Letter from the chair

Every year I think things can’t get any better than last year, and yet they do! We were sorry to lose some long-time adjuncts from last year, but have been able to add some great new people who have brought new ideas and new ways of teaching to our department.

Maria Stover took a sabbatical this year, and while we missed her teaching, we are thrilled about her book project and what that means for her reputation as a media expert and for her contribution to the media field.

Charles Cranston’s movies are available on Amazon, both “Through Martha’s Eyes” and “High Value.” Cranston and JaeYoon Park also have video projects in mind for the future, so we’ll see lots more from the film and video area.

Frank Chorba continues to work on the website for Follansbee, W. Va. He’s brought many stories and photos of wonderful historical events and an interesting history of sports in the area.

Regina Cassell’s position as Director of Student Media has really grown over the 10 years she has been here — Student Media continues to expand with radio and a great web and social media presence.

We are all very proud of the changes we made in our curriculum a few years ago. We’re seeing that pay off in the internships and jobs our students have received.

We are hoping to add something new next year—a last Friday workshop. We brought in an expert in mobile marketing this spring and hope to bring in more next year. The media field changes so quickly and there are so many experts (including our graduates!) that we can draw on to help expand our regular semester offerings.

We are excited about the possibilities for new knowledge this will bring to students.

Archive photo Kathy Menzie finishes her fifth year as chair of the department.

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High achievements Dancing Blues win national title

The Dancing Blues claimed the title of American Dance/Drill Team Collegiate National Champions for Division II March 23. The competition took place at the University of North Texas.

It was hosted by the American Dance/Drill Team organization and featured collegiate dance teams from across the region. Dance teams from 17 states competed in this year’s competition. To win the national honor, the Dancing Blues were judged on content/choreography, showmanship/presentation, execution/precision and technique.

“I absolutely did not expect to win,” said Angie Price, coach, “It’s really hard to know how the judges are going to think. I was in shock but in my opinion they were the best performance.”

The Dancing Blues were first out of eight schools competing in that division. They were also recognized as having the second highest grade point average of all the Division II teams competing at the event.

Brooke Rollinson, a member of the Dancing Blues, is majoring in mass media with an emphasis in public relations. She graduated in May 2013.

By Fatima Oubaid

Photo Courtesy of San Francisco 49ers

#57 Michael Wilhoite plays in Super Bowl

Photo Courtesy of the Dancing Blues

Michael Wilhoite, 2010, had a great opportunity when he played in Super Bowl XLVII against another Washburn alumnus, Cary Williams, who played for the Baltimore Ravens. Wilhoite, #57, was playing for the San Francisco 49ers and was the special teams captain in the NFC Cham-pionship game.

Wilhoite was a three-year captain for the Ichabods, where he earned honorable mention all MIAA honors as a senior after recording 81 tackles. He finished his Washburn career with 203 total tackles, which is 20th on the all-time Washburn chart.

“It’s rare enough to have one player reach the Super Bowl, but we’ve had a gift in having two reach the Super Bowl, and they are both key contributors to the game,” said Washburn head coach Craig Schurig. “It shows that you can overcome and there are not any limits that players can put on themselves, and that they can make it to the highest level from Washburn.”

Wilhoite was a public relations major within the mass media department.

By Michelle Boltz

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Sabbatical leads to book

Maria Stover spends fall 2012 doing researchBy Lauren Doherty

Maria Stover, associate mass media professor, is writing a book about women in politics. For seven years, Stover has been researching female politicians and noticed that many of the books published focused on the western hemi-sphere rather than the whole world.

She wanted to learn more about women in politics in countries like Egypt and South Africa that do not have an established democracy.

“The West needs to know about these emerging democ-racies,” said Stover, giving another reason to write the book.

The title of her upcoming book is “Women, Politics and Media from Emerging Democracy.”

Since August of 2012, she has been working on the book. Stover sent out an e-mail explaining her project and wondered if scholars would suggest topic ideas for addi-tional chapters. She received many responses, and e-mails came from all over the world including Turkey, Romania and India.

“The ability to connect from different backgrounds from

all over the world was amazing,” she said.Her plan is to include as many countries and emerging

democracies as possible. The book is already going to be lengthy because it has

23 chapters so far. Stover has published chapters in books such as “Women in Higher Education” by Marian Meyers, and “Gender, Sexuality/ies and the Media” by Karen Ross. Through her experiences she has learned that it takes two years from the time of writing to getting published.

She is working with Bloomsbury Publishing with pro-jected publication date during spring of 2014.

