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SPJ's Campus Media Statement
“Student media are designated public forums, and free from censorship and advance approval of content. Because content and funding are unrelated, and because the role of adviser does not include advance review of content, student media are free to develop editorial policies and news coverage with the understanding that students and student organizations speak only for themselves. Administrators, faculty, staff or other agents shall not consider the student media’s content when making decisions regarding the media’s funding or faculty adviser.”
Show the Love: SPJ’s Campus Media Statement Program
The Society of Professional Journalists is asking college administrators to show their love for a free student press by taking a vow that includes these three magic words: “designated public forum.” Continue Reading
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Vice President, Campus Chapter Affairs
Neil Alan Ralston
Western Kentucky University
1906 College Heights Blvd #11070
Bowling Green, KY 42101-1070
(270) 745-5841
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Bio (click to expand)
Neil Ralston serves as a campus adviser at large for SPJ’s national board of directors. He is an assistant professor of journalism at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Ky. Before joining the faculty at Western Kentucky, Ralston was an associate professor of journalism at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches (NAK-uh-tish), La., where he taught and advised the student SPJ chapter since 1999. Other teaching appointments include Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo. Ralston began a career in journalism in 1978 and has worked as an editor, reporter and photographer at weekly and daily newspapers in Missouri, Illinois, Louisiana and Texas. His most recent full-time reporting job was in 1985-89 when he worked for the San Antonio (Texas) Light where he covered city hall, the police, federal law enforcement agencies and the federal courthouse.
Ralston has bachelor's degrees in communication and industrial technology from Northeast Missouri State University and a master's degree in journalism from The Ohio State University where he was a fellow in the Kiplinger Program of Public Affairs Reporting. He earned a doctorate from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2002. Additionally, Ralston was named SPJ's campus chapter adviser of the year for the 1998-99 school year. He has been a member of the SPJ board since 2003.
Campus Advisers At-Large
Sue Kopen Katcef
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-7526
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Bio (click to expand)
Sue Kopen Katcef serves as SPJ’s nation campus adviser at-large. She is an award winning veteran broadcast journalist who is now a member of the faculty of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland where she teaches broadcast news writing and production. In addition, she helps with the daily TV news show, “Maryland Newsline,” produced by the college’s advanced broadcast news reporting class for UMTV, the campus’ cable TV channel operated by the Merrill College of Journalism. “Maryland Newsline” airs on the cable channels in two of the state’s largest counties (Montgomery and Prince George’s) as well as Baltimore City.
Before joining UMD, Kopen Katcef was a reporter and anchor for WBAL Radio news in Baltimore, where she continues to freelance for the station. She also worked as a reporter in television with stops at Baltimore’s WJZ and Maryland Public Television.
An active member of SPJ since 1973, Kopen Katcef is currently the adviser to the University of Maryland student chapter, corresponding secretary for the DC SPJ Pro Chapter and scholarship chair for the Maryland Pro Chapter. She resides in Annapolis, Md. with her husband and son.
Mead Loop
Associate Professor/
Chair, Journalism Dept
Ithaca College
Park Hall, Rm. 258A
Ithaca, NY 14850
Work: (607) 274-3047
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Bio (click to expand)
Mead Loop is chairman and an associate professor of journalism at Ithaca (N.Y.) College. He has been a SPJ board member since 2002 and is co-chairman of the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation Grants Committee.
Loop’s scholarship has been published in Mass Communication & Society; Newspaper Research Journal; Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly; and Journalism and Mass Communication Educator.
Previously, he was an editor at the Nashville Banner, Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, and Kansas City Times and Star.
Loop has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia and a bachelor’s degree in television-radio from Ithaca College.
"My first contact with journalism issues on a national scale was with SPJ, and the more I become immersed with the Society, the more I learn about journalism today."
Campus Reps
Melissa Patterson
University of Central Florida
2513 Corbyton Court
Orlando, FL 32828
561/214-5112
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Bio (click to expand)
Melissa Patterson is a senior print journalism major at the University of Central Florida and the president of her campus SPJ chapter. She has interned twice for her local newspaper, the Orlando Sentinel, and has been a Pulliam Fellow at the Indianapolis Star. She also studied as a Mass Communications student with The Washington Center while interning at USA Today. Patterson plans to finish a textual analysis of American newspaper coverage of death penalty issues by graduation in May 2008. She hopes to encourage the formation of more student SPJ chapters and facilitate better collaboration with local pro chapters during her term as student representative.
Taylor Rausch
University of Missouri
603 Kentucky Blvd.
Columbia, MO 65201
317/408-3650
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Bio (click to expand)
Taylor Rausch is a magazine journalism and history major at the University of Missouri with a minor in civic leadership. Originally, she hails from Zionsville, Indiana and has had her eyes set on a career in Washington D.C. for the past decade. She has held internships at the Boone County, Indiana daily, The Daily Sun, where she covered the passage and implementation of town smoking ban, the opening of esteemed artist Nancy Noel’s gallery, and the Miss Indiana pageant, among other crafting her own Studs Terkel-inspired human interest page, Spoken, and an internship at the Zionsville weekly, The Times Sentinel.
For the 2007-2008 year, Rausch serves as the student representative to the Society of Professional Journalist national board. Also, at Mizzou, Rausch currently serves as Vice President of the MU’s chapter, the largest student SPJ chapter in the nation. She is also active as the Vice President of Membership Recruitment for the newly instituted MU Journalism Scholars Association.
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