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Grinnell College Will Remain Need-Blind - For Now
After 18-month discussion, Board of Trustees votes to retain need-blind admission and financial aid policies pending review in 2015
Feb 23, 2013, 01:04 EST
GRINNELL, Iowa, Feb. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- After an 18-month community-wide discussion, the Grinnell College Board of Trustees has voted to retain the college's need-blind admission and financial aid policies—for now.
With the vote, the Board instructed the college to deploy new strategies that will enhance net tuition revenues and also affirm the college's commitment to need-blind admission and meeting 100 percent of demonstrated need.
The vote was announced by Grinnell's Board of Trustees at the conclusion of its regularly scheduled meeting on Saturday.
As a condition of the vote, the college will conduct an annual assessment of endowment performance, philanthropic support and net tuition revenue. The Board will decide by autumn 2015 whether the college is making sufficient progress toward fundraising and net tuition revenue goals. If the trustees determine that insufficient progress has been made, then they will have the option to instruct the college to pursue more aggressive enrollment management strategies, or may choose to end Grinnell's need-blind policy effective with the class enrolling at Grinnell in 2017.
Grinnell is generally listed among the nation's most affordable institutions, and the college's budget discussions were precipitated in large part by the uncertain long-term financial prospects of global investment markets. As of Jan. 31, 2013, Grinnell's endowment stood at $1.5 billion. Grinnell relies more heavily on its endowment than most institutions; Grinnell's endowment provides more than 50% of the college's operating budget. Grinnell currently takes 4% from its endowment returns annually to fund operations.
"This is the right decision for Grinnell at this time," said Raynard S. Kington, president of Grinnell College. "Grinnell has long maintained one of the most generous financial aid programs in the U.S. Our leadership in this area has allowed us to attract and enroll the most talented students from all over the world, and to provide them with an academic and co-curricular program that is among the very best in the nation. We are committed to keeping Grinnell affordable. By retaining our need-blind admission and financial aid policies, while resolving budgetary shortfalls through increased philanthropic support and net student revenues, we can maintain our simultaneous commitment to excellence and access, thus ensuring that a Grinnell education remains available to all for years to come."
The Grinnell Board's decision comes at the end of an open, 18-month discussion of the college's budget, the nation-wide financial outlook and available budget management strategies. Grinnell students, faculty, staff, alumni and parents were invited to participate in the discussion through e-mail, letters, in-person and online presentations, and a special website (grinnell.edu/grinnellsfuture). Thousands of constituents took part in the discussion.
"We are gratified that so many Grinnellians chose to be part of this important conversation," said Clint Korver '89, chair of Grinnell's Board of Trustees. "We wanted to establish a process that was inclusive and participatory, reflecting the best values and traditions of Grinnell. The level of care and commitment to the college was evident in the feedback we received, and the ideas we heard from Grinnellians everywhere really shaped our thinking as we made our decision."
In order to secure the money needed to reduce budgetary shortfalls while remaining need-blind, Grinnell will implement a number of administrative changes designed to increase net student revenues, while also undertaking a complementary, sustained fundraising effort. Beginning in the 2013-14 academic year, the college will raise its loan cap, which is currently $3,000 for all four years, to $3,500 in the first year, $4,500 in the second year and $5,500 thereafter.
"Grinnell students currently graduate with less debt than students from any other accredited public or private college or university in Iowa, and with less debt than students from most of Grinnell's peer schools nationally," said Kington. "We believe that these upward adjustments in the loan cap will keep Grinnell among the most affordable colleges in the U.S., while providing added revenue that will support our programs in the years to come."
In addition, Grinnell will adopt measures that other colleges have long used to attract students who can contribute a greater share of resources.
"These strategies were chosen as part of a comprehensive, prudent plan addressing the Board's expectation that the college will increase net student revenues," said Joe Bagnoli, vice president of enrollment and dean of admission and financial aid. "The Board has given us a clear charge, and they join us in the hope that the college can address its structural imbalance by improving student revenues and increasing philanthropic support."
The college will also continue its efforts to control costs by realizing savings and maximizing efficiencies at every opportunity.
About Financial Aid at Grinnell
One of the nation's premier liberal arts colleges, Grinnell is also consistently included among the nation's "best value" colleges. Grinnell is one of just 45 U.S. educational institutions that remain need-blind, admitting students based solely on academic merit and without regard to financial need, and meeting 100 percent of the demonstrated need of every admitted student. Grinnell's discount rate—a calculation of the true amount the average student contributes toward to the comprehensive fee, as compared to the "list price" of tuition, room, board and fees—is one of the highest in the nation, second only to Harvard's, indicating Grinnell's extraordinarily strong commitment to meeting the full demonstrated need of all admitted students. Almost 90 percent of Grinnell students receive some form of financial aid, and the average financial aid award is $35,388. Grinnell students graduate with less debt than students from any other accredited public or private college or university in Iowa, and with less debt than students from most of Grinnell's peer schools nationally, making Grinnell one of the most affordable highly selective colleges or universities in the U.S.
About Grinnell College
Since its founding in 1846, Grinnell has become one of the nation's premier liberal arts colleges, enrolling 1,600 students from all 50 states and from as many international countries. Grinnell's rigorous academic program emphasizes excellence in education for students in the liberal arts; the college offers the B.A. degree in a range of departments across the humanities, arts and sciences. Grinnell has a strong tradition of social responsibility and action, and self-governance and personal responsibility are key components of campus life. More information about Grinnell College is available at www.grinnell.edu.
Editor's Note: College officials, trustees and student representatives may be available for comment. To schedule an interview, contact media relations director Stacey Schmeidel, 704/682-2629.
Stacey Schmeidel
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As one of the richest natural sources of linoleic acid, grapeseed oil can do wonders when it comes to fighting heart disease and bad cholesterol. Linoleic acid is a member of the polyunsaturated fatty acid family. These fatty acids tend to blend with cholesterol in the blood and transform it into something the body knows how to get rid of.
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Northern Great Plains Network
The Northern Great Plains Vital Signs Network (NGPN) consists of 13 NPS units in North and South Dakota, Nebraska, and eastern Wyoming. The parks include cultural, historical, and natural areas, with landscapes typical of the Great Plains. Three of the parks, Badlands, Theodore Roosevelt, and Wind Cave National Parks, are designated Class I air quality areas; the rest of the parks are Class II areas.
Several of the Network parks have on-site ambient air quality monitoring, and in most cases, there are nearby monitors.
The Network graphic below provides information on air quality monitoring. Ozone, sulfur dioxide, dry deposition, and meteorology are collected by the Clean Air Status and Trends (CASTNet) and Gaseous Pollutant Monitoring (GPMN) networks. Ozone is also monitored with passive samplers and portable continuous analyzers. Wet Deposition is monitored through cooperation with National Atmospheric Deposition Program/National Trends Network (NADP/NTN). The Mercury Deposition Network (MDN), part of NADP, collects precipitation samples that are analyzed for mercury. Visibility is monitored as part of the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE). Additional details on these parameters are described in Air Quality Monitoring.
Air quality monitoring in or near the network is indicated on the graphic by symbols, with the blue line showing the approximate borders of the network. The legend shows the symbols for the type of monitoring present, with NPS park units in green. Class I areas have linkable access to ARIS information.


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A year ago, most people had no idea who Mindy Kaling was. Now, the actress' face is everywhere — magazine covers, billboards, bus stops — but most importantly, she's starring in a new sitcom The Mindy Project, which premieres Tuesday at 9:30/8:30c on Fox. And though the series airs after New Girl, don't be fooled into thinking Kaling's TV alter ego Mindy Lahiri is anything like the "adorkable" Jess (Zooey Deschanel). Mindy is no sexually innocent, manic pixie dream girl. Instead, she's a grown woman who isn't afraid to go after whatever she wants professionally, romantically or sexually. In short, she's my hero.
