Only hours after a recent issue of The Signal hit campus newsstands at Georgia State University, students were seen allegedly trashing roughly 250 copies, a Student Press Law Center Report confirms. The most likely motivation for the students’ hasty dump-and-run: reports in the issue on GSU sorority hazing practices and other Greek organization investigations.
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Students Trash Copies of Georgia State Signal Issue Featuring Sorority Hazing Reports (@gsusignal)
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper on March 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Two Offbeat Diversity Stories: Common Readings & Campus Portraits (@thecrimson @cornellsun)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A pair of stories that would fit snugly into the diversity beat caught my eye in Ivy League student newspapers recently. They are both reminders that diversity issues are present on every campus beyond the gender spread, skin color, and birthplaces of the student body and staff. In these cases, they are also hanging on the walls and assigned as readings.
Campus Paper Reports on Cockroaches, Food Safety Violations; 650 Copies Stolen. Coincidence? (#nyc12)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper, Student Newspaper Theft on March 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Roughly 650 copies of The Unfiltered Lens have been reported stolen at the Community College of Rhode Island, prompting speculation the thefts may be a response to Lens reports on cockroaches and food safety violations. Noting that other publications distributed on campus were noticeably left stacked in their newsstands, the paper’s editor-in-chief Robert Armistead said “it leads me to believe that it is something specific with our newspaper, and more specifically with this issue.”
Oklahoma State Student Senate to Daily O’Collegian: Allow SGA Members to Write for the Paper (@OColly)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper on March 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In a short, spirited column appearing in today’s Daily O’Collegian at Oklahoma State University, opinion editor C.J. Cavin is forced to reassert a longstanding rule at the paper: Members of the school’s student government are not permitted to serve on staff. – Late last month, the OSU student senate passed legislation stating that SGA members [...]
Chicago State Ordered By Law to Reinstate Fired Student Newspaper Adviser (#freepressvictory)
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper on March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In a fascinating First Amendment and free press ruling, a federal judge has ordered Chicago State University to rehire a student newspaper adviser fired in 2008 after articles critical of the CSU administration were published. According to local news media and a Student Press Law Center report, the school must reinstate Steven Moore to his previous position– executive director of communications– for at least one year and erase negative references within his employment records. Firing him, the federal judge overseeing the case confirmed, was a violation of his free speech rights.
Fort Hays State SGA Cuts More Than $30,000 from Student Newspaper’s Budget (@FHSULeader)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper on March 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Student Government Association at Fort Hays State University has dealt a sudden financial thunderclap to the school’s student newspaper, The University Leader. The SGA ripped more than $30,000 from the paper’s budget, cutting its funding support from $50,000 to a bit less than $20,000.
Student Press Headline of the Day: Fetus Blood vs. Real Blood
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper on March 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A recent opinion piece in University of North Florida Spinnaker defending the shock value of an organization’s image-driven anti-abortion campaign definitely got my attention for its shock value of a headline. As the op-ed topper stated simply, “I Guess Fetus Blood Doesn’t Count as Real Blood.”
Daily Illini is Up $150,000; For the First Time, Students Will Help Fund the Paper (@TheDailyIllini)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper on March 12, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Late last week, University of Illinois students voted to approve a $3-per-student-per-semester fees increase to help support The Daily Illini. It is the first time the paper’s operating company Illini Media has asked for such assistance.
Purdue Professor Under Fires Charges Student Newspaper with Anti-Semitism
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper on March 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
A professor under fire at Purdue University Calumet is now charging the school’s student newspaper with anti-Semitism. The gist: PUC political science professor Maurice Eisenstein has been allegedly spouting uber-offensive comments about Muslims and other groups for years in class and on his Facebook page.
Kony: Buzzword of the Week Within College Media– and the Rest of the Web World
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper on March 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Kony 2012,” an activist documentary of sorts “featuring shocking images of kidnapped child soldiers” in Uganda, has gone mega-viral since its Monday premiere. The video by the charitable organization Invisible Children has apparently “united everyone from college students to celebrities in support for the campaign” to save these youngsters from the alleged brutality of Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony.
Should Voting Totals from SGA Elections Be Public?
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment on March 8, 2012 | 3 Comments »
The Student Government Association at Butler University is refusing to release the full results from a recent SGA election, placing the organization at odds with the school’s campus newspaper and students favoring transparency. The fight raises an interesting question: How open should student governments be when releasing the results of its own elections?
How to Launch a Crazy Cool Student Newspaper Website Using WordPress (@BUPipeDream)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment on March 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
In my memory, I picture green. Dark green. A quick check on archive.org confirmed it. Until recently, the website for The Pipe Dream, the student newspaper at Binghamton University, was overrun with a green palate that hovered somewhere between grass and puke. Cue Daniel O’Connor.
Oklahoma Daily Pushes for Gender-Neutral Campus Housing in Special Front-Page Editorial
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper on March 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Oklahoma Daily is leading the charge to bring gender-neutral housing to the University of Oklahoma. In today’s issue, the paper splashed a special editorial calling for the policy’s approval across its entire front page. As editor-in-chief Chris Lusk explained in a separate letter from the editor, “While a newspaper must inform, there are times when a newspaper must speak up for what’s right. . . .”
UCONN’s Daily Campus in ‘Dire Straits’ Financially; Editor Writes SOS Letter to Students
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Student Newspaper on March 6, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Amid an ever-gloomier financial outlook, The Daily Campus at the University of Connecticut is apparently in serious danger of folding without an immediate increase in student fees support. In an open letter of sorts to UCONN students published on Huffington Post, the paper’s editor-in-chief Melanie Deziel outlines the crippling budget woes befalling the Campus and the many cutbacks staff have made in recent years to keep operations in the black. The piece’s headline: “SOS: Save Our Student Newspaper.”
Blogger Criticizes Daily Iowan; Daily Iowan Hires Him
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment on March 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
You have to love an editor who recognizes talent even when it’s spitting in his face. Last week, Adam B. Sullivan, the editor-in-chief of The Daily Iowan at the University of Iowa, came across a local blog featuring an entire post and photo slideshow devoted simply to spotlighting the paper’s recent typos.
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