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wk j ' ' • . f . ■•v. . Summer Internship Required for Journalism THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, May 4, 1967 Page 7 By CHARLES ROWTON Battalion Special Writer red this as. Ths onorari *ho eiprt: the G.I. I: uested to t s Office i: rm. We« I mtinued p 45'. lege :toral Der I irayoi l in Nucki t the Proie :vels by 4 4eutron fe oerty Bids is 4i v ; LEGE toral Bfi! in Induitn Analyst > c Post-B( nd Eleclni' of Indus 967 atti p Bldg. ,EGE toral De! s “Texas A&M’s Department of Journalism is one of the few universities that require a sum mer internship for all journalism majors as a prerequisite for grad uation.” Dr. Delbert McGuire, head of the Journalism Department, made this statement in the April edi tion of the American Society of Journalism School Administra tors Roundtable that dealt with journalism internships. ResoiW' ttorino • m. InstiW* IlSj “WE ALSO try to visit the stu dents on the job.” When the student returns to school, he turns in his string book and the quality of the work is checked. The student receives no credit for his internship, but he is eligible to enroll in Jour. 485, a three-hour problems course, and do a report on his intern ship for three hours of credit. Some students choose to do an internship during the long semester. This is approved only if the student can find a position that will allow him to work the equivalent of ten 40-hour weeks. EGE oral De* 5 in Gen*! jble Owj m. Indost™ EGE pral Der Petroie-' Rock 'J 1 ecoveiy herty B® 41!' 5GE ,rsl Def# Indu! tr ' 1 ngineen 1 lomptf- 1 - pblens ps Bldf 44!* :GE , ral Def " Indust' 1 peter® 1 id, Clo*' ; Sel«^ ,%df GE * -al Def" ethods g of V US jnent Llicli 3«7 .JM' * qt' -and: inate' ed Coo ^Tuel 'Fit , avf _25< pW -tlV JOHN HOTARD, former editor of the Texas A&M Review, is currently doing a long semester internship for the Fort Stockton Pioneer and Ronald Bott is work ing for the Tyler Courier Tele gram. However, McGuire feels that the summer following one’s junior year is the best time to intern. “In addition to this being good for the student, this is also good for the media. An internship gives a paper a very good opportunity to hire a student after he gradu ates.” McGuire emphasized the value of interns as vacation re lief. Most newspaper employes get a two-week vacation and the intern can usually fill the void created during this period. “IF WE PUT out good interns we are going to have the sup port of the media,” McGuire con tinued. Most of Texas A&M’s news paper internships are acquired under the TDNA program. A&M began the internship program in 1948 and gave its alloted intern ships to the top students in the department. Since that time the program has expanded greatly in Texas. About 1956 an internship was made mandatory for all A&M journalists. This move was made because of the conflict with the Reserve Officer Training Corps summer camp. Because the in tern program was not a degree requirement and summer camp completion was required for a commission, cadet journalists were not doing internships. THE DEPARTMENT of Journ alism has an agreement with the R.O.T.C. units that allows stu dents to serve as interns between their junior and senior years and to attend summer camp follow ing their senior year. The Texas A&M Department of Journalism is the only journalism department in Texas with requir ed internships, but students at other schools are encouraged to complete an internship. After applying to the TDNA, a brochure is published and sent j 1967 VOLKSWAGENS 100% FINANCING To Qualified Seniors Hickman Garrett Motors 1701 S. College — 822-0146 Authorized Dealer photogarphy. He got to do a lot of make-up in addition to writing news stories. Michael Berry worked in San Antonio for the Express-News. He worked on the police beat for two weeks, then moved to the city desk. He also worked on amusements, wrote straight news, spot news, and anything else that came up. “You get a picture of what JOURNALIS internships give the student an opportunity to work for any of the media in the field of communications and to earn a salary at the same time. All internships under the auspices of the Texas Daily Newspaper Association have a minimum sal ary of $65 per week. However, most of the students average $80 to $85 per week, according to Mc Guire. The intern program is listed in the Texas A&M bulletin as “Jour. 300—Summer Work.” THE INTERN keeps a string book of all the copy he or she produces