ballot. It starts with announcing the positions that were filled, the Undergraduate Association president and Vice President, 2025 & 2026 Class Councils, and two referendums. 46.15% of the undergraduate student body participated in the election. The first referendum, which I have discussed in one of my earlier postings, regards if student leaders and volunteers should be paid by the school. These include student government, Institute Committee representatives, and Class Councils. This referendum failed to pass, with 628 votes in favor and 1057 against. The second referendum, which aimed for the UA to call for/back a ceasefire in the conflict in the Middle East, passed with a 63.73% majority, with 1209 votes in favor and 688 against. The article then goes on to interview Rishika Bansal, who is the Undergraduate Association Vice President-Elect. Bansal offered his opinion on the first referendum not passing, bringing up that other schools such as Harvard pay their student government, although he then went on to say the UA will continue to operate as it has in the past. In regards to the second referendum, he said that they would strive to achieve this, within the wording of the referendum and with the full administrative support of the school. The article concludes with exact statistics on each candidate’s votes.
This article discusses the recent increase in financial aid announced by MIT. In this, on March 21st, 2024, the school announced they will be awarding $167.3 million dollars of aid, in comparison to the $152.3 million awarded in 2023. They announced that they believe this increase will compensate for the 3.75% increase in tuition this year, which comes out to a $62,396 tuition with fees. The overall cost for an undergraduate to attend with housing and meal plan is expected to be $85,960. However, the students are also expected to receive an average aid package totaling $63,146, resulting in a median tuition paid after aid of $12,715. The article then mentions that 58% of students who received scholarships paid less, and 39% received enough financial aid to go tuition free. It is also mentioned that students with a household income of less than $75,000 are not required to pay tuition, although they might be required to work in summer savings or work programs. The article concludes that 80% of MIT students were able to graduate debt free, and that the majority of them do not take loans higher than $14,844 on the median. The university states that the cost of attending has actually fell within the last 20 years.
This week, I read “Instagram’s attempt to quietly limit ‘political content’ is a means of censorship”, an article by Allen Huong. This article illustrates the recent changes in Instagram’s treatment of “political content”, which is defined vaguely by the platform, making it difficult for creators to work with the app. The social media platform, along with its sister-app Threads and eventually Facebook, rolled out this feature with almost no warning, automatically blocking content deemed “political”. I think that this choice is wildly irresponsible and dangerous, as social media is key in informing vast amounts of people about global current events. Implementing this policy is especially troubling right now, as Instagram has been crucial in providing information about the ongoing war in Gaza, so this blocking of content is, in my opinion, an irresponsible disservice to the app’s users, guided by corporate greed.
This week’s article discussed the growing computer science program at the University of Washington. The journalist draws perspectives from staff in the school of computer science, and students who were rejected multiple times before being admitted. Strangely, the students who were rejected had near perfect GPAs from high school, and had taken major-specific courses at UW, and were still rejected. WHat gained them entry was their participation in computer science labs, working as TAs. It is said that the program’s admission capacity has gone from 160 to 630 students per year since 2011 when funding was increased. Clearly, this program is heavily sought by aspiring college students, but it was interesting to hear from a student who had done the coursework and still not be admitted, opposed to incoming highschool seniors who may not stay in the program. The article states that there were 8,000 applicants for the computer science major for the fall of 2024, effectively rating it as the most requested major for the upcoming academic year. From a journalistic standpoint, the title of this article does not capture the focus of this topic. The statistic is stated early on and somewhat glossed-over, but the subheadline is more accurate as to what the majority of the article discusses.
The first article that I decided to write about is “Student forum hears student concerns, leaves many feeling skeptical” by Maren Halpin. This article tells the story of a recent forum which was held to gather student opinions on arming the Suffolk Police. The author does a good job of telling who is there, giving first and last names and their positions. Lots of quotes are given, both from students and faculty, giving both sides of the argument. The author does a good job highlighting the seriousness of this issue, and giving a good timeline of the meeting that allows the reader to get a good idea of what took place.
