Who:
A 24-year-old man was taken to the El Camino Hospital after he was beaten and robbed in his own apartment complex Monday morning.
What:
The victim of a robbery was beaten over the head multiple times with a toilet seat on Monday morning outside of his apartment complex.
Where:
At 2200 California St., Monday morning at 9 a.m., a 24-year-old man was beaten and robbed by two unidentified men.
How:
Two unidentified men lured a 24-year-old man into his own apartment complex, where he was beaten over the head multiple times with a toilet seat.
The most appropriate lead for this news story is the “where lead.” The victims identity has not been released, so the most important part of the story is where the robbery an beating happened. Readers who live in the area would want to know where it happened before they found out who the victim was.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Tunnel of Oppression
As a student of San Jose State for three year, I had never experienced the Tunnel of Oppression until Monday afternoon with my Journalism 61 class. I wasn’t really sure what to expect at the Tunnel of Oppression. Would it be a dark tunnel with pictures or would it be people talking about their personal experiences about being oppressed.
While waiting in line in the Student Union, I received a pamphlet that explained a little bit about the Tunnel of Oppression, its purpose, some key terms and quotations. I started to understand a little more about the impact the Tunnel of Oppression would have on students like me passing through it.
As I began my way through the Tunnel, I found that it was fully light, not dark like I expected it. Reading the walls with offensive and demeaning names made me realize that almost every culture and ethnicity is impacted by oppression.
Someone standing near me asked if the word “sororstitute” offended me. This question was prompted because I was wearing my sorority’s letters. At first, my reaction was “No!” but it was also because it was one word that I had never heard before relating to a women belonging to a sorority. I was used to the typical “sluts” and “alcoholics.” I let this word roll over and over in my head.
By the time I had finished walking through the Tunnel of Oppression I was kind of angry. There is so much hatred in the world, that no one is happy or content. People are still being lynched in the South, children are being killed in war, and children have no innocence because of molestation.
Sit sitting in the back of my mind was the word “sororstitute.”
When I got home from class, I started talking about the word with my sorority sisters. Not only did I find the word offensive. They agreed with me, that we try so hard to prove the stereotypical image of sororities wrong. This brought up the topic of last spring, when the Spartan Daily, publish an article of one girls personal account with sorority girls and tried to point fingers and magnify stereotypes that are not even found on this campus. It is very hurtful.
As I recount my experience in the Tunnel of Oppression, I realize that no matter whom you are, you will experience oppression and hatred. This needs to stop, or the world and culture will continue to crumble. We should all live by the words of John Lennon, “All you need is love.”
While waiting in line in the Student Union, I received a pamphlet that explained a little bit about the Tunnel of Oppression, its purpose, some key terms and quotations. I started to understand a little more about the impact the Tunnel of Oppression would have on students like me passing through it.
As I began my way through the Tunnel, I found that it was fully light, not dark like I expected it. Reading the walls with offensive and demeaning names made me realize that almost every culture and ethnicity is impacted by oppression.
Someone standing near me asked if the word “sororstitute” offended me. This question was prompted because I was wearing my sorority’s letters. At first, my reaction was “No!” but it was also because it was one word that I had never heard before relating to a women belonging to a sorority. I was used to the typical “sluts” and “alcoholics.” I let this word roll over and over in my head.
By the time I had finished walking through the Tunnel of Oppression I was kind of angry. There is so much hatred in the world, that no one is happy or content. People are still being lynched in the South, children are being killed in war, and children have no innocence because of molestation.
Sit sitting in the back of my mind was the word “sororstitute.”
When I got home from class, I started talking about the word with my sorority sisters. Not only did I find the word offensive. They agreed with me, that we try so hard to prove the stereotypical image of sororities wrong. This brought up the topic of last spring, when the Spartan Daily, publish an article of one girls personal account with sorority girls and tried to point fingers and magnify stereotypes that are not even found on this campus. It is very hurtful.
As I recount my experience in the Tunnel of Oppression, I realize that no matter whom you are, you will experience oppression and hatred. This needs to stop, or the world and culture will continue to crumble. We should all live by the words of John Lennon, “All you need is love.”
