Campus Life, I find myself not caring about it. Most of my interests lye elsewhere. What am I supposed to be passionate about? The rising cost of tuition? The lousy cafe food? I'll pass. I think that's the problem, kids on campus don't really care about these "school oriented" issues either.
All I hear is to write what you are passionate about, but is that what people who write for a campus paper are doing. How much hard hitting research and passion can go into an article about how the cafe food sucks, or whether a bus should take us to Club Triangle or not. I know my opinion does not encompass the entire student body, but I think there is a big problem with forcing stories. Just because it is a campus paper does not mean it has to force articles that try to stir interest about an uninteresting campus topic.
Students are aware of other things going on in the world. We don't have to funnel our writing to such narrow topics. Most of the things students care about are issues everywhere, not just ones that take places on a small campus in North Carolina.
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Jesse,
ReplyDeleteI know we discussed this a little bit in class today and you are right. Sometimes, there are issues that are handled that are not that fun or don't have much impact on your audience. But then it is your job as an opinion writer to figure out what are the hot topics on campus at the moment. What are students discussing or wondering about these days? What are they passionate or angry about? Once you figure out what these topics are, write about them, and I bet you will get many students interested in reading about them. So the message here is go to your audience for clues on what topics you need to be writing about.