“It is a privilege to work with Maria Stover. She is knowledgeable, scholarly and has experience from being around the world,” said Kathy Menzie, mass media depart-ment chair. “This book will be a reference for many schol-ars,” said Menzie.

Though the project is time consuming, especially now that her sabbatical is officially over, Stover enjoys find-ing information. “I love research. I have a passion for research,” she said.

Photo by Jessie Salmans

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Adjuncts add expertise

Diverse media professionals help students prepare for the real world

With a small department staff, adjuncts offer the exper-tise and experience to complement the faculty.

“We need adjuncts to cover extra classes,” said Kathy Menzie, associate professor and chair of the mass media de-partment. “We have adjuncts with specific expertise that they bring to the department and the students.”

The department currently has six adjunct professors, teaching two to three classes per semester. The full-time fac-ulty staff can only cover 60 hours of classes per semester.

“Adjunct teachers bring a depth of experience to the stu-dents,” said Menzie. “When you only have one teacher, you have only that teacher’s experience.”

Eugene Williams, the general manager of KTWU Chan-nel 11 TV station, taught Advertising 2 this spring, but he has taught everything except finance and accounting. He has an undergraduate degree in broadcast and film, went to en-gineering school and received an associate degree, and also earned a MBA in business.

“Teaching is really an art form, there is a lot of science to

it; you have to do research,” he said. “Everybody can tell a story, but it has to be intellectual, scholarly and entertaining. Those are some of the basic things you need. That’s what makes it an art form.”

Washburn’s diverse student body brings different chal-lenges to the classroom.

“I love to have a mixture of students, young to old; my oldest student is 81,” Williams said. “That really challenges the instruc-tor.”

Lisa Coble-Krings, an adjunct professor who teaches the online sec-tion for the mass media boot camp class, agrees. She works at the Topeka Shawnee County Public Library.

“I love the student body, it is made up of students from lots of different backgrounds, like age, social, eco-nomically, military, some have family,

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By Mike Goehring Adjunct professor Eugene Williams presents the Outstanding Student Award in Public Relations to Wanda Hin-ton, his executive assistant at KTWU at the 2013 mass media banquet.

Photo by Kelsey Wagers

Lisa Coble-Krings

and some don’t. You are challenged with a diverse student body, as a teacher this is really eye opening, because it re-forms your perception of what a college student is,” she said.

Coble-Krings has a background in web production and content creation, and she brings experience in social media for PR and marketing, as well as editing to Washburn. She has taught at the university from 2009 through 2010 and then again from August 2012 to the present.

“I push myself as far as a full time professor because that’s what the students really deserve. Teaching is anxiety provoking because of the standards you have to live up to. All the professors at the mass media department really raise the bar pretty high,” she said.

Coble-Krings received her mas-ters degree from the University of Kansas.

Another mass media graduate Sarah Van Dalsem, began teaching Introduction to Mass Media for the department, and she will teach Cre-ative Media Writing in the fall. She is a communication strategist for the Washburn University Foundation.

Mike Merriam, a First Amend-ment lawyer, continues to teach Mass Media Law for the department.

Beth Davis, a mass media graduate, has taught Creative Media Writing and Creative Advertising. She works in Kan-sas City as a public relations consultant.

Jim Allen, general manager for KTPK-FM radio, has expertise in PR and advertising. His part-nership with the de-partment also provides quality internship opportunities for stu-dents.

“Additional teach-ers bring greater depth of experience to the students,” said Menzie.

With Maria Stover taking her sabbatical during the fall 2012 semester, the mass media department used the strengths of many adjuncts and professors from other departments to cover her course load.

Janet Zoble, an adjunct in the art department, taught Vi-sual Communication, a required class for three emphases. Kathleen Dultmeier, a marketing specialist from Stormont-Vail HealthCare, taught Public Relations II. Gina Penzig, a media specialist at Westar Energy, taught Crisis Communi-cation, an elective that can be beneficial for students in the public relations or creative advertising emphases.

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Semester at Sea provides Public Relations emphasis Emily Juhnke travels the world while earning college credit

Emily Juhnke’s adven-turous voyage began here in the continental U.S. in January and she was gone until late Apriland her trip concluded after visiting 16 cities and 12 countries in 106 days. Excerpts taken from Juhnke’s blog, sp-13voyagearoundtheworld.blogspot.com, where readers can find the complete and fi-nal journal entries.January 11, 2013

Juhnke’s first stop was in Hawaii, before they made the nine hour trip to Tokyo.

