Story #1

Initially, my story was going really well.  I knew exactly who I wanted to interview and exactly what I wanted to write my story about.  The interviews went well and I was able to narrow my stories down to the success of Communication majors after graduation.  Kelly Clark and Joelle Ghanam were the two recent graduates that I interviewed who were both comm majors and got jobs right out of college.  Although the companies that they work for and their positions are completely different, they both answered similarly to my questions about their experiences at Wittenberg and the reasons for their success.  However, when I went to interview people at the career center, I found out that they were booked for weeks so I was not able to interview them at all.  Although this hurt my story a little because I wanted a different perspective from the career center and data about the success of other majors on campus.  But I think this could be a good idea for my bigger story so I'm going to make an appointment at the career center to see if their information will make the story even better.

Maybe It Was Only a Dream

When we honor Martin Luther King Jr's legacy and black history month, "I have a dream" is typically what we think of first.  We envy Dr. King's amazing effort and contribution to change the broken society from the 1960's.  But the problem seems to be that not much has truly changed and our society remains fragmented.  It is evident that racism and prejudices still exist across the United States.  Maybe MLK's dream is only just a dream and it will never become reality.  Many of our dreams are difficult, if not impossible to achieve so it seems very possible that MLK's dream may not be achieved.  If racism is still alive and prominent at Wittenberg, where I have met some of the nicest, most thoughtful, and open minded people I have ever, then I have no doubt in my mind that it is still a significant problem elsewhere.  I don't understand why people have to be so hateful and ignorant.  Not everyone is going to like each other regardless of their similarities or differences.  But why can't people just keep their thoughts to themselves?  If you don't particularly like someone, that's fine.  But why air all of your dirty laundry to the community where people may get hurt?  We wonder why there are mass shootings at college campuses throughout the United States and how many of the perpetrators are victims of racism, prejudices, or are flat out judged by their own peers.  These people are victims of bullying and harassment by people that may not have attempted to reach out to them to get to know them. This needs to change, but how?  When we are taught by our own families that people are different from one another because of their skin color, ethnicity, weight, height, you name it, how are we supposed to look at these people with an open mind, and truly believe that we are all the same?  I don't know the answer to this but I think that the majority of Wittenberg students can try to put their differences aside and become a family.  We are all here for a reason and by being chosen out of thousands of perspective students to attend this institution makes us all similar in one way or another.

Marijuanna: The New Alcohol?

Where do we draw the line on appropriate drug use on campus?  I think that it's a matter of opinion and degree.  I have been to parties where there is the typical "upstairs group" that spends most of their time on the top floor smoking marijuanna and never make it down to the actual party.  On the other hand, I have also been to parties where blunts are continually passed around all night.  It seems like marijuanna is almost treated like alcohol, everyone pools their few dollars together so that there is enough for everyone to achieve their desired results.  I don't think many people have a problem with that either, despite marijuanna's "drug" status.  If people choose to attend parties where marijuanna use is taking place then they probably enjoy it or don't mind when other people are smoking it.  If they don't like that it's being used at the party they are at, they are likely to leave or they just simply decline the blunt when it is passed to them and carry on socializing with other party-goers.  I've never seen anyone forced to smoke or do any other drugs at these parties which is why I don't think marijuanna use is a very big concern at Witt.  And personally, I've only witnessed people doing harder drugs less than a handful of times so it seems that drug use may not very widespread on campus...unless I'm just not attending the right parties.