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The Mindy Project is one part romantic comedy, one part satirical sitcom. Blending edgy humor with impractical idealism, the series reinvigorates tired tropes to deliver familiar stories in a modern way. The show's cheekier aspects become clear almost immediately, when Mindy meets her supposed Prince Charming while stuck in an elevator (insert clumsy interaction and appropriately timed cascade of hair). But just as The Mindy Project lays this well-trodden ground, it quickly reminds viewers this isn't your typical rom-com. Cut ahead one scene and Mindy is now drunkenly riding her bike into a pool after her now-ex-boyfriend's wedding to another (younger) woman. Yikes.
And yet, somehow Mindy just brushes it off and continues on with her day. Did she mess up? Yeah. Does she care? No. Throughout the pilot, Mindy is refreshingly self-aware about both her faults and her strengths — the combination of which turns her self-obsession from pretentiously narcissistic into charmingly endearing. This is because even when she's bragging about her fierce first-date outfit or kickbutt job, we're always aware that Mindy knows she's still a long way from perfect. That's not to say her confidence is simply a front for her insecurities and fear of never being loved. No, Mindy's confidence exists alongside her insecurities and fear of never being loved. It's called layers, people! (Yes, women do have them.)
Exclusive Video: Behind the scenes with The Mindy ProjectFortunately, Mindy doesn't allow this fear to run her life, preferring to face the issue head-on. "Maybe I won't get married. I'll just do one of those Eat, Pray, Love things," she muses after a bad date. "Ugh. No. I don't wanna pray. Forget it. I'll just die alone." And while dying alone is far from desirable, Mindy doesn't curl up and cry at the prospect. Instead, she goes home and calls up her co-worker to enjoy some meaningless sex.Yes. Mindy Lahiri enjoys sex. And quite a lot, too. But things can't be all booty calls and OB-GYN's gone wild. In the pilot, Mindy decides to turn her life around and resist such carnal temptations — all in the hopes of getting her Hollywood happy ending. This inner struggle between balancing her natural libido with how society — more specifically, rom-com screenwriting queen Nora Ephron — tells her to act might just be the most honest depiction of being a single female today. (I swear Mindy's rambling speech to Ed Helms' character about not having sex on the first date was taken from my diary verbatim.)
Mindy Kaling confirms Office return, compares Mindy Project character to Michael ScottThis struggle is exactly what The Mindy Project is about: compromise. It's about compromising what you want at the moment for your long-term desires; compromising your inflated expectations, with the disappointing truth of reality, where your ex marries the Serbian bagel girl and the only man openly attracted to you is more "Hugh Grant in real life" than "Hugh Grant in About a Boy."Do I think the pilot was the biggest LOL-fest of the fall season? No. But the characters and writing have enough humor and heart in them to make me fall as hard for the series as Meg Ryan fell for Tom Hanks in You've Got Mail (or Sleepless in Seattle. Or even Joe Versus the Volcano). Then again, I might be a little biased because, like Mindy, I'm a head-over-heels romantic who is no stranger to the drunk tank (No, I've never ridden my bike wasted into a pool, but that's only because I don't know how to ride a bike).
Three NBA players land guest roles on The Mindy ProjectBut for any person — woman or man, lush or straight-edge — I believe The Mindy Project delivers something truly rare on television these days: a female protagonist who is both realistic and aspirational. Mindy isn't perfect, nor does she pretend to be, but she does understand herself in a way so few women on prime-time do. Instead of allowing others to define her based on her gender, race or any single trivial aspect, Mindy embraces all dimensions of her personality, from her extreme girliness to her biting snark. Not since Buffy stalked the streets of Sunnydale have we seen a heroine as flawed, as feminine and as strong as Mindy. That alone is worth tuning in for each week. Soft hair, hard attitude — Mindy, you have it all!The Mindy Project premieres Tuesday at 9:30/8:30c.


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Mariachi Spectacular is March 31
Enjoy a night of mariachi music and folklorico during the Adams State College Mariachi Spectacular Concert at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 31, in Richardson Hall Auditorium. This event is the main fundraiser of the year, enabling Adams State Mariachi Corazon del Valle to attend the Albuquerque International Mariachi Conference.
The concert will showcase Mariachi Corazon del Valle, director Nick Branchal; Mariachi San Luis, director Frank Vigil; Mariachi Encantdoras del Rio Grande, director Nick Branchal; and Semillas De La Tierra, dance troupe, director Domingo Estrada.
Mariachi Corazon del Valle members include Adams State students and musicians from Colorado and New Mexico. The group has won awards at the University Level Mariachi Competition at the Albuquerque International Mariachi Conference. The Adams State dance group, Semillas de la Tierra, established in 1970, is one of the oldest clubs at Adams State.
Tickets are $10 for adults; $5 for students and children; and free for AS&F. Tickets can be purchased at the door; or in advance from Papers of Distinction at 510 State Ave. in Alamosa; Mountain View Restaurant in Monte Vista; and from all Adams State mariachi students.


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The Westin ResortOctober 27-30, 2018
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The boogieman in the closet
Remember the movie "The Exorcist?" It was a horror film about Regan, a prepubescent girl who was allegedly possessed. Some have said the possessor was the demon, an entity so frightening that most will not even utter its name.
Occasionally, the 1973 film plays on television, and it still scares the living daylights out of anyone who watches it. I saw it as a young adult, and I had nightmares for weeks.
Child actress Linda Blair played the part of Regan, and anyone who has seen the movie will agree that she was uncannily convincing. So was the demon.
I have always wondered how a young girl could play that role and expect to be normal afterwards.
Anyway, there was a scene near the beginning of the movie where noises were coming from the closet in Regan's bedroom. It was the first sign that something was amiss in the house where she was living.
I have heard those noises coming from the closet in my bedroom. It happened at my house in Florida, and I still have nightmares about it.
Mind you, I keep my bedroom closet door closed. When I was a child, the monsters in all the horror movies always hung out in the closet. I was certain that I would wake up to see two red eyes peering back at me in the dark if I left my closet door opened so much as a crack.
That never happened, because I am diligent to this day about keeping bedroom closet doors closed.
Nonetheless, I was sleeping soundly, when I awoke to the sound of scratching and rattling inside the closet. This was not good.
I turned on the lamp next to the bed and the noise stopped. I suspected that I was dreaming, so I left the lamp on and attempted to go back to sleep. Couldn't do it. The noise started again.
This time, clad only in my underwear, I grabbed the baseball bat that I also kept next to the bed and approached the closet door.
The noise seemed to be coming from the top of the closet. I slowly opened the door and looked up. The light from the little lamp refl ected on two eyes staring at me from the closet ceiling.
My heart seized. I stared back and the thing hissed at me. As my eyes adjusted to the dim light, I could see what it was. It was a raccoon the size of a small Kodiak Grizzly. Well, it was at least the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
I bravely slammed the closet door shut and locked it so my prey could not escape. Then I called the Fort Lauderdale version of Billy the Exterminator.
He said, "Buddy, It's 3 o'clock in the morning. Sure. I'll come out, for 300 bucks. You could save yourself a lot of money by calling the police station and asking for animal control, or call me after 9 a.m." Then the phone went dead.
So I called the police station and the man from animal control said, "I'll send someone out with a trap." I said, "No, no, you don't understand. I want it removed, or killed."
The animal control guy said, "Yeah, we'll remove it as soon as you trap it. It's against the law to kill 'em. They have to be trapped."
There was no way I was going to crawl up in the attic with a trap and face Arnold Schwarzencoon all by myself. So I called the exterminator guy.
While I was on the phone with animal control, I think Arnold called the exterminator guy and offered him more money to have me removed.
When he answered the phone, he was not pleasant. "You don't get it, do ya? I don't wanna come out. Go someplace else until morning if you're scared, cause I'm not comin' out for less than $400."
I said, "I'll pay."
He showed up with a trap, went up to the attic and said, "There's a family up here." Arnold was actually Arnelda Schwarzencoon. She had four babies and they all had to be caught. He took three hours and charged me $500.
