Vermilion has nothing positive to say...

[Pirogue]

More specifically, the sports section.
I am out of town, and I wasn't aware of an online version, but is there a problem?
Are no students interested in sports?
The Senior Sports Editor's name is Kemisha Ware, and she penns all of the sports articles including "The Point After," an editorial dealing with everything sports that pre dates my time at the Verm

In two successive weeks "The Point After," has been about 1] Martin Luther King's Birthday and 2] Black History month...

In an article about the recent Basketball success, she opened with something like, Not since the 1950's when Beryl Shipley was coaching has there been this much excitement.

Shipley didn't strat coaching until 1957, and his best teams were in the late 60s early 70s.

The point is, The Verm obviously can not fill a sports editor position, maybe it's budget problems.. maybe I just looked at two really poor editions, but even so, the student newspaper has fallen far... too far.

[CajunCall]

Don't read the Verm much lately. Is that position paid?

[Cajun1997]

Hard to believe that out of all the journalism majors at UL, nobody can do better or nobody else is interested

[Pirogue]

Originally posted by CajunCall
Don't read the Verm much lately. Is that position paid?

Yes it is a paid position.

[CDeb]

Sadly, no, the poor quality of the sports section is not confined to the two issues that you saw.

And regarding journalism majors, heck, I like to think I did an adequate job and I was a mechanical engineering major.

[Turbine]

In recent years I have read a tons worth of Louisiana's Student Newspaer, The Vermilion.

It just seems to me that the current staff spends and inordinate amount of time off campus.

[CDeb]

I agree. Just about the only time I ever covered anything in a "Point After" that wasn't about UL was in the summertime, when UL topics were hard to come by. I think I also strayed when Cal Ripken decided to sit.

[1stTake]

Originally posted by CDeb
I agree. Just about the only time I ever covered anything in a "Point After" that wasn't about UL was in the summertime, when UL topics were hard to come by. I think I also strayed when Cal Ripken decided to sit.

When Cal decided to sit, I stood and clapped. It was long overdue.

[CDeb]

Whether it was overdue or not was debatable (I don't think it was a detriment to his team, yet), but I like Cal a lot and I was very happy that he was able to sit on his own terms. After another year, I don't think that would have been the case.

[Turner]

I love the iron man, he showed what having a goal can do for you.

[CajunCharlie]

And he played because he loved the game!

[Turbine]

When I opened the latest copy of The Vermilion last night I ran across a story that said Gannett (who couldn't get their papers on campus in the past) was now going to give them away. The thought went through my mind I hope the Vermilion doesn't lose its drive and is somehow left in the dust.

I turn to another story and the thought was "Truth is something we should all be searching for in life, wherever we can find it." I said to myself OK I can't argue with that.

Then I turned to another story that said "Journalists rely on the five “W”s in order to give the best-possible information: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Given recent events, however, another “W” seems to have arisen: “_____.”" I was short on time (reading on a bench at Cypress Swamp) but it seemed to me that if the first 5 were enforced there would be no room for a 6th W.

Then I turn to a sports story that no paper could give away, one with little truth, and almost none of the "W" factors you normally require in a story.

I threw the paper in the trash (I used to collect them) and left to do some research at Edith Dupre Library.