SB 5621 - DIGEST
Allows students, having attained the age of fourteen as
of the date of the election, to vote in school board elections
for the district in which they are enrolled and in good
standing.
Senator White
No fiscal note
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
HB 5749
1. guarantees tuition prices for future college students
2. 119,000
3. Students will pay S&A fees at the time of enrollment
HB 1325
1. Representatives Hunt, Dammeier, Darneille, Liias, Carlyle, Roberts, Jinkins, Orwall, Kenney, Hasegawa, McCoy, Fitzgibbon, Tharinger
2. Reorganizes school districts
3. about 150 school districts
4. Save money
5. $1,079,210
HB 1116
1. Contracting state liquor stores
2. Representatives Alexander, Dammeier.
3. Public Hearing on Feb. 7
4. NONE
2. 119,000
3. Students will pay S&A fees at the time of enrollment
HB 1325
1. Representatives Hunt, Dammeier, Darneille, Liias, Carlyle, Roberts, Jinkins, Orwall, Kenney, Hasegawa, McCoy, Fitzgibbon, Tharinger
2. Reorganizes school districts
3. about 150 school districts
4. Save money
5. $1,079,210
HB 1116
1. Contracting state liquor stores
2. Representatives Alexander, Dammeier.
3. Public Hearing on Feb. 7
4. NONE
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Speech Story
Stephanie Schendel
Journalism 305
Speech story
Social media networks like Facebook and Twitter fueled the recent revolution in Egypt and uprisings throughout the Middle East, Lawrence Pintak, former CBS Middle East correspondent and founding dean of the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication said in a lecture Tuesday.
“The dominoes aren’t falling, but the wave of change is coming to the Middle East,” he said. “And that wave of change is a perfect storm that brings together media, a new resurgent form of journalism, the new uses of social media and the years and decades of anger and frustration in the Arab world.”
It began in Tunisia, he said, when a fruit stand vendor lit himself on fire after the police had harassed him on several occasions, and finally took away his cart.
“This revolt was literally sparked by flames,” he said.
Cell phone video footage and pictures of the man engulfed in flames were spread onto the internet, which caused protests throughout Tunisia, he said.
That is when social media kicked in, Pintak said. The media in Tunisia, like many Arab countries, is primarily dominated by the government, he said. The government however, was unable to control social media sites such as Youtube and Facebook, which spread the video.
Though the revolution in Tunisia lasted only a few weeks, Pintak said, it sent shockwaves throughout the region, and in the last two weeks there has been protests in a number of different Middle Eastern countries.
Social and political activists in Egypt were particularly inspired by the success in Tunisia, he said.
“The Egyptian bloggers are the most active in the Arab world,” he said.
He said sites like Twitter allowed activists in Egypt to be in “constant conversation” with one another and to coordinate meeting places and times.
While protesting, activists were simultaneously “tweeting the revolution,” Pintak said.
He said the activists in Egypt had previously worked with other governments and organizations overseas to learn how to surpass their government’s firewalls and blocks on the internet.
“It was an 18 day revolution, but it was years in the making,” he said.
He also said the Egyptian activists learned from the mistakes of the Iranian “revolution that wasn’t” two years ago.
For example, in order to avoid getting their videos and pictures confiscated, they switched memory cards out of their cameras mid-protest and gave it to someone else to upload onto the internet almost immediately, Pintak said.
By the time the government “pulled the plug” on the internet, it was too late to stop the effects of the protests and they were being broadcasted on the satellite TV channels, he said.
Even without social media, Pintak said, revolution and change would have eventually come to Egypt and the Middle East.
“You can’t have a revolution without people,” he said. “(But) you can have a revolution without technology.”
All technology did was speed up the process, he said.
At this point in time, the future of Egypt still remains uncertain, he said, and it now depends on how the citizens decide to restructure their government.
“It is easy to all be united when there is somebody to hate,” he said.
The real challenge comes in deciding what needs to happen next, Pintak said.
Pintak has recently been featured on news networks such as NPR, CNN, PBS, BBC and the New York Times due to his expertise on the Middle East, Karen Weathermon the co-director of the common reading program said.
He also served as the director for journalism training at the American University in Ciaro, Egypt, she said.
