With a fond farewell to this year's graduating class ( just one week ago, sob), I thought I would start off a new blog for the next year's graduating class...and others who are just starting, have been here for a while...which includes me!

With buzzwords like "convergence" and "new media" blipping onto the j-school radar screen with increasing frequencies, it figures we should have a more active web presence.

Not sure if this will be it or if something else comes along, but witht the Success of Sree's DOS blog, there should be a corresponding student blog.

With luck this place is a source for gripes, gropes, praise, beat questions, source sourcing, a craigslist for apts. or old minidiscs, or just whatever.. or if not this place another one.

The summer is bit odd at j-school , sure 30-odd students just started last Friday, , plus there are the remaining Part-timers like myself who started previously, 15 or so in January, another 30 or so from exactly one year ago (like me!), and then the previous Januaries and summers. It seems we have the quiet little building to ourselves,....and then the onslaught in August of the rest of the class..

Summer is also odd, in that many of us our doing Masters this summer, further decreasing the on-campus presence, plus the building is forever going through transformations, and is also used for various other events etc.
But despite all of that we are all still in J-school, and it all goes on, and we can look to each other for shared experience and maybe someone to get a drink with
(all this seems like ANOTHER patented D.L. Ressel commentary---a joke for my radio workshop folks.... yes after an intial fear of commentaries, i turned into a total softy and began writing them weekly on everything....i am the soft news king now)

ok that my first post.

well let's wrap up this first post with an apt. link.

This past Saturday's WSJ opinion journal had a notable piece on the J-Schools and the connection with academia. In light of my current internment at a pure all-out Journalism school, My pull quote"If America's universities were providing students with adequate academic instruction, instead of pumping out degrees in pseudosubjects like "communications," then J-schools wouldn't need to adapt at all. They could simply shut down. "

the link:http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110008400