sept 28

the pictures on the front aren't of great quality--kinda dark
Learning Police Procedure was interesting--our cops are crazy..thats alot of arrests

Baggy Pants story-great lead, informative nut graph. "Such bills are already in effect in numerous citites and state legislatures from Louisiana in the deep south, Virginia and to New Jersey up north" awakard and long sentence. In one sentence the major is captilized in the next it is not. They are both after the name. I like the text box!
I dont understand the cartoon..i mean i know we have two separate things..but what?

in the words of my roommate( no literally she just said this) "what is with this picture, i mean what is it anyway (looking at the grove ad) ..we need to fix this!
Great color in the picture of the jugglers-good read to..thats really interesting and a good idea
Nice Picture for Syliva!

For the sports terminology i was kinda expecting something different. LIke a text box or chart or idk something to look at--if i need to know words i want them defined out for me, it made it kinda just blah!

the magnolia ad looks better!

sept 21

I like how in "fraud strikes gcsu" the story is more focused on what can happen, and what goes on during the scam rather than the actual story about the girl. I mean ya its important to know what happened to her, but just having a little info is great!--the check photo is good too! i like the tips, all very good and alternate ideas
Macs-cute headline--yay for our school!! and getting more macs..now i need one! ha
Tyler Flowers--jumbled lead, he's not really an alumni either..we had to write a press release on this for PR writing and he really isn't an alumni until this internship is over with. a little editorial with the description of tyler, thats the writer saying it, not a quote...it should be in a quote from someone, even if the writer knows him. "University TV station." does university need to be captilized “At GCSU, it’s a small enough college to get help and the experience you need,” says Flowers. --i know thats a quote but it doens't sound right! Why is it not till the end that it is explained that he is helping with the stupid human and pet tricks segments of the show, thats interesting and important..up top!! Not a great quote for the ending either, should be more interesting closer!
Anticipating Disappointment-no quotes around a quote, good read though-helpful
Coming home from downtown- wow in your face lead, i like it..haha..drunk frogger!! hehe thats a funny image. i really liked this article, good read, informative, good quotes, and ends well with a dont be stupid line! i woul dhave liked some alternate storie forms with this one, maybe prices of cabs, polls of what people actually do, etc..
nice tennis picture-informative story..the sports stories do their job

Sept 14

great picture of the changed milledgeville! i really like it!!! Decent story too..not amazing.

I really really liked brook's story on Sept 11th!! great read. I love the feature lead..but is that ok to be done? Didn't we talk about having less feature-isc leads for news stories? oh well who cares i really liked it! picture was ..well boring.

the voice was good again, just not compared to last weeks standard. Thats not something to really get people riled up over, the "This is a future we cannot accept" on the otherhand is. great points adn well written. sometimes..i just dont like milledgeville natives because of the way they treat students and i know there are plenty of others like me who would agree and possible respond to that..

umm why didnt' the grove ad change? really?

features had a great layout!! i really enjoyed the "livin for the moment in milledgeville" layout, the story...was ehh alright, just informative but i think thats what it was supposed to be... Pictures, bios and chart are great though!

Good steps in how to become an RSO and this is prob the best way it can be written, but there have been a lot of bolded/bulletted steps/titles in the last 3 articles.

Ok i know the global warming story was a feature story, but honestly i got nothing out of it. I didn't like it from start to finish..sorry, but i didn't. It was just too..idk hypothetical and not believable

Individiuality held ransom-create title, interesting story, but why was he chosen. I mean yes, he is known around campus, but other than looking different what does he do?
The story was very redundant, i think i read at least three different times, that he was known as tony dreaklocks, or the guy known for his dreaklocks..
also some of it was awkwardly written.. "add the fact that he hardly ever wears shoes, carries a cane frequently, sports sunglasses at almost all times, and his signature drealocks, that he just cut recently, combined with such a free spirit, you end up with a unique individual who is just trying to get GCSU students to realize that it's ok to just be yourself."
wow thats long and could be made into several senteces..and frequently is oddly place, as well as the sentence kind of ends with "cut recently" and then starts back with combined with such..just didn't flow...
the intro of "the new coordinator brings big plans" is a little awkward, good but just doesn't flow well.
oh in the GCSU adding y-chromosomes..spelling error in a quote "women mature faster than men, and men do not always KNNOW what they want yet," Pittman said.

some good reads this week, buti can tell that the features are kinda stretching for stories..but i can't think of anything better either..so who am i to critic that..

Colonnade Sept 7

Why was the colonnade soooooooo long this week. I had a hard time getting through it. I understand that the stories on the front page were important news stories...but other than the handgun story they were BOOORRRING!!! Yes the registrar is an important part of our school but if you dont know that then who cares. She seems like a nice lady, but on the front page...idk. The SGA elections on the front page?? I would have moved them inside as well. I think either the mold story (which i'm not gonna lie, kinda bored me too, but still more interesting than sga...who really can't do muhc for the school) or the stress story.
I think there were some printing issues..the spacing of letters on a couple of them were a little off..but i'm sure they weren't like that when sent off to press..like in Kennesaw in the middle of the gun one..that was a really weird one..
The "what do students see in gcsu" was really jumpy, i think it could have been a really good article but they takl about intermurals then jump into all these quotes (that are good) but then jump right back to people coming for intermurals..have some quotes ..or more quotes about intermurals it is going to be talked about so much...great picture for that though
the our voice was amazing..i really enjoyed it. GREAT read..why can't all the stories be that great of a read??
HAIRSPRAY?? really??? ok old news..and not that great for old news..this article might have been good when hairspray came out but if youre going to have an article about a movie..how about a current one!?!?!
I liked the stress article..but there were several things that were a little off. There was an inconsistency in titles..not like fact checking titles just copy.. Is it Junior English major, tim taylor, Freshman Business major mike myers, or is it Senior exercise science major (no caps?)...all before the title..to have more than one way is one thing, but with one being wrong is bad...also, the sources for this article were good..but they were all guys! Girls get stressed too!?!! heck i've been out of my mind lately.. :)
I want free rent!! Cool story..bad ending... A survey asking students what tehy think about The Village is in the works and soon will be unveiled soon./ Williams cannot wait to join the other students at west campus.
how bout...Williams is excited about moving to The Village. (then) A survey asking students...

oh and if i hadn't moved out of the Grove to Magnolia b/c the GROVE Sucks!! i would def move there..their add kicks butt compared to magnolias..maybe i need to go work for my apartment..ha

someone voted already!!!!!! :)