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VOLUME 5 SPRING SEMESTER ISSUE 1 TUESDAY , MARCH 12, 2013

The Independent Voice of E.W. Scripps School of Journalism Students

e legacy of the Scripps College Scholarships ... page 3

SPJ and RTDNA team up for the spring ... page 4

Student involvement varies in Scripps

HANNAH GOODRICK hg074712@ohio.edu

With the copious amount of extracurricular programs that Scripps has to offer, why not get involved? With numerous organizations and publications, the chances to get involved are almost limitless. There has been plenty of talk that the current freshmen are not as active in Scripps as

Gwen I ll and spectator pose for a photo at the 2013 Schuneman Symposium. Visit ouspjinc.com for full coverage of the event. | Daniel Rader

freshmen typically have been in previous years; however, this may not be true. Several of this years freshmen are just as eager to get involved as any other year. A few of the editors-in-chief of Scripps publications have their ideas about the involvement of the years freshmen and students in general. The students within Scripps are very motivated to get involved right away because they know that it is important for their resumes, student-life and careers after college, said Shannon Miranda, editor-inchief of Backdrop Magazine. Miranda said that the motivation to get involved in Scripps definitely includes freshman, and it always has. The amount of new freshsee INVOLVEMENT page 3

HUNTING FOR THE NEXT BIG THING

With spring break coming to an end, students and their peers are hunting for the ultimate internship to spend their hot summer days in exotic places.
So whats next? Is it too late in the ceived. game to snag an opportunity? Is it really the end all be all? ith a sigh of reSome of the latest prospects include close-to-home options in
CARLI ROSATI cr97151 1@ohio.edu

the end of midterms, with spring Studies at the E. W. Scripps School of many others. break under their belts, students Journalism, Ellen Gerl. If it is a students rst time had a chance to sit back and have a Resumes and bank accounts can interning, they shouldnt be nice breather for ten days. hang on to that silver lining of hope. afraid of non-paying positions, For some though, this just There are still ways to keep those President of the PRSSA Executive means one step closer to the sum- journalism skills ne-tuned, and Board, Allison Jordan said. My mer, empty-handed. That dread- ever expanding. rst internship wasnt paid, but it ed shadow lurking in the corner encompasses every Make certain to check out the was an incredible learning experistudents journalism schools web page, and ence and a great stepping stone worst fear: The season is coming daily at that, Gerl emphasized. In- for my next internship. to a close and not a single intern- ternships Listings highlights opDo some creative thinking, as ship is lined up. portunities posted as they are resee INTERNSHIP page 6

Students who havent lined up Ohio for journalism, or even at Ohio

lief, Ohio Uni- an internship for this coming sum- University for video production. versity students mer should not despair, said As- There are also options for New York can almost see sociate Director for Undergraduate internships this summer, among

INTERNSHIP & JOB LISTINGS

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SPOTLIGHT COMPLETED BY ERIN DAVORAN

SALLY ANN CRUIKSHANK

Is a doctorate student in her nal year of the PhD program
Have you stayed concentrated on the international studies focus?
Absolutely. I got the travel bug pretty early in life. My father won a trip to Portugal through his business when I was 13. I landed in Portugal and I exchanged money and everyone was speaking a different language and I went to a bull ght and I just thought theres something to this travel thing. So Ive pretty much focused on travel my whole life.

Students hard work in Scripps might have had a part in the schools potential reaccreditation. | Daniel Rader

Where are you headed after completing your PhD?

I just accepted a job as an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Auburn University in Alabama. Im really excited. Its a 10-year track job so in ve years I will hopefully be promoted to Associate Professor and get tenure, which means I can basically stay there as long as I want. I really, really love teaching. Ive been teaching at OU for ve years now. I started teaching as soon as I got here and Ive taught everything from broadcast classes to multimedia reporting to theory to ethics a little bit of everything. I also really love doing research. Im very fortunate that I get to do research that I think makes a difference and that I personally enjoy. So I really love the combination of research and teaching. Being in academia and becoming a professor lets me do that. Sally Ann Cruikshank defended her dissertation on Monday, Feb. 25

SCRIPPS TO BE RECOMMENDED FOR REACCREDITATION, AGAIN

While celebrating years of excellence, Ohio Universitys Scripps College of Communication pursues reaccreditation and should soon be approved.

HOLLY MOODY hm156809@ohio.edu

standards that all journalism those skills are compliant with schools must have in order to what todays journalism indusbe accredited. try demands. It was interesting to get Scripps Some of the standards in-

he ism

E.W. has

School of Journal- clude diversity, student ser- their feedback on that because passed vices, graduation rates and as- I think they are right I think we need to do a better job of asAfter speaking with stu- sessment, said Stewart. They dents, faculty and assessing the said were doing a great job its rst test on the sessment.

road to becoming an accredited journalism school once again.

