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july 19, 2012

In the summer of 2013, jCamp will be mov-ing to the campus of

Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., and the cost per camper will be greatly reduced.

In recent years, the fee for jCamp has risen. This year, the regular registration was $545. If a student registered after the June 1 deadline, the price rose to $595 plus a $15 convenience fee.

“We are looking at trying to keep the price point (in) the mid range of the $300s well below $400,” design

instructor Chris Waugaman said. “The $500 mark is what we felt like is too difficult for students to maintain.”

Waugaman is the director of the Virginia Association of Journalism Teachers and Advisers. He wants to make the the association’s jCamp affordable for every student.

“It will also help other staffs if they want to offset some of the costs for more people,” Waugaman said. “So let’s say if a staff only pays $100 per person, that’s a much more substantial chunk out of $350

or $375 than $500.”“I think it would definitely be an

easier pull for someone who has to pay out of their own pocket,” junior Cameron Wood said. “I think $150 is a lot. Especially if it’s the same thing in four days.”

Wood and many other students would benefit greatly from a reduced cost. Although this year’s dorms at Virginia Tech are out-fitted with air conditioning, new appliances, and flat screen TVs in the common rooms, a cheap-er price at Washington and Lee

would still benefit the students.Waugaman has been with the

camp since its genesis and is very connected with Virginia Tech. However, he knows that this move will be a smart one for the camp.

“I’m going to be sad to leave, and we’ve talked to Kelly Wolff (Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech, Inc. general man-ager) about possibly bringing it back to and possibly revisiting

“One day at daycare, I laid down for a nap, and 40 minutes later, I woke up and couldn’t walk.”

Since he was three years old, Justin Graves has lived with a rare viral infection known as Transverse Myelitis, a paralysis of the spinal cord.

The Virginia Tech masters’ student is more than average. He was the president of the Hokie Ambassadors, the campus tour guide group and First Lady Michelle Obama gave him a shoutout during her 2012 Commencement address.

Graves’s physical disability hasn’t stopped him from achieving any-thing. He even thinks the wheel-chair jump-started his social life. Previously, he was the shyest person he knew. Now, Graves is an outgo-ing member of the Tech community and an extremely proud Hokie.

Graves said his disability has allowed him to take the “road less traveled” as he has been able to see the world from a different perspec-tive for the majority of his 21 years.

“A lot of people don’t see much more than the wheelchair,” Graves said. “But it’s when people notice that I’m just like them, just Justin, that they’re able to see me like everyone

else.”Graves’ love for Tech and

Blacksburg has extended past the traditional four years. He recently graduated with a degree in Sociology, but is switching his focus to a mas-ter’s degree in Higher Education Administration, striving to become the president of a university.

Although some might see being wheelchair-bound as a disadvan-tage, Graves has never slowed down. He has a girlfriend and even a new roommate, his beagle Charlotte.

“Yeah, it’s annoying sometimes,” he said, “but my mom always said, ‘You can do anything, just a little differ-ently than the others.’”

SAMUEL SMITHhuntington high school

Counselor overcomes disability, enjoys life at Tech

Sun sets on jCamp at VTBY JOSH WALLACE | Chantilly H.S.

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COURTESY JUSTIN GRAVES

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Before every home game on a brisk Saturday afternoon or chilly Thursday night in the friendly town of Blacksburg, Va., a sea of Chicago maroon and burnt orange floods the gates of the monstrous Lane Stadium.

Fans greet each other by high-fiv-ing and chest bumping in order to get pumped up for the game. People wear Tech apparel and heckle the opposing fans who anxiously stumble into the gates of the football power-house.

The starting lineup is announced and the bass from Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” thumps through the loud-speakers as students, children, parents and even grandparents jump up and down to welcome home the Hokies.

At Tech, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwestern Virginia, “tradition” is a common term thrown around. Tech has many famous foot-ball traditions, including firing off a 40-year-old cannon and jingling keys during a third down at a football game.

