Mitchell Handler’s a Target guy. But it was only a week or so ago when he and his brother went into a Walmart for the first time. Handler, 17, wasn’t impressed. “I’m a huge Target fan,” says Handler, who was dragged to the store by his younger brother. What’s he buy there? “Anything from...
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CSPA celebrated 60 years today, and after four instructors, including Larry, were inducted into the CSPA Hall of Fame, different people got up to share their CSPA memories. Larry was asked if he wanted to get up and say something. “I’m just here to enjoy the day,” he said, happily enough it seemed. And...
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My last name is Rosenfeld. So is Zack Rosenfeld’s. This how he got his start in journalism. In bullet points. First person. In the end of 7th grade I lost the election to become the head of the student body and my history teacher told me, “You know what Zack, this wasn’t right for...
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My roommate is named Jake Cohen. Here’s how he got into journalism. In bullet points. In the first person. My first memory of journalism was when I switched into it randomly in sixth grade and I thought the class would just be an hour long class with me just writing in a journal. I...
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Whoops: It turns out people read my blog. The same people reading all the student blogs: counselors and staff. Not that I was saying anything terrible, but I assumed nobody was actually wading through this absolute swamp of amateur blogging. Turns out Kim read me calling Northern Californian papers a combination of “mediocre metro...
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There’s not much sense in having a blog if nobody is going to read it, so I posted a link on my friend’s Wall. She said she read but her friend, who I’ve met once but don’t really know also read it and said she “can tell he’s really intelligent but he comes off...
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Wednesday: I’m not sure about this whole Wednesday phenomenon thing. All I’m really sure about at this point is that “On the Spot” was exhausting and I’m still not sure who was having sex with whom and how that relates to Penneleppe. The names was a nice touch though. … When it comes to...
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So far so slow: Slow start to slow day. Waking up at 8:30 means missing breakfast, but for those of you who followed my money per meal calculations yesterday, no breakfast gives you around $13 for lunch. It actually turned out I could get two slices of pizza and a drink for $5, which...
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A good way to get a journalist’s Q&A off-track: ask them about the purpose of, need for, or future of print. That’s what happened last night when Daniel was asked why we still need print newspapers, a trite question, but one that will be forgiven for the purpose of writing this blog. Daniel gave...
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After wandering past a plethora of empty Mustang Daily boxes wondering what kind of college daily doesn’t publish even weekly during the summer, I came across a stack of the papers outside the Avenue restaurant. Turns out they do indeed publish on Thursdays during the summer months, but hopefully the paper’s quantity isn’t the...
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