The Link to our Journalistic Crossing

For a look at our largest group project of the semester, click on our collaborative work titled Crossing the Street.

Intrepid journalists

The project takes its name from something our student journalists discovered in the course of talking to people: Many sources who are not from the university said they didn’t know much about Elon students beyond their view of them crossing the roads around campus.

Notably, several people observed that students don’t pay much attention when they cross. They’re texting or talking. They just walk without much regard for people on the road.

What if we all paid a little more attention? That’s at the heart of our purpose in exploring the issues behind the campus-community relationship.

We’re looking to understand how students and residences cross the line between campus and community — and how, perhaps, we might do it better.

We invite your feedback! Just click up above on Leave a Comment to share an idea or an observation that might advance this discussion.  We will monitor the discussion, so please use the same courtesy you would display and expect in a face-to-face conversation among friends.

That’s our course group, below, in another daring crossing.

Multimedia journalists, from left: Lindsay Fendt, Sammi Miller, Hobie Temple, Alison Hydrick, Julia Jacobs, Tim Barber, Lesley Cowie, Katie McKee, David Koontz, Sophie Duensing, Dan Rickershauser, Russell Varner and Lauren Wisniewski.

Here is the URL to our website:  http://www.wix.com/multimediaj/Bridging-the-Gap

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