“I’m currently out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean sailing towards Hilo, Hawaii aboard the MV Explorer.” January 26, 2013

The voyage from Hawaii to Tokyo was long and far more stressful as Juhnke’s ship fought through the sea’s wrath.

“We are in the middle of a huge storm right now and things are getting crazy. My professor canceled class be-cause it’s impossible to even really function. People are flying against the walls and chairs and other things are falling all over the place. As I’m writing this, I’m strug-gling to stay upright in the

chair I’m sitting in. Accord-ing to the captain, we won’t get out of this storm until halfway through the night. It’s a little after 6 p.m. on the 26th here right now. So we have quite a ways to go through this yet, and they just announced that it will get even worse.”January 29, 2013

Emerging from the storm, Juhnke and her classmates arrived safely in Tokyo.

“We arrived in Yokohama around 8 on the morning of the 27th. It was pretty cold outside, but standing out there to watch us pull into

our first port outside of the United States was worth it.”February 6, 2013

Juhnke continued her travels discovering new ex-periences and the joys of her semester at sea.

“We arrived in Shanghai, China around 8 a.m. on Feb. 3. After getting off the ship, my group made our way down to Yuyuan Garden. Surrounding the garden, there are many shops and highly recommended din-ing places. A friend who has been to Shanghai before said it was a must see, so that is where we decided to go. We

decided to take the 45 minute walk instead of the Metro so we would get to see the city along the way.” February 11, 2013

Boarding the ship, Juhnke left Shanghai and headed to-ward Hong Kong to experi-ence the opera.

“The opera was in West Kowloon Bamboo Theater. I was pretty excited for the performance because I had been learning about this type of opera in my Music Cul-tures course. We were given an English summary before it started, but the show was still hard to follow because

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“I am deathly afraid of snakes and have no idea why in the world I raised my hand when we were asked who wanted to hold it. No idea. Luckily, another girl wanted to do it with me so I wasn’t holding it by myself. It is probably one of the scariest things I have ever done, but I’m glad I was brave enough to do it.

On our last day, today, I went on an orphanage visit. It was amazing. Bringing along stickers turned out to be a great idea.” March 18, 2013

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Juhnke finds it to be a fun ex-perience.

“India is such an incred-ible country. We docked in Cochin, which is in the southern part of India. I didn’t realize how complete-ly different the north is from the south. Those that went on trips to Agra, Delhi, and oth-er places up north had com-pletely different experiences with the people, culture, and ways of life than I did.” March 31, 2013

Spending her Easter Sun-day in Cape Town, South Africa, Juhnke had the op-portunity to head out on a guided safari tour and expe-rience the wild and beautiful scenery.

“We saw many different animals including spring-bok (a form of antelope), giraffes, elephants, hippos, rhinos, wildebeests, zebras, ostrich and lions. I’ve seen all of those animals in zoos before, but seeing them un-caged and out in the wild was an awesome experience.”

Emily wishes her sister a happy birthday from the top of Lions Head Mountain in South Africa.

While in Cape Town, South Africa Emily was able to walk around. (On left) She found the Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu’s statue in Nobel Square and (on right)tried on saris with her friends in India in New Castle, a government shop that was four stories and had all kinds of clothing and accessories to buy.

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Alumni work together at Former Student Media editors cross paths professionally

Graduating from college and finding a “grown-up” job can be pretty frightening. Often, people who are just start-ing out at new jobs find themselves in a new environment where they don’t know anyone. Meeting new co-workers and learning to work with them can be challenging.

But that’s not the case for a group of mass media alumni who now work at The Topeka Capital-Journal. Corey Jones, Josh Rouse, Regina Stephenson, Eric Smith and Chris Mar-shall all began their journalism careers in the basement of the Memorial Union working for the Washburn Review.

“It’s great. I like going to work every day and seeing people that I’ve known, in some cases, since high school,” said Rouse. “I’m really comfortable working with them. We know each other’s strengths. I’m working with some of my best friends from college.”

Even their boss will agree the relationships bring ben-efits to the workplace.

“They are obviously good friends and good co-workers,” said Tomara Quinn, editor and director of reader develop-ment for the Capital-Journal. “But what I find interesting is how they work together and raise the level of their work. They have brought a good attitude to the newsroom.”

Jones, 2009, has worked at the Capital-Journal for more

than eight years. He started off as a part timer, working four days a week in the sports section and gradually moved up to full time.

He’s currently a news reporter and also works shifts on the copy desk. When he covers the cops beat, he listens to police scanners and goes out and reports on whatever breaking news is happening, such as homicides and serious car accidents.