During the rst week of nine standards, the committee but were not assessing it corthe semester, the Accrediting made its recommendation that rectly. Council on Education in Jour- Scripps should be reaccredited. nalism and Mass CommunicaDr. Stewart has put a comHowever, Scripps was found mittee of faculty together that based on the committees sug-

tion (ACEJMC) sent a site team to not be in compliance with will be focusing on improving to visit the Scripps School in one standardassessment. order to do an extensive evaluAssessment entails annu- gestions on how they can imWe can also learn from the

ation on whether or not Scripps ally surveying what students prove in that area. was in compliance with nine are learning and whether or not

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way that other schools are doing it successfully and we can also learn how not to do it from some programs that tried different things that didnt work very well, said Stewart. Scripps will have to pass two more rounds of evaluation before the reaccreditation can be nalized. The site team leader will report their ndings from their visit to the accrediting committee at a meeting in Chicago in March. This meeting will review all of the schools that were up for reaccreditation this year and each site team will make their recommendation to ACEJMC and answer any questions that they may have. Professor Stewart will be in attendance at this meeting to answer any further questions that the committee may have. The committee will then vote whether or not to accept the recommendation. Its quite unusual that they wouldnt accept it, said Stewart. They really respect the work of the site team. The accreditation may be nalized in May at the accrediting councils meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. The accreditation will be valid for the next six years. I know Scripps is one of the top ten in the nation and that is why I decided to come here, said Christine Zhao a secondyear masters student studying journalism. Scripps has been one of the few accredited journalism schools in the country for the past 60 years and plans to continue to maintain a strong program for students. This is really important because it makes me feel good when someone says, oh you went to Scripps at OU, said Holly Storrow, a news and information major.

And the
HOLLY MOODY hm156809@ohio.edu

SCHOLARSHIP goes to...

rst director of the School of dents, said Stewart. Journalism. Scripps plans to maintain its He loved art and culture, own scholarship pool aside from Faculty members are gearing up to decide who will be the recip- said Stewart. He organized bus the university-wide scholarships. I think its good that Scripps ients of the E.W. Scripps School of trips to various states in the Journalism Scholarships. country for students to experi- has its own scholarship pool because it means that donors The deadline to apply for the ence the arts. Lashers daughter, Mary Lash- want to give us money and were scholarships was Feb. 20. Students were required to ll out er, the rst female editor of The not competing with the entire an application with their general Post, established the scholarship school, said Holly Storrow, who information, an explanation of in his name for a student to go is studying news and information. Some of the scholarship donancial need and why they de- to a city of their choice for three serve the scholarship. weeks and take in the arts. nors will attend the banquet. Recipients are decided upon We have a little bit more Three of the awards required students to submit clips or an es- by a committee of faculty mem- money than we have had in past say. The George Star Lasher Living bers. Each of the scholarships years, said Stewart. The recipients will be anLegacy Scholarship entailed that has certain guidelines and the students submit a 750 to 1,000 word committee will determine which nounced at a banquet March 25. Those who applied and did not essay describing a cultural experi- students meet those guidelines. Its a committee that takes apply are encouraged to attend. ence that they would like to pursue. Past recipients have traveled to cit- their work very seriously because The school is looking to subsidize they understand that their deci- the cost of attendance to only $5. ies such as London and Paris. George Star Lasher was the sions are really important to stu- for students.

iNVOLVEMENT

and freshman involvement. Our staff is at about the same size it was last year, so I feel like for all the seniors we may have lost, we gained freshmen or other students, Coletta said. She does not see a lack in student involvement within Scripps. She believes that this year freshmen involvement might be higher than ever for Speakeasy. A steady number of freshmen have been coming into the publications that are available through Scripps; however, organizations on a larger scale like SPJ are lack-

ing in current freshmen and new student involvement. Sandhya Kambhampati, president of SPJ, is not sure why the current freshmen lack involvement in SPJ, but believes that the recent choice to merge SPJ and RTDNA will add to the organizations numbers. The Scripps students that are involved in organizations or publications denitely have an upper hand when it comes to rst-hand experience in the journalism eld. Becoming involved is easy; it is only a matter of actually doing it.