Then I had to pay another guy an additional $500 to fix the roof where Arnelda had chewed her way in.
I should have called an exorcist. Noises in the closet have always been a part of this system that I can't understand.


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Feb. 24, 2012
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The battle for hepatitis C drug market dominance rages on locally. Vertex Pharmaceuticals last year won FDA approval for its hepatitis drug Telaprevir, which doubled the cure rate to 80 percent and cut treatment time in half. Now Vertex has released promising data from a small clinical trial that included the new pill in a cocktail of drugs that should be easier to take and cause fewer side effects than current treatments. Meanwhile, Watertown-based Enanta Pharmaceuticals inked a lucrative partnership with Novartis to codevelop yet another experimental hepatitis C drug.
In other innovation news, a couple of business education projects have emerged. Intelligently is a community space in the South End where techies and business people can take professional development classes. And Boston Startup School is a six-week crash course for college grads interested in entrepreneurship.
And in deals by the numbers, Cambridge-based Zipcar is leading a $13.7 million investment in West Coast car-sharing startup Wheelz; fellow Cambridge company Satori Pharmaceuticals snapped up $15 million in venture capital to combat Alzheimer's disease; and Lexington's FirstFuel Software raised $10 million in a deal that suggests funding for energy efficiency is on the rise.
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can a chronic inactive hepatitis B carrier infect someone who is not vaccinated?I am referring to the case when there is no activation or any liver conditions in the carrier.
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Hepatitis B is a dynamic virus. It can change in our bodies over time. Someone who is not making new hepatitis B viruses at one time point may make these viruses over time, at another time. So yes someone whose doctor used this term 'carrier,' an old term, can start making viruses in the liver and infect others. A person who has been told she/he is a 'carrier' ideally should have the hepatitis B DNA (viral load) rechecked over time to see if the liver cells are making hepatitis B virus.
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From left to right: Natalie, Serena and Bethany Barr
The sister trio of Natalie, Serena and Bethany Barr earned the Liberty Lady Flames field hockey squad its second consecutive sweep of the NorPac weekly honors. Natalie Barr earned the Offensive Player of the Week award, while Serena and Bethany were awarded the Defensive and Rookie of the Week honors, respectively.
The award is Natalie Barr's third consecutive Offensive Player of the Week plaudit and fourth overall for the season. Serena Barr nabs her first career defensive weekly award after earning two consecutive Rookie of the Week honors. Bethany Barr collects her first career NorPac weekly award. The three awards push Liberty's total to 13 for the season.
The Barr sisters helped lead the Lady Flames to a perfect 2-0 week, collecting a pair of shutout victories against NorPac east opponents. Liberty blanked Davidson on Friday, 3-0, before routing Appalachian State, 6-0, on Sunday. The Lady Flames' two wins clinched their second consecutive NorPac East division title and upped their record to 13-4 overall (7-0 NorPac).
Natalie Barr continued her torrid pace through the conference, adding two more goals and an assist this past week. Barr's five points last week gives her a total of 42 for the season, breaking the single-season program record of 40, which she set last season. The forward tallied her fifth multiple-goal game of the season on Friday at Davidson, tallying two goals. The sophomore now has a team and conference-best 16 goals, matching her goal total from last season. Against Appalachian State, Barr notched an assist, giving her 10 assists this season. Barr now sits in a tie for the team and conference lead in assists with younger sister Bethany Barr.
Serena Barr played every minute on defense last week in Liberty's two victories. Barr served as a linchpin of a Lady Flames' defense which posted back-to-back shutouts. The two shutouts gives Liberty six this season, which is a new single-season program record. In two games, Barr and the rest of the Liberty defense surrendered just three total shots and two penalty corners. Due to the strong defensive pressure by Barr and her teammates, none of the three shots ended up being on goal. The freshman's strong tackling skills kept both the Wildcats' and the Mountaineers' offensive attacks out of the Liberty circle for the majority of both contests.
On Sunday against Appalachian State, Bethany Barr tallied a goal and an assist. Barr's second goal of the season came unassisted as she dribbled around the Mountaineers' defense and scored from the right post, putting the Lady Flames on top 2-0. Later in the game, Barr delivered her 10th assist of the season. The freshman is now tied for the team and conference lead in assists with older sister, Natalie Barr.
Liberty will play its final regular-season game on Saturday against Radford. The NorPac contest against the Highlanders is slated to begin at 1 p.m. The game will serve as senior day for the Lady Flames' Ann Jefferis, Jordan Richardson and Micailah Sloman.
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Journalism Internships Are A Joke (Financially). Period.
Let me explain.
Journalism internships are inhumane.
Not because many times the clerical or "bitch" work, as it's often called, does not live up to the potential starry-eyed expectations of a budding journalist.
Not because they can be difficult to obtain.
Not because they often lack any educational (read: real-world) value.
Not because they may be extraordinarily busy and taxing, or, the very opposite, completely unstimulating.
Journalism internships are inhumane because they completely ignore the basic living needs of their interns.
I'm not talking about free housing or meals. What I'm talking about are living wages.
Shelter. Food. Transportation.
A large majority of journalism internships, by major media companies or otherwise, are completely unpaid. Those that are, by comparison, are paltry sums - often less than minimum wage or a pittance of a stipend. The few that are neither of these - TIME and Newsweek come to mind - are ravenously pursued by applicants, and locked down before the calendar year changes.
Interns are people. Ambitious, willing people. All people need to support themselves. Not all interns have unpaid time to spare. Not all interns still receive help from Mom and Dad - some never do. Some are in their early 20s and doing exactly what they're being told - pushing out on their own, financially.
The idealistic point of an internship is to be educational and to serve as a stepping-stone to a future job. The current use of an internship is a near-requirement for a future job.
But largely, journalism internships are useless.
Let me explain.
I live in New York City, media capital of the world. I am a graduating senior in college. I live on my own, without help from my parents. The only way I subsist is through a combination of educational loans and two jobs. I have tried my very best to make those jobs relevant to my interests - primarily journalism.
But it is financially impossible for an intern in school to live independently in an urban center and still pursue his or her career without simply abandoning education altogether and searching for a full-time job.
Let's examine this:
The minimum wage in New York City is currently $7.15 per hour, up from $6.75 in 2006.
Now, let's do some math and compare:
The large majority of internships, specifically in the summer, are unpaid (Conde Nast, for example). Many require at least two to three days a week. If an intern were to find another job to supplement this endeavor, at $10 per hour (a common rate for a basic job in NYC), the intern would make $960 per month (at 8 hours per day, 3 days a week for 4 weeks) BEFORE taxes are taken out.
Some internships pay a small hourly amount or stipend. These internships often require 35+ hours per week. At $7 per hour, the current Hearst rate, that means $1,120 a month (8 hours/day for 5 days a week for 4 weeks) BEFORE taxes are taken out. For a stipend of $15 - common, about enough to pay for the subway both ways and an average lunch in NYC - this leaves nothing, with no opportunity of working a second job to find additional income.
With a rent of $700 - quite affordable by NYC standards - $100 for utilities, and $76 for a subway pass per month, that's almost $900. This excludes food in its entirety.
(Before this becomes an issue, I am leaving weekends out of this. Not only does any sane human need time off, but even if someone wanted to work weekends, it is a near impossibility to find a job - an internship, in this case - relevant to journalism on the weekends. Waiting tables is about it.)
Compare $900 for shelter ONLY with the $0, $960 pre-tax and $1,120 pre-tax above. This is a completely unacceptable living standard - a standard that only those dedicated enough to ensure their own finances pursue in the first place.
Interns are humans. They offer the service of work. Less than often, they receive the "educational experience" they come for. They should, at minimum, be paid accordingly for their time.
Look, I understand the draw of a nonpaid internship at a major, high-profile publication. The prestige is undeniable. But don't these companies have minimal funds to spare? For, often times, work that is often usually done by a full-time, paid employee? A researcher? A fact-checker? An assistant to the editor-in-chief?
