Friday, January 30, 2009

Things I'm proud of.

My newspaper stories, the ones I'm proud of anyway.

I'm very happy with the way this one turned out today. It really wrote itself. A funny thing about it is that the copy editor was forced to write one of the worst headlines ever because the column we ran the printed version in was too narrow for the name "Ciaramella" or the word "Commentator."

This article won the award for best news story of the week and hurt the student body president's feelings so badly he refused to talk to me for a week. But I thought that this one about the same issue was much better.

I actually found my coverage of Campus Recycling very frustrating for reasons I don't quite understand. Probably, it was because I hate it when people ask "what do you think" and I got that a lot while working on this issue. I liked the way this story turned out, although once again, another one won the award.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Old Scotts

The whitehairs in this picture are my ancestors. I thought that was pretty cool.