Archive for July, 2011
Larry Welborn and CSPA: ‘Pretty Cool’
The word that has not only come to define Larry Welborn for me, but my entire CSPA experience issues from Welborn’s lips at least twice a day. “That’s pretty cool.” The cadenza of the double o’s in cool has come to describe everything at CSPA to the couches at Muir Hall. CSPA has been...
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Three deathly eats
Griping over the quality, or lack there of, of Cal Poly dining food has become a preferred hobby of several of us during this entire program. However,while some food items might appear questionable to some at least you will survive to see mom’s mac n’cheese the first meal home. With some foods ,including...
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Lindsey moonlights as a “Harry Potter Nerd”"
A slightly beat up version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone peaks slightly out of 17-year-old Lindsey Agnew’s faux-leather bag. “It’s comforting to read something as familiar as Harry Potter when I’m in a new place. Particularly, in a stressful situation,” Agnew said. Agnew started her self-proclaimed “Harry Potter nerdiness” with a box...
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What would you drop your daughter for?
After returning from the CSPA 60th reunion I was struck by how close and interwound the lives of people, who without the workshop would be complete strangers, could become. Their dedication to the memory of Ralph and Millie and their sincere compassion for all of us was inspiring and provided the best moment of...
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Words that define: Maria Do
There’s always that one word. The word that subconciously slips into your speech patterns. As wordsmiths and prospective journalists, I thought that here these words would come to mean a lot to or represent the speaker. At CSPA, these words and the people they represent quickly surfaced. Maria Do, my roommate, is the first...
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Morbid Curiosity: CSPA Edition
Death. There I got your attention. The type of journalism that always attracts the most varied and wide audience is always that which revolves around death: crime, murder, freak accidents, or natural disasters. These are the stories people want to read; the stories that have such innate excitement that a hard news lead spitting...
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