“Breaking news gets you out of the office,” said Jones. “You’re tweeting and taking down notes. It’s enjoyable to get out and talk to people and meet people.”

Rouse, 2012, had previous experience at the Capital-Journal as a student, but he returned this year as full-time staff. He is a copy editor and his job has him reading through stories and editing them to make sure there are no errors before they are printed.

“A lot of the things I learned at Washburn came from working in Student Media,” said Rouse.

Stephenson, 2011, began working at the Capital-Journal in November 2012. She is an online editor who reads, cor-rects and makes sure stories have good headlines and pho-tos to go with them. As an online editor, Stephenson is in charge of sending out emergency emails to all of the Cap-ital-Journal subscribers whenever there is an emergency.

Smith, 2009, has worked at the Capital-Journal for five years and is a copy editor and reporter. He works as a copy editor four days a week and lays out pages for the newspa-per. He also listens to the police scanner and reports on the police beat Thursday evenings, which requires him to meet story deadlines that need to go online or off to printing right away.

“If there’s a police shooting at 9:30, I call it in and some-one types it up right away,” said Smith.

Smith was a history major at Washburn and was unsure of what he wanted to do. Marshall, 2009, was the one re-sponsible for getting him interested in media. Now Mar-

By Lillian Moss

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Alumni work together at

shall works as a copy editor for both the news and sports sections. At Washburn, he was known for his Marshall Arts cartoons, and he has had some opportunity to develop that at the CJ as well.

These alumni understand the value of a diverse skill set, and all have experience with online, copy editing, photog-raphy, social media and of course, reporting.

“In addition to good camraderie, this group has been able to pick up and take on new responsibilities within the newsroom, wich is great because we do quite a bit of cross-training here,” said Quinn.

And this group also has a good work ethic.“Be willing to be that person that meets deadlines,” said

Stephenson. “And know that your skills will cross over.”Not everyone who works at the CJ graduated from Wash-

burn, but the school is well represented within the overall staff that includes healthy numbers from Kansas State Uni-versity and the University of Kansas.

“The people who work here are really cool,” said Smith. “They all have the same interests as you, and there are a lot of both veterans and young people.”

Corey Jones, Eric Smith, Josh Rouse, Regina Stephenson and Chris Marshall, began their journalism careers at the Washburn Review. Now they work together at the Topeka Capital-Journal.

Topeka Capital-Journal

Photo by Tricia Peterson

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Students attend the College Media Association Conference in the Big Apple

Media Students take off to New York City

Student Media experienced a transformation this spring. Using a Washburn Transformational Experience the group was able to go to the College Media Association Conference in New York City.

Eight members of Student Media, plus their adviser Regina Cassell, took the trip to the Big Apple. The conference featured media professionals, high level executive keynote speakers and thousands of students from colleges across the country. There were more than 250 unique sessions planned for four days, and the students learned a great deal of information to help them in their media careers.

“My favorite part of the trip was what I took away from it,” said Farai Harreld, reporter for the Review. “I loved how all the speakers had a visible passion for the work they were speaking about such as how to be self sufficient as a freelance writer or how your online presence affects your chances of being hired by future employers.”

The group completed one of Washburn’s Transformational Experiences in order to afford the trip. The program will provide the means for Student Media to use the information learned from the conference to create training modules that

will help Student Media provide meaningful training for its employees. Each student had to participate in a cultural aspect on their New York trip. Kayla Norton went to see “Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway, Tricia Peterson ate at various New York restaurants, including one in China Town. A group of students went to the Empire State Building. Kelly Hurla, senior mass media major and arts and entertainment editor, attended various comedy clubs.

One keynote speaker that many students attended was Jason Wagenheim, vice president and publisher of Teen Vogue. Kayla Norton also went on a media tour, offered by the conference, to the Teen Vogue headquarters. As someone who strives to work somewhere like Teen Vogue, Norton thought his keynote speech was inspiring.

“After his message on the breakdown of an interview, it helped me know what to expect from an interview and a big time corporation,” said Norton. “I am so excited about what I can now accomplish because of the pointers and opportunities that I got.”

In April, students were able to share their experiences with the campus community at the Day of Transformation.

by Tricia Peterson

Photo by Fatima OubaidSome of the students visit the Empire State Building. The visibility was low, but they still had a good time and ended the night with a limo ride back to the hotel.

For additional information about the trip, check out the blog: Newyorkcityrocks2013.blogspot.com

Photo by Fatima OubaidMass Media students pose in front of Carlo’s Bake Shop in NYC. They traveled to New Jersey by a Port Authority train and waited more than 30 minutes to order their baked goods.

