Enter 2010.
I’m not one for year end of the year surveys. Instead, I just want to reflect on 2009 and what I’ve accomplished.
In 2009, I:
- graduated from Towson University, Cum Laude, with a B.A. in Mass Communications. I was short one course of completing a creative writing minor.
- completed two small websites – one which featured a multimedia project on Baltimore.
- created ShleeVincent.com and began to create and manage a blog and online portfolio.
- got a plastic toy camera called Diana F+ and began experimenting with medium format photography and film.
- attained a full-time job at a portrait studio.
- moved in and began collaborating with Kerri O’Neill.
- documented the Whartscape Festival for DTR Webzine.
- used my passport and ventured to Montreal.
- was inducted into Lambda Pi Eta (a mass communications honor society).
It’s been an interesting year and with no concrete plans for 2010, I can only say, “Is this real life?”
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So,
There’s been an issue with a blog affiliated with The Towerlight (Towson University’s newspaper). The Bed Post is a sex blog that’s also been printed in the paper as a column.
Students have complained, and the university president Robert Caret has actually made his statements as well. His position, as explained in a letter to the editor from September 24:
“This is not about first amendment rights or freedom of the press. It’s about misjudgment of the range and disposition of your audience and its expectations about what they will find in The Towerlight and what they might be appalled at seeing there.”
It’s a college campus…
He pretty much stated that he would remove university advertising from the paper if nothing was done about the column.
In response, the student editor resigned from the paper.
I’m not sure what I’m more disturbed by. How much of an issue the blog was or how lame it actually was.
Take this juicy entry: Assignment 1: Get Aquainted. I’m not even going to comment on it because it’s second comment (Jack) explains things perfectly.
“The problem with this column is that it lacks subtlety.”
Oh, Towson, you could do so much better.