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Weekly Update - Jan4th to Jan10th




OOC
⊗ Reserves are currently up, and Applications will be opening at 11:59 on the 6th! If there's a character you've got your eye on applying, why not go ahead and call dibs?

⊗ Also live right now: The Test Drive Meme! Try out new characters, get app samples, and help prospective newcomers feel welcome.

⊗ We haven't posted the rosters for the January Event yet, so now's your last chance to toss your character in for it!



SCHOOL NEWS
⊗ With so many students and staff gone for the winter holidays, it's been a little quiet -- but it's time for classes to start up again! Have you got your pencils sharpened, students?

⊗ Zian wants to know people's New Years Resolutions!

⊗ Kanji raises an important question about what to tell your parents when the superhero life chooses you.

⊗ A newsreel post is coming up soon!

⊗ It's time again, boys and girls, for the Rumor Mill! Heard any scandalous, salacious secrets? Leave them right here!



AROUND THE WORLD
⊗ Reports are spreading of an increasing number of scuffles between members of the Friends of Humanity and the Mutant Liberation Front. President Kelly and community leaders nationwide have made public calls for an end to the violence, entreating the public to put their faith in the rule of law.

⊗ Memorial events for Donavan Zane, the young man apparently killed by the MLF, have been held across the country and the world. In America, many more moderate mutant rights organizations and activists have distanced themselves from them, roundly condemning the killing and calling for a thorough investigation -- while at the same time imploring humans to resist the urge to pin the blame for his death on all mutants.

⊗ In protest of the proposed Mutant Registration Act (currently being debated in congress), young mutants worldwide have taken up the tongue-in-cheek social media hashtag #MutantPrivilege to lambast the idea that mutants are unfairly advantaged in society, largely through sarcastic retellings of their experiences with discrimination. While some mainstream media attention has been garnered and a few laughs have been had, it's debatable what (if anything) this has achieved.

⊗ Back from their winter break, the National Film Board of Canada has written an open letter asking Logan to start the new year with a new, more open outlook. Hope does spring eternal, doesn't it?