Current Event Quiz 1

1. The University of Texas is under fire because they hired two student graduate assistants 10 months after having finished their parol for having violently attacked a gay man back in 2004. The university cannot explain the hiring publicly due to federal laws that protect confidential student information. I don't think the university knew the whole story before hiring these two men because volunteer research assistants arent subject to background checks. They also mentioned that anyone who has served prison time for violent, sex, or drug crimes for the past seven years is "generally not allowed to work at UT.". I'm sure if UT had known the full story they wouldn't have taken the risk to hire these two men knowing how much conflict it would cost.
2. The city of Baltimore made a $6.4 million settlement with the parents of Freddie Gray. The major supported the the deal because it is in the best interest of the city and will save taxpayers many millions more in damages. The trial for the six offers charged is still pending. 
3. The top German official announced yesterday that his country could take 500k refugees a year. The policy has been criticized by observes due to the fact that it is tempting migrants to make the long and dangerous journey to West. German leaders said their country should be proud and announced a reduction of cash handouts for asylum seekers during would allow for more food stamps and in-kind aid. Thousands of migrants and refugees are crowded in places with squalid conditions and are desperately looking for sanctuary in Europe, which is what led to Germany's actions. Germany is not only taking a lot amount of share but they took action to hire more police officers and pledged to spend $6.7 billon more to address the crisis including providing emergency housing. 
4. Texas Senator Ted Cruz invited Donald Trump to his anti-iran nuclear deal rally. Many of the other republic candidates dislike Donald Trump yet Senator Cruz is getting friendly with him. He claims he invited Donald Trump to bring more attention to the matter since Donald Trump is well followed by the media. Donald Trump is not one of Cruz's standard targets because he has never held office and doesn't say one thing then do another.
5. Hillary Clinton apologized on Tuesday for having used a private email account. This issue will continue in the news because two Republicans in congress are seeking immunity order for Brian Pagliano who was in charge of Hillary's private account. Co-mingle is when you mix two things together and Hilary Clinton co-mingled her personal and public business. Hillary had erred in voting to support the invasion of Iraq in 2002, which was the other "mistake".
6. The two student athletes were suspended for violently attacking a game official. An assistant coach of the team was also suspended due to haven told the players "This guy needs to pay for cheating us.". Supposedly the game official used a racial slur towards the students causing their controversial actions.

        A year ago in Kansas Frazier Glenn Miller, a "white supremacist", shot three people at different jewish sites. Miller claimed "he did not care what sentence they handed down." and that he is "suffering from chronic emphysema and wanted to kill jewish people before he died.". The jury wishes to sentence Glen to the death penalty, his reason being these are the types of cases the death penalty was invented for. Still, because of Glenn's health conditions and the fact that Kansas does not have the right materials to perform the lethal, the punishment may not be completed.

        Although many different news values are evident in this article, human interest seems to be the one to stick out the most considering the death penalty always seems to grab people's attention. This article does a good job mentioning vital facts of the case. The author includes important quotes said by the killer and whitenesses. The full story on how the victims were killed along with the murderer's reason behind it all are given. And the readers are even informed that the punishment may not be carried out due to some issues. All the necessary facts are mentioned and are deemed credible in this article. Unfortunately, that is all this article has to offer. In my opinion, the article could have been expanded more due to the topic. The death penalty has always been controversial therefore, the author could have gone deeper and further explored that area. Instead, they just told a story and that was it. If the author had explained the conflict of the death penalty and maybe researched if the chance of it not being carried out in this particular case caused any commotion, the article would have definitely been much stronger and other news values such as conflict would have been magnified. It wasn't a terrible article, but it definitely had more potential.