1. What happens in a classroom
stays in ... cyberspace?
A student takes a class as his Facebook status PROF’S LOL QUOTES ON WEB |P 4
.
comical professor’s quotes during the 2010 fall semes-
and shares it with the world ter. Once Mullin decided to
on Tumblr.com take Hanchette for another
BY MADDIE GIONET
course, he created a Tumblr LEE AVING
STAFF WRITER
blog dedicated to Hanch- NOTHING
ette’s quotes.
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. – “There are about 50 peo- BEHIND
You’re falling asleep in yet ple following the blog right Joey Mullin Competition spurs
another boring class. As now,” Mullin said of http://
up progress
your eyes begin to close, thehanch.tumblr.com. “I lin thought Hanchette liked
you hear your professor say, was really surprised when the idea, he said Hanchette By Tony Lee
“I don’t get my news from a I received an email from doesn’t seem upset. Editor in Chief
cell phone. In fact, I left mine Professor (Chris) Mackowski “I’m not sure how he Have you noticed the
at home today and tried to saying that alums were also knows about the blog, but way The Bona Venture
make a call with my car keys.” following it.” if he says something funny has changed its social Screenshot of TheIntrepid.org
What would you do? Hanchette, a 1980 Pulitzer in class, he looks at me and
New age, new model,
media usage? Have you
If you were Joey Mullin Prize winner, said has not set asks, ‘Does that make the noticed an exponential
(pictured), you would post out to say funny quotes. blog?’” Mullin said. increase in its web ex-
new journalism
this quote to your blog. It just happened that way. Hanchette said telling clusive frequency?
In honor of John Hanch- “If it helps students re- colorful stories is his way It might be preten-
ette, his Introduction to member something or of illustrating a point to tious to think The In-
Mass Media professor, the gets them interested in his students. A student attempts to aware of the importance
trepid alone sparked
freshman journalism and learning more then that’s “PowerPoints are good for reinvent news reporting of social media in today’s
The Bona Venture’s
mass communication major great,” he said. visual aid, but when you’re rapidly-changing world,
increase in social me- BY SAMANTHA BERKHEAD
put together a blog dedicat- Mullin said he only pro- teaching an intro course, considers it essential that
dia usage and updat- GUEST WRITER
ed to quotes that Hanchette moted the blog by posting you want it to be informal,” The Intrepid integrate as-
ing frequency, but the Tony Lee is on a self-im-
has said in class. links on his personal blog he said. “It’s the students’ pects of social media and
timing of the change posed mission to change
“He’s one of the funniest and Facebook page. Be- rst impression of college, hyper-interactivity.
seems like it did. the eld of journalism.
people on the planet,” Mul- yond that, he said word of of their major. If I can explain “This is not a second BV,”
Regardless, as a His brainchild, the soon-
lin said. mouth has increased the something in a humorous said Lee at a recent presen-
student journalist all to-be-launched Intrep-
Quotes like “Now I can blog’s audience. manner that gets the point tation given to journalism
about progressive id, will be a student-run
get sti at the bar and roll Although most of the across, they’ll stay interested and mass communications
thinking and adapt- newspaper with a promi-
downhill to my house.” quotes are posted by Mullin, and that’s very rewarding.”
see LEE on p. 2 nent online presence. Lee, see NEW on p. 3
and “Thats the bad news, he said other students have Whether Hanchette wants
that there is a midterm. submitted their own Hanch- the recognition or not, he
The good news is … I stole ette quotes, too. said he applauds Mullin’s ef- ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY...
candy!” don Mullin’s blog “Submissions are always fort to make a blog devoted ...in 1979, Columbia OV-­102 arrived at the Kennedy Space Station. Columbia
that has 55 laugh-out-loud welcome, and I give credit to what he says in class. OV-­102 flew 28 flights, spent 300.74 days in space, completed 4,808 orbits
quotes as of March 20. to the person who gives me “Joey has a good sense of
and flew 125,204,911 miles in total. However, on Jan. 16, 2003, the shuttle
He said he began post- the quote,” he said. humor,” Hanchette said. “It’s
ing Hanchette’s quotes from got destroyed during re-­entry, and all seven astronauts on board died.
When asked whether Mul- a nice compliment.”

2. NEW: Lee attempts to reinvent news reporting by changing the traditional structure
LEE: More organization, better SBU news coverage
FROM Page 1 timate truth serum,” he said.