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Advanced Media LabBy Michelle Boltz

Advanced Media Lab is one of the required core classes in the mass media curriculum. It replaced Senior Seminar and gives students the opportunity to pursue various proj-ects that can help create valuable work for a portfolio.

The spring 2013 class was taught by Charles Cranston. Student projects were diverse. Some studnets produced their own films. Others created websites for outside compa-nies or graphic design projects.

Faculty members were invited during presentation days to offer additional feedback and see student work.

“I was impressed with the work and the obvious thought that went into the projects,” said department chair Kathy Menzie. “I loved seeing how much the students have learned during their time here.”

Digital Film and VideoArissa Utemark, a

senior in the film and video emphasis, worked on a short film called “Breakfast Food.”

The film takes place in a small diner during the early morning, star-ring a girl who is hung over. She meets a guy and is rude to him be-cause she isn’t expect-ing him to be a decent guy. Later, she goes to visit him where he works. He is a chef and sends her a fancier version of the diner food they first experienced together.

Utmark’s film was one of four films that were created. Douglass Knighten created a documentary about aban-doned buildings in Topeka while Jake Livgren worked with a partner to create the first of what the duo hopes will be scenes for a feature-length film.

Photo by Regina Cassell All mass media students end their course work in Advanced Media Lab, which focuses on the application of skills they learned in classes.

Screen shot from Arissa Utemark’s short film, “Breakfast Food.”

Contemporary JournalismTricia Peterson, a senior in the contemporary journal-

ism emphasis, is working on a website for her own catering company, Two Chefs Catering. Peterson, and her husband, Ryan Peterson, have been in business for two years. They cater for many special events such as business meetings, weddings and graduations. At the clients’ requests, they will custom-make their menu for their needs.

“My husband and I started a catering business after we graduated culinary school together,” said Peterson. “We are in the process of making a name for ourselves, and I figured that creating a website with active social media would help get our name out there.”

Peterson, who has served as the editor-in-chief of the Washburn Review, has extensive experience with writing, social media, Adobe’s design products, blogging and web-site maintenance. These skills are critical to help the couple market their business more.

To find out more information about Two Chefs Catering, visit their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pages/two-chefs-catering.

Other students in contemporary journalism focused on graphic design work, websites and blogs.

Photo by Tricia Peterson Pete Nicklin presents his brochure project for Riverside Marketing.

Public RelationsJerrica Bachmann, a senior in the public relations em-

phasis, is working on a website for a local photographer/art studio. “Visions of Joy” is a con-temporary website full of works of art and photography done by pho-tographer and artist Joy Ward.

Bachmann can’t wait to get the website published. She is hoping that the site gets a lot of traffic and helps increase Ward’s business.

“Working with a new client and trying to please them and what they envision is something all new to me,” said Bachmann. “I enjoy get-ting to work with someone else and their ideas.”

For more information regard-ing Wards’ art, visit her website at www.visionsofjoy.me.

Several student projects focused on helping local com-panies develop a more effective web presence. Senior Lyn-da Zook decided to build her own website from scratch to increase her knowledge of html.

Creative AdvertisingKiara Williams, a senior creative advertising emphasis,

is helping a small business owner with her graphic design needs. Kretyen Fair Trade Gifts & Coffee is a specialty shop located in Lawrence, Kan. Kretyen carries diverse products from around the world.

Customers can find handcrafted items, or-ganic whole bean coffee, organic teas, and chocolate inside the small store. Fair trade benefits all; especially the world’s most dis-advantaged.

Her project is beneficial to Debra Rukes, sole proprietor of Kretyen Fair Trade Gifts & Coffee. Rukes does not have the time to design her own ads and the required soft-ware to create them is expensive. Williams has also redesigned the store’s gift certifi-cates and plans to continue to help Kretyen with its advertising needs. Throughout the

semester, Williams designed Kretyen’s seasonal ads that ran in the Lawrence Journal-World.

For more information about Kretyen Fair Trade Gifts & Coffee, visit the website at www.kretyenfairtrade.com.

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Outside the classroom

AirBods and TriBods continue to provide unique opportunities for Washburn students who share media interests. Both organizations are in their second years and focused on growth.

“People still don’t know about it. Although last semester we had 13,000 live hits, the best so far,” said Kara Protasio, junior mass media. “We have a new audio board that has improved broadcast quality.” She also points out that a growing listener base really depends on adding diverse programming and increasing paid sponsorship.