“Being with all of the people in the student section is nothing you can imagine,” said Danielle Buynak (Tech ‘14).

Buynak grew up 148 miles north-east of Blacksburg in a town many Hokie fans don’t like to mention.

“I was a UVA fan for my whole life growing up in Charlottesville,” she said, “At UVA you like football when you win, but at Tech, people just love their Hokies and love them whether

they win or lose.”Many students who attend Tech will

never forget their first football game, including recent Tech graduate Justin Graves.

“I came to my first game against Furman in 2008 and was blown away,” Graves said. “The tailgating and pre-game activities were a really cool feeling to be a part of. The tradi-tions here are awesome.”

One common experience many freshmen encounter at their first Tech football game is hearing Skipper. Skipper is a cannon that is fired off from the practice field, located behind the north side of the stadium, when-ever the Hokies score.

In the 1960s, two cadets attend-ing Tech were sick and tired of hearing the rival Virginia Military Institute cadets chant, “Where’s your cannon?” The men gathered up scrap metal, built the cannon and rolled it into a Thanksgiving Day game with a triple charge, locked and loaded.

The cannon blew the hats of the VMI cadets and a new tradition was born. The cannon was given the name “Skipper” in honor of the recently assassinated John F. Kennedy who was a skipper on a PT-boat in the Navy.

“The first time I heard it I was in a group with friends and we all jumped,” Graves said. “It is a really cool tradition.”

Another interesting tradition is the third down “key play,” “The “key play” is really fun,” said Liana Bayne, Tech undergraduate (‘13). “The whole stadium rings.”

Some college sports fans may think a few cheers are enough of a tradition, but the tradition party never stops at Tech.

“Tradition really enhances the whole football scene,” Bayne said. “It makes it even more fun to be a part of.”

Counselor and Tech senior CJ Yunger experienced a Hokie game before he attended Tech and was impressed.

“I went to a game with my best friend’s parents against Maryland and the place was electric,” he said. “Whenever they scored everyone around me would high-five me and everyone was really friendly. I’ve never heard of anyone who regrets going to Tech and I think the tradition is a big part of that.”

Tech football has not only formed a strong local community, but also a strong “Hokie Nation.”

“When you wear a Tech shirt at an airport anywhere in the world, a fellow Hokie will be super friendly to you,” Buynak said. “I really love Tech for the community and that’s the main reason I came here.”

Another intimidating tradition the Hokies have is the lunch pail tra-dition. Whenever the Tech football team goes on the road and wins, it collects a patch of grass from the opponent’s field and tosses it into their black “VT” lunch pail. To many fans, the lunch pail is a reminder of the strength of the powerful Hokie Nation.

Tradition: That’s what the “Hokie” Pokey is all about.

NICK SOBELwalt whitman high school

C.J. Yunger has never heard of an alumnus who regretted attending Virginia Tech.

jCamp counselors, including Yunger, say they love the tight-knit community and seeing the Hokie spirit all around town. The campus is consistently described as “beautiful” and “gorgeous.”

“It is beautiful. It’s scenic. It’s relax-ing,” Yunger, a senior communica-tion major, said. “You’re still in nature when you walk around campus. You’re not surrounded by building after building. It’s not mundane.”

After growing up in Charlottesville, Va., home of rival University of Virginia, current Tech senior Liana Bayne fell in love with the university when she attended jCamp in 2008.

“I wanted to do something differ-ent. I had a lot of friends that attended UVA and I felt that Virginia Tech was the right fit for me,” Bayne said. “I really fell in love with the walking-friendly campus and the country set-ting.”

Junior Tech English major Danielle Buynak, who also grew up in Charlottesville, decided to attend for the community feeling.

“The community around me is awesome and is willing to help out on anything you do,” Buynak said. “Everywhere you go there are Hokies willing to help out.”

