By Steven Lau CSPA Class of 2010 Here’s my take on the counselors and instructors performances today. I’m not an expert on acting or performing, but I’d say I’ve seen enough good (and bad) actors on stage and on the screen to be able to give a few comments.
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By Carlee Jensen CSPA Class of 2010 Three buildings collapsed in the quake. One, a public housing project, resulted in 40 deaths. That was how I said it in my article for the on-the-spot newswriting workshop today.
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By Carlee Jensen CSPA Class of 2010 Yeon Woo asked me how tall I was today. “Five eleven or six feet,” I said, “I’m not sure.” It’s a reflex answer, the response I always give to the not-uncommon question. I wasn’t expecting Yeon Woo’s response, though.
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By Mel Cassel 2010 CSPA Counselor As I walked up to the familiar peach-colored building sporting a humble “Lassen” sign, I half-expected to see the faces of CSPA 2009. After all, those faces define CSPA in my memory-filled mind. They were the faces I scrambled to class with, the faces I glanced at while pounding rapidly on...
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Bringing news to computers and mobile devices is one of the major media challenges of the 21st century, and the CSPA has a thriving, growing curriculum for online journalism.
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A partial list of instructors expected for the 2010 California Scholastic Press Association Journalism Workshop at California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo:
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Tags: Art Aguilar, Cam Inman, Carol Martinez, Chris Carlson, Daniel Thigpen, Fred Schoemehl, Gil Chesterton, Jay Berman, Jessica Davis, Jim Wolcott, Kim Minugh, Lance Orozco, Larry Welborn, Marissa Sommer, Matt Hanlon, Mel Cassell, Mike Daugherty, Nicole Vargas, Rich Hammond, Scott Harris, Stan Kelton, Steve Harvey, Todd Harmonson
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This will be one of our final messages prior to the start of the 59th annual CSPA journalism workshop at Cal Poly in beautiful San Luis Obispo on Sunday, July 18. Our workshop is the finest high school journalism seminar in the nation. The reason? All instructors volunteer their time.
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The pageboy flip, thick-brimmed glasses and big headbands of the late ’60s. The miniskirts, iron-on decals and center parts of the 1970s. Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall would have been jealous of the tight-fitting polos, short man shorts (gasp!) and big bangs of the ’80s.
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It started in 1950, when William Randolph Hearst was still in charge of the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. He wanted his sports section to be the paper of record for prep sports in Southern California.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Bob Levinson, a Scholastic Sports Association grad from the 1950s and now a mystery novelist, contacted CSPA board member Steve Harvey with a request to write something about founder Ira Walsh. This is his submission. By BOB LEVINSON In the beginning was the Scholastic Sports Association. Or, more accurately, there was Ira...
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