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men involved with Backdrop this year has been pretty similar to the past few years. At the beginning of fall semester, I would estimate that we had about 60-70 new freshmen, Miranda said. The numbers in freshmen involvement seem to be steady throughout the years for Backdrop, but what about other publications? Senior Holly Coletta, editorin-chief of the online magazine Speakeasy, talks about student

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SPJ and RTDNA joined forces the beginning of the 2013 - 2013 school year. | Daniel Rader

SPJ, RTDNA JOINS FORCES TO PLAN FOR AN ACTION PACKED CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Since the two organizations have joined together Scripps the colleges students, faculty and staff and expect to see a few big tricks pulled up their sleves within the spring and upcoming years
ALLISON SHARPE as64271 1@ohio.edu

nalism. cluded Abrahm Lustgarten who

ings every other Tuesday at 6 The two

RTDNAs local conference, on the other hand, is scheduled for

Other scheduled guests in- p.m. in Scripps 111.

organizations March 23. The conference will

pring Break has come spoke about fracking and Michel teamed up to bring bigger and be a great opportunity for stuand past for students at du Chille who presented about better programs to students, dents to tweet and network with Ohio University, and it photojournalists embracing Kambhampati said. broadcast professionals from is now time to pull out change in digital media. While these organizations en- Ohio and other surrounding

the planners and mark some important dates.

SPJ president Sandhya Kamb- joyed the break both Kambham- states. It will also give students hampati and RTDNA president pati and Nealeigh stated that the chance to discuss the busiNealeigh encourage all they have a few big meetings ness aspect of their professions. SPJ and RTDNAs March 26 backpack journalism, where

One major event journalism Sara

students as well as other students members as well as other jour- planned for upcoming weeks, Schuneman Symposium. The like the symposium. As for big news within the travel journalist Rudy Maxa.

enjoyed before the break was the nalism students to attend events including todays meeting with meeting will have the theme of symposium began with Gwen IfOn Tuesday, March 12, SPJ professionals will be speaking

ill on Monday night. Ill was one organizations, recently, SPJ and and RTDNA will be hosting about their experiences as jourof six special guests brought in by RTDNA joined forces and are a sports journalism meeting nalists and about the equipment the E.W. Scripps School of Jour- now holding combined meet- planned they use in the field.

SCRIPPS CALENDAR
MONDAY TUESDAY
Back to school! SPJ/RTDNA meeting @ 5 p.m. in Scripps.

Ohio Universitys E.W. Scripps School Of Journalism students are continually on the run, and here are a few things theyre up to.

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY
Bricks beat magazine meeting

FRIDAY
Time to celebrate St. Pattys day!

Students for global media and diversity meeting @ 5 p.m. in Scripps

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CHALLENGE INVOLVEMENT DISAPPOINTS

CORTNEY WILLIS cw238906@ohio.edu

SCRIPPS
With spring here and summer on the way now is the time to nd and con rm those internships and send in any last minute applications. Make sure to check for any scholarship deadlines and workshops or conferences coming your way. Not sure where to look? Check out a few of these web sites: - scrippsjschool.org - @journochat - spj.com - ouspjinc.com - ouspj.com

There are many organizations in Ohio Universitys E.W. Scripps School of Journalism: Thread Magazine, College Green Magazine, and The New Political to name a few. As a whole, they are not taking part in the Scripps Innovation Challenge. Since the media sets these challenges, it would seem

Students promote the innovation challenge. | Provided

as if journalism students would in-chief of The New Political. ule and budget is tight, and we be taking advantage of the op- Its difcult for me to see a one dont have time to dedicate to step, or even few-step solution to the Scripps Innovation Chalportunity. At the beginning of the se- any of the problems I saw listed. lenge. Lambert said. I think its mester, Scripps sent out an in- I think a lot of those problems a great opportunity for students novation challenge to those of will need time, adjustments in to apply themselves, its just not all majors to solve real-world content, etc. Which isnt innova- something that was in the cards problems. For being geared to- tive exactly, its a gradual change for us. He also said that if there had ward Scripps students, however, that often happens as a result of been more notice about the chalorganizations as a whole are not changes in management. Scott Lambert, a junior study- lenge, Thread might have been participating; its more about the ing retail merchandising and able to incorporate it into its individual interest. There isnt a particular rea- Business Manager of Thread budget. Kelly Doran, a junior studying son Im not participating - I sup- Magazine wishes that Thread pose if I knew about it earlier or had the time to participate in the journalism and College Greens editor-in-chief said, Our time it was better advertised and seen challenge. Some students feel it would and resources are exhausted by as more of a Scripps competition that might have motivated me to be stronger to form their own trying to put out a good publicatake it up, said Kate Irby, a junior groups rather than compete as tion. There just isnt enough time Our sched- to participate in challenges. studying journalism and editor- an organization.

