THE PENDULUM
NEWS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2010 // PAGE 3
Workshop teaches broadcast
skills to high school students
Rachel Southmayd
Senior Reporter
A workshop led by Elon University students in
the School of Communications welcomed local high
school students, including 13 Elon Academy students,
May 1 to learn the basics of broadcast news.
Senior Dannika Lewis organized the event
as a part of phase four of the Isabella Cannon
Leadership Program. Lewis said phase four involves
filling a community service need at Elon or in the
community.
“I decided that doing a broadcast workshop for
high school students would be a good way to get
them excited about communications,” she said.
Elon Academy students that participated were
members of the class of 2011. They were selected
because they are beginning to look at and apply to
colleges.
Deborah Long, director of Elon Academy, said the
Academy students come to events on campus one
Saturday a month during their three years in the
program.
“This was Dannika’s idea. One of the things we
like to do on Saturdays is expose our students to
different career opportunities,” she said.
The workshop was facilitated by student
volunteers, and featured a guest speaker, alumna
Meghan Packer, who currently works at WEMY in
Greensboro.
After a group breakfast in the morning, half of the
participants went outside around campus, to learn
about camerawork and filming. Each Elon Academy
student was paired with a current Elon student.
The other half of the participants worked in the
ESTV studio and control room, producing a mini
news show.
Elon senior Meredith Gulley was one of the
volunteers at the workshop. Before her time at
Elon, she had never had any opportunities iri the
communications field^
“I think it’s really important for high schoolers to
figure out what they’re in for and what opportunities
there are," she said.
Gulley said she enjoyed the time she spent with
the students during the workshop.
“It’s been fun. They all now know if this is or isn’t
for them,” she said.
Elon junior Rachel Roshfeld and her mentee from
RACHEL SOUTHMAYD | Photogr>ph«r
Junior Shea Northcut helps a high school student learn the basics of broadcast news at a workshop May 1.
Elon Academy spent their first session filming around
Alamance building. They were creating a 20-second
video about the high school students’ perspective of
Elon. »
“I think she likes it,” she said. “1 think this will be
a fun experience to say, T tried it, and I got to play
around with a lot of top-of-the-line equipment.’”
Elon Academy student Lorenzo Davis said his
favorite part of the workshop was operating the
sound board in the control room.
“It was cool,” he said. “It was fun to see the behind-
the-scenes of the news room.”
Academy student Sandra Flores said she liked
working behind the camera best.
“I’m learning a lot more about TV production," she
said. “It’s harder than it looks.”
Staci Saltz, a communications lecturer at Elon,
assisted on Saturday, as well.
“This is wonderful for the Elon Academy scholars,
but it's also wonderful for the Elon students to give
back,” she said.
Roshfeld and Lewis said they hoped this would
continue in the future.
“One of my goals is that this not only sustains itself
but grows to reach out to all of Alamance County and
eventually becomes a regional thing," Lewis said.
Campus Shop to offer text
book rentals for trial year
Some books to be available at less than half price
Jack Dodson
News Editor
For students who don’t want to pay the full price
for textbooks, Elon University’s Campus Shop plans
to implement a program in the fall that will offer
textbook renting for commonly used books.
In a press release issued April 29, Barnes & Noble
announced that it would be bringing the rental
program to Elon for a trial year, and would offer
textbooks for prices at less than
half the full price.
Elon campus store manager Kathy
Scarborough said approximately
one-fourth of the books in the
campus store will be available for
rent through the program. She said
the company will only offer rentals
on books that are determined by the
company as being frequently used.
“What we’re doing is taking
our historical statistical data and
looking at books we have seen
consistently used,” she said.
Depending on the semester, she
said the books that are available for
rent can change.
The program was tested this year at four-year
public colleges and universities, and Scarborough
said it has been a success so far.
“After two semesters of trying it at other schools,
she said, “it was ready to go.”
She said the program is coming after months of
discussion about whether or not it would actually
come to Elon.
“There’s been a lot of talk back and forth for a
couple months,” she said. According to Scarborough,
the implementation of the textbook renting program
caused the contract between the school and Barnes
& Noble to be renegotiated.
“Renting the book is obviously cheaper than
purchasing a book,” she said. “Elon understood that
Barnes & Noble would be paying less money.”
Likewise, she said, Barnes & Noble will be making
less money from the program.
As for whether it’s something
she expects to be successful
at Elon, Scarborough said she
couldn’t make a prediction. The
program will be a year-long
test to see whether it’s a viable
program at Elon.
“It’s really too early to tell,"
she said. “We’re certainly going
to be as aggressive as possible.”
The program also allows
students to rent textbooks
online, according to the press
release.
“We are committed to
providing students with the
widest range of content options
and price points available," said
Brian Stark, vice president at Barnes & Noble College
Booksellers, in the press release.
The press release also says students are still
allowed to highlight and write in the textbooks,
just like they would if they were selling the book
back. Students also have to return the textbooks
within 10 days after finals.
“WHAT WE’RE DOING IS
TAKING OUR HISTORICAL
DATA AND LOOKING AT
BOOKS WE HAVE SEEN
CONSISTENTLY USED.”
-KATHY SCARBOROUGH
SHOP MANAGER, ELON
CAMPUS SHOP
Mynhardt seeks
damages from
civil suit
MYNHARDT from PAGE 1
sustained his injuries and became
paralyzed.
In Elon University’s response to the
complaint it said the university had no prior
knowledge of the party and did not condone
the residence as a location for parties
sponsored by school organizations. In
Lambda Chi Alpha Inc. and Delta Pi chapter
responses, both admitted there was a party
at the location but that it was not a school
sponsored party.
In Cassady’s response, it states Cassady
and Blackburn fell because Mynhardt
was struggling to free himself and that
Mynhardt showed negligence because he
entered a dwelling where he was not invited,
while intoxicated and was aggressive with
individuals in the dwelling.
Mynhardt is seeking $10,000 in
compensatory damages from all defendants,
$10,000 in punitive damages and a trail by jury.
In February 2009 the case was transferred to
Alamance County from Guilford County.
Michael Petty, co-counselor for Mynhardt,
said the civil trial could take place in the
summer or fall of 2010 and Judge Howard
Manning will oversea the case.
Petty said Mynhardt worked with the
District Attorney’s Office to drop the
felony assault charges against Cassady and
Blackburn because Mynhardt didn’t want
them to suffer.
“(Mynhardt) knows what it is like to suffer,”
Petty said. “He didn’t want them to have the
chance of being convicted of a felony. He is
not that kind of person."