The 2009 School of Mass Communication (SMC) High School Symposium takes place on September 24, 2009 on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) campus. The event is sponsored by the Arkansas Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalist (SPJ) and the School of Mass Communication at UALR. Activities at the symposium include the following:

FIRST SESSION 11 a.m.

The ABCs of News Reporting: Kelly Kissel, DSC A
Facts on Freedom: Where Do Student Press Rights Start and Stop?:Jennifer Garner, DSC C
Yearbooks That Wow!:Allen Loibner, DSC D
So, You Think You Need a Web Site?:Lance Turner, Stabler 702
Roll Tape! TV News Production:Dale Zacher and David Weekley, SH 707 (TV Studio)

SECOND SESSION Noon

Column Writing Tips from the Mahatma:Frank Fellone, DSC A
Putting the U in CommUnity JoUrnalism:Malcolm Glover, DSC C
Blogging and Social Networking: Amy O. Barnes, DSC D
So, You Have a Web Site, Now What?:Lance Turner, Stabler 702
Roll Tape! TV News Production: Dale Zacher and David Weekley, SH 707 (TV Studio)
Editors Supersession:Taylor Bradley, Forum executive editor, DSC 201J
Advisers Roundtable:Stabler 705K
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Little Rock D.J. Tre’ Day hosted his 6th Annual Celebrity Bowling Bash funding scholarships for students majoring in Mass Communication at UALR. In attendance were professional football and basketball players as well area media celebrities. In this UTV Short, Tre’Day explains why the scholarship project is so important.

Ruben Evans won 3rd place with his documentary “Self Segregation” at the 2nd Annual Magnolia Student Video Festival. There were 81 entrants. Rudy Aldor and Ashley Mathis worked together with Ruben on the documentary.

Wally Passes-away

Wally Tucker passed-away on Friday, March 6.2009.
Wally was a great friend to the School of Mass Communication.
He was a lecturer for the Media Management and Media Sales
classes for years, and was a member and former chair of the School’s Professional Advisory Committee. He was the winner of the College of Professional Studies’ Community Faculty Member of the Year award in 2005, and a past winner of the School of Mass Communication Meritorious Service Award.

He was also a past president of the Arkansas Broadcasters Association. He was a gentleman in every sense of the word. Wally was always ready to help wherever and whenever he could. His legacy will live on, not only through his children and
grandchildren, but also through all of the students whose lives he touched here in the School of Mass Communication.

He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Peg, and his sister, children, and grandchildren.

Spirit is an Alum of SMC. Her play One Ninth is “a powerful exploration of human dignity and racial conflict as seen through the eyes of teenagers,” it is about the playwright’s mother, Minnijean Brown Trickey, one of The Little Rock Nine of 1957. Full Story