{"id":52,"date":"2016-04-10T00:30:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T00:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lcosgrove\/?p=52"},"modified":"2016-04-10T00:31:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T00:31:34","slug":"the-importance-of-student-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lcosgrove\/2016\/04\/10\/the-importance-of-student-press\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Student Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

The research question that I am\u00a0planning to\u00a0pursue\u00a0for my archival essay\u00a0goes something along the lines of: what role did The Santa Clara<\/strong>\u00a0(Santa Clara’s student-produced newspaper publication) play in student life and how has it as well as its role evolved over the years?<\/p>\n

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When thinking about this question,\u00a0I first wondered\u00a0about why schools had student newspapers to begin with. What was their importance? To gain some insight and perspective into this question, I looked online for articles that might\u00a0have some answers and came across the following article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was titled “Why a Newspaper Club is Important for Your School”, and brought about several interesting points that I thought held relevance to the artifacts that I had\u00a0chosen (which were several publications of TSC).<\/p>\n

Its number one reason for advocating that\u00a0all schools have\u00a0student newspapers is\u00a0that\u00a0students need a voice<\/strong>. It essentially claims\u00a0that having a newspaper provides\u00a0students with a platform to bring about their opinions and thoughts in a credible and respected manner, while also allowing them to enter a conversation with other readers and people on campus. This is in contrast to students simply being “spectators” and not voicing any of their thoughts but instead silently giving their two cents worth\u00a0in the sidelines.<\/p>\n

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With this in mind, after looking at some of TSC’s publications, especially those from the 1940s-1960s, I can see\u00a0that the student newspaper\u00a0definitely filled this\u00a0role in publicizing well-written, yet often times rather biased and opinionated pieces. TSC had several\u00a0sections of published anonymous letters that were sent to them from the student body, written\u00a0about almost anything and anyone. However, while\u00a0there were these\u00a0opinionated pieces, I also noted that\u00a0(according to its featured box) a Reverend moderated the paper, which makes me wonder how autonomous the paper really was, and what kind of stories were censored.<\/p>\n

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Another point the article makes is that despite recent technological advances,\u00a0journalism will never die<\/strong>, and with it will remain the\u00a0need to be able to convey one’s thoughts and do research to back it up. I thought this was relevant to my archives because if I did end up studying how the newspaper’s role evolved overtime, I could also\u00a0see if its role as a platform for\u00a0quality\u00a0writing (as evident by stories with\u00a0credible content) was fulfilled despite all of the technological changes that occurred down the line.<\/p>\n

Finally, the last point that the article brought up was that the newspaper was\u00a0a means of student discovery<\/strong>, meaning it allowed students to voice their otherwise unheard opinions, and in doing so connected them to other potentially likeminded people. This in a sense brings\u00a0a more encompassing sense of school community, and encourages other people\u00a0to voice their opinions as well. When reading\u00a0through several of the publications, I got a sense that Santa Clara’s student body,\u00a0though not necessarily close in terms of social groups, were nevertheless likeminded people who were very aware of each other’s whereabouts and activities, which was\u00a0its own sense of community\u00a0in a way.<\/p>\n

Overall, this article presented key elements that I’ll be looking for when further analyzing my archive artifacts.<\/p>\n

Images Credit:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.ireporter.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Stei081213_med.jpg<\/p>\n

http:\/\/assets.fauquiernow.com\/images\/uploads\/news_contributed\/_320\/censorship.jpg<\/p>\n

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