Despite a population of about 30,000, that sense of community is

one of the things that prompted 2012 graduate Justin Graves to continue living in Blacksburg while he com-pletes his master’s degree.

“Virginia Tech is a big university with a small-town feel,” Graves said, “I love going around town and being able to see the Virginia Tech theme. It’s really easy just to walk around campus and feel part of the Hokie community because of how welcom-

What is a HOKIE?

CAMERON WOODrockbridge county high school

Counselors enjoy community

The mascot of Virginia Tech is the Hokie. Many people assume the Hokie is a type of turkey, but it is not. It was originally a spirit cheer.

Virginia Tech’s feared mascot stands tall throughout the college campus. Visitors who have never encountered such a mascot think it’s a spirited bird or rather a gob-bler. But to Tech students it is not just a turkey or a bird but a Hokie. Almost any Tech fan will respond to the question “What is a Hokie?” with “I am!”

Lucy Murray thinks the bird looks a little intimidating. “It is a fierce turkey,” she said. “It is in a bird’s nature to be in your face.”

However, students who go to Tech disagree. “(The Hokie might be intimidating) to other people, but I don’t think a mascot has to be intimidating just be a mascot,” said Danielle Buynak, a jCamp counselor.

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“Someone that goes to Virginia Tech.”

- Taro WhiteStaff ord H.S.

“A bird. A spirited bird.”- Savannah Hummer

Dominion H.S.

“I think of the school, maroon and orange, football, and screaming fans.”

- Rachael TannerRockbridge County H.S.

“A wild type of bird that runs around and eats mud.”

- Troi NewmanGwynn Park H.S.

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Tyler Bozeman moves up and down the court like water. The flow of his dribbling makes the crowd go wild.

As soon as the buzzer sounds and the game is won, he looks around for a single person to share his joy with.

Absent.Like always.Like how it has been and how it will

continue to be.Bozeman thinks back to being a

young boy, and his father bringing that mysterious woman along to watch his games with him.

That woman.The one who stole it all from

Bozeman and his mom. The one who made a new life with his father, a mar-ried man. Bozeman’s dad had a new family to take care of.

So they moved to Pittsburgh, leaving Bozeman behind with his mother.

Only calling on birthdays, and occa-sionally a Christmas or two.

Throughout it all, through the resent-ment and the wondering, Bozeman still feels thankful. Hopeful. He still works hard.

The three-season athlete feels blessed his mother remarried a good man that Bozeman sometimes calls “Dad.”

But there will always be that gap. That hole. That missing piece of the puzzle that is Bozeman’s heart.

Bozeman’s biological father will never watch him shoot the winning basket or kick the triumphant goal. His dad won’t attend his graduation, his wedding or ever meet his children.

Bozeman keeps pressing on and working for perfection and thinks, “I can make it without you.”

TYLERHARRIS

Susan Murray picked up the phone one early morning in 1995 and heard a woman’s voice say, “I’m looking at a picture of your daughter right now.”

“What are you talking about?” Susan asked. The woman said she was holding a picture and a one-page health report about a five-month-old baby named Lucy who had come from China. She asked Susan if she was ready to adopt the child.

“Absolutely,” Susan said.Seventeen years later, that baby girl

was navigating the grounds of Virginia Tech, participating in jCamp the sum-mer before her senior year in high

school. She has an easy laugh and a quirky sense of style; she’s a realist and an atheist. She’s also an adopted Chinese-American raised by a single mother.

“It’s just a fact of life as much as anything else is,” said Lucy Murray, a rising senior at John F Kennedy High School. “They’re just things that you grow up knowing about and (being adopted) is com-pletely normal.”

It wasn’t normal in the mid-1990s, however, when Susan first heard about international adoption from a friend. She said she had always pictured her-self with children, but had become

unsure about how that would become a reality.

She had considered adoption before, but ruled it out because of two high profile legal cases regarding domestic adoptions. One in particular seared itself into her memory — a custody battle in August of 1993, when two and a half year old Jessica DeBoer was removed from her adoptive family and returned to her birth father.

