Deadlines: Friday, September 10

I've signed up for two stories: Dumping in the soccer field and the increased amount of tennis players.

Soccer Field Questions:
1. Why was the dumping done / why was the soccer field (next to the baseball field) chosen?
2. Was it the contractors’ decision or the schools?
3. What are the benefits of the dumping / what are the risks?
4. Recently the dirt & rocks have been pushed towards the fence, why?
5. What are the plans for the future?
(for soccer coaches and players)
6. How has the dumping affected the team?
7. What part of the team was that soccer field used for (I think they used two fields)?
8. Do you think it will be used again, why?
9. Did you know about this beforehand, how did you find out?
10. What do you want to see happen in the future (relating)?
(distribute betweeen players and coaches)

Tennis Team Questions:
1. Why has the tennis team increased in size so much this year?
2. Is this all a result of the new tennis class?
3. Who has done most of the recruiting?
4. How does this year’s team size compare to other years?
5. With all the new players, is there enough equipment and space to go around?
6. How many of these players do you think will stay involved in the team?
7. What did it take to get the new class started?
8. What are your plans for this class in the future?
9. There was a class planned for last year, what happened?
10. How is the team this year?
(Get quotes from old and new tennis players)

Do the write thing

Slide #2
Story: Dumping in Soccer field
Theme: The future of the Soccer field
Way to write about it: Question Akins staff, then the Soccer coaches to see how they were affected.

Slide#20
I can avoid this by getting quotes from differen't sides of the story, hopefully this will keep clichés out.

Slides#21-27
The second story was better than the first, because the first didn't have a story, it was all general statements about football season, fall, fans, and cheerleading. The second was about a single person and his experiences with a football team.

Slide#37
A good story:
tells the reader something new
explains what something means
reveals humanity, personality
finds the interesting point of view
Reflecting: As long as something is happening on campus, the reader will hear something new
As long as the writing is clear, definitions of things will be explained, people are always involved in theses, quotes reveal humanity and personality. And as long as its not very general statements it will be interesting.

Slide#44
Your story must be:
Accurate
Clean/Correct
Smooth
Clear
Tight
Unified

Clear: I'll try to make my writing informational and easy for everyone to understand, whatever that means

Improving our Publication

Maintain Consistency:
I can see a couple of things that could be done about this, the newspaper could have a few sections showing the same type of stories every day, or like we went over in last class there could be build up panels near the cover story in the same general spot every issue. Even an opening title with different pictures in the same spot could improve on consistency.

Cover your Community:
We can do this by making sure we have written about every new and upcoming thing on the campus. I think the real challenge in this isn't about finding people to interview, but finding out what's going on around campus. We could find out who is in what programs, and make an area in the room for people to drop story ideas that they've come up with. That’s about it really.