The Mackerel Wrapper

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

Monday, March 09, 2009

COMM 209: Today's assignment

This morning I got the following email message from Dean Broeckling:

FYI,

There is a ‘Game Show’ offering cash prizes to students today in the Gym at noon. Knowing you have noon hour classes, I just wanted to make you aware. If you feel it appropriate, you’re welcome to bring your class…in case you’re classes are smaller than usual, I wanted to make you aware, but also let you know that I am not asking for anyone’s absence to be excused.

The game show includes trivia on pop culture, but is intended to help students learn of the harmful effects of alcohol and drugs on their system.

The event is in the gym at noon.

Thanks,
KDB

Kevin Broeckling
Dean of Student Affairs
Springfield College - Benedictine University
1500 North Fifth Street
Springfield, IL 62702
(217)525-1420 x239 (office)
Your assignment: Cover this event. Write a news-feature story about it. Should it be a color story? A human interest story? A personal narrative? Or a combination? (See Harrower, "Inside Reporting" p. 113.) Length: 750-1,000 words. Interview at least three people, and quote them verbatim in the story.
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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.