“Journalists can’t get away with FROM Page 1 community has recently ex-
students at St. Bonaventure Uni- making mistakes anymore.” perienced a richer, fresher
versity. “The Intrepid is the news The Intrepid, in its earliest ing to the 21st century, content only spurred by
that Bona students have been stages, developed over the past watching fellow classmates competition between two
waiting for for a long time.” three years within Lee’s mind. It rise up to the competition student-run organizations.
The importance of social net- all began when he, a California makes me smile. And now, I hope everyone
working as an aspect of jour- native, discovered St. Bonaven- And I love it, and so should realizes The Intrepid’s vision
nalism has been proved by ture through a Twitter search the St. Bonaventure Univer- since the beginning.
statistics. According to Creati- for journalism schools. sity community. Both news organizations
veDepartment.com, approxi- He was also in uenced by the The Intrepid started be- not only can coexist but can
mately 81 percent of 18-25 layout of the blogging site Tumblr. cause I strongly believed work synergetically to provide
year-olds use Facebook daily. “The reblogging feature of American newspapers can better coverage for the St. Bo-
25 percent use YouTube, 20 per- Tumblr is going to change jour- still be a formidable commu- naventure community.
cent use Twitter and 45 percent nalism,” he said. Tumblr also has of The Intrepid’s website. Lee nication medium. The Bona Venture currently
use some kind of blog daily. a mobile version which adapts plans to start out on a small Newspapers needed new has more sta , and because
With individuals connect- to smart phones - a feature that scale, running it mostly by ideas, and journalists needed the organization did a great
ing at a rate never seen before Lee hopes to establish for read- himself. to be more creative to adapt job adjusting to the market,
in history, Lee said he believes ers of The Intrepid and a feature By fall 2011 semester, Lee said to the 21st century. it’ll force The Intrepid to re-
that journalists ought to pick up that The BV doesn’t have. he plans to hold a meeting for But The New York Times cruit better and nd di erent
on the movement at hand. Lee was nally pushed to those interested in becoming a cannot risk experimentation. story angles.
“Social media is a conversa- make his dream a reality at the part of it. Neither can most commu- The Intrepid praises the new
tion in a way that hasn’t been end of the fall 2010 semester. Lee’s ambitions are high for nity newspapers. changes at The Bona Venture,
done before,” he said. “It is about Disillusioned with the rigid, someone founding a paper that Student journalists can and and so should everyone else.
making a conversation between “pyramid-style” structure of The has yet to be published. Along may be the only ones. Most As long as the re within
the writer and the readers.” BV, he decided to move on. with a constantly updated web- St. Bonaventure journalism St. Bonaventure student jour-
With The Intrepid, Lee said he “I couldn’t move up at The BV,” site and a daily newspaper, he professors believe the answer nalists keep getting stron-
hopes to “develop a brand of he said. “When a door closed, I hopes that The Intrepid will put to “How can newspapers be ger, the future for journalism
forward-thinking journalists.“ opened one myself.” out yearly documentaries and a pro table again?” lied within a looks bright.
These journalists will have the His quali cations are legiti- bi-yearly, all-color magazine. student’s mind, too. But maybe none brighter
skills to take their own pictures mate enough. He plans to work with indus- As a result, the Bona’s than St. Bonaventure’s.
and record their own video as Lee has held a position as try-standard equipment and al-
well as communicate‚ virtually The Bona Venture’s online edi- low The Intrepid’s writers to use All of it will be funded by him Whether or not the bold am-
becoming walking newsrooms. tor, wrote for Sports Illustrated’s the same equipment. alone and donations without bition behind the Intrepid will
The Intrepid’s embracing of golf.com and had a concert re- Writers and editors will have Student Government Associa- make the publication a success
social media will, he said, ulti- view published on Fuse.TV, the access to Adobe Creative Suite tion ties. is still vague. Yet it’s Lee’s ambi-
mately make its writers more website of music television sta- 5, MacBook Pros, Canon DSLR “It’s going to be a challenge, tion and the untarnished belief
precise and less prone to errors. tion Fuse. cameras and high-de nition but it’s a challenge I’m willing to which make this story so note-
“Social media will be the ul- This month marks the launch 1080p camcorders. take,” he said. worthy so early on.
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY...
...in 1965, civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully completed their 4-­day, 50-­mile march from Selma, Ala. to Montgomery, Ala.