SCOTSPEAK RESULTS
The Monmouth College
parliamentary debate squad participated at the
tournament held at Northern Illinois. The team
broke into the quarterfinals
and John McElliogtt Wells
took home the top speaker award from the preliminary
rounds. The team John Wells debated with Ryan Burns were the
Monmouth College debate team that broke into the elimination
rounds.
The Monmouth College speech
team, with a
delegation of nine traveling students, competed at
tournaments hosted by Illinois State and Bradley University.
These tournaments had several hundred college students competing
in events such as impromptu, extemporaneous, dramatic Interp,
duo acting, persuasive, informative, oral interpretation,
after-dinner, and rhetorical criticism/communication analysis
speaking events.
Pamela Steskal and Evan
Vanskike-Ponders each placed in the top three in
their respective events, informative and persuasive speaking.
The teams that have won the national championships most of the
last ten years were in competition in the speech tournament,
including Bradley University, the University of Texas at Austin,
Western Kentucky University, Northwestern University, etc.
The Monmouth College ScotSpeak is an organization that functions
as a student club, without professional coaching or a regular
budget. With a little assistance from Benita Dilley and some
support from the speech tutors, they are mostly self-coached and
organizational led.
Other students that attended and performed
will in the speech and debate tournaments included Perry Mason,
Lauren Swanson (President of Scots Speak), Daniella Connell
(Speech Team Capitan),
Jason Magafas, and Mike Diamond.
Penn State
International Program in Communication Arts and Sciences Rome
2007
In the summer of 2007, the Department of
Communication Arts & Sciences at Penn State University will
offer a seven-week study-abroad program in Rome. The
International Program in Communication Arts & Sciences offers a
unique opportunity for students to explore the sights and sounds
of contemporary Rome while taking courses in Italian film, the
rhetoric of travel and tourism, and the arts and architecture of
Rome and Italy. Further information talk to Professor McGaan or
view the complete news release
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JUNIORS NEED MONEY TO HELP PAY FOR COLLEGE? NCAA
SCHOLARSHIP
Eight $3,000 scholarships will
be awarded to applicants in their junior year to assist them in
their senior year.
Applications are available in
the Financial Aid Office (or at
www.ncaa.org
under scholarships) and the
deadline for submission is December 8, 2006.
You also must submit:
1.
Official College Transcript
2.
Three
published examples of sports journalism work. These should
include examples such as newspaper articles, program
copy, published photographs, editorials and television and/or
radio scripts.
3.
A
letter of recommendation from a journalism professor or
supervisor of your sports journalism work.
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JUNIORS AND
SENIORS, WANT A MANAGEMENT JOB?
Last year, MC senior Jason Myers took a job with
Target. He is now trying to hire new management for Target.
HE WANTS YOU -- if you want Target. Do you
want to go into management with Target (pay is at least high 30's
and should be low '40's). He is looking for MC grads. Do
you want this job or interview for it.
Contact Michelle Shawgo in the Wackerle
Center.
There are also internship opportunities for
current students if you are a junior. Contact Michelle Shawgo
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Alumni
update: Lela French '06
Lela French, class of
2006, will be starting her new communications job in two weeks. She
will be a general
assignment reporter at KOTA in Rapid City South Dakota. Her
employer said
that she
might get anchor opportunities too.
Lela has been affiliated with MCTV as an anchor with fellow
classmate Emily Eddington.
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After a week of assistant
producing, Emily Eddington '06, was filling-in for the
weekend assignment editor, and then after another week she
started reporting. Her first story was on September
11th which was about a local grade school's 9-11 tribute.
Since then Emily has had stories about a sheriff budget
dispute, a tornado in extreme southern Illinois, Radon gas,
and K9 training. A lot of the stories that Emily has done
have turned out to be top stories for the 5:00 or 6:00
newscast, and they've recently had her introduce/anchor
certain stories that she has done live from the studio.
Emily is also doing assistant producing which consists of a
lot of editing.
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Alumni update:
A.J. Bartoluzzi '06
A.J. Bartoluzzi '06, is working for a
company called Fusion Communications in Davenport, IA. he
is working in their master control facility, doing satellite
uplink and programming for a couple of television networks.
A.J. interned there last summer in their production
department and was offered a full-time job in master control
where he started this past June.
When
asked "how
has your CATA degree helped you after MC graduation?"
A.J. said,
"being a communications major helped me gain computer skills
and writing skills that have helped me in my job. You'd be
surprised the amount of people that can't create a good memo
or excel document. I also work with people at TV networks
about their programming and technical issues, which takes
good oral communication skills over the phone. It is also
important to have a professional demeanor and to be a good
listener and note taker when it comes to dealing with issues
that you do not have much experience with. For my job it
has also benifited me to have a general knowlege of video
editing from Media Production and MC-TV because i'm asked to
do some editing."
His advice to CATA majors would be,
"find an internship in something that they think they
might like to do for a career, or at least a first job.
Find a place that seems like a good place to work and it
will give you an important foot in the door. Companies
always like it when they don't have to train you as much as
the next guy because you already know some of the in's and
out's. Also it's important to let your boss know what kinds
of real life skills you can offer to the company because
many don't know what a communications degree entails and
what you can do. Finally be patient in your job search, I
know it can be frustrating from seeing my fellow classmates
struggle to find jobs, but something always comes up and
even though it may not be a dream job it's a place to start
and gives you some money while you continue to look."
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Senior Check-in:
Sarah Pickrel '07
Sarah Pickrel
is
currently working as an intern at
WMOI here in Monmouth. She is currently working on a Christmas song
project and going to be trained to do on air spots with commercials
and news. It is also being planned for her to help with live
broadcasts of high school or college football games.
She is involved with both WMCR and MC-TV executive boards, playing
in 3 ensembles on campus, and taking courses in the CATA and
Business departments. |
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Senior Check-in:
Natasha Kemmerling '07
Natasha Kemmerling did her
internship at the Lt. Governor Pat Quinn's office over the summer in
between her sophomore and junior year. They then hired her back to
work for them again this past summer After graduation, she will
attend graduate school. She says that her dream is to eventually
receive her doctorate's degree and become a college professor in the
field of communication. |
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Senior Check-In:
Michelle Anstett '06
Michelle Anstett is
prepping for her Independent Study of directing part of Othello in
the spring. Also, she is planning to go into the newspaper industry
upon graduation, maybe with an internship at the Peoria Journal Star
for the summer. |
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