Week 2/27 Update

This week I have been doing more work with WPRK and the Sandspur, I am also now a DJ for the WPRK on Thursdays. With the sandspur I was added to the ‘Sandspurians” group on Facebook. I will be contributing to the next issue after spring break. I hope to become a regular for the sandspur. Also I sent out the mass campus media email to all of the presidents of the student lead organizations. My group is also moving in the direction of campus outreach. Today in class we will propose our plans for this project. I hope we can accomplish synergy with the whole class and they will do the virtual tabling idea. I believe this can be a really helpful tactic in getting more students involved. Also I will be going up to Austen’s café yet again to get more local talent involved with WPRK and Thomas had the idea of shooting a feature about Austen’s café, for RTV, I’m sure they won’t mind the free publicity, so tonight I will try to get him to come up with me.

As far as recruitment goes, this past week I have talked to some groups interested in maybe writing for the Sandspur. This week I want to attend the Sandspur’s meeting about writing topics and find what they need fulfilled. Tomorrow I am going into the office of community engagement to get a contact list for all of the clubs presidents. Greek week is this week so this is a good time to talk to all of the Fraternities and Sororities about contributing to the Sandspur. A little off topic but last week I took on the position of Hip Hop Director for WPRK and it has been fantastic. I have been talking to local talent and even just today received a CD from one of my favorite new artist, ASAP Rocky. This week I intend on visiting Austen’s Coffee shop during Monday Night Raw to search for more local talent deserving of radio play.

Weekly Update! 2/13

One of my personal goals for the semester is to have a movie and or sports column. I am a huge movie fan, always on different websites reading or watching trailers. I am also a huge Basketball fan, and I believe I can cover the biggest national games of the week. Next week, I am going into an IFC (Fraternity Council) meeting and I will encourage all of the Fraternities to have their PR chair write something about their own fraternity, maybe highlighting events, or highlighting values. We could feature a different FSL group each week, because it’s good publicity for them and they would at least read the issue they are featured in. This will do the hardest part for newspaper; it will get the paper in their hands. Later this week I am going into the sandspur’s office to meet with them and see what they want me to do so I can coordinate my ideas with them, I am not trying to reinvent the wheel, just improve the mechanics. Once we all meet I can get a more concrete goal, with deadlines.

Sandspur Goals

Sandspur Goals

My first goal for the Sandspur is to gain more readers. I want the Sandspur to be the Rollins primary source for events, politics, movies, restaurants, etc. I think the Sandspurs website could have a lot more viewers if it were more publicized and more modern. I believe the Sandspurs website could be the alternative to instead of college kids now go on Barstool sports, worst previews and many other website, to see funny videos, read reviews on movie or just web surf, the Sandspur/ RTV’s websites can do this. When talking about the print edition of the Sandspur I would like to involve the students more with the creation of their paper. I believe we can turn the Sandspur into more of a community. My vision is to bring in the writers to write about community related things. So students can web surf, or read the times and learn about worldly and national issues, but the Sandspur would be a reflection of Rollins and the Winter Park community. Would should have people cover different restaurants, have a movie reviewer and even a sports guy. I did the newspaper in high schools, id actually love to cover the national sport and movie related topics. E could have athletes writing about games, theater kids writing about theater, etc. I believe with the recruitment plan if we can get more people on board and keep them their, then we could turn the Sandspur around.