Nothing ever happens on campus because …
January 16, 2008 by lancespeere
Just as the fall semester was winding down for most of us, our CMA colleague at Hudson Valley Community College, Mathew Cantore, posted this bit of wisdom to the listserv. The result of a discussion between Mathew and his editor about why things weren’t getting covered on campus, this Top 10 List resonates with many of us. Mathew gave us permission to share. He’s posting this list in the newsroom at the Hudsonian. We encourage others to do the same.
Nothing ever happens on campus because…
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Nothing ever happens on campus when you sit inside a pressroom with no windows and a closed door all day long.
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Nothing ever happens on campus when you don’t seek out and read sources of information like our online daily campus news bulletin, Student Announcements, and the 14 regular newsletters put out by different departments on campus.
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Nothing ever happens on campus when you’re not interested in it because it doesn’t affect you, it only affects 10,000 out of the other 13,000 students.
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Nothing ever happens on campus when there’s actual work involved in covering it.
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Nothing ever happens on campus when you don’t need to be on campus to be a reporter, because you can submit stories from anywhere using the Internet.
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Nothing ever happens on campus because you didn’t have a camera with you to capture it not happening.
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Nothing ever happens on campus because nobody outside the paper staff went out of their way to tell us it did.
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Nothing ever happens on campus because we didn’t have room for it in the paper anyway. (the review of the new Korn CD takes precedence!)
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Nothing ever happens on campus because nobody ever attends the things that do happen on campus.
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Nothing ever happens on campus when you’re more inclined to ask students who their choice for the next American Idol is than asking them about campus issues which affect them.
