The Mackerel Wrapper

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

Monday, October 27, 2008

COMM 337: Assignment for Wed. Pls post to your blogs

Please post your reaction to this opinion piece in Judith Warner's blog for The New York Times on your own blog. Consider:

· Where, for you, is the 'line' (in Don Murray's sense of the word) in this story?

· What sources of conflict, or tension, do you find in it?

· Any surprises? (In Murray's sense of the word. In yours?) Anything unexpected? Anything that goes against the grain?

· How do Warner's values compare to the values of the 90s? … that she finds on Wall Street? What lesson(s) does she take from the financial meltdown? Is is (are they) what you expected as you started reading the column?
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Lauren Burke said...

Do you happen to have a link to her blog? And which date's post should I be looking at?
Thanks. :o)

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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.