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Sports Broadcast
The San Jose State men’s lacrosse team lost to Santa Clara University, on Saturday. The statistics released before the game favored Santa Clara to win by 56 points. The final score of the game was 18-3, Santa Clara. The Broncos scored six points in the first quarter. The Broncos continued to score four more points in each remaining three quarters. The Spartans defense played hard, but a mistake cost them giving a point to the Broncos. The Spartans accidentally scored on their own goal. The Spartans had a good laugh when the wind blew the Broncos team tent onto their players. This weekend the Spartans will be playing two games against the Oregon Ducks.
Sports Feature
It was a hard loss for the San Jose State University men’s lacrosse team in which the Spartans were favored to lose by 56 points against the Santa Clara University Broncos.
The most exciting part for the San Jose Spartans was when the wind blew the Santa Clara Broncos team tent over onto the Santa Clara players, allowing San Jose to use this moment as a distraction to score one more point, even though it did not effect the out come of the game.
The Broncos jumped to an early lead by scoring 6 points in the first quarter and four more points in each remaining three quarters, leaving the final score of the game 18-3, Santa Clara.
“We knew it was going to be a tuff game for us, considering that they have almost twice as many players that were bigger than us,” said Bradley Buchanan.
The Spartans played their defensive men as hard as they could, but unfortunately mistakes happen and one Spartan player scored in their own goal by accident, giving the Broncos another point.
“The team gave it their best shot, we knew coming into it that we were favored to lose,” said Tyler Macaulay, “Hopefully we can pull through with some confidence for our next two games in Oregon.”
The San Jose State Spartans will be heading up to Oregon Easter weekend for two games against the Oregon Ducks.
The most exciting part for the San Jose Spartans was when the wind blew the Santa Clara Broncos team tent over onto the Santa Clara players, allowing San Jose to use this moment as a distraction to score one more point, even though it did not effect the out come of the game.
The Broncos jumped to an early lead by scoring 6 points in the first quarter and four more points in each remaining three quarters, leaving the final score of the game 18-3, Santa Clara.
“We knew it was going to be a tuff game for us, considering that they have almost twice as many players that were bigger than us,” said Bradley Buchanan.
The Spartans played their defensive men as hard as they could, but unfortunately mistakes happen and one Spartan player scored in their own goal by accident, giving the Broncos another point.
“The team gave it their best shot, we knew coming into it that we were favored to lose,” said Tyler Macaulay, “Hopefully we can pull through with some confidence for our next two games in Oregon.”
The San Jose State Spartans will be heading up to Oregon Easter weekend for two games against the Oregon Ducks.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Rough Sports Article
It was a hard loss for the San Jose State University men’s lacrosse team in which the Spartan’s were favored to lose by 56 points against the Santa Clara University Broncos.
The most exciting part for the San Jose Spartan’s was when the wind blew the Santa Clara team’s tent over onto the players, allowing San Jose to use this moment as a distraction to score one more point, even though it did not effect the out come of the game.
The Bronco’s jumped to an early lead by scoring 6 points in the first quarter and four more points in each remaining three quarters, leaving the final score of the game 18-3, Santa Clara.
The most exciting part for the San Jose Spartan’s was when the wind blew the Santa Clara team’s tent over onto the players, allowing San Jose to use this moment as a distraction to score one more point, even though it did not effect the out come of the game.
The Bronco’s jumped to an early lead by scoring 6 points in the first quarter and four more points in each remaining three quarters, leaving the final score of the game 18-3, Santa Clara.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Column
The trouble with male friends these days is they can be as flaky as your female friends. When I came to college I thought that I would only be best friends with my girl friends I knew form high school and my new found sorority sisters. My thoughts were “How am I going to meet any guys when all they care about is drinking, sports, and video games?”
Soon enough I had ten times as many guy friends than I did in high school. What exactly were guy friends for when you were the typical “girly girl” and never had an interest in playing video games? They were great to have around when you needed a quick run to La Victoria’s or someone to go hangout with at the football games. These guys were totally in love with all my girlfriends and constantly wanted me to play matchmaker for them. Finding out that maybe I am a good match maker, I helped one of my best guy friends’ to start dating my best friend from high school.
