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Communication alumni come home
By Michalia Lane
UPIKE Communication alumni came
back home to tell students what they are
doing with their degree and talk about
their experiences when they were an under-
graduate.The 9th Annual Communication
Alumni Panel was held on Oct. 25 in
Chrisman Auditorium. The alumni told
funny and interesting stories about the
experiences they had at UPIKE, the close
relationships that they formed with the
communication professors, their jobs, and
graduate school.
“I learned a lot about the different jobs
I could do with the degree,” Jacqueline
Pruitt, senior, said.
Fletcher talked about her internship at
WYMT. At first, she wanted to be a meteo-
rologist, but she quickly changed her mind
after the first week. She is now a WYMT
reporter in Pikeville.
Many of the alumni talked about the
relationships that they still have with their
professors. They keep in contact. Some talk
Speech Team travels to Marshall
By Jamie Riley
The UPIKE
Speech Team trav-
elled to Marshall
University to com-
pete in the 11th
Annual Chief Jus-
tice Tournament
and the inaugural
Over The Rainbow
Tournament Oct. 26-27. The Growlers had
13 entries in both tournaments.
Senior Zakary Bray and senior Clau-
dette Enriquez placed 6th in improvisation
duo at the Chief Justice Tournament.
to them about their new jobs, and others
vent to those professors about their daily
lives. They emphasized how much UP-
IKE faculty care about their students, and
how they want to make sure that they will
succeed and keep in contact after those stu-
dents have graduated.
Branham is in her second year of law
school. She was brutally honest about her
experience so far, talking about how
difficult it is.
“You have to pick between eating,
sleeping, bathing or studying,” she said.
Many students there laughed and
looked appreciative of her honesty since
they were a few in the crowd who were
considering or had already applied for law
school.
There was a good mix of faces and
different perspectives on the panel that
showed just how broad the degree is.
Enriquez placed 6th in prose and 6th
in extemporaneous. Bray placed 5th in
program of oral interpretation. Bray and
Enriquez placed 3rd in improv duo at the
Over The Rainbow tournament. Senior
Alexandria Alexis placed 6th in dramatic
interpretation. Junior Larissa Jones placed
7th in poetry. The team placed 3rd overall
in small entry sweepstakes award.
“We would like to thank Dean Jennifer
Dugan and Chaplain Rob Musick for com-
ing and helping with the team. I am proud
of what the team accomplished,” Bray,
speech team president, said.
Film and Media Arts
hosts film screening
By Christian James
On Tuesday, Oct. 22, students attended
a film screening of Love Them First, di-
rected by Lindsey Seavert and Ben Garvin
from KARE 11, a local news station for
the city of Minneapolis, Minn. The film
followed the principal, Mauri Friestleben,
of Lucy Laney Elementary, a school in a
predominantly black and
impoverished part of Minneapolis, and
her mission to improve the quality of care
and education her students were receiv-
ing. What had started as news packages
on KARE 11’s daily news unfolded into
the documentary film that UPIKE students
viewed.
The film, which lasted approximate-
ly 1 hour and 30 minutes, was followed
by a short question and answer session
with the directors. Students asked Seavert
and Garvin about how the school has per-
formed since the production of the film and
the legalities that had to be considered be-
fore filming could take place in the elemen-
tary school.
“Being from Minneapolis and seeing
these communities and the struggles they
have that white people don’t have to con-
cern themselves with really made this film
special to me. What Lindsey and Ben put
together was really heart touching, and I’m
glad I got to see it,” Julia Pernsteiner, fresh-
man, said.
The screening was hosted by the uni-
versity’s Film and Media Arts program as
part of the Southern Circuit Film Series.