Chelsea Post (graduated 2010) remembers: One of my favorite articles I ever wrote was about a student on Eastern’s campus who was actively seeking his skydiving license. I interviewed him in Breezeway when I was a sophomore …
He was about to do a skydiving test that weekend, and he just asked out of the blue, “Do you want to come with?” I got in his pickup truck and off we went to this random place that was an actual skydiving studio. He asked if I wanted to go up too; I was like, “Noooo.”
Andrew Whitehead (graduated 2014) remembers: My favorite article that I wrote — well, I dug back through archives and found a piece about all of the different buildings on campus. I wrote that Eagle is the most holy place on campus. The presence of God is so heavy in it, that it is sinking into the ground. On the other hand, Hainer is so light because God is not there …
Katherine Apostolacus (graduated 2016) remembers: I co-wrote [an article in which] … we did a really thorough analysis of university’s finances. We did some investigative reporting — low level … We tried really hard in terms of full transparency and to be as free as we possibly could be, to have that journalistic voice. I am very proud of our team for doing that.
Kelsey Fiander-Carr (graduated 2020) remembers: My favorite article that I wrote was probably the article I wrote about the Eagles winning the Superbowl. The spin I took on it was that I wrote about how the Superbowl is a sports game that transcends the actual sport. It’s also about spending time with family, the love of being with people, the love of team — not just about football.
Nicole Markert (graduated 2020) remembers: One of my favorites … written by Kelsea Fiander-Carr … she wrote a news piece on accessibility issues on campus. For a very long period, there was a bridge that was broken and it was the only path between two parts of campus — the only path that someone with a wheelchair could use. She reported on that and it was a really instrumental piece of, like, the bridge getting fixed….
I also remembered a smaller story — I might have written it — about APA format making the change to using singular they/them pronouns.
At the time, those were really important little things that weren’t at the forefront of some people’s minds. It educated people on what was happening that people didn’t realize, until we started talking about it in the paper. That shows the significance of what student journalism can do.
