What’s new on the website?
Things have been slow on jstudentboard.com recently, but the site will be kicking into high gear soon. For now, here are some of the recent online offerings from your fellow students:
Texas Execution Postponed
by Angie Kim
http://www.jstudentboard.com/reporter/articles/social-issues/state-local/texas-execution-postponed/
Life of Pi review
by Edward Kim
http://www.jstudentboard.com/reporter/articles/arts-entertainment/movie-review-life-of-pi/
More S. Korean students postpone graduation
by Minji Hwang
Profile of student artist Arthur Chen
by Sarah Kim
http://www.jstudentboard.com/reporter/articles/community/people/student-artist-arthur-chen/
What’s happening?
LA’s mayoral election is five weeks away and the competition is heating up! The candidates are reaching out to key constituencies and beginning to place their first TV ads… In Sacramento, California’s state legislators have been working in a special session to plan the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in the state… In Washington, a bipartisan group of Senators has presented a plan for Immigration Reform… We have a new Secretary of State, former Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts…
Data from Facebook indicates that a majority of the site’s football fans want the San Francisco 49ers to beat the Baltimore Ravens in Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVII… After seven seasons, NBC’s 30 Rock airs its final episode on Thursday… Not everyone is excited about Mike Tyson’s new role on Law and Order: SVU… It is now illegal for users to “unlock” their smartphones… The Boy Scouts of America is pondering a reversal of its long-standing policy against gays in Scouts…
February is Black History Month… Forty years ago, in February of 1973, the United States was beginning to end its military involvement in Vietnam… Friday, February 8 is Kite-Flying Day… Monday, February 11 is National Inventors’ Day… Tuesday, February 12 is Mardi Gras and the beginning of the Christian season of Lent… From now until February 10th, the Getty Center is hosting a free exhibit called “Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance: Painting and Illumination, 1300–1350.”