“We’re always looking for new show ideas and hosts. Any student can get a good experience out of this, anyone who likes to talk. The hardest part is getting advertising,” said Protasio.

“Shows that get the most audience are ‘News Bucket’ and ‘True Blue,’” said Bradley Hernandez, junior mass media. “These shows get on average 100 to 300 hits a week.” Hernandez is the host of “True Blue,” a weekly review of electronic games and technology. He enjoys sharing his passion for gadgets and trends.

“ I like the ability to interact with people. They can call in and talk about things they enjoy,” said Hernandez. “ I also go buy gadgets people wouldn’t necessarily buy. I can try them out before they go spend their money.”

Shaun Collins, junior mass media, is another Airbod host and a driving force behind Washburn’s student film club, TriBods. The group has 70 members. This year TriBods has sponsored three events.

“On Halloween, we did ‘War Of The Worlds,’ HG Wells original radio broadcast,” said Collins. “We also, in conjunction with the documentary film class, put on ‘Documenters.’ This off-campus event highlighted an in-depth study of three short documentary films for students and the public. The group also sponsored one spring activity.

“We are kind of the voice on campus for Planet Comicon Kansas City,” said Collins. “This is the area’s largest geek fest so to speak.” Planet Comicon includes appearances by several sci-fi and comic media stars.

“I think we could really have some interesting things happen,” said Collins.

By Lynda Zook

Photo Courtesy of Regina Cassell Media majors Paul Smith, Kara Protasio and Jake Wingo prep for their weekly radio show, Bow Tie Sports Talk. The show was created by Protasio in the Fall 2012 semester as a way to expand the program.

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Courses add diversity

New courses within the department expand curriculum

The Mass Media department continues to provide op-portunities for Washburn students to explore new topics. In the Spring 2013 semester, Jae Yoon Park offered Women, Gender and Television as a Mass Media elective course.

Park proposed and designed this class as well as Ameri-can Film History, which will be offered during Summer 2013.

“Women, Gender and Television examines primetime T.V. from the 1950s through present day. The class focuses on how shows have shaped or even challenged social dis-courses of gender and sexuality,” said Park.

The Mass Media department is working on a possible elective that would be available in the summer of 2014 at the earliest. At this time, this course has been named Media Promotions.

“The focus is how to use social media and the online world to market and promote yourself and your product,” said Park.

The Media Promotions course will be focused on content creation and how to let other people know about those cre-ations. Students will learn public relations strategies and

may visit other Mass Media classes in order to promote the projects of other students.

“I love to encourage faculty to teach classes in subjects they are interested in--not just the regular things, but in-teresting topics like gender, history, creativity, etc.,” said Kathy Menzie, Mass Media department chair.

Students seem to be just as invested in their elective courses as their required courses and the level of atten-dance is about the same.

“Students are generally interested and passionate and take the courses seriously,” said Park.

Many things go into creating an entirely new course, such as finding an effective book and creating lesson plans.

“Now, while it is fun, it is also a lot harder--often there isn’t a book or an already established list of topics,” said Menzie. “So faculty have to work harder to plan these classes. I admire faculty who are willing to make the time commitment and who want to accept the challenges inher-ent in planning wonderful, interesting new courses.”

In addition to cross-listing courses from other depart-ments, mass media continues to expand its course offerings.

By Chloe Majors

Photo by Tricia Peterson Film and video students gather at the mass media banquet. From left, Kelly Hurla, Mike Goehring , Brad Pechenec, Jake Livgren, Douglass Knighten and Mike Ford.

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Mass Media escapes to...

Mass Media department recognizes outstanding students

The mass media department took a trip to Rio this year for the annual banquet. Decorated with bright colors, feathers and confetti, the banquet, themed Rio Carnival, was in the Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center.

As with every year, Kathy Menzie’s Public Relations 2 class planned and ran the banquet. Amanda Narverud, senior mass media major, was part of the committee in charge of promoting the banquet and selling tickets.

“I worked with two other classmates to create materi-als to get the word out about the banquet,” said Narverud. “We designed flyers that were put around campus, created a Facebook event page and sent out reminder emails to the mass media students.”

With social media and a limited budget, the class was surprised at the turnout. Narverud pointed out that students like to see who else is planning to attend so Facebook came in handy.

“The hardest part of putting on the banquet was deal-ing with the very limited budget,” said Narverud. “We tried to use free forms of publicity to get the word out about the event, things like social media and word of mouth.”

