Always go through channels

I have a reporter scheduled to interview one of our students and a non-student for a story, and then I remembered: I forgot to go through channels and get a third party to OK the story because of the non-student factor. How do you spell stupid in Italian -- stunad???

I preach going through channels. I'm not going to give the specifics here, but students at another university, on their own, set up a memorial for a professor and, again I'm being deliberately vauge, when the media learned of this memorial it became a media storm. It was overblown (pun intended) coverage, but it was out there for a while until the school administration took several steps, which included an acknowledgement of the professor. If the students had gone through channels, both they and their school would have experienced a great deal less angst.

I can't imagine the 3rd party won't give an OK to this, but this is going to nag at me until I see the story in print.

On February 18, the Philadelphia Daily News published an oped by senior Kayleigh Reed on what she had learned and experienced from her course in and work on community journalism. This took some time: first, one editor passed on it, then another said let me think about it; they then thought it was OK but it needed some editing and additions, which Kayleigh was amenable too. Let's see if I can find a link for it:

http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/84678732.html

More updates: watched "A Man for All Season" in Br. Gerry Molyneaux's class on film and law. Alum Tim O'Toole did a great job in leading a class discussion afterwards. The Pennsylvania Law Journal is scheduled to do a story with photos in an upcoming issue, and, cross your fingers, KYW Newsradio will interview one of the lawyers participating for a story on March 3. If there's no more snow, it might have a chance to make it on the air.

Thanks to Kevin Grauke, assist. prof. of English at La Salle. At the Inquirer's request, he did a quick read and writing of a book review (and it was very good). Again, let's see if I can find a link to it:

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/literature/85476592.html

This is the third review he has done for the paper.