Secondly, what if you already have a prestigious internship under your belt? Do you need another? No, you've accomplished that well enough, and your resume can afford to take an internship at a lower-profile publication for actual pay.
Problem is, these publications think they can offer unpaid internships, too.
Really, how many times have you seen "NO-NAME MAGAZINE" offering unpaid internships? Why? Never heard of it! And then you want me to work for you for free? Side-by-side with full-time employees the same age as me? And assume that I'm learning a lot because 1) you say I am, 2) you're a publication, 3) I'm working closely with the 'editor,' one of three total people on staff, and 4) clerical duties really subscribe to an experience an internship can provide but a secretary job can't?
And did I mention that, arguments about the educational or experiential value of an internship aside, they don't provide support for the minimum living wages of one person yet demand the time necessary to provide at least that minimum in lieu of internship wages?
Why don't young journalists just go and get secretary jobs? At least those pay more than $30,000 a year in NYC - for the same type of work: photocopies, bills, contracts, schedules, phone calls, etc.!
And why, then, do applicants still pursue these internships? Are they out of their mind? Or is it a reflection of the persistence of parents to support their children way beyond legal adulthood?
Here's some hypothetical food for thought: I'm a hypothetical intern who does not have parental help and is in-between (summer, or post-grad) without educational loan support. If I didn't have to spend my entire day worrying about putting dinner on the table and making rent (and believe me, I'm worrying - I've already got my timesheet itemized and calculated, really, for the whole summer), wouldn't I be SO much more attuned to contributing, in a positive way, to the publication? If I didn't come in every day and sit next to a full-time employee of the same age (whose only worry is seemingly what club they'll be going to this weekend) wondering why I'm there and not pursuing a full-time job of my own, wouldn't I be much more helpful and less distracted? As this hypothetical intern, I simply cannot appreciate my internship, because I'm too worried about food (and I'm already brown-bagging PB&J). What this really becomes is an evaluation of value: what's worth more? A resume piece or my own well-being and stability?
I understand internships are a supposed benefit, but in journalism, they're seen as a near-requirement - yet someone in HR forgot to notice that, somehow, these people must finance their own lives. Sure, we must sacrifice for the future - but there is a difference between living frugally and simply being unable to, period.
Why is this such an oversight? No rational human being in the HR department could knowledgeably admit that this is sufficient. Can they?
This is why journalism internships are crock.
An intern would give 50 or 60 hours a week if they did not have to worry about basic living needs. Interns are rarely freshmen in dorms - these are more often older, independent people who need to find support yet can't commit to a long-haul salary job because of the very education they need to pursue said job (and are pursuing).
The price of being responsible? Amibitious? Rational? I don't know. But it's just not right.
When did such a low-paying industry become so elite?
Journalism internships are financially inhumane to independent interns. And things need to change.
UPDATE 7:23p: Romenesko picked this post up and paired it with an excellent article by Martin Kuz in SF Weekly on how media companies may be violating state labor law by underpaying non-student interns. My question: what about New York (New York)? Or D.C. (Washington)? Or Illinois (Chicago)? The article on California is a help, but what about where the majority of media companies are?
39 comments:
- Greg said...
No pay internships also, unwittingly, discriminate in favor of the financially advantaged , who can afford to work without pay.
- The Editorialiste said...
Thanks for commenting, Greg. You're absolutely right. These internships are completely discriminatory in this way.
I'm an almost-graduate who monitors his finances meticulously, has almost no credit card debt, a full plate of federal loans but lives independently.
And, as an intern, I basically have to consider most internships with full-knowledge that I'm putting myself in a hole before I even begin.
So how hard, then, is it for someone who, for financial reasons, never got the chance to go to a great college - or one at all - to pursue his or her dream of being a journalist by interning?
Borderline impossible, I'd say.
Sure, internships aren't a right - but are they really serving their goals?
Not if they discriminate.
- Wayne Myers said...
Thank you! I also fault journalism schools for encouraging this practice that reduces our profession. There is a severe leadership gap here and they simply should not recommend that students take unpaid internships. Maybe then media will take notice. More and more this is a profession that expects its journalists to work for a pittance. Dispicable. In J-school, professors would make comments like, "I hope you're not expecting to get rich in journalism." The sad thing is the salary they have in mind is one that you can actually live on. Not now. That's how out of touch they are. Some of the top J-schools schools have abdicated journalism leadership.
Wayne Myers
- fashion theory said...
I agree with your post completely! However, one issue that I have with the legality of unpaid interns, etc, is that in the last few years there has been a shift towards using only interns that can get school credit for interning.
That a) eliminates people who are done school and want to get into the industry (because it's nearly impossible to get into journalism or magazines in my experience without internships or experience of some kind) and b) makes students PAY for a "course" in photocopying and coffee runs (or writing or whatever they do at their internship).
So it sucks.
- The Editorialiste said...
@Wayne: I agree. It's sad that elitism has crept into the schools themselves, to the point where the pay is criticized by those making the money. What's there to complain about when interns aren't making anything? Leadership is important, but leadership for all...not just those paying.
@fashion: You're right - the "credit" idea has definitely been pushed as of late, and it definitely has made it close to impossible for anyone older than college age or not in college at all. Plus, why should a student be using his college time for such an internship? At some top schools, that's hundreds of dollars per credit - financially, that means you're actually paying for such an experience! Ridiculous, especially when the internship may not be at all educational.
@ all of you: Thank for commenting. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who has noticed this phenomenon.
- Hans Laetz said...
In 1976, when I entered the University of Arizona journalism college, it had a firm rule: no internship credit would be granted by the department.
As a result, in 1977 I was offered a fulltime summer reporting job at a rural newspaper: $600 a week, then a princely sum. I was a hardworker, a good writer, and I earned every penny. We won some national investigative awards.
Today, that job would be filled with one or more college interns.
What is the matter with people today? If I were getting no pay for a job that my employers called an internship, I would visit a lawyer and file for back wages in a heartbeat.
What is next, corporate america? Indentured servitude?
- zach said...
It's not just the internship for journalists. Your post caught my eye as a dissilusioned mathematics major. After seeing that most math majors end up either teaching or doing marketing for random companies, and hearing that almost NOBODY gets jobs that have to do with their major, I realized that at 15k/year, killing myself to get homework done was just idiotic.
I work and get certified so that I can make money. It's that simple. Colleges and universities have become ends in and of themselves- just like graduating high school. A while back I read that people who take time to get their degree are actually no better off than people who just work their butts off. Same amount of work, except the non-student isn't saddled with thousands in debt!
College? Been there, done that. It's not in my financial interest.
- The Editorialiste said...
@hans: It's easy to say the old days were the good old days, but it seems neither era is good enough: the '70s restricted your education, the present restricts your finances. If only we could ameliorate learning and earning!
@zach: You're absolutely right, and I came upon this discussion talking to my girlfriend about art internships. The industry/major doesn't necessarily matter - the "intern problem" is rampant throughout (although, for the purposes of this blog, media is of focus.)
However, I wouldn't go so far as to say college is unnecessary and not worth the financial burden - sometimes it is. It's all what you make of it. If you can better put your energies to work, and you're reaping nothing from college, maybe it's not worth the tens of thousands of dollars (and for some, including me, over a hundred thousand). It's a personal decision, I think. But I think we can all agree that there's a serious imbalance in America when the price of education makes one reevaluate its worth.
@both: Thanks for commenting!
- Rachel said...
I do wish more internships paid, and I do wish that the ones that paid, paid better.
But last summer I interned at a magazine in Manhattan. Without pay. I worked my ass off the semester before to first pay off my debt and then build up some savings, which I supplemented with income from a part-time job during the days I wasn't writing. Yes, I waited tables. I did what I had to do to survive. And I'm the better for it. This summer, I'm taking a paid internship in a smaller city. I would never have gotten that had I not put in my dues first.
It sucks, but it's doable. And honestly, never over the summer did I have to worry about where my next meal was coming from. I had enough money for rent, food, and even some entertainment. I even got to take a vacation in the middle of it.
