In today's class, we had about 40 high school students join us from UNC's Journalism Camp. Professor Crothers sent out the articles we were to critique via email, and of course I was unaware of this and was the only one in my class who did not bring his laptop. We critiqued three of the high school students' articles as a group, and wow those high schoolers were brutal to the first one! I've often been in critiques where little more is said than "I liked this" or "This was good," but this critique actually provided good feedback to the writer, if they could take all the criticism. One student in particular, I think his name was Sam, seemed to have something negative to say about each article.
After the critiques, we had a little break before meeting down towards the Dean Smith Center for the interview for our next story. That interview was with Marcus Paige of the men's basketball team. I had read an article recently about how he was trying to put on weight over the summer, and that's what most of the conversation was about. He spent a little over a half hour talking to us and joking around. I tried to take pictures during the interview to use for the blog, but I didn't want the flash to go off in his face, so I was a bit limited since I didn't have my SLR with me. I have way more quotes than I can use so I'll have to figure out how to approach the story.
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