Filed under: Claire file
New UC chief is ready for action
He tussled with Jesse Ventura over Minnesota schools and locked horns with the Texas legislature. His next adventure will be wrestling a budget crisis as University of California president.
Mark G. Yudof, the incoming president of the University of California, says he gets a kick out of his unlikely connection to “Predator,” the 1987 movie pitting action heroes against an alien creature in the jungle.
Two of the film’s muscled stars, Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger, later became governors, of Minnesota and California, respectively. Yudof, a former president of the University of Minnesota, famously tussled with Ventura over education funding in that state.
And on Monday, the distinctly nonathletic attorney who has led the University of Texas for six years heads to Arnold-land at a time when Schwarzenegger is advocating a state budget that would lead to big spending cuts for UC….
… Claire Harlin, a recent editor of the Daily Texan student newspaper at Austin, said Yudof left “more of a positive mark than negative,” but was “grossly overpaid.”…
Whole article at: http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jun/15/local/me-yudof15
Filed under: Claire file
Get the whole article at: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003821232
|
By Joe Strupp
Published: June 26, 2008 11:13 AM ET
NEW YORK Since Claire Harlin became editor of The Daily Texan in June 2007, the University of Texas’ student newspaper has added a six-person multimedia team and two more bloggers — and expanded its use of audio and video to at least one offering per day. “That’s how students get most of their news,” says Harlin, 24, a senior majoring in journalism and Latin American studies.
The Texan has also drawn readers into the process, says Harlin, whose staff in February solicited online video questions from students
for a Democratic presidential debate on campus, then packaged the video and shipped it to CNN. While the cable network didn’t air the questions, she says, “it was really cool getting people involved.”
But ask Harlin how much the university’s curriculum and faculty are helping online journalism, and the answer is: not much. “You can essentially go all the way through without ever having to learn Flash or shoot video,” she says. “The journalism school lets students choose which route they want to take.” Even as recently as two years ago, she adds, “multimedia was not a necessity.”
That view is shared by numerous students, professors, and newspaper editors, all of whom have a stake in the current state of college journalism.
Filed under: Claire file
I just noticed this…
http://communication.utexas.edu/news/PROD75_015320.html