The second article I decided to read was “Suffolk Debate brings national recognition back to Boston” by Julia Capraro. The article tells the story of the victory of the Suffolk debate team after 32 years of hiatus. It includes a few interviews with students on the team, as well as with the faculty advisor. It contains a large amount of background information, and I would’ve liked to hear a bit more about the actual competition. I think that the story of the actual competition could be a really interesting story.
This week I read “HAW-UAW Large Unit Votes to Unionize, 93% In Favor” by Aran Sonnad-Joshi and Sheerea X. Yu. Harvard Academic Workers announced that they had voted to unionize on Friday. Even though only 40% of eligible voters turned up to vote, the group still voted in favor with an overwhelming majority. The union will choose a bargaining committee soon thorough another vote before they begin to negotiate with Harvard.
#9 The Article I chose this week was titled, “Just Breathe: Ohio State researchers find that decreasing arousal is best for dealing with anger (thelantern.com)”
This was definitely an interesting read and I thought that once again anytime the Lantern posts something that isn’t consumed by sports that it is a nice change of pace compared to their usual nonstop coverage of the Ohio State athletics. The article described how Brad Bushman who is professor of communication at Ohio State and Ph.D. student Sophie Kjaervik found that the best way to decrease anger is to lower physiological arousal. This article was in a way confusing just because it forced you to try and look at something that you normally do which is “blowing off steam” when you’re angry and realizing that maybe that isn’t the best thing for you. The article talked about finding different ways to cure anger in ways opposed to that of natural belief. After reading I found the article interesting and thought that it is definitely something that people at OSU may enjoy reading because at a school with so many people you may not have access to “blow off steam” and so finding something else that calms you down may be beneficial.
The article from The Chanticleer I used this week is titled “Student-athlete Spotlights” which sheds light on three outstanding student-athletes at Coastal Carolina University: Ellie Hanford, Anaya Barney, and Avery Snyder. Ellie Hanford, a junior beach volleyball player, is highlighted for her exceptional skills on the sand and her dedication to her sport. Anaya Barney, a redshirt sophomore guard, is praised for her prowess on the basketball court and her commitment to both academics and athletics. Avery Snyder, a senior midfielder, is recognized for her leadership on the soccer field and her contributions to the university community. Each of these student-athletes exemplifies the balance between academic success and athletic achievement at Coastal Carolina University. Overall, “Student-athlete Spotlights” effectively highlights the achievements of Ellie Hanford, Anaya Barney, and Avery Snyder, portraying them as exemplary student-athletes who embody the values of Coastal Carolina University.
The article I chose for this week is called “Topanga Vintage is now Revolution Retro, Following a Shift in Leadership”, by Cassandra Chabot. The article itself follows the leadership change of a thrift store that was called, as previously stated, the Topanga Vintage. Apparently, the shop is now currently owned by a University of New Hampshire student named Helena De Martin, who owns the business at only 22 years old.
The shop prides itself on being unique, with bright pink walls, funky posters, fur trimmed mirrors, and neon lights, something that stuck with the new owner. De Martin apparently applied for a position at the store in 2021, becoming an employee after writing an essay to the former owner. After three years of working under her, the owner decided that she needed someone to run the store in her absence due to the fact that she had to make frequent trips to Los Angeles. De Martin eagerly accepted the offer, and then she only had a couple of weeks to turn the store into her own version of it. It’s unclear in the article as to why this is the case, but I’m assuming it’s because the college was going to open its doors to students relatively soon. The store prides itself on giving back to the community, and De Martin provides free plan B to people coming in, as well as raising money for the children of Palestine. It’s quite interesting to see how much good she was able to do in just a short amount of time with the store.
