SMU Tipsheet: July 8, 2010
Some days the news slows to a trickle. This would be one of those days. NCAA qualifiers continued… The reactions around the web have been colorful about the two football players denied admission to SMU. “This is an injustice.” [University Diaries] Hall exploring options for his future — BHS grad could play football and baseball after … Read more
SMU Tipsheet: July 7, 2010
SMU can be pretty newsworthy. Here’s where you can catch up on the important SMU news of the day. The Gulf Project SMU is teaming up with “a coalition of scientists, policy experts, oil and gas engineers and state officials” in an attempt to make offshore drilling safer—thus preventing future oil spills. Gov. Rick Perry … Read more
SMU Link Soup: It’s Mmm… Mmm… Good
I used to round up links for my EIC blog (before I apparently forgot how to post to it). I figure this could be a good thing to do on this blog, since I’m still getting Google Alerts about SMU. I can’t wait for graduation and the day I can turn them off. So without … Read more
My Bad: The Importance of Admitting You Were Wrong
Just because you never run corrections doesn’t mean you’re never wrong. I was talking to Craig Flournoy, one of my journalism professors, one day last April when he said something to that effect. The Daily Campus had just run a correction recently, and he was telling me that we, the paper, were doing the right … Read more
Worth the Read
Secretly, this girl is using an iPad. Which is why I’m going to be listing websites you should be reading regularly: College Media Matters | Student journalist? Casual observer of student media? Then this blog is worth a look. Recently they examined SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan’s stint at her college newspaper. Dallas Dirt | Perhaps … Read more
Print is Dead
From today’s Daily Campus: The Board of Directors of Student Media Company voted yesterday to continue the suspension of Friday print editions of the paper for the Spring 2010 semester. While we had hoped that we would be able to bring Friday editions back to the newsstands next spring, the economy’s downturn still affects us. … Read more