Most of my guy friend’s are now just around on the weekends, hanging out and having the occasional drink. A few of them have acquired girlfriends that have not liked the idea of their new boyfriends having a friend that is a girl that can hang out like one of the guys. Just a casual text message to your guy friend such as “Hey what’s up? What’s going on tonight?” can lead to hate mail from his girlfriend. My thoughts, “God forbid your boyfriend has other girl friends besides you!”
Slowly but surely these guy friends fall out of your group of friends and you don’t hear from them for about a month, unless the girlfriend goes out of town for the weekend or is sick in bed and the poor guy needs a night out. You try and keep in touch after a fun weekend, but then the hate mail starts coming back into your inbox. You talk to you girlfriends about it and they just say well when she breaks his heart he will be back and it will go back how it used to be.
Your girlfriends are always right. The second she dumps him, he comes running back to his original group of friends trying to find condolences and the fun friends he used to have.
All I have to say is men grow a backbone, girlfriends can’t control your life and tell you whom or whom not you can be friends with. Ladies, it’s not a bad thing to have guy friends and to be one of the guys once in awhile. And to the men and ladies, no matter what your friends will always come crawling back to you. Be patient with them, because you never know if you will need them to do the same for you.
Soon enough I had ten times as many guy friends than I did in high school. What exactly were guy friends for when you were the typical “girly girl” and never had an interest in playing video games? They were great to have around when you needed a quick run to La Victoria’s or someone to go hangout with at the football games. These guys were totally in love with all my girlfriends and constantly wanted me to play matchmaker for them. Finding out that maybe I am a good match maker, I helped one of my best guy friends’ to start dating my best friend from high school.
Most of my guy friend’s are now just around on the weekends, hanging out and having the occasional drink. A few of them have acquired girlfriends that have not liked the idea of their new boyfriends having a friend that is a girl that can hang out like one of the guys. Just a casual text message to your guy friend such as “Hey what’s up? What’s going on tonight?” can lead to hate mail from his girlfriend. My thoughts, “God forbid your boyfriend has other girl friends besides you!”
Slowly but surely these guy friends fall out of your group of friends and you don’t hear from them for about a month, unless the girlfriend goes out of town for the weekend or is sick in bed and the poor guy needs a night out. You try and keep in touch after a fun weekend, but then the hate mail starts coming back into your inbox. You talk to you girlfriends about it and they just say well when she breaks his heart he will be back and it will go back how it used to be.
Your girlfriends are always right. The second she dumps him, he comes running back to his original group of friends trying to find condolences and the fun friends he used to have.
All I have to say is men grow a backbone, girlfriends can’t control your life and tell you whom or whom not you can be friends with. Ladies, it’s not a bad thing to have guy friends and to be one of the guys once in awhile. And to the men and ladies, no matter what your friends will always come crawling back to you. Be patient with them, because you never know if you will need them to do the same for you.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Story Ideas
Who: SJSU Greek Life, students, SJSU community, fraternity and sorority members and alumni
What: Philanthropy Events
Where: San Jose State Campus
When: Each semester, fraternities and sororities hold philanthropy events on campus involving Greek life and SJSU community.
Why: Chapters are recognized for raising money for local and national charities.
How: Each chapter holds their own philanthropy event that caters towards their local and national organization. Example: Delta Zeta's Turtle Tug, Kappa Sigma's Beauty Bowl.
Contact information:
PHC president: Janelle Zalinski
Delta Zeta's Philanthropy Chairwoman: Melissa Ramos
SJSU Greek Life Advisor: Heather Iwata
Active Fraternity and Sorority members
What: Philanthropy Events
Where: San Jose State Campus
When: Each semester, fraternities and sororities hold philanthropy events on campus involving Greek life and SJSU community.
Why: Chapters are recognized for raising money for local and national charities.
How: Each chapter holds their own philanthropy event that caters towards their local and national organization. Example: Delta Zeta's Turtle Tug, Kappa Sigma's Beauty Bowl.
Contact information:
PHC president: Janelle Zalinski
Delta Zeta's Philanthropy Chairwoman: Melissa Ramos
SJSU Greek Life Advisor: Heather Iwata
Active Fraternity and Sorority members
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