March 2,1995
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Tragedy, NASCAR put Elon College in national, local headlines
Erick GilJ
Editor in Chief
From Ihe tragedy of American
Eagle Flight 3379 to a class on
NASCAR. Elon College has been
I making national headlines in both
pnnt and television news.
CBS’s “48 Hours" is scheduled
to air a show on airline safety to
night, said Pal Kinney, director of
Public Information and Publica
tions. The program includes a seg
ment on Elon’s involvement with
the Amencan Eagle commuter
plane that crashed outside of Ra
leigh in December.
Kinney said the focus of the
segment would be on freshman
Lauren Anderson, who survived
the crash, junior Douglas Suckow,
who died in the crash, and fresh
man Misty O'Day, who was sched
uled to be on the plane, but changed
her plans
CBS contacted the college af
ter the crash, Kinney said She said
the school was “wary" ibuut let
ting the show shoot footage at Elon.
"We didn’t want to exploit the
tragedy," Kinney said
However, Kinney said the pro
ducers and crew members were
Conte JVleet the tzlon College
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"very respectful"
CBS crew members taped the
"Gathering of Fnends" in January
and Suckow’s memonal service in
Februar>.
Also Sunday night NBC
Nightly News aired a piece on Janie
Brown’s Business of NASCAR
course. Brown, the chair of HPEL.
teaches the 25-seat class during
winter term
The NBC story fcKused on the
class and how NASCAR has be
come big business. The piece fea
tured footage of students on and off
campus.^.
The NBC story was shown on
the West Coast and most of the
East, hut not in the Elon College
area
Last May Benny Parsons and
an ESPN camera crew re-created
Brown's class to shoot footage.
However, the story hasn't been
aired yet.
Print media have also picked
upon the NASCAR story. The Wall
Street Journal, Southeast Journal,
ihe Burlington Times-News and
Raleigh's A/fwi have
all run articles about Brown'sclass.
■ In other television news,
Joey Senal’s winier-tenrt class sal
through an episode of "Geraldo."
which aired last week.
Senat. instructor of journalism,
and 16 students traveled to New
York City and toured NBC studios
as well as major newspaper offices
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