It seems you're very opposed to the idea of taking any money for non-journalism work. Is it possible that your unpaid internship choices would hire you on as a copyeditor or fact checker part-time? Something unglamorous you can do to bring in some money on the days (yes, weekends too) you're not doing the real reporter's work. If not, consider waiting tables.
Good luck.
- The Editorialiste said...
@rachel: The thing is, I already have unpaid and paid internships at major publications under my belt, and I've been supplementing that time with another job's income. But in all, it's not enough to make ends meet, and unpaid internships will fall to the wayside when my school loans stop making up the difference.
The thing is, I'm not opposed to doing unglamorous or unrelated work - it's that I've already done it. I've been working unrelated jobs since I was 15; with a college degree and at age 22, why should I be doing unrelated work? I don't need to waste any more time doing those things. But if I'm considering grad school (and I am), I'm stuck making the wages of a freshman in college....but the thing is, I don't have Mom, Dad, or the federal government to support that past getting the bachelor's. See what I mean?
(That said, I'd gladly take a research/fact-checking position. Find any?)
So, so many journalists, young and old, talk about "paying their dues." You know what? I'm just weary of that statement. Just because that's how it's been done doesn't mean that's how it needs to be. Should we all go into the armed forces too, to 'pay our dues' as many people our age did? I'd beg to differ.
So really, I'm not complaining about work or living on my own. I'm complaining about the inability of someone who isn't subsidized by parents or educational loans.
You stuck it out for a summer, but then you moved to a smaller city. I'm here for good, and I've been here much longer than a summer. I did what you did last summer - I made it work between an unrelated job and a major internship. But what about this summer? And during the school year? And the following?
Believe me, New York City rent isn't so bad if you can subsidize it, even with previously earned money. I didn't think it was so bad when I first moved here. But once that few-thousand-dollar financial buffer disappeared over time, I didn't have anything left to rely on. So I'm at paycheck-to-paycheck, and the outlook's pretty bleak.
(And I've heard the "well move to another city then!" thing before, and I think it's hogwash. Media is here. Opportunities are here. Why move away?)
With the inability to commit to a salaried position, but the very real necessity to pay rent in full, I and many others are stuck. And that is precisely what I'm concerned about.
Thank you for commenting!
- Anonymous said...
it's not limited to journalism... the entertainment industry largely only offers unpaid internships. However, in this case, State Law requires interns to be receiving college credit for their internship, or there has to be pay. Yes, it makes it harder for those not in college to break in, and it means you're paying to make photocopies... but at least it keeps companies from essentially staffing their businesses by the use of unpaid "interns" who are doing work no different from anyone else.
I was only able to complete my internship by taking out student loans to cover the time. Luckily, the company I worked for hired me right after I finished the internship, so it didn't end badly.
- Anonymous said...
You say Journalism internships as if they are exclusive from all the other internships in the world. It's not just journalism, it's all internships. I interned at a marine biology research center, and did I get paid? nooope. Just pointing it out to you- unpaid Journalism internships aren't anything out of the ordinary or different from all the other internships...
- The Editorialiste said...
@Anonymous: You're both right. This phenomenon isn't limited to journalism, but the subject of this blog is. That's why there's no mention of anything else!
Anonymous #1, I think you're a great example of why this is such a problem. You had to take out loans just to cover an internship. That's something that is completely contradictory to what an internship ideally is. It's not pay-to-play, that's for sure! And since the laws vary state to state, there's no guarantee of any basic rights.
Anonymous #2, your previous internship sounds fascinating, but remember: just because that's the "norm" doesn't mean it's just.
@both: Thanks for commenting!
(please leave your names next time...I love reading my reader's blogs!)
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- Filtnib said...
Editorialiste, this is all so true. I'm British, doing an unpaid internship at the moment in London and it's really, really difficult to make ends meet. The internship was originally 3 months long; they've asked me to stay for 4 months and in fact said please can I stay as long as I can because it's going well. But I'm struggling to stay even 3 months. The only reason I can afford it is because sadly my grandma died last year and left me some money which is just enough to cover my rent for 3 and a half months. Meanwhile my student loan remains unpaid and the interest is rising.
On the plus side I'm getting to pitch for and write real, serious articles, which is great for my portfolio, but my parents are like, if you're writing so much for them, they obviously need/value you, why can't they pay you? Which is also true.
The magazine is American and my boss says at the offices in New York there are corridors of empty rooms where staff used to sit but who have now been made redundant. He says it's just a general down turn in print journalism that creates such a competitive job market that papers/mags can be so cheeky and get work for free.
I just applied for an internship at slate.com because I'm thinking internet journalism may be the way forward and I love their stuff. Anyway, I didn't get it, but it was paid, though not much, so might be worth considering for some of you guys.
- Samuel Rubenfeld said...
"Touch this, FCC" is my blog identity, and I agree with you completely. I am a 20-year-old college sophomore who lucked into a paid internship for a large newspaper for the summer. However, the pay is insufficient for independence, and I will have to commute from my parents home to work at the paper. I will most definitely be the photocopier, as my title is officially "Support Staff" Intern...though there are reporting positions for the grad students interning there.
What I feel no one is addressing is the corporate influence on journalism and journalists. Newspapers (Tribune's sale notwithstanding) are increasingly owned by publicly traded corporations who seek profits on the high side of 20 per cent. No press organization can do that without downsizing its newsroom, treating potential interns as unpaid indentured servants and demoralizing those students that can't get involved. If we (as the youth) want to bring back the "glory days" of journalism, since we are all heady idealists at heart, we need to push for private ownership of newspapers, so long as the owner has no input on editorial content. A private owner would likely understand the plight of a student intern, because one who owns a newspaper does not do it for the profit, they do it for the public service.
I want to thank you once again for exposing this gaping hole in the education system.
- Anonymous said...
And I thought the Baltimore Examiner was better than the rest cause they'd pay my cell phone and mass transit....
Yeah, we're all getting fucked.
- junior, print, UMD
- The Editorialiste said...
@filtnib: First, sorry it took me so long to respond - I did read your comments. Thank you for your comments from across the pond - they're so valuable in looking at the big picture. Internships are a problem, worldwide. My advice for you? Finish out that internship. Keep on pitching, but don't be afraid to get a job that pays in the meantime. You can build your clips outside of work - some of my best were off-the-cuff and unrelated to my 9-to-5. I'm terribly sorry about your grandmother, but use her generation as inspiration to perservere. We've got different challenges to face, but nothing less substantial. Of course, keep applying and writing and don't give up!
@Samuel: I admit, I enjoyed the title of your blog. You're right - corporate culture has descended heavily onto newsrooms. Just look at the recent Tribune sale - bought by a man who has no prior experience in journalism at all on either side of the room! I don't know if a private owner will do the trick, but I do know that things need to change. Keep on working that internship, keep on writing those reviews, and diversify. College is short, so enjoy your time at Hofstra...but make it work for what you want to do.
@both: Thank you so much for commenting!
All the best,
The Editorialiste.
- Anonymous said...
Thought you might be interested in checking out CubReporters.org, an online career guide for young journalists and college students.
- The Editorialiste said...
@anonymous: Thanks, Mark. A good pooling of resources - I look forward to seeing you flesh out more information in the future on your new site.
Thanks for reading,
The Editorialiste.
- Bunty said...
hey i do agree with ur view buddy but i have a different point to offer...i recently joined a news channel as an intern, but they do not dare to consider me their part...and on tghe other side i have governable curiosity to know the things...and another thing is that i am an intellectual non-conformist so i cant believe what they call their greatness,if its really their greatness they have to define it to me, i just blindly cant accept it...
so moral of d story is that the organization dont dare to accept interns as their part, however it is important in the sense that it gives a chance to the freshers to be in the organizational atmosphere as well as to confront the real realities of the field!
- Anonymous said...
As a journalism major in search of an internship at the current moment, I couldn't agree more. It's very discouraging trying to find an internship in an area I would enjoy living in...but also afford.
