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Celebrating Women’s History Month....
Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver
Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver
has, for nearly four decades,
worked to provide persons with
mental retardation the chance to
become useful and productive
citizens who are accepted and re
spected in their communities.
In 1961, Shriver helped estab
lish the Presidential Committee
on Mental Retardation. The fol
lowing year, she developed the
National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development and cre
ated the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.
Awards in Mental Retardation. In
1981, she created the Commu
nity of Caring concept to em
power people to be responsible
and caring members of a commu
nity. As part of the Joseph P.
Softball off to shaky start
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suffering twin losses to the Cap
tains 1-2 and 1-8.
On March 9, the Lady Bish
ops played their home opener
against Susquehanna University.
The Bishops played well on de
fense, but just couldn’t generate
any hitting power, dropping both
games 0-1 and 0-5.
Bad weather caused the Lady
Bishops’ games against confer
ence rivals Averett and Greens
boro to be postponed.
The Lady Bishops are cur
rently 1-8 for the season and 0-2
in conference play. The next game
for the Bishops was at the East
Coast FastPitch Classic (Mar. 22-
24) hosted by Roanoke College.
Kennedy Foundation to prevent
teen preganancy and lower the
incidence of mental retardation,
16 Community of Caring model
centers and 150 Community of
Caring programs in pubUc schools
have been developed.
In 1968, Shriver established
the world-renowned Special
Olympics as the first systematic
effort to provide sports training
and athletic competition for indi
viduals with mental retardation.
Nearly one million athletes in 130
countries now compete world
wide in 22 sports.
Her work “on behalf of
America’s least powerful people,
the mentally retarded” received
appropriate recognition when
President Ronald Reagan awarded
her the Presidential Medal of
Freedom.
— Janet L. Morrison
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Student Prxss Law Center
Publications Fellowship
Applications due 15 May 2002
Send application to: Publications Fellow Search
Student Press Law Center
Mark Goodman, Executive Director
1815 N. Fort Myer Drive, Suite MO
Arlington, VA 22209-1817
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The Student Press Law Center is seeking applicants for an 11-month
fellowship position for recent college graduates with experience in editing,
news writing, and design for both print and Web-based publications. The
position will begin in early September 2002 and run through mid-August 2003.
The full-time position will include full health insurance and public
transportation benefits and will pay a salary equivalent to $29,000 per year or
$2,417 per month.
Applicants with a journalism degree will be given preference, but those
with extensive writing and editing experience with student or commercial
news media will be considered as well. The position may be especially
appropriate for someone who is considering entering graduate or law school
in fall 2003.
Duties will include the following:
1. Serving as managing editor of the SPLC’s thrice-yearly magazine, the
SPLC Report and the News Flash section of the SPLC's Web site. The
Publications Fellow will help develop the editorial focus of our publications
including writing news stories and coordinating and editing stories written by
SPLC journalism interns. Applicants should have significant experience in
reporting/news writing and editing the work of other reporters.
2. Soliciting illustrations and laying out the SPLC Report and other SPLC
publications.
Applicants should have design/layout experience and should have
experience using a desktop publishing program {QuarkXPress preferred) and
other graphics programs such as Photoshop.
3. Maintaining and updating the new SPLC Web site. The SPLC
restructured and redesigned Its site in 2001. The Publications Fellow will be
responsible for assisting the SPLC in updating the content for the site and
helping us come up with ideas for new and relevant content. Must be ^
comfortable with online technology. Experience with Web-based publications
and basic working knowledge of HTML a must.
4. Assisting pennanent SPLC staff in providing information to other
working journalists regarding student press law issues. Experience in
drafting news releases a plus.
The ideal candidate will have a degree in journalism or mass
communications lor extensive news writing and editing experience witb
student or professional media if the deoree is in an another arsa), be well-
organized, detail-oriented, hard-working, and efficient, with a strong sense of
responsibility and commitment to the principles of press freedom as well as
a sense of humor.
Applicants must be willing to commit to serving the full 11-month
fellowship. The Publications Fellow will work closely with all of the SPLC
staff members but will be directly supervised by the Center's executive
director.
To be considered for the position, an applicant should send the following
materials to the address above:
1) a letter describing your qualifications and interest in the position
based on the above job description,
a complete resume,
the names and phone numbers of two references familiar with your
work as a journalist,
two to three samples of your news writing (not opinion pieces or
editorials),
two to three samples of pages or publications you have designed or
produced layouts for (if available).
Applications will be considered until the position has been filled, but
applicants are encouraged to send in their materials by May 15, 2002.
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The Student Press Law Center is a 27-year-old nonprofit organization devoted
to protecting the free press rights of high school and college journalists. The
SPLC is run on a day-to-day basis by its executive director (an attorney) with
the assistance of a staff attorney, an administrative assistant, and college
and law student interns. Long-term planning is made by a corporate board of
directors composed primarily of journalism educators and professional
journalists. The SPLC resides in a suite of smoke-free offices adjacent to the
Rosslyn Metrorail stop in Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac River from
Washington, D.C.
The Student Press Law Center is committed to equal opportunity in
employment regardless of race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual
orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, or disability.