"It Don't mean a thing if it aint got that swing....."

Swing high and swing low, or at least that was the theme at Sunday's Corvallis Swing Dance with the Company B Jazz Band.

Walking around down town on Sunday the 24th you might have heard some of there jumpin beats streaming from the upstairs windows of Odd Fellows Hall above New Morning Bakery. People from all over Oregon came to attend this hoppin dance. Including Coyle Parker from Portland who taught the lesson before the dance. 

With a sliding scale for the price at the door, between $7 and $15, it was a very well attended dance. 
 "I don't want anyone to say the didn't come because it was too expensive, so I told people to pay what they felt like they could afford in that price range" said Phil Manijak the Swing Club Coordinator. 

WAIT! I Need to Catch That Bus!

How did you make it to class today? Who would have thought that just getting to class on time would be so hard. For many students transportation is the reason they either did or did not make it to class. Stuck on the side of the road for an hour i experienced this first hand. I luckily have tripple A and was safely returned home but I was left with the delemma of how I was then going to start going to school for the rest of the week. Thanks to the LBCC Transportation page I was able to locate the schedule for the Linn Benton Loop Bus.

This was great! I found a way to get to my class the next day. Only problem......none of the stops were remotely near where I lived. The LB Bus Loop is literally a small loop from LBCC to corvallis going from Harrison to 9th, then from 9th to Circle, and then from Highway 20 back into albany and back to LBCC.

I eventually found a way to get to the closest bus stop via the corvallis city bus but not without some confussion and missing my first bus wich led me to missing my first class of the day.

Flashing Sirons and Red Flags: the 3 things a Journalist should avoid

Who the **** thinks that the president is a good guy? Why in the world would anyone vote for him. He was caught saying "dying puppies are fun to watch" and his wife has been convicted of murder. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. (This is a fabricated paragraph in order to give an example of wrongful journalism and is in no way aimed to give an opinion or statement of truth about the president)

Three Fatal Mistakes. All three of which can be found in the above paragraph. Opinionated Bias, Fabrication, and Plagiarism. And all three of which could get a journalist into a great deal of trouble. Before publishing any kind of story Journalist always needs to be very aware of what they are writing and any liabilities that could be involved if handed out to the public.

What's so wrong with the above paragraph? Seems like it's just someone stating what they think about the president. EXACTLY. It's opinion based. The first sentence could not only be considered offensive for it's language but it also has no facts to back it up. It is completely a matter of opinion.Alfred C. Kinsey stated "We are recorders and reporters of the facts- not judges of the behavior we describe"

Then what about the frabrication? Did the president really state that he likes to watch dying puppies? Is the first lady really a murderer? Of course not. All of these things were a fabrication. A lie or according to dictionary.com it's an untruthful statement. From the textbook Inside Reporting John Hersey was quoted writing "There is one sacred rule of journalism, the writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: None of this was made up."

Lastly the worst journalistic sin of them all: Plagiarism. The claim that something someone else had written was your own handywork. The last sentence in the beginning paragraph is actually plagiarized from the Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a dream" speech. The reason this is considered plagiarized is because it was neither quoted or acknowledged as someone else's statement. This makes the reader assume that it was written by the journalist. There are plagiarism and copyright laws that could cause a journalist to go to court if caught.

So what's the simple solution to writing a good article? Know all of your facts and cite all of your sources.

They Dance Like No One Is Watching

Or at least that is what they hope to be doing by the end of this year. 

 After an excellent start to the new club last year the LBCC Dance Club is looking forward to another year. With new plans for their end of the year performance and a schedule of Dance lessons each term it looks like its going to be a good year for the dance club. 


At A Glance

Who:

LBCC Dance Club

What they do:

Host dance event lessons each term. Give students the opportunity to both perform and/or choreograph a dance at the end of the academic year in a spring concert. 

How to get involved:

Email Katherine Sanders, the academic adviser.

Fall Term Events: 

Hula Workshop: Saturday, Oct. 16  2:30-4:30  with Barbara Landau 
AND  

Contact Improvisation Workshop: Nov. 13th  2-4:30 with Tina Taylor


Do you love dancing? Have you taken one of LB's dance classes and wished you could do something like it more regularly? Then maybe you should consider getting involved with the Dance Club. 

The LBCC Dance Club is an outlet for LB students to express their love of dancing with fellow students.

LBCC

This term I am taking classes at LBCC. I am taking a journalism class that requires me to use my blog to post stories I have written in class.

Summer 2010

Long. Very long and almost never ending. A great deal happened. I made a couple spontaneous decisions that I don't regret yet. (We'll see how that goes) I took a couple summer classes at OSU. Decided I will never do that again. Chinese 111 was good but the other two classes were misserable.

Finally got a cat :D her name is Mei Mei. A portland friend found her near her appartments. The name "little sister" fits her very well.

In the long run my summer this year was not as eventful nor as heartbreaking as last summer. BUT that's probably for the best.