Undeniably, to take on an unpaid internship one also has to take on a part-time job to actually support oneself. Right away you're limited. Sometimes I wonder why I chose the major I did...
- Fahima Haque said...
i unfortunately completely understand. I'm a current college student scrambling to find a journalism internship and it's actually painful. I'm glad someone else understands this frustrating dilemma. I should just change my major while I'm ahead of the game.
- Annie Jia said...
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for posting this. I've done two unpaid journalism internships in the past seven months. When I like the work, it seems ok. It is those hours when I'm finishing up a - unpaid - transcription at home for fear that not finishing will give my boss a bad impression, and staying after everyone else in the office is gone, to stuff envelopes - that the feeling of exploitation really sinks in. But whether or not I like the work, I have definitely gone into unsustainable levels of debt. The financial toll wouldn't be terrible if it were just numbers. It is the psychological toll of it all that is inhumane. Thank you again for posting. I greatly admire you for doing so. Doing it through good writing is even better.
Feel free to check out my blog, too (plug). I might muster up the courage to write something about this as well.
- Annie Jia said...
So how do we band together, like these socialistic European youth, to change this practice in this industry?
- C. M. Patrick said...
Great article.
I think the financial implications of studying journalism begin at the undergraduate level, and they'll probably run until the graduate eventually qualifies as a senior reporter.
Consider that a graduate pays postgraduate course fees of up to £12,000, plus accommodation and living costs, and then enters into a commercial sector where a trainee reporter can expect to earn around £17,000 a year in England, and it is clear that the figures don't balance.
Let's also assume the graduate still has a heavy undergraduate debt. This is also a year out of work for the student after already graduating, so there's no money coming in until they (hopefully) find a job after they qualify.
I don't doubt the dedication of journalism students. Postgraduate courses are self- funded, so unless the student is incredibly wealthy, they are not taken up lightly by people with just a passing interest in media.
Most journalism students are passionate about their writing, and they are willing to do almost anything to succeed in their chosen career, including unpaid work experience.
Coupled with a high competition for a diminishing number of jobs in the light of the general squeeze in the industry, and students have to work incredibly hard to find employment.
It's straightforward to understand why employers do not need to offer paid work experience.
In a highly competitive market of skilled workers who have proven they are willing to pay massive amounts to study the course, are passionate, determined and dedicated to their work, employers can dangle unpaid work experience opportunities into the market and expect them to be snapped up.
This is the profession we chose. It's highly competitive, it may be low- paid, and it is incredibly hard work.
It is unfair that it seems only people with rich parents or savings can support themselves through that tough final stage, but perhaps would- be writers don't want to work in a news company that shrugs off its responsibility to support the next generation, just because it can.
So far, I've only ever had good experiences with volunteer work. I've never expected to be paid, because if it's good training, and work is getting published, you're getting a lot out of it already.
If they're irresponsibly wasting your time, and telling you to make coffee, then you walk out. There can't be any point putting that you completed two weeks at a top news agency if you have nothing tangible to show for it.
I can understand the frustration of seeing your peers being paid to do the same work as you intern next to them, but in that case it can only be a matter of time before you're recognised. Best of luck to you.
- Pavla said...
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- Pavla said...
Amen. I live in London and although some places pay expenses most try to get away with ridiculous nonexistent pay. I know we're not supposed to complain and pay our dues but it's tough and that deserves a mention. I know it sounds cheesy but good for you for talking about it openly. Many just think people should stop bitching and get on with work, but if it can do any good, I think it's worth talking about.
- Sam Parker said...
Can't decide whether this was uplifting or depressing!
I am one of the idiots currently searching for a journalism intership... it's wearing me down just finding someone prepared to give me a chance, let alone pay me. It seems a first class degree and all the dedication to student/local journalism in the world doesn't mean a thing.
Depressing times. Interesting point well made though, thanks!
- Anonymous said...
This is a great piece. As a recent college graduate (English BA), who has been in a journalism internship for nearly 4 weeks, I concur and more!
When I complete my first interning week, and I knew journalism was not for me. Yet, I'd figure I'd stick through it since I worked with great people. However, that newspaper, as I knew, was temporary and after 2 weeks I was transferred to the real one. Now, not only am I unpaid and the work is taxing, I have a nightmarish editor.
The type that belittles you instead of constructively criticizing you, that does not want you to ask questions and just get your work done. Her favorite response to me on any context is "Whatever."
I work only part-time, 5-6 hours every weekday, but I want to metaphorically shoot myself. I am so exhausted and anxious now I can hardly fathom working a part time job as well.
The only thing keeping me at the internship is the great people I interview, making them happy, and publications.
Being that I don't want to be a journalist now, it's tempting to not finish the 2 months.
Thank you for your article. And, I commend all the unpaid, journalism internships working for nothing, meeting deadlines, writing 2-3+ quality articles a week, trying to keep factually correct, and everything else.
- Anonymous said...
^And, you can tell by my poor grammar, my brain is a malfunctioning lump of mush after working a long day at the office.
- Anonymous said...
At 46 years old and disabled by severe pain from degenerative discs in my cervical spine (neck), thoracic spine (mid-back), lumbar spine (lower back), along with severe carpal tunnel in both hands and wrists that causes me to wake up with my hands, wrists and arms burning, I'm certain the lousy pay (I never earned more than $10 an hour) and the endless amount of work I was overwhelmed with as a reporter, editor, writer, managing editor, etc. contributed to my disability.
If a single college instructor in the 1980s would have told me that journalism was such a low-paying or no-paying field, I never would have pursued it. But they outright lied about the pay. No matter how large the paper or how many positions for which I applied once I had my B.A., except when working overtime at only one job, I never once made more than $9.50 an hour after 15 years in the field.
One more thing: I found by spending a lot of time "picking the brains" of various publishers, etc., that they consider journalism grads as having no value ("J-school grads are a dime a dozen!"), being stupid (because so many consistently take non-paying jobs) and therefore, no surprise here, as objects, not people. Most every publisher I spoke to considered himself or herself as a critical part of the newspaper while they had no respect for, and sometimes even joked about how far they could push, anyone with a degree in journalism.
This is the worst field one can get a degree in, and I believe it will go the way the nursing field did for years: If enough people are smart, they will get out of the field and move on to something in medicine or ... well, I can't think of any other jobs that require a degree right now that cannot or have already been outsourced.
Is it too late for you to go back to school for something else? Journalism is a competitive, low paid, stress- and pain-inducing field that truthfully isn't worth it. The more work was required of me, the more I lost my love of writing: The very thing that prompted me to pursue the field.
- Rachel said...
I just stumbled upon this brilliant post! I am online searching for fellow college graduates who are fed up with being unable to gain experience in the field of their choice because they are already out of school, (so no internship!), yet don't have the 1-2+ years of previous experience these companies are looking for. I know your post is in response to college students being unable to afford having an unpaid internship and I can sympathize with that, as well. I know plenty of people who never could have survived with an unpaid internship during college and now they are struggling to get their foot in the door in these particular industries. I feel internships are definitely geared towards students who are getting everything paid for by mom and dad. Luckily, there are a few who can make it by working part-time jobs on the side and that's great!
Whatever happened to apprenticeships?? The idea of learning a trade and getting paid to do so. Employers would expect the apprentice to have little to no previous experience in the field, (just like an intern), yet they could still get paid a living wage and gain the experience they need! It saddens me to think of how many talented people there are who struggled to find work in the field they are passionate about but were unable to for these reasons. Now they are stuck in a job they probably hate because they have to pay the bills. The people who get the opportunity to do these unpaid internships at prestigious newspapers, magazines, TV stations, etc., and then get paid positions based on their internship, should consider themselves very lucky. There are a lot of people who would love to be in their shoes.
- used textbooks said...
guys, seriously?
You have an internship opportunity (paid or unpaid), take it! It's something that you can put on your resume that will help you land on better opportunities later.
- Audio Visual Recruitment said...
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- Lauren said...
Stumbled across this post by mistake and loved it!
