Thursday, September 17, 2015

1.  Mike Perrin was asked to be interim athletic director of the UT football team, he was asked to make this decision on Labor Day. This decision was made after UT suffered a 35-point loss at their opening game to Notre dame. UT folks were unhappy to know that they lost a 35-point loss on opening game, but are glad to know that Patterson was placed with Perrin, one of their own.

2.  CIA director John Bernnan was at the University of Texas for the release of some of the sought-after documents in Washington: daily briefs given to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960's. The drive to unveil the documents stemmed from the White house to make a shift of openness in the governments. The CIA made the documents public on their website. The PDB is the Presidents Daily Briefs, deatils the most crucial security concerns.

3.  Hungarian security left human rights group angry after unleaching water canons and tear gas after asylum seekers tried to break through the wire fence preventing them from crossing. Migrants are forced to take and alternative route to their destination, they began crossing Serbia into Croatia. The routes aren't a good option because secruity is forced to check all borders.

4.  A 14-year-old McCarthur High School muslim student was handcuffed and questioned after bringing a home made clock who teachers thought was a bomb. The school officials tried defend their actions by saying "we live in the age where you can't take thngs like that to school." The responce of social media was #IstandwithAhmed and the response of President Obama was "cool" and "It's what makes americans great." Irvings fear that this action is connected to the new law that forbids judges from rulings based of "foreign laws".

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  I first learned about this story through social media of the repeated #IstandwithAhmed on Twitter, Facebook and even Instagram. I think the social media coverage of the story explains it just as fair as the newspaper did, by stating an act of wrong naming just based on the race and religion of the school officials and town officials. Based on the value of this story I do agree with the placement of it being a wrong act by the officials, I think they judged him because of his race and religion. If I was editor of this story I would of placed it on page A1 replacing the news of the new UT athletic director, because this story is way more important and informing to us.

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

1.  The University of Texas is under fire for hiring two graduate assistants who had a criminal back ground of violently assaulting a gay man in Austin. UT officials can't explain hiring them publicly due to federal laws protecting confidential student information. I think UT officials did know about the hate crime the two graduates pulled because that big of a crime would of showed up on their record and most hiring jobs do a background check and I would suspect if your hiring to work at a public school you would willing know to do a background check. I think UT officials ignored the fact that Darren Gay and Glen Gay both had criminal background for assaulting a man.

2.  Baltimore city made the deal to change the venue for the trials of the six officers charged with Gray's death. The mayor had supported the deal and said that the board should not be interpreted of the judgment on the guilt or innocence of the officers. A case similar to Gray's happened in New York City in July for an unarmed man who died after being put in a choke hold by a white officer.

3.  Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel announced yesterday that Germany will except half a million refugees a year for several years. Some observers criticized the announcing of a reduction in cash handouts for asylum seekers. The large crisis that lead to Germany actions was desperate Syrians and Iraqis searching for sanctuary in wealthy countries. Germany responded to it by letting half a million migrants into Germany.

4.  Ted Cruz invited Donald Trump to his anti-Iran nuclear deal rally. Cruz has a different view on the immigration referring to the idea of Trumps a "shining a light" on an immigration crisis unlike like other republican presidential who call the idea "ugly and "divisive".

5.  Hillary Clinton apologized on Tuesday for her using her private email account as secretary of state after declining to express remorse. The two Republicans in congress are seeking legal protection for him in an effort to compel him to testify. Commingling mean to mix and blend. The two commingling things in this story are the issues of her email and the shaken of her presidential campaign. The other mistake she made was voting to support the invasion of Iraq in 2002.