Group A: Please post your ideas for Story 2 as a comment to this post.
Ideas are due by the end of the day on Thursday, Sept. 16. The stories are due on Monday, Sept. 27, so you've got 11 days to report and write them.
Guidelines: Beat Story 2
- Minimum 300 words; minimum one human source; minimum one direct quote.
(Face-to-face quotes are worth more than e-mail quotes.)
For Group B, Story 2 is due on Oct. 11.
As I think of ideas, I will add them below. The latest issue of Upcoming Events from CAB is a goldmine of ideas.
- Blood drive at LSC on Wednesday, April 22. Talk to donors; are there any students who have donated an unusually large amount? Ask the organizers how much they collected.
- CAB bus trips: Where? Who decides? What do they cost to put on?
- Sick students? Ask the Brown House if it has noticed an increase in the number of visits from students. If yes, why?
- Swine flu: A year ago, the campus was buzzing with worry about swine flu. We're entering flu-shot season. What does the Brown House recommend?
- SGA: What was the voter turnout for the elections for class representatives? Is that high or low? If low, what does SGA plan to do to increase student involvement?
- Crime: Look through the Public Safety logs for the start of the semester and note the locations of various incidents. Do a story about the most "popular" places to get into various types of trouble.
- Favorite beer? Grab a friend and take a walk down McGoff Hill Road. Count the number of beer cans and note the brand. Assuming the cans were tossed out of cars by LSC students, do a tongue-in-cheek piece about the most popular beer brand. Is it also the cheapest? You and your friend might have to walk down College Road toward the high school, too, to get a good sampling.
- Freshman 15: Does this really exist? Ask the Brown House how much weight freshmen actually gain -- or lose -- and why. Hint: ask about cortisol.
- Excuses, excuses: It's only three weeks into the semester and I've already heard some great excuses from students. One person, who shall remain nameless because he or she may or may not be in this class, fell asleep on a cell phone and did not hear its alarm in the morning. Professors and students can share some great stories.
- Jay vs Burke: Ski season isn't that far away. Tell your readers how the two closest ski resorts compare -- price, miles of runs, amenities, snowfall, etc.
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My idea was that I would do my peice on public saftey. My idea was to look at there log book and to follow them around for a whole day to really see what public safety does. Since many kids on campus hate public safety I kind of want to shine a good light on them for once
My idea for an Off-Campus piece is to do something on the candy store in Littleton, NH, Chutters. I feel like this story is interesting because Chutters holds the world record for the longest candy counter in the world, and I feel like most students aren't aware that something like that exists so close to them.
My idea for a sports beat is i'm going to interview the coach of the women's volleyball team and talk to him about the upcomming season and how he thinks their going to do.
My idea was to talk about things to do now that fall is here. Such as the famous corn maze in Danville. The different fall festivals and the hiking places.
Phil Alexander:
Sticking on the theme of covering sports, I was wondering if I could preview the basketball season. There are lots of new, talented freshmen on the way PLUS I have easy access to our starting Point Guard, Jose Fortunato.
P.S.- I love that "Excuses" idea!
I plan to submit the add/drop fee story I did last week as Story 2. It pertains to my beat and meets the criteria for Story 2, and I believe you already told me I could do this.
I want to write my story on the SGA representatives. and how they prepare for meetings and what their job really entitles. I would interview a couple of them and write about their experience with being the SGA representatives for their clubs.
I would like to write a story about the Federal Teach Grant and find out why students at LSC are not able to access the $4000.00 grant per semester. I would talk to the ENG department chair, Tanya Bradley and possibly get a followup comment from Carol Moore.
My plan is to submit a story about the progress of the Men's Soccer team. They currently lead the NAC conference with a 5-1-1 record. In addition, I will do a feature on their star player Kyle Mecham, who was named NAC player of the week for this past week.
I want to do my story on republican candidate Brian Dube and his platform on college students, mostly focusing on how he plans to deal with low income families and scholarships. Next story I would focus on Peter Shumlin.
I was hoping that I would be able to do the story on the freshman 15. I believe this would be a popular story idea with the students at school and may answer some questions that are raised about the topic.
my idea for a sports beat is to cover rollerderby and profile the sport since not too many people know what the game is about and ill try to interview a player.
My idea for a story was to do a "How To" piece on how to be safe on the LSC campus from theft. Different ideas or strategies to make sure that someone does not steal anything from you.
my story will focus on the relationship between clubs and advisers at LSC. i'll explore which clubs have/don't have advisers and what the advantages/disadvantages of advisers are.
I'm not sure if group B is supposed to be leaving our story Ideas here but I would like to do a story about Charley Bucknam and Joe Benning who are both coming to LSC tonight at 1930. -Aaron Kormos
For story two I would like to delve into the topic of job preparation for post college. Example interview with career services for tips and tricks like resume building, etc. Many students don't use the services so a nice profile on what they do might entice.
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