For week nine I read an April fools article titled Mini Opinions: what UVM should have done with the money they spent on a new logo, published on April 1st, 2024. This mini opinion article, was a small silly April fools article that compiled fun ideas that different UVM students thought would be better uses of the money that the school had spent on the new sign. These fun April fools opinions ranged from creating a genetically engineered partner for the UVM Catamount, a giant bust Patrick Laehy, tearing down a building it seems the students have beef with and building a bath house instead, bringing back something called the “bus ball”, to just straight up giving it one of the seniors. This was a very funny article, that was very in tone for April fools jokes. I find it fascinating due to UVM’s nature, their ability to sort of trash the school and even president even in a more jokey way due to the paper being independent. A quick shout out to my favorite suggestions which was actually in the honorable mentions, this was outside trash cans, this suggestion was put in honorable mentions for just being too absurd to even consider, which was endlessly hilarious.
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Blog Proj Week 9
Hotel Prices continue to surge, impacting Oxford Visitors. By Mckenna Sliver, published on April 1st, 2024. This article covers the statistics of various hotel prices around Oxford, in the coming months and how they are more expensive during certain times of the year that is based around the university’s school events such as graduation. There were two interviews, one was a student who was talking about how her family was barely able to book hotels or Airbnb’s 8 months out of her graduation dates because of the prices and limited spaces available. The other interview in this article was with an Airbnb owner discussing how the algorithm helps her know when hotel rooms and Airbnb’s are more in demand and so she sets her prices higher to compete with business. How she feels for the anxious families and such. And how stressful the situation is. I think the writer got an interesting array of different points of view and I could see a little bit of an opinion being brought forth by the author, on why not just make the prices the same and lower like in the off season.
With the spirit of creating a balance in my blog projects since last week was more so on the interesting scale to me I wanted to choose a story that had a little more meaning to it. With that said, this week from the Daily Free Press I chose a story by Brenda Gonzalez titled BU engineering club to raise money for clean water project in Kenya. Which is raising awareness about not only an important matter but as well as a source to support and aid this matter. Gonzalez sets out to highlight an important group EWB or engineers, a non-profit organization with an estimated 228 chapters open. Also sharing the importance that each of these chapters holds where as each of them are partnering with “underserved communities” from all over to build a more sustainable world. While EWB is a more widespread organization this article is focusing on the recent work they have done in Kenya. Overall I found this to be a very well written article that was very informational on a topic that I don’t have a lot of knowledge about.
Letter to Editor: Challenging the New Ice Rink Plan at Mohawk
https://concordiensis.com/5192/opinions/letter-to-editor-challenging-the-new-ice-rink-plan-at-mohawk/
In early November, the Mohawk Harbor in Schenectady City forward forward with their plans of building an ice rink. The article brings into question how the rink will affect Union students and the community of the city. The rink will be open for lease through Union College as a replacement for the Messa rink. The idea is that the new structure would bring in more viewers for the college hockey games, and create more parking space for the campus. However, this plan created a few issues such as interfering with parking at the local casino close by. It also causes a separation between campus life and the student body, the location isn’t convent for students to travel off campus while crossing multiple lanes of traffic. The ratio of crowds of people to traffic is a safety concern and an issue of timing. The convenience of the Messa rink is that students could disperse onto campus instead of dealing with pedestrian accessibility. Despite the project adding another 222 parking spots, they might not always be accessible to Union students due to fees and availability. The author clearly expresses his distaste for this plan and hopes for other options and further consideration for the student.
Dining: The 411 on meal plans, declining balance
https://concordiensis.com/4769/news/dining-the-411-on-meal-plans-declining-balance/
For this article, the author sat down with Tim Forte, the Director of Hospitality, and Matt Milless, Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs to discuss declining meal dollars and the schools meal plans. Union has six meal plan options like meal swipes and declining dollars. Meal swipes can be used at facilities like West and Upper Dining Hall, the Market, Garlic Nott, and others. Meal plans range from infinite meal swipes and zero declining dollars or 30 meal swipes and a $750 declining balance. Declining dollars are similar to UNE’s flex dollars. While students can add money to declining funds, they can’t add meal swipes. Swipes don’t equal U.S. dollars because it’s part of the school’s comprehensive fee. However, community members can use U.S. dollars for purchases at the same locations where students use declining balances. As for first-year students, they can choose unlimited meal swipes with $0 in declining balance, or 15 meal swipes per week with $250 in declining balance. In Febuary 2023, Union changed their services to allow any first-year to use any meal plan option due to a pipe burst and it’s effects on the dining situations. Throughout the dining areas, theres options for sandwiches, entrees, sushi, desserts, drinks, and more. The article closes with an email provided to give feedback and get in contact with the Hospitality Services.
