The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Monday, February 25, 2008

COMM 209: Wednesday's assignment

Cover the Tunes and Noon open mic and "free food day" Wednesday in the gym in the Ursuline Academy building. The event begins around 11 a.m. and goes till 1 p.m. Instead of meeting in Dawson Hall Wednesday, I will have a signup sheet at the gym. Your story should be 750 to 1,000 words long. Include some "color" or descriptive wwriting, and at least three quotations from real, live people. Due Friday, Feb. 29.

Here's some background on the event:

Jennifer Cosby, president of the Student Activity Council, will emcee.

"We wanted the students to have a chance to show their peers their talent along with the faculty," she told The Bulldog, Springfield College-Benedictine University student paper.

"We can hire a professional musician anytime, but to have a student or faculty member who representes the school performing onstate is priceless," Cosby added.

Important! Please note: This week's issue of The Bulldog has a story on Tunes at Noon. It is ethical to use their quotes, but you have to say you got them from the paper. A common way of doing it is to use something like "told the Bulldog" (or "told the Journal-Register" or whatever the published source is). You also see something like, "was quoted as saying in the ________________ (name of paper)." It's better to get your own quotes. Anything that's already been in print is pretty lame, and besides, you want the experience of interviewing people, don't you?

Here's some more information. It's from a news release that was emailed to students, faculty and staff:
There will be a FREE FOOD DAY on Wednesday February 27th located in the Ursuline Gym. Starting at 11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. we will be having Penne Pasta with marinara and Alfredo sauce as well as meatballs and chicken. Also we will have French bread and Caesar Salad and cookies and punch. So please come and enjoy the food put on by SC/BU and your Sodexho team.

Sean McIntyre

Retail Manager
Sodexho
541 East Black Ave
Springfield, IL 62702
(217) 527-8440 Office
(217) 527-8441 Fax
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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.