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Comment on 10 Tips for Building Better Resumes by Maude

Maude — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:44:55 +0000

First of all, these tips are all great for students who are currently between entering their first couple of internships and leaving waitress business.

One area that really caught my attention was number 10, ‘ List and use social media’. Typically my generation does not think of facebook, twitter, or personal websites as something to list on a resume. They’re usually not work appropriate, but if they’re cleaned up they can really give your possible employer an idea as to who you are. Social media can definitely be helpful in a resume if you are sure it is cleaned up.

Another area I think is important to touch on is number 4., ‘ chronological order may not always be the best’. I certainly agree that you want your employer to see the most important and relevant work experience, but I think working small jobs, like waitressing, show charisma and spunk in a person. Someone who has never worked any sort of real job lacks work ethic that many waitresses, bus boys, and menial jobs have. As many times as I hear people say, ‘ do not include your job as a barista, waitress, cashier or stocker in your resume.’ I can not help but keep it in because it shows I’m willing to work hard for my employer and myself. It gave me the work ethic that I have to this day.

Comment on The Weekly Index for March 12 by Bianca

Bianca — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:56:37 +0000

Thanks for the shout-out to SPJ at UCF!

Comment on Here we are! by Scott L.

Scott L. — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:05:27 +0000

Wow, that’s quite a mighty fine looking magazine, if I do say so myself…

Have fun. Be safe.

Comment on The Weekly Index for March 12 by Scott L.

Scott L. — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:57:13 +0000

Good stuff, Andrew. One point of clarification on the Kansan funding issue: I think the measure still has to pass the full student senate. It’s merely passed the finance committee, as you note. But it’s not a “done deal,” and until the full vote happens, I believe the funding stream is still intact. You may want to check that. But thanks for all the links. Have fun in New York!

Comment on Help compile a reading list for Black History Month by Doug Ziemke

Doug Ziemke — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:52:54 +0000

For children (grades 2-5) this biography of Louis Armstrong was very good.

If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong
by Roxane Orgill (Author), Leonard Jenkins (Illustrator)

Comment on Help compile a reading list for Black History Month by Joshua Tanzer

Joshua Tanzer — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:32:07 +0000

Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters
First of a three-part biography of Martin Luther King.

Nicholas Lemann, The Promised Land
History of the black migration from the south to the north.

Dan Carter, The Politics of Rage
A biography of George Wallace, and history of the migration of racial politics from the south to the north.

Comment on Help compile a reading list for Black History Month by Andrew M. Seaman

Andrew M. Seaman — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:38:57 +0000

Feel free to post in the comment area, too!

Comment on Editor resigns over anti-gay cartoon by Steve

Steve — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:38:31 +0000

Interesting how this all played out. The assistant ME who resigned took full responsibility in her letter, and that must have been hard. Although, I can’t help but wonder why the buck stopped there. If responsibility floats to the top, why didn’t the ME or E-I-C incur any blame? Sure, they may not have been the last ones to review the paper — the assistant ME says she was — but accountability in newsrooms goes to the top, especially in this kind of “what were you thinking publishing that?” situation.

Also, if you go back and read the explanation from the cartoonists for why they drew it vs. the apology from the editorial board, there seems to be two stories. The cartoonists say they were trying to raise a point and stimulate discussion about a wider society concern, namely homophobia. The editorial board, some of whom assumedly had a role in letting the cartoon run, says it was hatred through and through. Those are two entirely different explanations. One is a socially satirical message missing its point (as they usually do) and the other is a flat out “this was pure hatred and not funny” message. It seems the cartoonists and editorial board need to reconcile their mea culpas.

Comment on Ill. High School Students Face Censorship by Wayne Brasler

Wayne Brasler — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:36:04 +0000

I’m the journalism teacher and publications adviser (in my 45th year, God save me) at University High in Chicago. I wrote the national guidelines for judging high school papers for 40 years, am a walking history of high school and college papers and so on and so on. What I can’t understand is how the Trib, Sun-Times and New York Times have missed the big picture in this story. I think there is more going on at Stevenson than what’s happened to the journalism program and the Statesman. Beyond that, the public insults and abuse the former adviser and staff suffered last year within the school bespeaks a bigger problem. I think also this situation has moved beyond press rights to civil rights. The students signed up for a top-quality program with the newspaper a public forum. The program was switched to a prior review setting, then outright censorship without the students’ consent. The students were forced to publish work they did not want published, they were forced to publish bylines they did not want published and they were threatened with “F” grades if they didn’t do what they were told within two hours. This is a big picture but the daily press so far hasn’t covered it in a bi way. I think that needs to happen. I also believe the professional sector has let the high school press down because so many influential people don’t have a clue as to the legal and educational basis for the school press. Prominent journalists have stated that the school district is the owner and publisher of the newspaper and the district’s money funds the newspaper and so the students must do as the publishers say, just as a professional journalist would be required to do. But schools are not publishing houses; they are educational institutions. The student newspaper provides an educational experience in planning, reporting, writing, editing, editorial leadership, legalities, ad development and sales and community leadership, with the students working with a faculty adviser. If the administrators are editing the paper, the students get a mediocre experience. The money is not the district’s; it is the taxpayers’ and what taxpayers are paying for is quality education, not a district publication using students as free labor. And administrators are not qualified journalism teachers and publications advisers unless that’s who they were before they became administrators. Can you imagine administrators telling the football coach how to coach a game and the players what plays they may make and not make? Or going into a math classroom and taking over a geometry lesson? Finally, the lessons being taught at Stevenson about democracy, responsible citizenry and conscientious government are atrocious.
I can’t understand why the professional press hasn’t yet caught the scent of what this situation is all about and its profound implications for all American education. The Chicago Tribune has published two splendid editorials, but where are the other voices?