In a recent front-page story, The Orion at California State University, Chico, focused on the odd, increasingly addictive practice of “edit[ing] everyday images to look old-fashioned.” The app that has made such immediate aging possible: Instagram. Its ease of use and convenient sharing capabilities have made it a huge hit since its launch, raising related questions about its relative artistic merits and the ethics of altering what has been snapped.
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Chico State Student Newspaper Feature Focuses on Instagram (@TheOrion_com @Instagram)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Story Ideas, tagged App, Instagram, New Media, Student Newspaper on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Campus Restroom at Harvard Law Named After UC Berkeley Professor Who Donated Money
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In return for a recent $100,000 donation, Harvard University’s School of Law has named a restroom after a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. The Falik Men’s Room honors the prof. William Falik, whose last name Time Magazine confirms “is apparently pronounced exactly how it looks.” In a Daily Californian story on the unusual arrangement, Falik, a law school alum, confirmed the whole shebang was his idea: “I have a name that doesn’t go many places. I think it’s somewhat humorous to have my name outside of a men’s room.”
Daily Iowan Dance Marathon Coverage a Reporting Tour de Force (@TheDailyIowan #OneGoalOneFight)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Daily Iowan’s recent Herculean coverage of the University of Iowa’s Dance Marathon was a real-time multimedia reporting tour-de-force. By the numbers: 300 man hours of planning and reporting by DI staff. 50 published stories, along with scores of photos, a slew of blog updates and tweets, and a slate of videos. Roughly 17,000 hits to the DI website during the 24-hour charitable event, apparently a record amount. And, of course, the most heartening number: $1.3 million raised by the marathon’s participants to help child patients treated at the university’s medical facilities.
Daily Nebraskan’s Biggest Story This Semester: A Bed Bug Outbreak! (@DailyNeb #bedbugs)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper, tagged Bedbugs, Daily Nebraskan, Journalism, Nebraska on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A bed bug outbreak at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has prompted a subsequent swarm of criticism from students aimed at campus housing officials. A rash of stories and editorials in The Daily Nebraskan charges UNL staffers with failing to inform students in a timely manner about the growing infestation and instead spreading misinformation and even telling student RAs to lie to their residents.
Pinterest: One Student’s Take on the College Crowd’s ‘Latest Obsession’ (@Pinterest)
Posted in New Media, Story Ideas on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I am waiting for an invitation to Pinterest. I signed up awhile back. Apparently, I’m on a waiting list. In the meantime, everyone I know under 30 is raving about it. I caught one of my top students scrolling through it on her laptop before class the other day and asked her for a rundown. In the post below, she praises the site as an “awesome form of expression” and sarcastically criticizes “as highly addictive.”
Student Confessional Site TerpSecret: ‘Pour Your Heart Out. Or Just Talk Sh*t.’ (@TerpSecret #UMD)
Posted in College Media, New Media, Story Ideas, tagged Maryland, New Media, PostSecret on February 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The latest student-specific anonymous sharing site is TerpSecret. Geared toward University of Maryland students, the tagline states simply: “Pour Your Heart Out. Or Just Talk Sh*t. Whatever Works.”
Washington State’s Daily Evergreen Police #Tweetalong is Funny, Frightening (@DailyEvergreen #GoCougs)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper, tagged Higher Education, Journalism, Police, Ridealong, Washington State on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This past weekend, Stephanie Schendel, the cops and courts reporter for The Daily Evergreen at Washington State University, tweeted live observations from a late-night ridealong with local police. Schendel has carried out several “tweetalongs” during the academic year, providing a glimpse of quirkier after-hours community goings-on with candor and quick wit.
Claremont McKenna Student Magazine Breaks Stories About College’s SAT Manipulation Scandal
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Magazine Journalism, Story Ideas, tagged Claremont McKenna, College Rankings, Journalism, SATs on February 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Claremont Port Side, a student newsmagazine at California’s Claremont McKenna College, has earned national attention and New York Times shout-outs this past week for its spirited coverage of an SAT score-fixing scandal. On Monday, Claremont McKenna’s president informed students that an administrator had been regularly inflating student SAT scores presumably to help the school’s placement in numerous national higher ed. rankings.
