September 2005 Archives
Find out at one of the following local events, where you can hear me read from my fiction and poetry, or pick up a good (?) book for the Halloween season. Everyone's invited.
October 7th, 7pm
Barnes & Noble | Monroeville Mall, Monroeville, PA
Reading/ Play Dead Book Signing
October 8th, 7pm
DV8 Espresso Bar & Gallery | 208 South Pennsylvania Ave, Greensburg, PA
Poetry Reading featuring Gorelets, 100 Jolts, and Rigormarole
October 29th, 7pm
Barnes & Noble | HWY 30, Greensburg, PA
Reading and Play Dead Book Signing
Also: Look forward to this week's issue of the Laurel Mountain Post. I'm the cover story!
-- Dr. A
gorelets.com
I'm currently in the process of designing blogs for SHU's Recycling Team and brand-new CRAFT club. Please visit!
"Seton Hill University's newest club is CRAFT: CReating Art with Fiber Together, a club dedicated to exploring all areas of craft including knitting, crochet, macrame, collages, card-making, sewing, embroidery, silkscreen, scrapbooking and more. The projects explored this semester will depend entirely on the interests of our members and the availability of local experts to instruct us. We will learn and grow together by both learning new crafts and using our skills to instruct others. We will create projects both individually and collectively and use those projects to promote a sense of community and raise awareness for those causes that move us."
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Welcome to the brand new blog for Seton Hill University's Recycling Team. Stop back soon for information on SHU's recycling program, including pick-up points, what can be recycled, and who is involved. Until then, use those green recycling bins you spy around campus.
Your suggestions are welcomed! What would you like to see on these blogs? Also, if you are interested in blogging for SHU's CRAFTblog, please contact me. Thanks!
It's Official:
If you are interested in attending our first meeting, leave a comment or email me with your availability. We'll probably have a meeting the first week in October on a Monday or a Friday. Yay!
So, kids, you wanna get knitty? I'm investigating the possibility of starting an SHU Knitting Club: basically, we'd get together every other week or so and knit up a storm. I have a few people who have already expressed interest in getting involved and I have a faculty member or two in mind who might be interested in being our advisor. I need to know names and phone numbers of anyone who might be interested in joining. Also, I need to know if you are interested in holding an office for the club. I have a couple of projects in mind for the club:
The first idea is a Peace Quilt - each member knits 10 by 10 inch squares in a certain color scheme (to be decided by the club!) and then these squares get sewn together to form a nifty quilt that we could use somehow to raise money for our cause (whatever cause we decide on collectively). We could either display the quilt or auction it off to the highest bidder. I was thinking our quilt could have a theme (both colors and otherwise). If we get official club status, we might be able to get funding to cover the cost of yarn.
The second idea is to make items to be donated to various charities: for instance, Campus Ministry has a silent auction in December to raise money for various campus activities. We could knit hats and scarves to be put on a silent auction or set prices for our items. Or we could make a bunch of hats and scarves and send them somewhere in the world to underpriviledged kids and teens... I dunno, like in Alaska or something?
These are just ideas: I think it would be awesome not only to start a knitting club but to have collective projects that would benefit the greater community. I'd like to have a meeting with anyone interested in order to really think about our mission and goals. If you are interested in joining a knitting club and/or becoming an officer, please get in touch. If you know anyone who might be interested, please spread the word. I'm especially interested in any underclasspeople who might want to join: while I'll more than likely serve as president this semester, I'm graduating in May and would like to start a club that could stick around for a while!
If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please leave a comment. If you are interested in joining, please email me with your name, class, phone number, and schedule of availability. And, oh yeah, if you have any ideas for possible projects and/or an advisor, I'd appreciate your input on that as well. I'd like to have a club form to submit to Student Senate by the end of the week if possible in order to get started and have our first meeting.
I am currently doing an internship for the Graduate and Adult Studies Office. As part of my internship I am doing an Admissions blog daily. I try to post what is happening on campus. I would appreciate any suggestions for possible blogging topics.
Creative writing majors, or anyone who's ever wanted to write a popular novel, might be interested in checking out the new blog of Sharron Gunn, a student in Seton Hill's Writing Popular Fiction program.
Seton Hill is home to the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education. Wilda Kaylor, who works for the center, offered me this list of upcoming events.
News Writing students who are looking for story ideas, or students in any major who are looking for co-curricular transcript opportunites may find many intersting events on this list.
Maybe networking is crucial to being an effective reporter.
As a novice, I didn't realize how challenging it would be to get people to make statements. Yesterday, I was interviewing some adult students about the football game and one man, even though he knew the article would not be published and even though his statement was not controversial, would not allow me to use it. It was difficult, as well, to get people who had previously expressed negative feelings to make a statement, even when my request was merely for their comments. Depending on who the person is, I do not feel comfortable recontacting someone who has not responsed to my request.
