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I have a funny picture of Victor that I’m not going to post right now because it’s too much trouble when I have a logic exam (my last exam ever!) in half an hour. But it got me thinking that technology is going to be awesome in the future. Someday I’ll be able to take a picture with whatever camera I want and the picture will appear in Photoshop instantaneously so I can post it immediately with little effort. All my electronics will communicate with each through the air. What’s great is that this isn’t that far off. A lot of phones already do that sort of thing, though not with great quality. The next technological innovation I’m excited about is the elimination of cords. If I want to be mobile with all my journalist tools, I need to have a phone charger cord, a separate camera battery charger with cord, camera connecting cord, and a laptop power cord (not to mention batteries for my audio recorder). If I had a video camera to carry around, that would be another cord or two. Someday all that will be gone, and I am excited.
I dove back into the archives today for my 499 special project. Try to guess the answers:
1. When did the Evergreen first have AP wire?
2. When did the Evergreen first become “daily”?
3. When did the Evergreen move to its current location?
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This is what the end of my time at the Evergreen looked like.
Pure happiness, clearly. I remember being really sad when the seniors left last year, and it would be really hard this year if I weren’t also leaving. We’ve had a lot of good people on staff. Here are some other pictures from that night:
OK, it’s turned in to the Honors College. You can see the final thing here, minus a few pages like adviser approval and research board approval that aren’t in the PDF.
If you find any typos, errors, etc., don’t tell me. Thanks to everyone who edited, gave feedback, listened to me go on and on about depressing topics, or otherwise put up with me during this recent stretch of busyness and stress.
Some of us are at Nick’s tonight, and Allison was just informed we no longer work for the Evergreen.
“We should do something unethical,” she said with mischief in her eyes. “Let’s steal all our press kits!”
After two straight years, last night was my final evening as an editor in the Evergreen newsroom. It was a good night, putting to use everything I’ve learned here: I wrote two last-minute briefs, one staff report, complained about a wordy article, delegated work for an amibitious project I didn’t have time to finish, gave Brian a hug, coordinated art and layout, and finished a front-page feature at 50 inches – 20 more than expected – right at deadline.
I did, however, resist snapping at Christina even though she was annoyed with me all night. So that was atypical. I’ll attribute that to being well-fed.
Also I had my senior column done ahead of time.
And so today, when I woke up with Evergreen morning terrors, I told myself to cut it out. It’s over. I’m not sad – yet. I may not be. I’ve never really been sad about leaving high school or the track team or anything. I mourn minutes from the middle instead.
So today, finished with the newspaper, I am … sitting at my desk in the newsroom. Yep, time to finish up the thesis for good.
I just came across this when I was doing a Google search for one of my stories, and it’s the New York Times’ info box on WSU. It’s cool that The Daily Evergreen is listed as a resource “selected by researchers and editors.” I mean, it’s not like The Moscow-Pullman Daily News is listed, or WSU Today, or Cougster or whatever. We know we provide something no one else does, but it’s good to have it validated.
I’m making a doubletruck for Monday (the last issue of the semester) for events that occurred during the four (or five) years while WSU seniors were in college. So the best way to find some of the older things I’ve forgotten about was going through old volumes of Evergreens, and Nick kindly agreed to help. Among finding some of the perennial favorites (“Listen on you MP3 player,” the black-and-white rainbow), I found some great old clips for some of the silly things we did a long time ago.
- My first appearance in the Evergreen, a letter to the editor. My columnist gig started soon after.
- Nick’s first story, a real scintillating one about students starting school that Jacob assigned.
- Jacob epitomizing himself by writing a review of The Old Man and the Sea. (Bonus misspelled “Hemmingway” in the summary graph and a blurry vintage mug.)
- Brian’s name misspelled (and probably mispronounced).
- Victor committing a travesty to journalism by writing about the availability of Chinook yearbooks. (Does Jacob get credit for assigning that one, too?)
- Nick bringing out the drama of a multicultural program fundraising dinner. The second graph deserves to get quoted:
“Recognition and awareness reverberated from table to table throughout the evening, as hundreds of Cougars, young and old, raised forks and glasses to multiculturalism on campus.”
There were some pretty golden headlines along the way, too:
- “Board of Regents approves WSU changes”
- “Ceremony honors graduates” (i.e. “graduation”)
- “Athletes are people, too”
- “Montana county sheriff IDs zombie party killer”
Journalist and WSU alum Edward R. Murrow would have been 100 years old today. Happy birthday!
Incidentally, the 1930 Chinook we have at Student Publications has had all of its pages including Murrow’s photo clipped out. Like five of them. It’s a shame. Only his standard senior photo is still there, so I scanned it in.
Despite how busy I’ve been, Christina mentioned a need for some paper letter-cutting skills and I couldn’t resist. So during production tonight we made her presentation poster for an Honors history class that I took last year. I did my final paper on the history of smoking; Christina is doing hers on why everyone liked President Dwight Eisenhower. She’s played this video like four dozen times in the past two days and even has a subtle little dance to go along with it.
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