Story #1: BC Raises Cost of Attendance to $88,632 for 2024–25, 4.3 Percent Increase by Will Martino
https://www.bcheights.com/2024/03/29/bc-raises-cost-of-attendance-to-88632-for-2024-25-4-3-percent-increase/
This article is set up as a hard news type report with direct quotes, a straight-to-the-point lede, and a nut graph with few extras. One thing that drew me to look at the rest of this article was their addition of a graph that laid out the cost of attendance at Boston College over the past ten years. The graph image comes right after the lede and the start of the nut graph, which I think was a great move as it made me visualize what Martino opened with and gave me context as to why this rise in the cost of attendance might be seen as a bigger deal than past increases. The article then broke down what that $88,632 was in terms of room and board and how BC announced that financial aid would also increase with the tuition as they remain dedicated to their need-based financial aid. The article’s conclusion looks to surrounding colleges in the Boston area, which also gives some context as to other schools that have raised their cost of attendance even higher. One thing that stuck out to me in this article was how Martino, as the journalist, does not weigh in whatsoever, but with his format, word choice, and the craft of the piece, can show without forgoing the reporting of the necessary information that this cost might be seen as controversial.
Story #2: Annual Edible Books Festival Returns with Pun-Filled Creations by Kate Cugno
https://www.bcheights.com/2024/04/05/annual-edible-books-festival-returns-with-pun-filled-creations/
The second article I looked into this week is less of a hard news report and more of a soft news report of a fun campus event. After reading the first article, what jumped out to me was how much of a tonal difference the journalist can create from the beginning. Cugno begins with a more creative lede, setting the environment’s mood by discussing the cold and dreary day in contrast to the creative and cozy atmosphere in the library where the edible book festival takes place. This online news story also employs a lot of visuals, which broke up the story and kept me reading along with a story like this. I think it would be so important to have those images that readers can connect with the literary baking festival, and with a less hard-hitting news story like this one, those creative decisions can make the story very eye-catching. Cugno interviewed key individuals, such as the event organizer, Scott Britto, and students who were happily surprised to see the event on their regular day in the library.
https://thetech.com/2024/04/04/2024-ua-elec-res
This article primarily discusses the 2024 Student Government elections at MIT, announcing the victors, voting statistics, and status of the referendums proposed on the ballot. It starts with announcing the positions that were filled, the Undergraduate Association president and Vice President, 2025 & 2026 Class Councils, and two referendums. 46.15% of the undergraduate student body participated in the election. The first referendum, which I have discussed in one of my earlier postings, regards if student leaders and volunteers should be paid by the school. These include student government, Institute Committee representatives, and Class Councils. This referendum failed to pass, with 628 votes in favor and 1057 against. The second referendum, which aimed for the UA to call for/back a ceasefire in the conflict in the Middle East, passed with a 63.73% majority, with 1209 votes in favor and 688 against. The article then goes on to interview Rishika Bansal, who is the Undergraduate Association Vice President-Elect. Bansal offered his opinion on the first referendum not passing, bringing up that other schools such as Harvard pay their student government, although he then went on to say the UA will continue to operate as it has in the past. In regards to the second referendum, he said that they would strive to achieve this, within the wording of the referendum and with the full administrative support of the school. The article concludes with exact statistics on each candidate’s votes.
