Journalism School Teaches Students Pre-digital Newspaper Production Techniques

Students in the Florida Atlantic University J-school produced a newspaper using (mostly) pre-computer technologies, composing on manual typewriters, pasting up with X-Acto blades and rubber cement, shooting on film and developing in a darkroom:

While archeologists try to recreate what life was like 10,000 years ago, and historians try to recreate what life was like 1,000 years ago, journalists can’t even recreate how they published a newspaper 20 years ago. No one documented the details or saved the old equipment. (I had to buy some of it from creepy old men through Craigslist.)

Journalists may write history’s first draft, but when it comes to covering their own history, they don’t even take notes. I can imagine college students 20 years from now asking their aged adviser…

Your digital cameras didn’t just beam images to the cloud as you shot them? What’s a “memory card”? And you had different programs for writing, design, and photo editing? Does anyone still have “Word,” “InDesign,” and “Photoshop”? It’d be fun publishing an issue that way – maybe we can buy copies from some creepy old men on Craigslist.

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Journalism school teaches students pre-digital newspaper production techniques

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Green Column: Bali School Makes Sustainability a Way of Life

The Green School is built with natural materials, has no air conditioning and includes vegetable gardens on site to instill the importance of sustainable living in its students.

Green Column: Bali School Makes Sustainability a Way of Life

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High school prom "dancing guidelines"

I'd imagine this is pretty common these days, but students at DW Daniel High School in Central, South Caroline had to sign a contract in order to attend their Winter Semiformal and Prom dance. Along with agreeing to a no-drug/alcohol policy and dress code (nothing see-through, no ball caps, no low-cut dresses, must wear shirts, etc.), they must abide by the following "Dancing guidelines (applies to dancing on and off the dance floor)":

No straddling legs

No bending over while dancing

No front to back grinding

No moshing

No "making out" (no overt and/or prolonged public displays of affection)

No crowd surfing

Hands on waists or shoulders

Also, no Elvis the Pelvis shall be played. OK, I'm kidding about that. I think. (Thanks, Steve Marks!)

High school prom "dancing guidelines"

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