A lot of people make a university run, but many of those people are invisible to the students they serve. The janitors, maintenance workers, and food-service employees who keep dorms clean, buildings open, and dining halls operating can be so behind-the-scenes that students don’t think about them. (Of course, the self-absorption of youth contributes to […]
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Finding Sex Traffickers: Our College Pick
There are lots of stories these days (as there should be) about sex trafficking. The bulk of these stories focus on victims: mostly women, mostly poor, who are taken away from families and familiarities and sold for sex. In the third story in his series about human trafficking, Travis Loose turned to the law enforcement […]
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Leaving Fraternity Culture Behind: Our College Pick
This week, Wesleyan University administrators banned social events at a fraternity through the end of 2015. This rule came some months after the school decreed that all recognized fraternities must become co-educational within the next three years.”
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Leaving Fraternity Culture Behind: Our College Pick
This week, Wesleyan University administrators banned social events at a fraternity through the end of 2015. This rule came some months after the school decreed that all recognized fraternities must become co-educational within the next three years.”
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Profiling the Difficult Subject: Our College Pick
Journalists select profile subjects for any number of reasons.
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Profiling the Difficult Subject: Our College Pick
Journalists select profile subjects for any number of reasons.
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The Story, and Sounds, of a Chapel Hill Church: Our College Pick
In her story about a tiny church for locals in a student neighborhood in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Megan Cassella merges the best of traditional journalism with the tools of today. Her narrative parallels a Sunday service, built on the familiar structural lessons of strong feature writing. She published the story on Creatavist, a publishing platform […]
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The Decline of Student Activism: Our College Pick
Social media allows us to be passive activists, liking and hash tagging our way to political ideologies or social justice.
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The Decline of Student Activism: Our College Pick
Social media allows us to be passive activists, liking and hash tagging our way to political ideologies or social justice.
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Who’s Left After True Crime – Our College Pick
Readers and writers love a good true-crime story. There’s plenty of intrigue and suspense and enough intimate details to give the audience a good shiver. Stories about crime victims, however, are more difficult to report and write. Readers don’t want to pity the victim of a crime as much as cheer her on. The reporter […]