In order to keep getting that practice, I'm involved with Concordia University's television station. I'm in the process of putting a package on students' election reactions but it's a matter of time until it aires because my editor is a busy football player. I am also, along with my blog buddy Joe, setting up a weekly news show which will premiere Thursday....or Friday.
When I attended the meeting last week, I was completely shocked to find that more than half the students were from Dominican. Isn't that a little upsetting to any of you? I mean more of our peers are interested in getting broadcast experience than the students that have it at their fingertips. Susan Ericsson, the advisor for the media group, is a former DU professor and told me she doesn't think that DU is in the process of even thinking about new media opportunities for students.
I find this upsetting and actually somewhat offensive. If they can expand for science majors, why not expand for journalism, communication or even theatre majors? Our careers are just as important as those of other majors. If pre-med students can get HANDS ON experience dissecting a cadaver, then why can't we get HANDS ON experience with media??
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That is just wrong. It would be great if DU had its own television station. My high school had its own TV station as well as a radio station. Though I wasn't involved in it personally, I remember watching shows on the TV station sometimes.
The fact that DU doesn't have this makes me appreciate my high school even more.
(Off-topic) My high school had a functioning swimming pool as well (though there was also an abandoned swimming pool that was allegedly haunted).
Why?
Because nobody (okay, I should say, our linear-active society in general) cares about arts or right-brain activities. Everybody's so focused on math and science and techy left-brain stuff. That's why music and arts programs are the first to be cut in schools when they have to tighten the budget pursestrings.
Sad.
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