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This is your Campus and world news in 90 seconds

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6 coal miners are dead and 21 have been reported missing in a deadly explosion at a West Virginia coal mine this morning. The mine, operated by Massey Energy Company has been a hot bed for fatalities in recent years. An rescue operation is currently underway.

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The stock market rallied yesterday to close just shy of 11,000 points, a place that the Dow hasn’t been in over a year. This was caused by investors dumping treasury notes for riskier assets, “Could this be the end of the financial crisis? Who knows but it’s a start” added Compass Financial CEO Steven Mucowski

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The White house reports that they are currently frustrated with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai for waiting to allow U.S. and Afghan forces’ latest offensive into the Taliban controlled area around Kandahar. Karzai was adamant about this, “This is our country and we will wait until we have gained the support of the people before we destroy their homes.”

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The brothers of Tau Kappa Epsilon at Rider University recently raised over 1500 dollars for relay for life last week. When asked about the amount raised, Epsilon Zeta Chapter President John J. Lanza the 4^th iterated that although they raised that much, they wish they could’ve done more because cancer is a condition that must be stopped.

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In other local news a group of students were arrested yesterday for streaking around campus, the students were later joined by alumni to celebrate the long forgotten rider tradition known as “straduating” where graduating seniors run around the campus naked 2 weeks before they walk. When asked why he decided to go “straduating” senior Bill Platzetnik simply said, “It’s my last chance to do something incredibly stupid in college before I go out into the real world, So why the hell not?”

This is Jake Mikolaitis reporting for 107.7 The Bronc FM.

Script Writing Ability

THUNDER ROAD ADDITIONAL SCENE

BY

JAKE MIKOLAITIS

January 31, 2010

This scene is designed to be placed exactly at the 0:07:07 mark in the movie.

FADE IN:

EXT. A Back Country Road in Rural Tennessee – Evening.

We’re looking at a man (16-20) and a woman (18) sitting in a 1957 Chevrolet coupe, their names are Niles and Roxy.

Niles is driving. He looks over at Roxy and smiles then slowly brings the car to a stop outside of her father’s store.

ROXY

Well thank you for the lift Niles, I hope your run goes well.

Niles

Thanks Roxy, I’ll be home round nine tomorrow.

ROXY

G’bye Niles

Niles

Bye Roxy

Roxy gets out of the car and runs up the steps of the store as Niles drives away.

Ext. A Different Rural Back Country Road- Night

Niles is driving as usual. And the camera is looking right at him as if it were sitting on the center of the hood.

Then, gunfire, and the car is suddenly riddled with hundreds or rounds of ammunition. We see the car completely and utterly destroyed as it veers off the road and into a ditch.

An unknown man, whose face we can’t see, in a long black suit holding a shotgun approaches.

He opens the driver’s side door and Niles’ bloody corpse falls out onto the street

UNKNOWN MAN

Damn, we missed.

Rest of the movie continues.

This movie is about a moonshiner, played by Robert Mitchum, in Tennessee that is fighting to protect his family and fellow moonshiners from the violent encroachment of a rival kingpin, portrayed by Jacques Aubuchon. I feel this scene is needed because the movie’s beginning does not seem to feel as dark and gritty as the end. It almost feels like the mood swing experienced by the audience is not as severe as it should be. Granted the movie was filmed in 1957 and released in theatres the following year, but I still feel that if this particular scene or one similar that serves the purpose of showing how “evil” Aubuchon’s character really is. Instead the writers just use dialogue and I feel it just doesn’t work as effectively.