This year’s guest speaker was Michael Wunsch who is the co-owner and founder of Outpost Worldwide, a content production company located in Kansas City. He spoke about his experiences in the field and gave advice to the students. He’s had the opportunity to travel around the world and work with important stars in the film industry, such as Dick Van Dyke, Joe Montana and Andy Williams to name a few.

“This is a field you can never get tired of because ev-ery day is a new experience,” said Wunsch. “I am fortunate enough to have produced or filmed a video on every conti-nent, except Antarctica.”

The banquet continued with Jake Livgren’s showing of his music video he filmed for JaeYoon Park’s Digital Film-

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Photos by Mike GoehringJust over a 100 students and guests came out to the 2013 mass media banquet and enjoyed their meal while listening to guest speaker Michael Wunsch, co-owner of Outpost Worldwide.

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making 2 class. The music video featured a local band called Monk’s Wine and was filmed on Washburn’s own campus.

“We had three major assignments for the end of the se-mester [for Filmmaking 2], an interview, a short film and a music video,” said Livgren. “This is the fourth music video I have shot, and [my partner] helped with the live segment of the video but I [shot] all the other segments and edited it myself so it kind of became my own thing.”

Dotty Hanger, Peggy of the Flint Hills’ daughter, was a special guest who said a few words before scholarships were handed out. Peggy of the Flint Hills’s real name was Zula Bennington Greene, and she wrote a column for the Topeka Capital-Journal from 1933-1988. Scholarships are awarded annually in her honor.

Students who received scholarships included Zoe Brown, Elizabeth Burgett, Haley Heincker, Jeri Fowler, Jordan Loomis, Amanda Narverud, Ryan Ogle, Fatima Ou-baid, Bradley Pechanec, Patricia Peterson and Lynh Tran.

Each year mass media faculty select an outstanding stu-dents of the year from each emphasis. Wanda Hinton was named outstanding student in public relations emphasis.

“I am truly honored to have been named an Outstanding Student in Public Relations,” said Hinton. “It is due to all of the excellent Mass Media faculty (especially my adviser, Dr. Kathy Menzie) and their challenging assignments.”

Other outstanding students named include Morgan Mc-Grath, creative advertising, Au-driana Monteith, digital film and video, and Tricia Peterson for con-temporary jour-nalism.

Three stu-dents, Kara Pro-tasio, Drew Eg-noske and Lynn Trahn were in-ducted into the Society of Colle-giate Journalists.

Morgan McGrathCreative Advertising

Tricia PetersonContemporary Journalism

Audriana MonteithDigital Film & Video

Wanda HintonPublic Relations

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Photo by Mike GoehringThe 2013 Society of Collegiate Journalist inductees include Kara Protasio, Drew Eg-noske and Lynn Trahn. Maria Stover led the induction ceremony.

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Alumni class notesKate Arroyo, 2013, has been accepted to several law schools and has chosen to attend University of the Dis-trict of Columbia – David A. Clarke School of Law.

Kristina (Wright) Baker, 2010, is currently enlisted in the Air Force, working with radio and satellite transmis-sions. She married fellow Washburn alumnus Haden Baker, and resides in Japan.

Mikki Burcher, 2010 is a research associate at GO Topeka. She will continue to work on her master’s in strategic communications at KU next year.

Lydia Becker-Housh, 2006, is the sales and marketing manager and co-owner of Becker Autos and Trailers

in Beloit, and at the location in Salina, Kan. She mar-ried Blake Housh in 2011 and lives in Beloit. They are expecting their first child in July 2013.

Louis Bourdeau, 2007, is currently enrolled in the Masters of Criminal Justice Program at Washburn.

Brian Dulle, 2012, is a digi-tal media executive produc-er for Kansas First News.

Andrew Dunlap, 2009, is currently an account coor-dinator at Allebach Com-munications, a boutique creative agency outside of Philadelphia. He also runs MidcoastStation.com, an entertainment news and re-view blog that he cofounded

in 2011.

Vicki Estes, 1998, is direc-tor of communications and market engagement with Kennedy and Coe LLC.

Sarah Farlee, 2008, is Direc-tor of Marketing and Spe-cial Projects at High Plains Journal in Dodge City, Kan.

Anthony Fast, 2012, is Mar-keting Manager for Butter-fly Labs in Kansas City.

Stephanie Gigous-Moore, 2005, is graphic designer/multimedia specialist for the State of Kansas, Kansas Public Employees Retire-ment Systems.

Tyler Graf, 2004, is corpo-rate accountant for Tote Inc. in Seattle, Wash.

Justin Gutirrez, 2011, is self-employed as a video technician for the NHRA on ESPN2, and technical director for the NHRA on ESPN3.com.