“This news story is very relevant for college students because they are so immersed in social media,” Weathermon said. “We think of it generally as entertainment but to see social media and its potential political power, it provides most students with a different take on the methods of communication and connection.”
The lecture was a part of the year long event series hosted by WSU’s Common Reading Program. It was open to the public and he addressed a group of students, faculty and community members.
Weathermon said there were 123 people in the audience.
“He is a very good speaker (and) he is very knowledgeable about this topic,” she said.
Sarah Robinson, a senior journalism major said she enjoyed Pintak’s lecture and how he understood the situation from an Arab perspective.
“He had a lot of insight I had not heard,” she said.
She also said it was interesting how he talked about how social media, such as Facebook, facilitated the revolution.
Outline
1.How the revolution in the Middle East started
a.Tunisia, how he lit himself on fire
b.Relationship between the media and the government
c.Role of social networking/cell phones
2.Tunisia’s effect on Egypt
a.Youtube, cell phone videos
b.Activists in Egypt
cBlogging and Twitter
3.What’s next in Egypt?
4.About the lecture
5.Student reaction.
Sources
Speaker: Lawrence Pintak
Karen Weathermon
kweathermon@wsu.edu
509 335-5488
Sarah Robinson
Sarah.robinson@email.wsu.edu
Journalism 305
Speech story
Social media networks like Facebook and Twitter fueled the recent revolution in Egypt and uprisings throughout the Middle East, Lawrence Pintak, former CBS Middle East correspondent and founding dean of the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication said in a lecture Tuesday.
“The dominoes aren’t falling, but the wave of change is coming to the Middle East,” he said. “And that wave of change is a perfect storm that brings together media, a new resurgent form of journalism, the new uses of social media and the years and decades of anger and frustration in the Arab world.”
It began in Tunisia, he said, when a fruit stand vendor lit himself on fire after the police had harassed him on several occasions, and finally took away his cart.
“This revolt was literally sparked by flames,” he said.
Cell phone video footage and pictures of the man engulfed in flames were spread onto the internet, which caused protests throughout Tunisia, he said.
That is when social media kicked in, Pintak said. The media in Tunisia, like many Arab countries, is primarily dominated by the government, he said. The government however, was unable to control social media sites such as Youtube and Facebook, which spread the video.
Though the revolution in Tunisia lasted only a few weeks, Pintak said, it sent shockwaves throughout the region, and in the last two weeks there has been protests in a number of different Middle Eastern countries.
Social and political activists in Egypt were particularly inspired by the success in Tunisia, he said.
“The Egyptian bloggers are the most active in the Arab world,” he said.
He said sites like Twitter allowed activists in Egypt to be in “constant conversation” with one another and to coordinate meeting places and times.
While protesting, activists were simultaneously “tweeting the revolution,” Pintak said.
He said the activists in Egypt had previously worked with other governments and organizations overseas to learn how to surpass their government’s firewalls and blocks on the internet.
“It was an 18 day revolution, but it was years in the making,” he said.
He also said the Egyptian activists learned from the mistakes of the Iranian “revolution that wasn’t” two years ago.
For example, in order to avoid getting their videos and pictures confiscated, they switched memory cards out of their cameras mid-protest and gave it to someone else to upload onto the internet almost immediately, Pintak said.
By the time the government “pulled the plug” on the internet, it was too late to stop the effects of the protests and they were being broadcasted on the satellite TV channels, he said.
Even without social media, Pintak said, revolution and change would have eventually come to Egypt and the Middle East.
“You can’t have a revolution without people,” he said. “(But) you can have a revolution without technology.”
All technology did was speed up the process, he said.
At this point in time, the future of Egypt still remains uncertain, he said, and it now depends on how the citizens decide to restructure their government.
“It is easy to all be united when there is somebody to hate,” he said.
The real challenge comes in deciding what needs to happen next, Pintak said.
Pintak has recently been featured on news networks such as NPR, CNN, PBS, BBC and the New York Times due to his expertise on the Middle East, Karen Weathermon the co-director of the common reading program said.
He also served as the director for journalism training at the American University in Ciaro, Egypt, she said.
“This news story is very relevant for college students because they are so immersed in social media,” Weathermon said. “We think of it generally as entertainment but to see social media and its potential political power, it provides most students with a different take on the methods of communication and connection.”
