Student Media Culture

  Due to frustrations over media coverage of the presidential election, Columbia College students formed the Students for Media Reform of Columbia College. The group’s aim is to educate and empower students about media issues surrounding politics and to inspire them to get involved. The group sprang up after students attended the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis last June. "We want [to see] more of what's being done from real people, rather than what the core organization thinks they should be doing," group president Kevin Gosztola said. "We want to show people what

  As students grapple with the growing number of shooting on campuses nationwide, journalists reach out to their peers in the hopes of providing support and making sense of the tragedies. Read the Loyola Phoenix’s Staff Editorial Read the Dickinson Dickinsonian’s Staff Editorial

  A University of Pittsburgh Pitt News article examines the relationship students have with the technology they use every day. College students are some of the largest consumers of electronic goods, spending more than $10.2 billion on electronics during the 2006 back-to-school season, according to the National Retail Foundation Back-to-College Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey. 3/23/07  Read More from the University of Pittsbu

  Before this gets too confusing, know that Dartmouth College has (at least) two student newspapers. The Dartmouth Review, a conservative student paper, recently published an issue whose cover featured a scantily clothed Native American holding a scalp, and the headline, “The Natives Are Getting Restless!” From Dartmouth’s other paper, The Dartmouth, comes this article about a rally in response to the offending cover. Several hundred faculty, staff, & students attended the rally, which was planned at an impromptu meeting of about 200 students (!!) on the evening the issue appeared.

  In this editorial, the editor-in-chief of the Campus Times, the student newspaper at the University of Rochester, discusses how he chooses what gets covered in the newspaper as well as how newspapers should handle tragic events such as suicides. 4/19/07  Read More from the University of Rochester

  By Michaelia Fosses The first night after its publication, an article about an on-campus rape was cut out of a student newspaper at Notre Dame de Namur University. Students, reporters, and staff members at the California school woke one morning in January to find that the article had been cut out of about 500 copies of their newspaper The Argonaut. Between 1,200 and 1,400 copies the paper are usually printed for the school.   Editor Emeritus Erik Oeverndiek said that he received e-mails from students asking the story not be printed before the paper decided t

Students reacted quickly and negatively to an editorial cartoon at the University of Kentucky that compared the Greek system to a slave auction.  Over a hundred students gathered to protest the cartoon, which depicted an African American in chains and a Kappa Kappa Kappa (KKK) fraternity.

Did you know that it’s Cambodian Awareness Week (well, before you read that title)? Thanks to the efforts of the Student International Business Council (SIBC) of Notre Dame, now you do! The group showed two movies this week to illuminate Cambodia’s history and struggle since the Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s and ‘80s. Additionally, SIBC held a dinner to raise funds for its Protecting the Earth and Protecting Yourself (PEPY) subdivision. PEPY is an NGO (a non-governmental organization) that works to assist Cambodian children (most famous Cambodian child: Maddox Pitt-Jolie). 12/1/06