Antarctica is the southernmost continent on the globe. It is a desolate, uninhabited-besides the penguins, ice-covered mass. Many people are unaware to the extent of climate change in Antarctica.
“The sea levels rising due to global warming will hurt humans in the long run too, as our cities along the coastline will be impacted and our food source like fish will become imbalanced,” Kat Munns, a sophomore at the University of Denver, said.
The journalism profession is a rollercoaster of gathering, assessing, creating and presenting information to the public, according to the American Press Institute. Kareem El Damanhoury, who has had more than ten years of media experience in the US and Arab world, can attest to the variety of trials and tribulations that may be thrown at a journalist.
“The main event that got me into journalism was in 2006 when a ferry sank killing about 1,000 people, and seeing how the African nations and media were focusing on soccer and not covering the people who had drowned,” El Damanhoury said in a small white brick office room in the MFJS building.
A wave of families and mostly men surrounded the Colorado Convention Center on Sun., Feb. 16 for a rally in support of Vermont senator and Democratic nominee for the presidential election, Bernie Sanders.
A line wrapped around the venue, as people waited in the cold for three hours in order to be right in front of Sanders himself. The event attracted thousands of people, as Colorado’s primary is less than three weeks away on March 3.
Austin singer-songwriter, Alejandro Rose-Garcia, otherwise known as the iconic one-man band-style Shakey Graves, hit the road for a relaxed winter acoustic tour titled “For the Record: An Acoustic Tour.” He performed three consecutive nights at Boulder’s Fox Theatre, selling out the venue each evening.
Fracking, oil drilling and traffic have dramatically increased the amount of air pollution in Denver’s metro area. Denver has been breaking records, as the city is being monitored for the unhealthy air quality that has reached hazardous levels.
“When I came to Colorado I assumed the air everywhere would be very clean because of the mountains, but Denver is not because it is a city trapped in a valley below the mountains filled with emissions, traffic and pollutants,” Ellie Janette, a sophomore at the University of Denver, said.
The MFJS Reporter -- Winter 2020 M-W 