The lecture was a part of the year long event series hosted by WSU’s Common Reading Program. It was open to the public and he addressed a group of students, faculty and community members.
Weathermon said there were 123 people in the audience.
“He is a very good speaker (and) he is very knowledgeable about this topic,” she said.
Sarah Robinson, a senior journalism major said she enjoyed Pintak’s lecture and how he understood the situation from an Arab perspective.
“He had a lot of insight I had not heard,” she said.
She also said it was interesting how he talked about how social media, such as Facebook, facilitated the revolution.
Outline
1.How the revolution in the Middle East started
a.Tunisia, how he lit himself on fire
b.Relationship between the media and the government
c.Role of social networking/cell phones
2.Tunisia’s effect on Egypt
a.Youtube, cell phone videos
b.Activists in Egypt
cBlogging and Twitter
3.What’s next in Egypt?
4.About the lecture
5.Student reaction.
Sources
Speaker: Lawrence Pintak
Karen Weathermon
kweathermon@wsu.edu
509 335-5488
Sarah Robinson
Sarah.robinson@email.wsu.edu
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
“Sure, I made up parts of my book. I've never admitted that before, but I am willing to say it now. The truth should not stand in the way of a good story. In fact, the most accurate stories are fragments of a person’s imagination. Writers who place emphasis on the truth do so at the expense of great stories. My best stories are completely false.”
1. Rewrite this quotation as the lede to your story. (Paraphrase the quotation.)
The truth should not stand in the way of a good story,award-winning journalist Jonathan Fabulist said in his admittance of fabricating parts of his auto-biography.
"Writers who place emphasis on the truth do so at the expense of great stories," he said. "My best stories are completely false.”
1. Rewrite this quotation as the lede to your story. (Paraphrase the quotation.)
The truth should not stand in the way of a good story,award-winning journalist Jonathan Fabulist said in his admittance of fabricating parts of his auto-biography.
"Writers who place emphasis on the truth do so at the expense of great stories," he said. "My best stories are completely false.”
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Peer Edit Redux
1. Washington state provided a subsidy of more than $2,000 for in-state students.
2. “The $13.5 million is the tip of a larger iceberg,” Jerry McCollum, the coordinator of arts and culture, said.
3. “The system is broken right now, we can’t live in a world with 14 percent tuition increases,” Floyd said.
4. The co-presidents announced a club for people who are interested in hiking.
5. “There are still new things to say with art music," Williams said. "It’s hard to stop and listen, but when you do it can be an extremely pleasant surprise.”
6. In September 2010, the wine-tasting endorsement will be available to stores, said Jane Westman, the culinary coordinator for Metropolitan Market.
7. He died from a heart attack in September 1996.
8. The club has its own audio engineer.
9. When the cannon exploded, the noise added to the excitement of the game.
Shorten the following sentences.
1. Sleep becomes less of a priority for many students.
2. A new workout routine is sweeping the country.
2. “The $13.5 million is the tip of a larger iceberg,” Jerry McCollum, the coordinator of arts and culture, said.
3. “The system is broken right now, we can’t live in a world with 14 percent tuition increases,” Floyd said.
4. The co-presidents announced a club for people who are interested in hiking.
5. “There are still new things to say with art music," Williams said. "It’s hard to stop and listen, but when you do it can be an extremely pleasant surprise.”
6. In September 2010, the wine-tasting endorsement will be available to stores, said Jane Westman, the culinary coordinator for Metropolitan Market.
7. He died from a heart attack in September 1996.
8. The club has its own audio engineer.
9. When the cannon exploded, the noise added to the excitement of the game.
Shorten the following sentences.
1. Sleep becomes less of a priority for many students.
2. A new workout routine is sweeping the country.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Five tips on interviewing. (Clemens on 60 minutes)
1. The interviewer met with him in his home
2. He read quotes of other people from the Mitchell Report.. not himself. Repeatedly said "from the Mitchell report, QUOTE"
3. Gave the opportunity for Mitchell to respond.
4. Questions the creditability of the source.. (fishing)
5. Does not pass his own judgements
2. He read quotes of other people from the Mitchell Report.. not himself. Repeatedly said "from the Mitchell report, QUOTE"
3. Gave the opportunity for Mitchell to respond.
4. Questions the creditability of the source.. (fishing)
5. Does not pass his own judgements
Peer Edit
Help a classmate. Correct the following sentences and publish to your blog.