Kate Hampson, 2010, works in the Communica-tions and Public Involv-ment office for the City of Fort Collins, Colo. She is a publicity and marketing specialist.

Anna Henry, 2011, is mar-

keting director for Nutra-Center Supplements and Probulin out of Topeka.

Briana Holmes, 2011, works at Heartland Vision-ing, and was a finalist for Topeka’s Association for Women Communications 2013 Headliner Awards.

Amanda Hughes, 2000, is assistant director of uni-versity relations at Wash-burn University. In April 2012, she won the Student Life Achieving Excellence Award.

Curtis Kitchen, 2002, cur-rently covers Kansas State football and basketball for 610 (KCSP) Sports in Kan-sas City. He is also a pro-duction editor for Broadcast Engineering magazine in Kansas City.

Kris Klima, 2005, is the Director of Admissions at Washburn University.

Amanda Klinkenberg-Bay-less, 2010, works for Amer-ican Family Insurance as an agent assistant. Her son, Will, was born in September 2012.

Misty Kruger, 2007, is a public information officer at Shawnee County Health Agency. Kruger is also serv-

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By Mike Goehring Jessie Salmans, Chelsey Moran, and Chelsea McDonald all mass media students showed up to the banquet to celebrate other students achievements.

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Jitsu Academy. Merrill won two golds at the World Grappling Circuit Torque Open in Arlington, Texas, in March. He has also with teaching self-defense and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at Topeka Jiu Jitsu. Merrill’s performance in Texas allows him to compete at the Europa Super Show Texas in Dallas in August free of charge. He works as a special education paraprofessional for the USD 501 school district and also teaches a yoga class and volunteers for the Easter Seals Capper Foundation. Merrill has been writing for the WNAP Podcast Unknown.

Corey “MOPOP” Merrill, 2007, (left) with Marc Monaco, owner and head instructor at Topeka Jiu

ing as vice president of the Kansas Association of Pub-lic Information Officers as well as president of the To-peka Downtown Optimist Club.

Josh Lehman, 2011, is an administrative assistant with Shawnee County Parks and Recreation. Leman also teaches beginning guitar classes.

Sheena LeMay-Nelssen, 2012, is a photographer for the Topeka Roadrunners hockey team and is expect-ing her first child in July 2013.

Thad Lockard, 2008, is a sales representative for Kalos, Inc. in Topeka. Lock-ard is also vice president of RLI (Referral Leaders In-

ternational) Topeka Chap-ter. He is also an authorized distributor for Etatics for the region.

Angie Marquart, 2009, is the campaigns coordinator at CivicPlus in Manhattan, Kan. Her daughter, Char-lotte Grau, was born July 26, 2012.

Ashley Nadeau, 2011, is marketing coordinator/ head copywriter at Personalized Brokerage Services.

Daphne Phillips, 2012, is an admissions adviser at Na-tional American University in Overland Park, Kan.

Maggie Robinson, 2009, is working at Barton Commu-nity College in the admis-sions office.

Photo courtesy of Corey Merrill

And special thanks to all of our sponsors and contributors.

Josh Rouse, 2012, became a full-time copy editor for the Topeka Capital-Journal in October, 2012

Tara Schroeder, 2009, joined Trozzolo Communi-cations group as an account manager in 2012. She is also a head instructor for the Na-tional Dance Alliance.

Jordan Shefte, 2011, is a re-porter for KAKE Television in Wichita, Kan.

Mallory Shehi, 2012, is graphic designer for the Osage County Herald Chronicle.

Melissa Sowers, 2012, is Leasing Director at Northrock Apartments and Marketing Assistant for all of Mid-Land Management properties.

Beth Warrington, 2004, earned her master of science degree in Criminal Justice from Washburn in Decem-ber 2012.

Ernie Webb III, 1998, will married Shana Curtis in June 2013.

Rob Welcher, 2011, is the marketing manager for CD Tradepost.

Leslie Welker-Kruger, 2010, is creative production assistant for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas.

Tricia White, 2008, is mar-keting communications spe-cialist for Security Benefit.

Rachel Whitten, 2010, is the director of communications for the speaker of the Kan-sas House of Representa-tives.

Krystal Wiltz, 2008, is di-rector of operations at Cross the Line Church and admin-istrative/marketing assistant at Lincoln Harris.

Molly Zeckser-Howey, 2008, is marketing and busi-ness development manager for GO Topeka.

In memory:

George Logan, a former ad-junct professor in the mass communications depart-ment died in January 2013.

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