https://thetech.com/2024/04/04/increased-financial-aid-2024-2025
This article discusses the recent increase in financial aid announced by MIT. In this, on March 21st, 2024, the school announced they will be awarding $167.3 million dollars of aid, in comparison to the $152.3 million awarded in 2023. They announced that they believe this increase will compensate for the 3.75% increase in tuition this year, which comes out to a $62,396 tuition with fees. The overall cost for an undergraduate to attend with housing and meal plan is expected to be $85,960. However, the students are also expected to receive an average aid package totaling $63,146, resulting in a median tuition paid after aid of $12,715. The article then mentions that 58% of students who received scholarships paid less, and 39% received enough financial aid to go tuition free. It is also mentioned that students with a household income of less than $75,000 are not required to pay tuition, although they might be required to work in summer savings or work programs. The article concludes that 80% of MIT students were able to graduate debt free, and that the majority of them do not take loans higher than $14,844 on the median. The university states that the cost of attending has actually fell within the last 20 years.
This week, I read “Instagram’s attempt to quietly limit ‘political content’ is a means of censorship”, an article by Allen Huong. This article illustrates the recent changes in Instagram’s treatment of “political content”, which is defined vaguely by the platform, making it difficult for creators to work with the app. The social media platform, along with its sister-app Threads and eventually Facebook, rolled out this feature with almost no warning, automatically blocking content deemed “political”. I think that this choice is wildly irresponsible and dangerous, as social media is key in informing vast amounts of people about global current events. Implementing this policy is especially troubling right now, as Instagram has been crucial in providing information about the ongoing war in Gaza, so this blocking of content is, in my opinion, an irresponsible disservice to the app’s users, guided by corporate greed.
Computer science ranked as most requested major for freshmen applicants By Aspen Anderson
https://www.dailyuw.com/news/computer-science-ranked-as-most-requested-major-for-freshmen-applicants/article_c5e35490-f379-11ee-aaae-57f93f4dc098.html
This week’s article discussed the growing computer science program at the University of Washington. The journalist draws perspectives from staff in the school of computer science, and students who were rejected multiple times before being admitted. Strangely, the students who were rejected had near perfect GPAs from high school, and had taken major-specific courses at UW, and were still rejected. WHat gained them entry was their participation in computer science labs, working as TAs. It is said that the program’s admission capacity has gone from 160 to 630 students per year since 2011 when funding was increased. Clearly, this program is heavily sought by aspiring college students, but it was interesting to hear from a student who had done the coursework and still not be admitted, opposed to incoming highschool seniors who may not stay in the program. The article states that there were 8,000 applicants for the computer science major for the fall of 2024, effectively rating it as the most requested major for the upcoming academic year. From a journalistic standpoint, the title of this article does not capture the focus of this topic. The statistic is stated early on and somewhat glossed-over, but the subheadline is more accurate as to what the majority of the article discusses.
https://eglynos.uneportfolio.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=129&action=edit
The first article that I decided to write about is “Student forum hears student concerns, leaves many feeling skeptical” by Maren Halpin. This article tells the story of a recent forum which was held to gather student opinions on arming the Suffolk Police. The author does a good job of telling who is there, giving first and last names and their positions. Lots of quotes are given, both from students and faculty, giving both sides of the argument. The author does a good job highlighting the seriousness of this issue, and giving a good timeline of the meeting that allows the reader to get a good idea of what took place.
The second article I decided to read was “Suffolk Debate brings national recognition back to Boston” by Julia Capraro. The article tells the story of the victory of the Suffolk debate team after 32 years of hiatus. It includes a few interviews with students on the team, as well as with the faculty advisor. It contains a large amount of background information, and I would’ve liked to hear a bit more about the actual competition. I think that the story of the actual competition could be a really interesting story.
This week I read “HAW-UAW Large Unit Votes to Unionize, 93% In Favor” by Aran Sonnad-Joshi and Sheerea X. Yu. Harvard Academic Workers announced that they had voted to unionize on Friday. Even though only 40% of eligible voters turned up to vote, the group still voted in favor with an overwhelming majority. The union will choose a bargaining committee soon thorough another vote before they begin to negotiate with Harvard.