I graduate with my degree in journalism next year and have been saving for the past two years to prepare for the possibility that I will have to do unpaid internships.
It's exactly the same over here in the UK, with most high-profile magazines and newspapers in London, one of the most expensive places in the world to live.
It's sad that companies have decided to take advantage of graduates in this way.
- Ryan Todd Herzog said...
What about the fact that the news business is shrinking and less money is going to news companies these days? Isn't that a factor in why internships are unpaid, because they don't have any money to spare?
- Anonymous said...
This post made me smile and cry at the same time. Smile because you are so on point. I was JUST having this conversation with my sister. And Cry because this is an unfortunate reality. Great job...hopefully these editorial departments will read this and hang their heads in shame...better yet...just start paying us.
- Naomi said...
This is so freaking true!!! I'm about to graduate with a degree in Journalism, and I have no idea what to do! My parents don't help me pay for housing, school, or even a car. I'm really stressed, because everyone says you need to have an internship in Journalism BEFORE graduation. Yet, I'm struggling just to make ends meet and purchase a car. I've tried looking online for online internships/jobs, but no one has answered my resumes or anything. Then, the internships I could get are in expensive places like New York or California!! Wtheck!!


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Accuride Corp. says its Fix and Grow strategy is working, reporting operating income for the second quarter doubled year over year. The first half of 2014 is the first time it's reported positive net income since 2007.
Second quarter 2014 net sales from continuing operations were $181.6 million, compared with $179.9 million in the same period in 2013, an increase of 0.9%.
The company reported net income from continuing operations of $5.1 million, or $0.11 per share, during the quarter, compared to a 2013 second-quarter net loss of $5.1 million, or $0.11 per share. (Net income in second quarter of 2014 included a benefit of $2.2 million, or 0.04 per share, related to Mexico tax reform and a reduction in long-term income tax payable.)
"Equipment orders were higher each month this quarter over the prior year, extending backlogs and filling build schedules in the segments we serve, while freight demand and the aftermarket stayed healthy," said President and CEO Rick Dauch. "As the industry outlook solidified this quarter, so did Accuride's profit-generation power."
"Accuride was net income positive on a year-to-date basis through June for the first time since the onset of the industry recession in 2007. Wheels and, particularly, Gunite saw continued incremental margin expansion in the quarter due to reduced costs and improved operating efficiency."
As Class 8 net orders for the entire quarter increased 19% year-over-year, truck makers further increased production, with net order growth within each segment Accuride serves. Class 5-7 and Trailer net orders also improved, with year-over-year increases of 7% and 35%, respectively.
Based on continued order strength, Accuride officials say they anticipate strong, steady equipment builds across all segments in the second half of the year.
Accuride Wheels segment net sales were $101.2 million, up $1.7 million, or 1.7%, from the same period in 2013, primarily due to stronger OEM truck and trailer demand that was partially offset by market share changes between truck OEMs and lower OEM light duty and military demand.
Gunite segment net sales were $48.3 million, down $2.9 million, or 5.7%, from the second quarter of 2013, primarily due to weaker-than-expected aftermarket demand for brake drums.
Accuride said it's increasing its guidance range for 2014 net sales to $675 million to $700 million.


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O' Be Joyful
Shovels and Rope (Dualtone Music Group, 2012)
The band name suggests a Western movie scene of hanging and burial while the album title sounds like a line from a psalm of praise. On O' Be Joyful, Shovels and Rope make a noise that is rough and rustic but at the same time downright jubilant. The lyrics tell tales of poverty and hardship that also celebrate a life of love and creativity.
Shovels and Rope is Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent, a married couple in their early 30s. From a base in Charleston, South Carolina they travel the country in a van they call their "covered wagon," banging at two guitars and various pieces of a drum kit.
"Birmingham," the first track on this album, is a sort of "Ballad of John and Yoko" for the indie age. It tells the story of the couple's meeting, marriage, and meanderings, including one vicious quarrel that almost ended it all. The song keeps circling back to its refrain, borrowed from the Baptist hymnal: "Rock of ages cleave for me, let me hide myself in thee." That's a nod both to the uplifting embrace of Southern tradition and to the sustaining bond of marriage.
Shovels and Rope's musical elements are rudimentary—acoustic guitar chords, a distorted electric riff, a snare drum thwack, and the occasional banjo, all with lots of space in between. One exception is "Hail Hail," an ambivalent affirmation of cultural tradition that quotes Chuck Berry's "Hail Hail Rock and Roll" amid a swirl of New Orleans Dixieland horns.
In the first years of their relationship Trent and Hearst maintained separate careers, with Hearst leaning toward acoustic alt country and Trent going for rock with his band, The Films. Their artistic union was partly inspired by practical considerations, but this music has become a twanging metaphor for the sacrament of matrimony and a testament to its enduring capacity to bring joy out of life's ordinary sorrow.
This article appeared in the October 2012 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 77, No. 10, page 50).


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To address the need for children to stay active in the winter months, a local business has added a new program to its offerings.
The Charging Rhinos Soccer Academy run by Angelo Grande is offering Fit & Active Kids in addition to its soccer academy.
And Grand Islanders don't have to cross the bridges to take part.
The instruction takes place at 2409 Whitehaven Road, Grand Island's only indoor workout facility.
"You don't have to leave Grand Island," Grande said. "We're right here."
The new Fit & Active Kids program will include some soccer-related workouts, but is more "active kid related," Grande said, with obstacle courses and stations that will improve the participants' agility, mobility, flexibility, strength and speed, often conducted with a competitive element.
"Kids love to compete," Grande said.
This year's Charging Rhinos Soccer Academy will feature clinicians with 30 years of experience, as well as goalkeeping instruction from a teacher with a college-level coaching background. Grande is also United States Soccer Federation licensed.
The program has five sessions of six weeks each. Children ages 4 and 5 do 45 minute sessions, while those age 6 and older work an entire hour.
Grande called the 20-by-30 yard facility "a very clean and safe place to be at." It's central location will allow parents to drop their children off in a supervised, safe environment.
"You've got a turf field. There's none other on Grand Island." The facility's size allows the opportunity for small-sided games that provide each individual player more touches on the ball, Grande said. "They're touching the ball a lot more than being on a big field 11 guys against 11 guys," Grande said.
Find out more at the academy's new website launched last week:www.charging-rhinos.com, or call 716-773-5282.


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As for my Sinful Colors Giveaway, the winner is Lexi P., whose favorite Disney movies are Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. Congratulations, Lexi!
But in the meantime, here are a few pictures of my getaway:
Sometimes you just need a getaway :) looks like a lovely trip, xoReplyDelete
Glad you took some time for yourself and your family. The blog will always be here waiting! I feel restless too sometimes. I just want to pick up and move away!ReplyDelete
Have fun. Always great to get away and back home to see family! From your photos looks like the snow has really cleared from Denver. Seems they were only short time ago plummeted. There is a new storm moving in from the NW - not sure if it will move across to CO or not and how fast - I hope it slows where I live and gives us a good super long drench - we need it. Way too little rain for us this winter.ReplyDelete
Glad to hear you were able to jet when you needed to. I absolutely love Colorado. Did you see the murals in the airport?ReplyDelete
No, I missed those...but I was in a hurry both times I was in there. Next time!Delete
Jealous! I've never been to Denver, but it's on my list. :) Glad you were able to take some time to do you! My NYC weekend last month was a breath of fresh air -- I wouldn't say I returned completely happy, but significantly less disgruntled than I was before I left.
Spring in VA is coming ... with a vengeance. I'm scared for summer temps.