1. California will be the first state to legalize cannabis use, Treasurer Alex J. Fortune said.
2. Public Works Director Mark Workman said the ordinance went into effect on Jan. 19.
3. The last three years have resulted in drastic cuts to WSU's budget.
4. Sen. Will Jones criticized the timing of the 5 percent increase in parking rates.
5. Twenty-one businesses replied.
6. The all-day event will allow the group to plan its agenda for the year.
7. “I think it would have been cool to do something like that as a freshman," Parsons said. "I know my parents would have loved it.”
8. More than 10,000 fans packed into Beasley Coliseum in Pullman, Wash. to watch the Cougars take on the Huskies.
9. Entertainment, drink specials, and give-a-ways welcomed back the 21-and-older crowd.
10. “Turn your passion for social justice into action,” said Marguerite Medina, the UI GSA co-chair.
11. The legislation initiative was filed Wednesday, Jan. 26. The proposed initiative would legalize marijuana for Washington residents 18 years-and-older.
12. Mark Workman, the public works director, said police distributed 29 parking tickets last Veterans day.
Define the following acronyms. If you are unsure, guess.
EIS E... International Students?
SAAC - SA... Student Athletics committee?
WSURF - The Washington surf group? (Because there are so many places to surf in this state... especially in the middle of wheat fields.)
UI GSA - University of Idaho Gay Straight Alliance
IEW - Ewwwwwwwwww.
NORML - Marijuana group.
BSU - black student union
GIESORC - this is the ugliest looking acronym ever.
VIBES - The is the best-looking acronym ever.
DOLA - looks like the Spanish word for pain.
1. California will be the first state to legalize cannabis use, Treasurer Alex J. Fortune said.
2. Public Works Director Mark Workman said the ordinance went into effect on Jan. 19.
3. The last three years have resulted in drastic cuts to WSU's budget.
4. Sen. Will Jones criticized the timing of the 5 percent increase in parking rates.
5. Twenty-one businesses replied.
6. The all-day event will allow the group to plan its agenda for the year.
7. “I think it would have been cool to do something like that as a freshman," Parsons said. "I know my parents would have loved it.”
8. More than 10,000 fans packed into Beasley Coliseum in Pullman, Wash. to watch the Cougars take on the Huskies.
9. Entertainment, drink specials, and give-a-ways welcomed back the 21-and-older crowd.
10. “Turn your passion for social justice into action,” said Marguerite Medina, the UI GSA co-chair.
11. The legislation initiative was filed Wednesday, Jan. 26. The proposed initiative would legalize marijuana for Washington residents 18 years-and-older.
12. Mark Workman, the public works director, said police distributed 29 parking tickets last Veterans day.
Define the following acronyms. If you are unsure, guess.
EIS E... International Students?
SAAC - SA... Student Athletics committee?
WSURF - The Washington surf group? (Because there are so many places to surf in this state... especially in the middle of wheat fields.)
UI GSA - University of Idaho Gay Straight Alliance
IEW - Ewwwwwwwwww.
NORML - Marijuana group.
BSU - black student union
GIESORC - this is the ugliest looking acronym ever.
VIBES - The is the best-looking acronym ever.
DOLA - looks like the Spanish word for pain.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Speech ledes
Even though WSU's budget was cut by $54 million and tuition increased by 14 percent last year, until the economy is turned around, higher education will remain at risk District 9 Sen. Mark Schoesler said.
Few populations of amphibians have increased and about 180 species are already extinct, as global warming continues to grow worse, so does the impact on amphibians populations, Andrew Storfer, an associate professor at the WSU School of Biological Scienes said to the zoology club on Wednesday.
Few populations of amphibians have increased and about 180 species are already extinct, as global warming continues to grow worse, so does the impact on amphibians populations, Andrew Storfer, an associate professor at the WSU School of Biological Scienes said to the zoology club on Wednesday.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
best ledes
9. Despite a number of issues and concerns regarding his eligibility, the Washington State University Residence Hall Association elected sophomore business student Jordan Vandermeulen as their new Vice-President.
9 and 2 are the best ledes.
9 and 2 are the best ledes.
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