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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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Sonoma State U. Foundation May Lose $350,000 on Loan to Former Board Member
The foundation will be forced to issue fewer scholarships in the 2010-11 academic year because of a diminished endowment, a university official said.
Court Overturns $2-Million Verdict for Former Coach at U. of Louisiana-Lafayette
The coach, one of the few African-Americans in big-time college football, was fired after three losing seasons. He sued, saying he had been dismissed because of his race.
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December 11, 2007
PBS Documentary Features Penn State's Student Newspaper
Penn State’s Daily Collegian is no “rinky-dink college newspaper,” a former editor in chief told PBS. Tonight the public-television network’s “Independent Lens” series will broadcast The Paper, a documentary film on the students and struggles behind the old rag.
The filmmaker, Aaron Matthews, uses the college newsroom to explore some of the crises of American journalism: declining public trust and financial vulnerability. “The Paper is a revealing portrait of the young journalists whose disillusionment and determination are shaping the news of tomorrow,” says a PBS Web site.
A review in The Philadelphia Inquirer says the college reporters come off as charismatic.
“They are probably a little more lovable in their youthful struggle to do the right thing than some of us more seasoned journalists,” it says, “but they care just as much as we do about the two age-old problems of journalism: How to provide readers with what they want and what they need.” —Sara Lipka
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