and keeps a diary of other activities involved in his training. The editor or super visor also gives the student a grade but Dr. McGuire does not rely on this a great deal. “Editors tend to grade unreal istically and give the students higher grades than they deserve,” McGuire said. newspaper work is really like. The to all member newspapers. If an editor sees an individual he would like to have intern for him, he can contact him. However, most internships are secured by the student applying to a newspaper for which he would like to work. most valuable thing that I learn ed was what newspaper work real ly involves, what you have to do well, and how you have to do it.” INTERNSHIPS in other media — magazines, radio and televi sion, advertising, and public re lations — are secured by the students. Reactions to internships differ with the individual, but students who have already completed an internship all agree that it pro vides valuable experience and practical training. Elias Moreno, Jr., managing editor of The Battalion, served as an intern for The News-Citizen of Pasadena last summer. TEXAS A&M will have 15 in terns this summer, in addition to Hotard and Bott. “Our internships are very broad. We try for internships in the student’s field of inter est,” McGuire said. Most of this summer’s interns will work for newspapers, but some of them will work in other fields. Connelle Peace will work for the Texas A&M Agricultural In formation agency, James Size more will work for KBTX-TV in Bryan, and John McCarroll, an agricultural journalism major, will work for a magazine, The Progressive Farmer, in Dallas. “My internship gave me an opportunity to show what I could do. My writing was a little stilted at first and I could not type fast enough but I soon overcame that,” Moreno said. AFTER ONE as in charge month, Moreno of front page TORNADO VICTIM Pam Holtz, 11, stands in front of what used to be her home in Waseca, Minn., after a tor nado ripped through the area. Pam escaped with minor cuts but her father was hospi talized. At lease six tornados hit the southeastern part of Minnesota killing 16 and injur ing 100. (AP Wirephoto) Graduate’s Poetry To Be Published By National Group A&M Given $44,444 Grant Texas A&M has been awarded a $44,444 National Institutes of Health grant to support biomedi cal and health related research for 1967-68, announced A&M Presi dent Earl Rudder. Dr. A. D. Suttle Jr., A&M’s vice president for research, said the general institution grant is pro portional to the number of “hard” research dollars awarded to A&M by the NIH. DR. SUTTLE said plans are to allot deans of respective colleges conducting biomedical and health related research two-thirds pro rata shares in respect to the col lege’s total NIH-supported re search. The balance of the grant monies, Suttle explained, will re main in a central university re serve to support emergency pro posals submitted by principal in vestigators and endorsed by their deans. ONE OF THE “emergency” measures last year, Suttle noted, was the kick-off of a post doctoral university supported program in biochemistry and nutrition. Suttle said A&M has $350,000 in NIH research grants this year as compared to $250,000 last year. He noted that A&M received $35,- 000 in similar supporting funds in 1966-67. Dates for the 1967-68 grant are June 1 to May 31, Suttle com mented. William T. Dowden Jr. of Ned erland, a graduate student at Tex as A&M, has authored poetry that will be published in an “Anthol ogy of College Student’s Poetry”. Dowden’s poem “Busy, Busy,” was selected from among 30,000 submitted for the 25th annual anthology, according to Dennis Hartman, editor of the National Poetry Press publication. A graduate assistant in the English Department, Dowden is studying for a masters degree in English at A&M. He is a Neder land High School graduate and the son of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Dowden Sr., 319 22nd Street, Nederland. NEWSPAPER interns and the papers they will serve on are Gary Sherer — Binghamton, N. Y. Evening Press, Judy Frank lin—Austin American-Statesman, Jerry Grisham — Bryan Daily Eagle, Robert Stewart — Bryan Daily Eagle, John Fuller — Dal las Morning News, Bob Borders —Tyler Telegram, Richard Camp bell — Seguin Gazette, Robert Solovey — Chester, Pa., Times, and Robert Palmer — Stillwater, Okla., News-Press. Tentative interns are Gustavo de la Garza, Robert Robinson, and Dani Presswood. 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