Journalists continue to utilize webs social media

HANNAH GOODRICK hg074712@ohio.edu

ists Sandhya Kambhampati belives twitter is important for journalism of resourchas students for networking with other people in the field. It is a good way to reach out to sources and find out what stories people are talking about. Twitter has an entire section dedicated to trending topics which indicate what Twitter users are currently talking about. It is an easy way to nd out current topics. News sources tweet numerous times a day, meaning that information is being sent out to people all over the world every minute. By the press of a button information is be-

ing shared to millions of people in seconds. Twitter connects people faster than ever and is convenient to journalists everywhere. Ive found a couple of my stories and have networked with journalists because of Twitter, said Kambhampati. Throughout the past few years, Twitter has changed the world of journalism. It has added an entire new branch of journalism. [Twitter] has created new levels of competition and a new landscape for sharing content, said Dan Farkas, instructor at Scripps.

The Internet changed the way journalists publish their stories; Twitter changed the way journalists distribute their stories to their readers all across the globe. People can follow different news sources and can easily share their favorite stories, said Sara Nealeigh, RTDNA president. Twitter has an incredulous amount of users that are able to obtain the information journalists are putting out into the world. INC is on Twitter ! Follow @OUSPJ_ INC for important information about INC, Scripps, and OU events.

The

availability

es throughout the Internet

changed the way people interact. Social networking sites such as Twitter have made it a possibility for reporters to obtain information at a faster rate than ever before. Many popular sources throughout the eld of journalism have Twitter accounts such as CNN (@CNN), The AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) and The Hufngton Post (@HufngtonPost). President of Ohio Universitys Society for Professional Journal-

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iNTERNSHIP

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Gerl puts it. There are opportunities in every company. Whether it be writing, promoting or refreshing media skills with In-design or Photoshop, its hands-on experience that looks good for resumes. As always, keep the Bobcat family in mind. Alumni are always more than happy to help when contacted by an eager undergrad. Linked In is a great source for meeting or reconnecting with former Bobcats, Gerl reminds. To put it simply, The best way to make a connection is by talking to professors and peers and asking them if they have heard of anything in their desired cities and niches, Jordan

provided

INC
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Lindsay Friedman lf328610@ohio.edu

WOMEN IN THE U.S. CAN NOW TAKE TO THE WAR FRONT LINES
KALI BOROVIC kb386910@ohio.edu

The negatives simply outweigh female group to go into ground the positive, Elkins said. Its not a combat. First person accounts of sexist view, its a factual view. each females struggles are shown The fact that it was already Elkins negatives include her be- throughout the lm.

On January 23, the Pen-

tagon overturned the lief that females are not up to tness

1994 rule that women standards, that women will not t in happening and that women were cannot be put into with males and their mannerisms doing it successfully under these they had that many more chal-

combat, which since has had peo- and that combat positions are not incredibly horric situations, but ple talking about if society is ready sanitary enough for women. for the change. On the other hand, Professor lenges put onto them and I think

ASSISTANT EDITOR
Camilee Smith cs798812@ohio.edu

According to the AP defense of- Reynolds, a women and gender that for me is kind of the kicker, , cials said that the change would studies professor who teaches she said. open hundreds of thousands of a class about the struggles that ly elite commando jobs. Meaning face, differs in opinion. that women will now be formally The womens biggest struggle ting no recognition for their work front-line positions and potential- women in and around military life in the lm was that they were getMy sense is that if women, because they technically were not

MANAGING EDITOR
Kali Borovick kb386910@ohio.edu

allowed to serve in combat roles since they do join the military, are allowed to do the work that they

DESIGN EDITOR
Kelsey Bell kb151412@ohio.edu

something they were restricted to capable and competent I think were doing, but they also had troudo since the rule in 1994. they should have every right to ble with dealing with their experiBottom line, the biggest challenges that women are going to Some people, however, are not go into combat, Reynolds said. I ences after the returned home. sold on the idea of having women think ever avenue in the instituin combat positions. Haley Elkins, a sophomore tion should be open to them.

COPY EDITOR
Laura Garotti lg084010@ohio.edu

Reynolds referenced the docu- face are going to be pretty much

studying forensic chemistry, is mentary Lioness that she shows the same as veterans everywhere: currently enlisted in a combat po- in her class multiple times in her the horror of killing people and sition. She believes that not only reasoning of standing behind having to live with themselves afis society not ready for women in women in combat. combat, but that women themselves are not ready to be there. The documentary, which was terwards, Reynolds said. That seems, to me, as the

ASST. COPY EDITOR

Kandlyn Collins kc204809@ohio.edu

released in 2008, tells the story of great equalizer; all combat soldiers

I believe females should not 5 female Army support soldiers are going to come home with the be allowed in combat positions. that were hand picked as the rst same kinds of scars.

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