Writing Assignment 5

Stunting her way to the top

By Amy Schreiber Towson University journalism studentApril 22, 2009

Stepping into the Towson Center Sunday April 19th, Erin Previte started warming up to try out for the Towson cheerleading team.

Erin has done gymnastics since she was a little kid and wanted to try something new when she got to college. To prepare for the try outs she practiced, practiced, practiced.

“I was so nervous walking into tryouts because I didn’t know what to expect and there were so many girls,” said Erin Previte, sophomore at Towson University.

There were 38 girls that came to show off their talent at the try outs that started at 9 a.m. and lasted till about 4 p.m.

“The day started off with everyone stretching and warming up,” Previte said. “Butterflies were in my stomach as we started to do the actually talent stuff. We started with standing tumbling followed by running tumbling, spiriting, chants, stunting, then there was a lunch break. After lunch they interviewed all the girls.”

“The hardest part was stunting because you are doing it for a long period of time with girls you don’t know but have to trust,” Previte said.

The coaches took about half an hour to discuss the events of the day and came back with the list of 24 girls who made the team.

Erin explained how she started jumping for joy when they called her name because she was so excited that she made the team.

“The best part about being on a team is knowing that I have a group of friends to turn to for help and always be able to count on them,” Previte exclaimed.

Writing Assignment 4 Post 5

An explosion early Friday morning caused a wall between apartments to collapse onto a baby’s crib and injured a woman, authorities said.

Arnetta Sands, 36, who lives in the 200 block of North Aisquith Street, was spraying insecticide from an aerosol can in her kitchen when the fumes were ignited by the stove. Sands was treated and released at Church Home and Hospital with first degree burns on her back and arms, officials said.

Firefighters removed portions of the wall off the crib where 10-day-old Andre Henderson was sleeping at the time of the explosion. He was treated and released at Johns Hopkins Hospital for possible smoke inhalation.

Renee Henderson, 23, mother of the baby, was uninjured. Fire investigators are saying the fire was accidental.

Writing Assignment 3 Post 4

Provident Savings Bank in the 3100 block of Greenmount Avenue was robbed by three armed men early Friday afternoon.

One suspect pointed a .22 cal sawed-off rifle at the bank manager while he ordered the four employees and two customers in the bank at that time to lie down on the floor. The other two suspects leaped over the counter and ransacked the teller's cages, then stuffed an undisclosed amount of cash into two white pillowcases.

The three suspects then ran eastward along the alley on the north side the bank where they dropped the rifle. They were lost from sight.

No injuries or arrests have been reported.

Writing Assignment 2 Post 3 Interview

As summer is about to approach with in the next few months Heather Schreiber tells us how she goes to Ocean City every July/August with friends and family to spend one whole week at the beach.

"I'm always excited to go to Ocean City every year with everyone because it's always my favorite part of summer," said Schreiber, 22, a Physical Therapy Tech in Calvert County Maryland. "I love laying out soaking up the sun with my feet in the sand during the day and then going out to eat and to the bars at night."

Heather always has to go to the Boardwalk while she is in Ocean City because she likes all the different shops that she can go shopping in. Her favorite part of the Boardwalk though is all the different types of food she loves. She gets Thrashers French Fries, Fishers Popcorn, Dumser’s Ice Cream, and funnel cakes whenever she goes to the Boardwalk.

"My favorite is the popcorn, no the Thrashers, no the ice cream, well really I love them all I can't just choose one," Schreiber said.

There are many other beaches or other places to go in the world, your vacation spots are endless.

Writing Assignment 1 Post 2

Facebook goes back to old policies after millions of users complained about who owns the rights to their pictures, videos, and personal information that they share on the social networking website.

People post their lives on their Facebook page. They post pictures of their families, friends, pets, events, and parties. Some people even post their address, their email address, their screen name, their job, and their telephone number on their page. Other people post videos that they took of their friends doing stupid things, or of sporting events they went to, or concerts they attended. Personally I think some people put up way to information on their page about their personal life.

Yes I think it is wrong for Facebook to claim that your pictures that you post on Facebook are theirs even after your delete your page, because you don’t want them to sell your pictures to someone else. But how is Facebook going to stop other people from coping and pasting your picture for your Facebook page and doing what they want with it. Yes you can manage who can and cannot see you page, but that doesn’t always stop other people from finding others ways to find your information. A person who is friends with someone else who is your friend on Facebook can show them your page so they can get the information that they want. Or even hackers can hack into your page to get your information or even mess up your Facebook page.

I also think it is wrong that Facebook has your information forever even after your delete your Facebook page. I think once you decide to delete your Facebook page that everything goes with it including your pictures and information that you posted.

Basically it comes down to one thing, if you don’t want people knowing all your information, or seeing your pictures don’t post it!

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Writing Assignment 1 Post 1

Facebook goes back to old policies after millions of users complained about who owns the rights to their pictures, videos, and personal information that they share on the social networking website.

A couple of weeks ago Facebook changed their user policies that went unnoticed until Sunday when a popular blog, Consumerist.com, wrote a post titling it “Facebook’s New Terms Of Service: ‘We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.”

This sent the 175 users of Facebook in an uproar. Some users deleted their Facebook page, other users created protest groups on Facebook, “saying the new terms grant the site the ability to control their information forever, even after they cancel their accounts.”

The following Wednesday, after thousands of people complained, when users logged onto their Facebook accounts they were greeted with a messages saying they had returned to their old polices while the issues were being resolved.

“On Facebook, people own their information and control who they share it with,” Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder said. Facebook needs a license to help you share information with other people, but doesn’t claim to own your information.

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