#9 The Article I chose this week was titled, “Just Breathe: Ohio State researchers find that decreasing arousal is best for dealing with anger (thelantern.com)”
This was definitely an interesting read and I thought that once again anytime the Lantern posts something that isn’t consumed by sports that it is a nice change of pace compared to their usual nonstop coverage of the Ohio State athletics. The article described how Brad Bushman who is professor of communication at Ohio State and Ph.D. student Sophie Kjaervik found that the best way to decrease anger is to lower physiological arousal. This article was in a way confusing just because it forced you to try and look at something that you normally do which is “blowing off steam” when you’re angry and realizing that maybe that isn’t the best thing for you. The article talked about finding different ways to cure anger in ways opposed to that of natural belief. After reading I found the article interesting and thought that it is definitely something that people at OSU may enjoy reading because at a school with so many people you may not have access to “blow off steam” and so finding something else that calms you down may be beneficial.
The article from The Chanticleer I used this week is titled “Student-athlete Spotlights” which sheds light on three outstanding student-athletes at Coastal Carolina University: Ellie Hanford, Anaya Barney, and Avery Snyder. Ellie Hanford, a junior beach volleyball player, is highlighted for her exceptional skills on the sand and her dedication to her sport. Anaya Barney, a redshirt sophomore guard, is praised for her prowess on the basketball court and her commitment to both academics and athletics. Avery Snyder, a senior midfielder, is recognized for her leadership on the soccer field and her contributions to the university community. Each of these student-athletes exemplifies the balance between academic success and athletic achievement at Coastal Carolina University. Overall, “Student-athlete Spotlights” effectively highlights the achievements of Ellie Hanford, Anaya Barney, and Avery Snyder, portraying them as exemplary student-athletes who embody the values of Coastal Carolina University.
The article I chose for this week is called “Topanga Vintage is now Revolution Retro, Following a Shift in Leadership”, by Cassandra Chabot. The article itself follows the leadership change of a thrift store that was called, as previously stated, the Topanga Vintage. Apparently, the shop is now currently owned by a University of New Hampshire student named Helena De Martin, who owns the business at only 22 years old.
The shop prides itself on being unique, with bright pink walls, funky posters, fur trimmed mirrors, and neon lights, something that stuck with the new owner. De Martin apparently applied for a position at the store in 2021, becoming an employee after writing an essay to the former owner. After three years of working under her, the owner decided that she needed someone to run the store in her absence due to the fact that she had to make frequent trips to Los Angeles. De Martin eagerly accepted the offer, and then she only had a couple of weeks to turn the store into her own version of it. It’s unclear in the article as to why this is the case, but I’m assuming it’s because the college was going to open its doors to students relatively soon. The store prides itself on giving back to the community, and De Martin provides free plan B to people coming in, as well as raising money for the children of Palestine. It’s quite interesting to see how much good she was able to do in just a short amount of time with the store.
For week nine I read an April fools article titled Mini Opinions: what UVM should have done with the money they spent on a new logo, published on April 1st, 2024. This mini opinion article, was a small silly April fools article that compiled fun ideas that different UVM students thought would be better uses of the money that the school had spent on the new sign. These fun April fools opinions ranged from creating a genetically engineered partner for the UVM Catamount, a giant bust Patrick Laehy, tearing down a building it seems the students have beef with and building a bath house instead, bringing back something called the “bus ball”, to just straight up giving it one of the seniors. This was a very funny article, that was very in tone for April fools jokes. I find it fascinating due to UVM’s nature, their ability to sort of trash the school and even president even in a more jokey way due to the paper being independent. A quick shout out to my favorite suggestions which was actually in the honorable mentions, this was outside trash cans, this suggestion was put in honorable mentions for just being too absurd to even consider, which was endlessly hilarious.