This is the fifth installment of a multi-post glimpse back at the highlights and lowlights of fall 2009 in collegemediatopia. – Sex Scandal Award: Towerlight, Towson University The Towerlight at Towson University was in serious flux last October because of Lux, the pseudonymous writer behind the sex column “The Bed Post.” The column divided the newspaper’s [...]
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College Media Sex Scandals, Fall 2009
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, Dakota Student, Satire, Sex Column, Student Journalism, Towerlight, Towson University, University of North Dakota on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Biggest College Media Villain, Fall 2009
Posted in Journalism, Student Newspaper, Student Newspaper Theft, tagged Bobby Hauck, College Media, Daily Helmsman, Journalism, Montana Kaimin, Sex Column, Student Journalism, Student Media, Towerlight, Towson University, University of Memphis, University of Montana on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is the third installment of a multi-post glimpse back at the highlights and lowlights of fall 2009 in collegemediatopia. – Biggest College Media Villain: Bobby Hauck, University of Montana Last semester, University of Montana football coach Bobby Hauck (who recently accepted a job at UNLV) threw a prolonged temper tantrum aimed directly at the student press. [...]
J-Student Spotlight: Georgia Adams, Univ. of West Florida
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalist Spotlight, Student Newspaper, tagged Sex Column, Student Journalist Spotlight, Student Newspaper on May 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Georgia Adams once proudly danced on the bar at Coyote Ugly in Nashville, and her hair is sometimes red “or redder, or blue, or something in between.” Her journalism work is similarly bold and scattered. Adams is currently finishing up a stint as both managing editor AND sports editor (interesting combo) for The Voyager student newspaper at the [...]
Non-Prude Parent “Disgusted” by Student Sex Column
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, Sex Column, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper on March 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A father of a prospective student at the University of West Florida who considers himself “no shrinking violet and certainly not a prude” wrote a letter of moral outrage late last week about a sex column in The Voyager student newspaper penned by “Pixie Gonzalez.” — It is one the funnier anti-sex-in-the-student-press missives I have [...]
Sex Column Controversy at Montana: Law Professor Wants it Stopped!
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, Free Press, Sex Column, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper, Student Press Law Center on March 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Kristen Juras, a law professor at the University of Montana, is currently on a sexual witch hunt so ludicrous it pains me to think she might have tenure. Specifically, Juras is out to stop The Kaimin student newspaper from publishing a sex column begun this semester, the paper’s first since the column trend started in [...]
25 Random Things About Modern College Media: Part 2
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Blogging, Center for Innovation in College Media, College Journalism, College Media, College Rag, Journalism, Paper Trail, Sex Column, Sex Magazine, Student Press, U.S. News & World Report, Yearbook on February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last week, I kicked off my list of “25 Random Things About Modern College Media,” putting a professional twist on the Facebook-centric personal list phenomenon that continues to give us insights into parts of people’s lives I had no idea I ever wanted to know about. My dip into collegemediatopia randomness continues below, with Part [...]
More Sex, Sex, Sex in the Student Press
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Magazine Journalism, tagged C-Spot, College Media, College Sex, Columbia University, Sex, Sex Column, Sex Magazine, Student Journalism, Student Media, Student Press on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sex has been the story of the student press for the past decade, for better and worse. Sex columns and sex issues in college newspapers and full-blown campus sex magazines have appeared with increasing regularity and as increasingly risqué at or near campuses nationwide and into Canada (and even India!). ————– ————– The newest student [...]
