NEWS
Prescription drugs and college students
Students in the fall "Your Town" class reported on prescription drug use by students at four area colleges. In an informal survey for Boston.com of 192 college students in the Boston area, 63 percent were found to have used prescription drugs for non-prescription purposes, such as to de-stress or to get high. Adderall, the drug used for treating ADHD, was the most common drug taken. The December 23 article, "Many Boston college students use attention deficit drug, other prescriptions, informal survey finds," was written by Lisa Chedekel and reported by students Kristina Finn, Matt Kauffman, Kade Krichko, Samantha Laine, Sam Perkins, Mekhala Roy, Julia Swanson, Melissa Tabeek and Rachel Weiss. Ms. Chedekel, a former Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the Hartford Courant, teaches the Your Town class. Read the article.>>
Students in the fall "Your Town" class reported on prescription drug use by students at four area colleges. In an informal survey for Boston.com of 192 college students in the Boston area, 63 percent were found to have used prescription drugs for non-prescription purposes, such as to de-stress or to get high. Adderall, the drug used for treating ADHD, was the most common drug taken. The December 23 article, "Many Boston college students use attention deficit drug, other prescriptions, informal survey finds," was written by Lisa Chedekel and reported by students Kristina Finn, Matt Kauffman, Kade Krichko, Samantha Laine, Sam Perkins, Mekhala Roy, Julia Swanson, Melissa Tabeek and Rachel Weiss. Ms. Chedekel, a former Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the Hartford Courant, teaches the Your Town class. Read the article.>>
Traffic often crawls through some of Boston's busiest downtown streets as restaurant valet parkers leave diners’ empty cars double parked. In their reporting for an article published on the front page of the Boston Globe on December 21, students in Prof. Walter Robinson's Investigative Reporting class observed a large number valet parked cars in front of some of Boston's most prestigious restaurants. The article, "Valet parking violations punished lightly, if at all," noted that the Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing rarely punishes violators. One restaurant owner found violating parking regulations was forced to suspend entertainment for two days. Read the article.>>
Prof. Schroeder leads workshop on debates in Spain
In mid-December Professor Alan Schroeder led a two-day
workshop on televised campaign debates at the Universidad Pontificia de
Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain. With 15 graduate students from a range
of Spanish-speaking countries, Schroeder analyzed formats, strategies,
and press coverage of debates around the world. The students are taking
part in a masters degree program in political consulting at the
Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca. Schroeder will return to Spain in
January 2012 to address a conference about the recently held
presidential debate between Mariano Rajoy and Alfredo Rubalcaba, one of
the highest-rated programs in the history of Spanish television.
Prof. Jeff Howe brings crowdsourcing to Moscow
Prof. Jeff Howe recently returned from Moscow where he addressed several hundred diplomats, banking executives, and Russian government officials on crowdsourcing. He led a roundtable discussion that included other crowdsourcing experts such as Thomas Malone of MIT and Beth Simone Noveck of New York Law School. Prof. Howe's talk followed an address by Prime Minister Putin. Both the Russian government and that country's largest financial institution, Sberbank, have recently conducted crowdsourcing projects along lines laid down in his book, Crowdsourcing: How the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business.
Journalism students cover Head of the Charles Regatta.
Prof. Chuck Fountain recruited a team of journalism students to report from the Head of the Charles Regatta on Oct. 22 and 23. The journalism crew began reporting on the Head of the Charles news blog before the event, during the extensive preparation phase. Students reporters were: Hannah Becker, Jill Bongiorni, Michael Brown,Taylor Cotter, Brenna Eagan, Anthony Gulizia, Zack Hayes, Samantha Laine, Andrew MacDougal, Sarah Moomaw, Grace Mumms,Laura Nelson, Maureen Quinlan, Jill Saftel, Lindsay Schmidt, and Stephanie Wright. Read the blog.>> Boston Globe Reporter John Powers used material from Maureen Quinlan's story about former Olympic track and field runner Lynn Jennings. Read Mr. Powers' story.>> Students also created a Twitter feed >> and their blog articles were featured on the HOCR's Facebook page.>> *The picture above, taken by Laura Nelson, is the Northeastern University Men's Alumni Eight who won their third consecutive gold medal.
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The School of Journalism is looking for a new faculty member to teach multimedia skills. View the job description and apply online.>> Select the College of Arts, Media and Design.
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