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Summer Internship Required for Journalism
THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Thursday, May 4, 1967 Page 7
By CHARLES ROWTON
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“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
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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.
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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
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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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