Our group selected the theme nature and the environment. We saw the need for more awareness about what is happening in our environment. Although we live in it, we ar enot necessarily educated on the types of effects our actions are causing. After choosing this topic we were able to, after following the city-state-national guideline, find different topics that showed drastic changes in our environments. For this assignment, you must (1) post the New York Times “Front Page” you’ve developed in your seminar AND explain why the group selected the items that are included reflecting on how/why these selections best express the most salient issues/concerns during their first semester at Baruch.

In our group we each had the responsibility to find three articles which embodied these guidlines. My main role after finding these articles were to summarize them and explain their importance to our class. After doing this research, I have become more conscious of my actions and how they will impact the environment. Even before this research, I have been conscious of littering and if someone close by is littering, I would ask them to pick it up. My willingness to research more about the environment and keep tabs on what is going on in the world as increased more.

I was following an article that explained, trash in the train tracks can lead to a fire and I definitely would like to live as I travel to and from places using the trains. The main point to take away though is that even the little counts. If someone sees you littering they may too because they may have the concept in their minds that someone will clean up after them or a little dirt will not hurt. The truth of the matter is the little adds up and eventually we can be living in our own waste. Now who really wants to do that?

The link to our project is below. Remember every little counts so take the first step and read a little, today!

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/newyorktimesteam5/

In my opinion, I think that the New York Time’s Project was a fun experience. Our learning community block is very close so I think that any type of group would have worked out well, and nobody would have had any trouble working with anyone.

My group’s topic was on the environment, and was very easy to find articles on the environment and link them to Baruch (the bear cat article). Our message was easy to get across and it was something that everyone should be aware of.

The work was divided among all of the group and there were no complaints about anyone doing or not doing the work properly. Overall it was a good experience and I wouldn’t mind doing it again

My group decided to do our topic on Greek Life in College. Hollywood have made countless jabs at the negativity of college Greek Life, and I found this really interested and wanted to see if Greek Life is really as bad as it is seen on the big screen. Through this project I was able to learn the positive and negative side of Greek Life.  In one of my articles of an elder man who joined a fraternity, showed the members of the social organization have a special bond that last a lifetime. They do great things like charity, community service, bake sales, and more. The negative side of this life style is the continuous act of hazing which resulted in some deaths.  My bearcat article described the options we have at Baruch. As freshmen in our first semester, we are just adjusting to college life. Being active in the school community by joining a club or a Greek letter organization is a good way to make new friends and adjust. Not only did I have fun completing this project, I also become aware of the many options Baruch has to offer to keep its students interested.

1.  Our theme was restaurants.  Food is a common interest and we could tie it into many things.  Plus, the New York Times was bound to have many interesting articles on food.  I chose an article about an interesting restaurant in Shanghai, China that made your experience eating there one that you would never forget.  I also wrote the Bearcat article.  I talked about how someone would never have the full Baruch experience without having Chipotle.

2. I did my parts of the project on time and made sure the administrator for our group didn’t have to do extra work because of me.

3. The project helped me learn that there are interesting things in every section of the newspaper, not just the headlines.  i would have never learned about the strange restaurant in China otherwise.  I usually don’t read the food and wine section of the New York Times.

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/newyorktimesteam3/

For the project, my group decided on the topic of food because not only is it a necessity, but it is also a big problem for many college students. With no more free school lunches, everyone has to find someone to maintain their hunger while lasting the day. For this reason, there are many restaurants all around and with so many kinds of food, this vast treasure trove is all around us.

My articles were on the perfect chicken wing and how cuisine in China is changing. The perfect chicken wing is of course relevant because it is food, but also, the chicken wing is common to the point of making it a national food and the article makes very bold assertions while heightening the grilled vs. fried debate. Around the college, there are actually many places to get good chicken wings. Chinese cuisine is in America and has affected it in several profound ways, but now, Chinese cuisine is evolving. It is taking in new outside influences and mixing together with it while allowing them to coexist separately, but Chinese food is also trying new methods that would appeal to many other senses. This new and improved style may soon find its way to America. Manhattan has many places to eat Chinese food as well. Overall, these articles have helped increases my grasp of understanding of the world of food, and hopefully it was conveyed well to the other students.

My group and I chose consumer technology as our theme. Our audience could relate to it and we all use some form of it where it be a computer, tablet, video game, or something else. We chose articles that related to this theme, by each choosing an article that appealed to our interest in consumer technology.

My role in this project was discussing how consumer technology on a national level is evolving. I also was responsible for the linking Baruch to our theme.

News literacy is extremely important. It is important to be aware with what is going on in the world. You can find current events on practically any topic that interests you.

This topic was important because it needs to be made aware that in these groups people are able to make connections with one another and make long lasting friends through college. Students who go to college want a good support system of friends and a sorority or fraternity can do that. Also they can encourage underage drinking and hazing. These dangerous acts should be made aware to students so they know what not to do and what to be concerned with. One of the articles I chose related to sororities because it talked about the discrimination of a student trying to get into the sorority. Although it is a good way to make friends, sororities can be very judgmental and put eligible students through hazing activities which are very dangerous. The second article talked about how because of the fraternity a boy lost his life due to alcohol poisoning. With many people together all the time, they pressure one another to go farther and farther and one student drank to excess and died.

Enviroment
by Roy Choi

My group for the New York Times project decided to tackle the topic of the environment on a college, city, national and international level. We knew just how important and prevalent the topic had become and were all eager to tackle the bountiful press coverage of the environment. We decided to distribute the workload evenly amongst all our group members in order to maximize efficiency and get the widest span of views we could attain. My articles focused on the new building of an environmental project within the city, the controversy behind hydraulic fracturing and the so-called “fertilizer war happening in Eastern Europe. I chose these topics because they seemed to cover a large field of environmental concerns currently going on in society. All of these articles were known to me beforehand and having at least some background knowledge in the various concentrations, I was able to be fully engaged with the articles and learn an amalgam of new information.

I found the topic of the environment to be especially exciting because of this new craze to “go green.” As a Boy Scout, and a mild environmental enthusiast, I’m both excited and proud that sweeping changes are occurring on not only a global scale, but also on a national and city level. I was especially fascinated by the arguments introduced in the article of “fracking.” While it’s always seemed so clear-cut and dry, it was a new take on an otherwise controversial issue and has led to my taking a deeper concern into the environment and our jobs as stewards of the Earth; to not only be completely knowledgeable on all topics environmental, but to make sure to be involved in its affairs as well.

We did our New York Times project on Food/Restaurants. We chose this topic because it relates to the students of of Baruch. We all love food and won’t pass up anything delicious . My article was for the state aspect of the project. It relates to our topic because i chose an up and coming restaurant in Hudson Valley that has being receiving a lot of attention. The project was interesting and I enjoyed working with my team. It became a little nerve racking when when we had to present because I don’t enjoy public specking. But other then that I had fun with this project.