Several years ago, I had worked for an unpopular executive dean of a local community college, who in addition to her frequent absences, was not from the area and traveled a considerable distance to return home each weekend. Anyway, a local Pittsburgh Post Gazette reporter had arranged an interview under the ruse that he was doing a public relations piece. The executive dean asked me to sit with her during the interview, which started out benign. The tension escalated, however, when the reporter asked her where she lived in Pittsburgh and how much time she spent here. It ended with him requesting a copy of her resume. I honestly do not know if I could have done that or if that was good journalism. Ironically, it turned out that what the executive dean was really hiding was her cancer which she died from not long after that interview.
Hello everyone! Here is the production schedule for the Setonian:
Tuesday, September 13: 6:00-11:00pm
·Layout training at 6:00pm in Setonian office
·All articles copyedited (on e-mail printouts and in Microsoft Word)
·Have cartoon, in case it needs changed (We will be getting the cartoons Sept. 14)
·Layout (template) done, ads placed
Wednesday, September 14: 6:00-11:00pm
·All articles placed in layout
·Place all pictures
·Work on layout!!!
Thursday, September 15: 6:00-11:00pm
·1st printout should take place
·Distribute printouts to editors
Friday, September 16: 6:00-10:00pm
·Proofreaders turn in corrections to Setonian Office (they can put it under the door if office is locked)
·Corrections made
·Print out paper again for editors to copyedit over the weekend
(Editors or students who have work-study: let me know if you are available on the weekends)
Monday, September 19: 6:00-11:00pm
·Turn in corrections made over weekend (put under door if office is locked)
·Put the corrections in the articles in the layout
Tuesday, September 20: 6:00-whenever the paper is completed
·Make any necessary changes
·Look over all articles CAREFULLY (read them aloud in office?)
Wednesday, September 21: 8:00am
·Send PDF file of the Setonian to Typecraft Press
·Fax them laser copies of the paper
Thursday, September 22: (I will need to find out when our printers are going to drop it off)
·Distributors meet at the Setonian office to distribute the paper around campus.
I hope all who are interested attend!
~Anne Stadler
Editor-in-Chief
I just got this e-mail. It seemed worth passing on. Thanks, Sr. Vicki, for sending it to me.
As Americans watch the devastation created by Hurricane Katrina unfold in New Orleans, other parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf region. Everyone wants to do something to help the victims. Many well-known national organizations have special campaigns in place today that will gratefully accept your contributions. Unfortunately, this is also a time when Americans may find themselves prey to con artists who will take advantage of the emotions of the moment to solicit funds for fraudulent charities that do not exist.
If you are interested in getting a news internship next year, the application cycle has already begun.
Internship GuideThe Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation is proud to present the 2005 Internship Guide, which lists a variety of internship opportunities at PNA-member newspapers. We hope that this guide will help you secure a meaningful internship in the Pennsylvania newspaper industry.
The guide is alphabetized by city. Each listing details information about the internships available at that publication, including editorial, advertising, photography and other valuable learning opportunities.
Just a quick note to remind everyone about EYE CONTACT -- Seton Hill's literary magazine. We are currently open for submissions of art, fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction (and this year's issue will be "open themed", so there are no restrictions on content). See the developing Eye Contact weblog for more information and sample work from the past. We will be hosting an open all-staff meeting soon after the club fair (hopefully we can post news of this on the blog).
Questions? E-mail our editor in chief, Mike Rubino. You can also request a sample copy from business manager, Mike Diezmos.
-- Dr. Arnzen
District Spotlight: Seton Hill makes its long-awaited debut tomorrowSnyder said he relied on two basic recruiting pitches: You have a chance to play, there's nobody in front of you; Seton Hill is 70 percent women.
That's an interesting use of indirect quotation in a news story. As a writer, I would have liked to quote Snyder directly, perhaps he didn't make both claims back-to-back, in a tight little package.
Campus Minister Cindy Boland sent out this e-mail to faculty and staff:
Hello,Campus Ministry will be organizing fundraisers and prayer/reflection opportunities to support the victims of of the hurricane in the golf coast beginning next week.
Funds raised will go to the Sisters of the Holy Family in New Orleans, who themselves are displaced by the flooding and to support their programs that attend to the needs of the very poor of New Orleans. Our own Sr. Alicia Costa is a member of Sisters of the Holy Family.
We will be posting and emailing notices of the events as they are developed. If you would like to offer any assistance (financial or volunteer service) with the fundraisers or prayer/reflections opportunities, you can contact me via email, or by phone 4576.
Thanks for your concern and your willingness to get involved. Peace,
Cindy Boland
Director of Campus Ministry
Seton Hill University
With September 2005 rolling right in, and the first entries written by newbie bloggers, NMJ has officially turned 2!
Hard to believe it's been that long. But it's been a long, purposeful journey full of growth and fun, so it's a good thing to celebrate! Hey, that means my blog (and anyone else whose blog was created in the first set at SHU) is also two years old! Holy cow.
Happy birthday, blogs!
