INC Issue 8 Fall Semester

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Halloween campaign takes OU

campus by storm once againReporter | Kali Borovic

Journalism

Painting Pumpkins- Come join SPJ to paint pumpkins and decorate

Ohio University and get in the Halloween spirit!

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his past Halloween, Students each-ing About Racism in Society (SARS)started their soon-to-be annual “We’re

Not a Costume, We’re a Culture” cam-paign. With an abundance o positive eedback romthe campus and community, they have decided tolaunch the campaign again this year.

Tis Halloween, the campaign entails ve culturesand their stereotypes; a black male, an Asian male, aMiddle-Eastern emale, an Arican emale, an Appa-lachian male and a Hispanic-Latino emale.

Te posters read, “You wear the costume or anight. I wear the stigma or lie.” Te slogan waschosen to build on the campaign rom the past year,and to better explain the group’s campaign message.

“Our campaign message last year was basically

don’t wear the costumes, but I don’t eel like we

ever really stated why. And so this year we meant to

actually have an explanation why,” said aylor See, a

senior and vice president o SARS.With a team o only 10, the group set out to make

this year’s campaign even better than the last. Withthe previous campaign getting national recognition– and even ending up in a museum in London –this would be a daunting task.

Te starting point or this year’s campaign was tothink about what criticism the team had gotten thepast year and to answer those critics. But the mainimportance was to make sure that predominate

cultures on campus were being represeing to Keith Hawkins, senior and vice pSARS.

Tis sparked the idea to represent thculture. However, that is not the only acampaign that was tweaked. Te gendepast year have been reversed as well.

“Te approach that we took this yearinversed the genders because while a chave a stereotype, they dier between tI thought that was something that needressed,” See said.

Te next step was to put in a casting els. According to See, the most importor the group was to make sure that therepresented were actually o the designand that they actually believed in the c

group was pursuing.Te whole process, rom start to nis

six weeks and the campaign was nally

this past Wednesday. And, according to

there is hope or the group to push eve

next year.See looks to the campaign to spark in

one who believes in the issue.

“I think ultimately I would just hope

reads this knows that race isn’t a dead i

much alive and prevalent, but it’s one t

about it, and it’s another thing to act.”

In 1999, Senator Maryanne ebedo, a Repub-lican State Senator rom Colorado Springs,was discussing teen pregnancy when shemade this statement. She didn’t know that itwould become the headline.

Generally, newspapers do not have any

major spelling errors. However, one newspa-per made a serious mistake when discussinga spelling bee. Te headline read: “County spelling bee postoned one more time.” Now,especially when one is talking about a com-petition that revolves around spelling, havinga spelling error in the headline is just embar-rassing.

Abby Rechel, a reshman studying journalism, was an anchor

on her high school’s morning announcements. All journalistsknow it is never good to report alse inormation. However, oneday, Rechel made a huge mistake that made her entire school very upset. Although it may not seem like a big deal, she toldstudents the wrong lunch that would be in the caeteria one day.It was everyone’s avorite – mashed potato bowl. Everyone’s hopeswere very high, and when they got to the caeteria they were very disappointed the mashed potato bowl was not available. Aer thismistake, Rechel made sure she never reported on the wrong inor-mation ever again.

What’s for lunch?

Say what?!

Most journalists work extraordinarily hard to be air and accuratein reporting the news. But the rare exception, such as Jonah Leh-rer, serves to undermine the credibility o journalists everywhere.

Tere’s no excuse or inventing stories or abricating quotes. Andin today’s wired world, it’s easier than ever to detect.– Steve Dorneld, St. Paul Pioneer Press

Everyone makes mistakes, but or journalists, one little misspelling, incorrect quote or ake act could mean more than a simple‘Oops!’ Inspired by the staf o Te Daily Caliornian, we decided to join in on the un and see how many mistakes we could nd.

Foul Play I was covering a (very bad) college ootball team or a collegenewspaper and asked the coach, “Why is it that, when yourteam was down by 21 with a quarter to go, you called a draw play that ailed the three other times you called it? Wouldn’tit have been better to call a play that had worked?” His re-sponse: I’m tired o you people coming in and playing report-er.” My response: “Coach you’re 2-5 on the year. Do you think the alumni are tired o you playing coach? His response: Getout o my ofce, you little ...

– Judd Slivka, Arizona Republic

Beauty Bounce:I once covered the Miss Caliornia Pageant and delicately tried to ask one o the women how much she weighed. Shewas not amused.– Doug Hoagland, Te Frenso Bee

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ScrippsTipMake sure you are

registered to vote!Pay attention to the

debates and infor-

mation about the

election!

Monday, The Today

Show conducted amock poll – Who

won the debate:

Michelle Obamaor Ann Romney

– People actually

answered (the ma-

jority swaying for

Michelle).

sue, this is a family issue.”

Attendees were pleased with his stance

on women’s rights.

“I like his stance on family issues; I

have a daughter I think it’s important –

the women’s issues, that its not just about

women; it’s about families,” said GinaSameson, a class of ’95 alumnae of Ohio

University “I think he’s on track.”

Coming off of Tuesday night’s presi-

dential debate, Obama did not spare any

jokes about former Gov. Mitt Romney’s

commentary.

“I was listening to Governor Romney

yesterday talk about how he’s a champion

of coal,” said Obama. “When he was a

governor, he stood in front of a coal-red

plant and said, this plant kills people –

and now he’s running around talking like

he’s Mr. Coal.”

He continued to touch on the aws in

Romney’s ve-point plan and the way hethinks women’s equality should be ad-

dressed.

“I don’t know if you were listening last

night, but, see, we don’t have to order

up some binders to nd qualied, tal-

ented, driven young women to learn and

teach and thrive and start businesses,”

said President Obama. “And when these

young women graduate, we should make

a very simple concept the rule: Equal pay

for equal work.”

Those in attendance shared similar sen-

timents about Governor Romney’s tac-tics.

“I don’t think Romney knows any-

thing,” said Elise Mandell of Lexington,

Ky. “I think he’s full of bologna.”

Obama persistently urged voters to vote

in the upcoming election to keep Romney

from enacting policies that are not in their

best interest.

“Don’t boo, vote,” said President

Obama.

He managed to rally the excitement of

the crowd as voters are eager to make

their voices heard on Nov. 6.

“Remember that president Obama is

ghting for people whose voices are oftenforgotten, but he cannot do this alone,”

said Shannon Welch, President of OU

Democrats.

“We need to tell every fellow Bobcat

and member of the Athens community to

vote for Obama.”

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