Yeah, it's supposed to be 75 here tomorrow. Very unusual for this time of year, and that's an understatement.Delete
I had no idea your family was in Colorado! I went to college in Boulder, then moved to Denver. I miss it very much!ReplyDelete
Just my mom's sister and her family. I used to spend summers there when I was younger. I like it out there. It's very different from Ohio.Delete
Very nice pictures, it's nice to see what are people doing on the other side of the world ;)ReplyDelete
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On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by federal authorities in connection with systematic downloading of academic journal articles from JSTOR. Swartz opposed JSTOR's practice of compensating publishers, rather than authors, out of the fees it charges for access to articles. Swartz contended that JSTOR's fees limited access to academic work produced at American colleges and universities.On the morning of January 11, 2013, Swartz was found in his Crown Heights, Brooklyn apartment where he had hanged himself.
Keep in mind that most of what he was "stealing" was research paid for by taxpayers. To access it through JSTOR, one has to pay them to let you have it. Not the authors, not the institutions, but the storage facility. And all of that storage could be done practically for free rather than for profit.


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Any Nova Scotian over the age of 35 likely remembers that dark period in the 1980s when news broke of the sexual and physical assaults on children in the infamous Goler clan from the South Mountain in the Annapolis Valley.
Montreal-born author Lauren B. Davis remembers, and she wasn't even living here at the time. She had heard rumours of the activity when she lived here in the 1970s, but passed it off as being unlikely if no one was doing anything about it.
But too many people were looking the other way — viewing the clan as a whole as other people. Davis had been pondering "that whole" concept of polarization when the idea for her latest novel, Our Daily Bread, took shape.
The novel opens with Albert, a 21-year-old member of the mountain-dwelling Erskine clan, already polarized from his family in that he is well-read, living in his own shack, and not wanting to get involved in his uncles' most recent drug venture.
The clan itself is considered as "others" by people living in the nearby town of Gideon, at the base of the mountain.
In town one day, Albert meets up with and befriends Bobby, the 15-year-old, awkward son in a family of four who are suffering any number of polarizations among themselves and others in the town.
Bobby shuns his family, his younger, smarter sister Ivy is set upon by bullies, his mother feels like an outsider in the town and his father worries the couple is like "others" because they are not married in the God-fearing town.
Even when Ivy befriends a kindly storekeeper, the woman herself is seen as different because she is not caught up in the hype of the town's church.
Along the way new differences are found, old ones forgotten, and alliances are formed, all leading to a final realignment of some polar relationships and the closing of the gulfs between others.
In an interview, Davis said there are endless possible divides in a community, caused by religion, economic circumstances, race, gender, conflicts over land or behaviour, and even personal slights.
"I wanted to encourage people to ask themselves who might be considered 'other' in their own communities, and what they were willing to do to perhaps cross that divide," she said.
While the Erskines are the most obvious polarized group in the book, not much of the novel actually takes place in their compound after the opening.
"I didn't want the reader to spend the entire novel gawking at the horrors on mountain life," she said. "I felt that was simply too exploitive and salacious. What we see in the opening of the novel resonates, I hope, through the rest of the text, even when the focus is on the townspeople."
She said it's an easy thing for people to find some person or group and call them outsiders for whatever reason, "but sometimes we do the most damage closer to home. Sometimes the people we relegate to society's hinterland are our family members, our classmates and our neighbours."
While there are plenty of figures in the book dealing with their own polarization, Davis finds Albert the most tragic of all.
"He's held back from what he desires not only by the external conflicts of his appalling relations, the weight of family history and society's expectations but also because he has been so damaged, so broken, by what's happened to him," she said.
"He has, in many ways, accepted society's judgment, and doesn't really believe he could ever break free of it. Still, he tries so hard, in his way."
But Bobby and Ivy's mother cuts her own tragic figure, Davis says.
"She has so little understanding of herself. I think many of us have, alas, known people like this: restless, irritable and discontent, always looking for the next bright shiny thing.
"You think, 'Good Lord, doesn't she know how good she has it? Will nothing every make her happy?' Watching a person like that self-destruct is heartbreaking."
Davis said Ivy's character is based on some of her own experiences as a nine-year-old with a family affected by mental health and alcohol issues. She hung around a store owned by a woman, and the store became her own refuge.
She said the storekeeper character is based on a combination of several women she has known, but is "true to my memory of the woman I knew who owned the antique store. She was a haven and sanctuary and a lifesaver."
She researched the Goler trials for her book, but said it was awful to be writing about that type of activity.
"What went on up there (on the South Mountain) was ghastly in the extreme. . . . I chose not to include some of what I learned during my research, simply because it was too hideous for fiction, too gag-inducing," she said.
"I didn't want to write a book that either exploited the victims, or was too salacious. I did, however, use some of the court testimony verbatim in the final chapter. I had nightmares and shed tears, I can tell you that."
She said the character of Albert is the most intriguing to her, and the one she most worried about never making it into print as the rejection letters piled up.
"When it looked as though this book might not get published . . . it was Albert's 'non-life' I grieved the most," she said. "There's something about a person struggling against such great odds, with so little help, that just pierces me."
Ian Fairclough is a reporter with The Chronicle Herald.


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World-renowned modern artist, Xu Bing, has donated a work of calligraphy to the C.V. Starr East Asian Library. The piece, entitled "Reflections While Reading," was custom-created for the library and inspired by a famous four-line poem of the same name by the great Chinese scholar Zhu Xi.
"As part of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library's endeavor to build diversified and unique collections in the 21st century, Xu Bing's donation will greatly enhance the library's renowned Chinese collection, which has benefited faculty, students, and scholars at Columbia for more than 100 years," said Jim Cheng, director of the library.
The work exemplifies Xu Bing's Square Word Calligraphy system, which creates English language through Chinese brushstrokes. Upon close examination, Chinese-looking characters reveal themselves as actual English words, a reflection on the relationship Bing continually explores between written word and its meaning through his art.
The donation was commemorated on Tuesday, October 18, during an opening reception for Cinema China, Culture China: A Chinese Film and Culture Festival, a five-day festival put on by Columbia University Libraries and Lincoln Center, celebrating the relationship between the United States and China. It will be further celebrated in an unveiling ceremony with the artist when the piece is moved to Starr for permanent viewing in the central reading area in early 2012.
The piece is currently on display in the Wallach Art Gallery as part of the Square Word Calligraphy Classroom exhibition, which presents several other large-scale calligraphic works by Bing.
Since 2008, Bing has served as Vice President at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. In 2006, the Southern Graphics Council awarded Xu Bing their lifetime achievement award in recognition of the fact that his "use of text, language and books has impacted the dialogue of the print and art worlds in significant ways." In 2010, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Columbia University.
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Ebdon puts in so much effort that he could never be a prolific title winner like Stephen Hendry, Ronnie O'Sullivan or John Higgins because he has to use up so much mental energy.
But the sheer determination and guts he shows when his game is sharp makes him one of snooker's all time great competitors.
By winning the Maplin UK Championship last weekend, he became only the ninth player to have won both the world and UK titles.
He joins an illustrious list: Steve Davis, Terry Griffiths, Alex Higgins, Hendry, John Parrott, John Higgins, O'Sullivan and Mark Williams.
Ebdon's 9-7 defeat of Higgins in the semi-finals was the match of the tournament and one of the best of the year.
Well done to him, though it was a shame the final didn't match the high standards shown during the event.
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The semi-final was fantastic! They both admitted afterwards that they were beginning to miss pots at the end, but that was only natural in such a highly pressurised situation.
It was like a World Championship semi-final in every sense of the word.
I just wish Ebdon would play like that all the time - and in the final - and not the laborious tactics he endorses during most of his matches (in the past), which is probably why he doesn't get more recognition for his effort in the sport.
Also, I tip Hendry's son, Blaine, to be World Champion by 2020.
Thanks, Joe
- 5:01 pm
- Dave H said...
Yes, Blaine looked quite handy at the table
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Junior Pot Black awaits!
May I wish the Snookerscene mag a very merry xmas and a happy new year!
Thanks, Joe
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I agree Dave: hatts off to Peter. More for the semi-final than for the final - it's true that he played better in the semis. Perhaps (also) because his semi-final opponent played better snooker than his final opponent did...
Blaine looks good. Who knows, maybe talent is in the genes. Hopefully, dedication too.
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