To get to the Austin American-Statesman - click the link and then put in the user name and password.
The user name is MAC-J
The password is Knight1!
To answer question no. 1, please read, "To get to the Austin American-Statesman - click the link and then put in the user name and password.
To answer question no. 1, please read, "To get to the Austin American-Statesman - click the link and then put in the user name and password.
The user name is MAC-J
The password is Knight1!
To answer question no. 1, please read, "To get to the Austin American-Statesman - click the link and then put in the user name and password.
To answer question no. 1, please read, "To get to the Austin American-Statesman - click the link and then put in the user name and password.
The user name is MAC-J
The password is Knight1!
To answer question no. 1, please read, "Sources: Student was strangled," across the top of page A1.
To answer question no. 1, please read, "Sources: Student was strangled," across the top of page A1.
1. This story is grisly and unsettling, but I don't think we should ignore it. What new details are revealed in today's Statesman regarding the murder of UT freshman Haruka Weiser? Who are the sources that revealed this information and why are they unnamed in the story? Why do you think they provided this information? Why do you think this story has attracted such media attention (think back to our discussion of news values if you can remember them)?
2. According to the hired.com wage analysis, what inequity do technology employers create? What is hired.com and why were they able to conduct this study? I thought the most interesting part of the article was the part about the possible causes of this inequity. According to the article, what are the causes of this inequity? Do they change how you view the technology companies that are making these hires? Something else kind of bugged me about this article. Did it seem to you like it was promoting hired.com a bit too much or do you think it was unavoidable given the nature of the story?
To answer question no. 3, please read, "N.C. governor retreats from part of bias law," on the top left of page A4.
3. North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory issued an executive order on Tuesday. What specifically did the order do to change the controversial House Bill 2 that he signed into law? How did the ACLU respond? What do PayPal, the National Basketball Association, Deutsche Bank and Bruce Springsteen have to do with this story? How might they explain the governor's executive order?
To answer question no. 4, please read, "Boko Haram increasingly uses child bombers," on the top right of page A3.
4. According to UNICEF, what 11-fold increase has been observed in the past year? What has been a terrible consequence of this trend? Why do terrorism experts reject the term suicide attacks when referring to these bombings? What is Boko Harum and how is it different and related to al-Qaida? What motivates people to join it (according to a new Mercy Corps report)?
5. Pick any story that grabs your interest. Summarize it and say what you liked and/or did not like about it.
6. Longtime Statesman columnist Kirk Bohls has a piece in today's paper (see page C1). His piece today is basically a top 10 list instead of a unified column, but it still has many of the qualities of a sports column. What qualities distinguish this piece in terms of style and viewpoint from the other stories you read for this quiz? Which of his observations did you find most interesting? Which would you cut first if the piece were too long and needed to be shortened?
Finish this by period's end. Remember that you have the next step of your column-writing assignment due today as well.
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