Online Alcohol Course on MyStudentBody.com ‘Called a Joke’ By Some Undergrads (#drinking @RedandBlack)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper, tagged Alcohol, College, Drinking, Education, My Student Body, University of Georgia on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
An online alcohol education course that incoming college students nationwide are required to complete is “ineffective and may actually encourage irresponsible drinking,” a new report in The Red & Black at the University of Georgia confirms. (FYI The Red & Black is my favorite student newspaper in the solar system, if you cannot tell by [...]
Student Press Love & Sex Stories: Hickeys, Virginity, and Dating Histories (#hickeys @BootyDrop)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper, tagged College, Dating, Masturbation, Relationships, Sex on February 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Below is a screenshot sampling of recently published columns in student news outlets nationwide directly tackling matters of sex and love. Hickeys, masturbation, penile fractures (ouch), the art of wooing a woman, and an intriguing website called Booty Drop all make appearances. Happy Wednesday!
Dartmouth Fraternity Hazing Scandal: Time for a Fresh Look at Greek Pledge Process
Posted in Student Newspaper, Journalism, College Media, Story Ideas, tagged Education, Greek Life, Hazing, Fraternity, Dartmouth on January 31, 2012 | 1 Comment »
A column by a Dartmouth University student outlining the many degrading acts he endured while pledging a fraternity in 2010 has earned national attention for its extremely candid glimpse at hazing. As senior Andrew Lohse wrote at one point in the piece, headlined “Telling the Truth: “I was a member of a fraternity that asked pledges, in order to become a brother, to: swim in a kiddie pool full of vomit, urine, fecal matter, semen and rotten food products; eat omelets made of vomit; chug cups of vinegar, which in one case caused a pledge to vomit blood; drink beers poured down fellow pledges’ ass cracks; and vomit on other pledges, among other abuses. Certainly, pledges could have refused these orders. However, under extreme peer pressure and the desire to ‘be a brother,’ most acquiesced.”
Bed Bugs Attack at University of Alaska Anchorage (@TNL_Updates #bedbugs)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper, tagged Bed Bugs, College, Education, Multimedia on January 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
An “expanding bedbug population” is infesting student dorm rooms at the University of Alaska Anchorage, a new report in The Northern Light campus newspaper confirms. What’s the bed bug situation in your campus dorms and students’ off-campus residences? What is the school’s MO for staving off potential infestations?
Daily Princetonian Honors Harry Potter in Recent Joke Issue (#harrypotter)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper, tagged Education, Harry Potter, Journalism, Princeton, Satire on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In its annual joke issue published earlier this month, The Daily Princetonian became The Daily Prophet. The Princeton University student newspaper embraced Harry Potter in a spoof-tastic edition full of stories about muggles, magic, elves, and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
Student Press Version of ‘Lazy Higher Ed Journalism’
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, tagged College, Journalism, Media on January 26, 2012 | 3 Comments »
A write-up on “Lazy Higher Education Journalism” (spurred by a separate report on “Lazy Education Journalism” in general) recently achieved B-list viral status within the education and journalism communities. In her Inside Higher Ed essay, Melanie Fullick charges news media with inefficient, often superficial reporting on relevant issues such as school rankings, technology’s impact on education, the value and characteristics of international students and faculty, and the various “solutions” offered as panaceas to supposedly ailing higher learning institutions.
Weber State Professor Explores Role of Homesickness in American History
Posted in Story Ideas, Teachable Moment, tagged History, Homesickness, Media, Skype, Weber State on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As students recently returned to campuses for the start of spring semester, there is one especially nagging feeling many brought with them: homesickness. Whether it’s missing family, pets, friends or the comfort of the familiar, the notion of homesickness is undoubtedly as embedded within higher education as Spring Break and Saturday football. In her new book, Homesickness: An American History, Weber State University distinguished history professor Susan Matt traces the evolution of this longing sentiment from America’s earliest days.
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