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Administrator — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 03:44:13 +0000

our new site is up at brown.edu/Students/INDY/cms. All home links should redirect there. as it’s a new cms system with a built in blog (to be implemented later), this blog is pretty much closed for comments. if u still want to comment, u must register and log in before posting. you can also now reach us at theindy.org thanks

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campus journalism project award

Administrator — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:22:48 +0000

if you didnt know about the cjp award we won, an updated link is online now: http://www.indypress.org/site/cjp/awards.html

Themed Issues Are Decided!

claire — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:08:51 +0000

Well folks, it’s that time, the time when we tell you what our themed issues are going to be. Take note that there will only be TWO themed issues for the semester, although individual sections will hopefully have themes on different weeks (more on this later).

And well, I (or I should say Ben and I) are going to have to do some awkward, indelicate backtracking. Right now. Because the thing is, we had a vote. We had a semblance of a democratic process. But that was all really a sham, because we’re actually going to completely disregard the results of the vote. The themes you guys voted for were Intellectual Diversity and Naughty. Ben and I didn’t like either of them, so we’re shamelessly overturning the vote. It’s not like we don’t think there’s some merit to both (sections can still pick them up), but we just didn’t think they would yield the most artistic potential. So yeah. You thought you were coming in to a community of likeminded individuals, a public arena where your views would be respected and incorporated into the whole, but you were wrong. This will be the first of many small disappointments you will face as an Indy editor, so that by the end of the semester you’ll be so disillusioned you’ll want to committ hara kiri. That’s what this is all about–making you guys suicidal with frustration.

Anyway, with that said, here are the themes:

THE CHARACTER BUILDING ISSUE
THE UNABATED UNREQUITED LOVE ISSUE

Comments? Questions? Leave them here, please. And start thinking about what these themes mean to you.

Ammunition for our battles with the UFB?

CH — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:45:10 +0000

I thought I’d post part of an email from Erica Sagrans, who was managing editor with me in Fall 2004. You may have noticed our lone award plaque hanging in Faunce 302 (for Best Anti-War Coverage in 2003, whatever that means), but now that plaque’ll have some company:

“The Indy won the Independent Press Association’s award for Best Independent Campus Publication of the Year!!!!!

Go us. Sarah Goldstein’s article about homelessness in Providence also won for Best Investigative Reporting. We are great. But don’t let it go to your head.

In case you are wondering who exactly this is, giving us an award and all, they are actually a legitimate organization. The Independent Press Association publishes magazines including MotherJones, Harpers, the Nation, Ms., and The Boston Review, not to mention Maximum Rock ‘n Roll and Surf Life for Women. (www.indypress.org and www.indypress.org/cjp/index.html).”

Congratulations to you all–because if you weren’t already an editor last year, you were probably doing the articles and illustrations that helped us win.

–ch

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The Themed Issue Vote

claire — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:41:44 +0000

Ok guys, here’s what I propose: We have eighteen themed issue suggestions. We have I think ten issues of the Indy in the fall semester. I propose that five of those be themed. If you have objections to this, we can modify the number. So I’m going to list the possibilities that were submitted by you. Everyone should vote on this blog on their THREE favorites. They can be your own. The five issues with the most votes will be the five themed issues this coming semester. Once we have them settled, we can start working on them. This should be really fun. If I just did something really wrong with math, and this will not work out, tell me.

Ideas:
THE SAME SENTENCE IN EVERY ARTICLE ISSUE
THE SAME SINGLE INVENTED WORD IN ALL THE ARTICLES ISSUE
THE INTERNET ISSUE
THE CROSSOVER ISSUE (Different people do different sections, editors collaborate)
THE WORDLESS ISSUE
THE INTELLECTUAL DIVERSITY ISSUE
THE FOOD ISSUE
THE NAUGHTY ISSUE
THE REFLEXIVE ISSUE
THE ACADEMIC PARADIGMS ISSUE
THE ELITISM ISSUE
THE PALESTINIAN ISSUES ISSUE
THE SLANDEROUS ISSUE
THE UNABATED UNREQUITED LOVE ISSUE
THE THEMED ISSUE
THE CHARACTER BUILDING ISSUE
THE INDEPENDENT NEWS ISSUE
THE NOSTALGIA ISSUE

Theme and Column Ideas

bcarlson — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:15:12 +0000

Apologies for my absence from the discussion. I have been travelling and moving with frantic intensity to prepare for work this summer. Now that I have everything settled, of course, I am about to embark on my next dereliction of duty in Costa Rica, though the fact that it is a non-proseltyzing church trip makes me pretty immune to rebuke.

First, a general comment about the themes suggested so far: they all sound great. However, we should start giving some thought to the mechanics of actually implementing two or three of them. If we are serious about pulling off at least one theme issue, which I am, then it is important to set out at least a rudimentary game plan. For some of the more creative ideas, we might have to count on writing all the articles ourselves (it would be too much to ask of our writers) so the more advance notice we give ourselves, the less likely that insurmountable conflicts will prevent it from being executed to our satisfaction.

Having said that, I especially liked Sarah’s idea of starting every article with the same sentence (or some variation on that idea). It could very easily be done, and would impose little grief on the writers. In fact, I think that the whole exercise of trying to shoehorn a prefab sentence organically into a wholly unrelated piece could be fun. Along those same lines, it occurred to me that we could ask our writers to use a word of our invention, using the Indy as a launchpad for new coinages. All the OED requires for inclusion is a handful of published citations, so we could be the hagblatters of plich, if we so gerrusted.

Other, more half-baked ideas that sprang unbeckoned from my insomniac skull: a weekly, unremittingly morbid (or mystically incomprehensible) horoscope; a Crossover issue (sections are fused, editors collaborate on “interdisciplinary” pieces a la LiterarySports); the Wordless issue (kind of like the proposed comics issue but entirely illustrated and with the intent of actually putting a full article’s content into a single artistic interpretation). That’s all I got for now.

Loving summer, looking forward to seeing you guys, playing with dogs and admiring art –BEN

web wants

jason — Wed, 25 May 2005 14:40:41 +0000

if theres anything you want to see changed with the website or anything else you wanna see the indy do on the web, drop a comment.

I’m a blog-virgin. Until now.

Jbyrd — Tue, 24 May 2005 01:39:38 +0000

Hey Indies, I’m glad to be a part of this team. I’m not sure exactly how to use a blog– and perhaps others feel the same way?– so those who are experts should not be shy to leave helpful hints. Anyway, I’m looking forward to next semester with this fine literary crew. I have been thinking about possible themes for Indy issues. How bout we think of a few ubiquitous academic theories that can be related to any argument or subject matter (”nature v. nurture”, “moral relativism”, etc.) and have an issue based on these? Of course, they will probably actually relate to most of the articles in some way, but the joke (if it is a joke) might be to see how we can frame seemingly-unrelated pieces in these ways, i.e. A review of the new Roots album framed as a point-counterpoint between art and science. It might work. We would either come across as snobby, or as revolutionaries trying to undermine the snobberies of academia. Or it would just be conusing. We’d have to think hard about it. Real hard.

Anyway, I’m off to bed. Just something to get a ball rolling. Love to all, and all to love.

Josh