Zach
Aufderheide, a junior at Canton South High School in Ohio, has been punished
with a three day in-school suspension for growing his hair nine inches long. A
victim of bullying, Aufderjeide wanted to grow his hair ten inches long in
order to donate it to the charity, Locks of Love. Though he is only an inch
short of his goal, school officials said that he is violating the school
policy, which doesn’t allow students to have hair that disrupts class or blocks
others’ view. However, Zach says that he always keeps his hair in a tidy
ponytail.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
Available Online Only
The Editor in Chief of Newsweek,
Tina Brown, announced last Thursday that the magazine’s last printed edition
will come out on December 31, 2012. This is because of the shift that Newsweek is making to digitalize the
entire magazine. This decision comes after eighty years of publication. The
magazine’s financial crisis in recent years and the merging of Newsweek and the Daily Beast in 2010 lead up to this decision. A recent report by
the Pew Research Center revealed that 39% of Americans go online to get news
updates. This new format of the magazine will target a “highly mobile”
audience.
Monday, October 15, 2012
$2 Million for Harvard Admission
A former
Harvard professor has been accused of charging a Hong Kong couple two million
dollars to assure that their two children were admitted to an Ivy League
school, preferably Harvard. The couple, Gerald and Lily Chow, has filed a
lawsuit against Mark Zimney for fraud.
Though their two kids received tutoring, people can’t arrange for
students to attend a particular university. College admissions have become
increasingly competitive. Harvard had an acceptance rate of 6.2 percent last
year. Even though neither of the Chow kids got into Harvard, both are enrolled
in other Ivy League schools.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49373698/ns/us_news-education_nation/
Monday, October 8, 2012
Bus Crash Leads to DWI Charges
Hearing the words “school bus” and “accident” in the same
sentence is always a frightening experience. Thankfully, the parents of five
children ages five through eight can be happy that their kids were not injured
in a school bus accident that happen last Wednesday in Long Island, New York.
Frederick Flowers, the bus driver, crashed the mini school bus into the home of
Christina Percell. Though none of the children were injured, Flowers had to be
airlifted to a hospital. He was then arrested and charged with several counts
of driving while intoxicated, endangerment of the welfare of a child, and
reckless endangerment. No one, except for two dogs, was in the home at the time
of the crash. The dogs were okay.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Cyberattacks on Banks
Beginning on September 19th, the Bank of America,
JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, and PNC Bank websites all faced
cyberattacks in which the websites were very slow and sometimes unreachable. The
attacks involved large amounts of traffic directed towards the websites to make
them crash. This type of attack is known as a “denial of service” attack. These
recent attacks were the largest ever and the Islamic group Izz ad-Din al-Qassum
Cyber Fighters declared accountability. However, some people believe that the
skill involved in planning these attacks was too high for the Cyber Fighters to
have caused it.
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