Greetings
to the new Part-time and Full-time Classes!
SPJ
is your official student government and coordinator of extracurricular
activities at the school. It's run entirely by students.
Briefing
session on SPJ & Elections:
Thursday, Sept. 21 at 6:45 pm in the Lecture Hall
NEW - ELECTION DATE:
Tuesday, Sept 9, 7-8 pm
See
who's running for office, or run yourself!
SEE
SPJ BYLAWS!
Meanwhile, here are some items from 2002-03 to look at...
See a complete
set of issues!
The
Beat Note • The
Muckrake
Voice
of the J-School
Preliminary results from the SPJ survey
completed by
92 Columbia Journalism students were presented
to Columbia University President Lee Bollinger’s Task
Force
by Allison Hoffman, J’03, on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2002.
View the preliminary results in Adobe Acrobat PDF
format at http://spj.jrn.columbia.edu/2002-11-19survey.pdf.
Read the press release about the survey in Microsoft
Word format at http://spj.jrn.columbia.edu/taskforcepressrelease.doc.
Your
2002-03 SPJ Officers
Sign up for SPJ Membership!
Benefits | Application
form
Alumni Tips: How to Survive J-school
(updated)
SPJ
Events
See last year’s Events &
Notes
See Graduation
Speech of 2002 SPJ president, Fahd Husain
(he also happened to graduate at the top of his class)
• SPJ
Board
• SPJ
Webmasters
Students
Speak Out • Community
Service
Sample Activities
from 2002-03
New
Yorker Staff Writer
James Surowiecki
New Yorker staff writer James
Surowiecki writes the magazine’s weekly business column,
“The Financial Page.” His work has appeared online
at Slate.com, in magazines such as Fortune and Wired,
and in major newspapers.
Wednesday, Dec. 4 • 5:30–7
p.m.
Room 601B
Thanksgiving
Food Drive
Thanks to everyone who donated to the
Thanksgiving Food Drive! Stay tuned for a final tally on
the amount of goods collected and the charitable organization
that distributed your boxes, cans and other food to hungry
New Yorkers.
The
Nativity Church Soup Kitchen
On Nov. 16, six J-schoolers spent a rainy
Saturday afternoon feeding nearly 300 hungry New Yorkers at
the Lower East Side’s Nativity Church.
E-mail
SPJ Treasurer and Community Service Director Farnoosh Torabi
at ft2019@columbia.edu
to volunteer or suggest future community-service projects.
Brother
Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
During his 60-year career as an activist,
organizer and “troublemaker,” Bayard Rustin formulated
many of the strategies that propelled the American civil rights
movement. His passionate belief in Gandhi’s philosophy
of nonviolence drew Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders
to him in the 1940's and 50's; his practice of those beliefs
drew the attention of the FBI and police. But his open homosexuality
forced him to remain in the background, marking him again
and again as a "brother outsider." "Brother Outsider" illuminates
the life and work of a forgotten prophet of social change.
Produced in association with KQED,
Inc.
An Independent Television Service (ITVS) and National Black
Programming Consortium (NBPC) co-presentation.
Friday, Dec. 6 • 5–6:30
p.m.
Room 601B
Holiday
Party Hoedown!
One of the traditional Lucille’s
Ball highlights is The Follies. You can volunteer to produce
original skits and songs by e-mailing jschoolfollies@yahoo.com.
No talent required—just an appetite for fun!
Thursday, Dec. 12 • Lerner Hall
Basement
Two
Towns of Jasper
In 1998 in Jasper, Texas, James Byrd,
Jr., a black man, was chained to a pick-up truck and dragged
to his death by three white men. The town was forever altered,
and the nation woke up to the horror of a modern-day lynching.
In Two Towns Of Jasper, two film crews, one black and one
white, set out to document the aftermath of the murder by
following the subsequent trials of the local men charged with
the crime. The result is an explicit and troubling portrait
of race in America, one that asks how and why a crime like
this could have occurred.
An Independent Television Service
(ITVS) and National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) co-presentation
and a Television Race Initiative (TRI) selection.
Friday, Dec. 13 • 5–6:30
p.m.
Room 601B
Library
Laugh-Fest
End the semester with a belly laugh!
The SPJ fundraiser features four faces you know and love from
the comedy circuit...that is, four faces you would know and
love if you weren’t too darn busy and tired to watch
some entertainment. More information will be available shortly!
Friday, Dec. 13 • Low Library
Rotunda
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