“It was a very traumatic thing that had scared me away from domestic adoption,” Susan said, “because I could not imagine that happening to a child or myself.”

International adoption was still rela-

tively new at the time, so when she heard a friend was adopting a baby from China, Susan immediately con-tacted her to find out more.

Susan said, “I just knew right then that I was going to do it.”

In part because she was adopted internationally, Lucy expresses no desire to seek out her birth parents, as many domestically adopted children have.

“(Adoptive parents) are your par-ents,” Lucy said. “There is no one else out there that you have that emotional attachment to as being your mother. If someone told me, ‘Oh, you’re my kid,’ or I saw a blood test, it wouldn’t make

that much of a difference to me.”Due to the circumstances in which

she was put up for adoption in China as a baby, Lucy figures it would be nearly impossible for her to track down her birth parents.

“The impossibility really eliminates the curiosity,” Lucy said, “but I don’t lament the fact that there’s no chance of me finding my birth mother or father.”

Neither Lucy nor her mother know the exact circumstances under which she was put up for adoption, but Susan said the process itself was long and complex.

Harris LaTeef’s dreams are almost as big as Virginia Tech’s campus.

A sense of college life and inde-pendence radiates from every-where. At jCamp, it would seem a 15-year-old may be a little out of his element.

LaTeef ’s resume is impres-sive: managing editor of the Langley High School Saxon Scope, working to become an intern at USA Today and experience at the Newseum. Not bad for a high school student.

“I have to tell seniors to do their

stories on time and it can be intimi-dating sometimes,” LaTeef said.

LaTeef has high hopes for where his journalism career could take him and an attitude he hopes will take him there.

“As a young journalist, you’re wor-ried how the industry is going to be by the time you actually want a job,” LaTeef said. “For me, actu-ally going to see a functioning newspaper thriving helps give me confidence that there’s hope for any-one in the field, or whatever field they choose.”

BY AMANDA HUELSKAMP | herndon h.s.BY JOSH WALLACE | chantilly h.s.

LUCYBY ANA SRIKANTH | james w. robinson secondary h.s.

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“But I’m excited that we’re moving in a new direction, and it’s also moving geographi-cally and so that might help some students from Northern Virginia because it’s not quite as far. That was another reason for the move because we want to pull students from different parts of the state.”

For students like Sara Guglielmo, a junior from Langley High School, the move to Lexington, Va. (Washington and Lee’s location) will make the journey south much easier.

“I live a lot closer to Washington and Lee, and the drive to Virginia Tech is five hours,” Guglielmo said. “I also think that the journalism program is more developed (at Washington and Lee) and I think the people will be better.”

A new location will not only be a new experience for the students who attend jCamp, but also for the instructors as well.

Photojournalism instructor Bradley Wilson, like Waugaman, has been an instructor at the camp since it was created. Wilson is excited for the move to Lexington because he wants to attract more students.

“We’ve got to think about from the big picture, how we are going to get attendance up at this conference,” Wilson said. “(jCamp is) a great conference, it’s very well-organized, I think the students get a lot out of it, and it’s really one of the better conferences on the East Coast, but we’ve got to double atten-dence.”

Wilson believes increasing the attendance goes beyond simply

moving the location. Instead, it includes bringing in new speakers, encouraging advisors to attend, and attracting entire staffs to attend.

Next year’s jCamp, sched-uled for June 23-27, 2013, will certainly be a different expe-rience for all the students who attend, but overall, will still aim to give the attendees a knowledge-filled and fun adventure.

“We’re gonna go to a uni-versity that has a journal-ism degree program and we will be something on their campus. They want us to be there. We mean something to them,” Wilson said. “They’ll use us to recruit new students. I think the experience for the students and instructors will be different because they want us to be there.”

Moving: jCamp to join W&Lfrom page one

Lodging Lodging $142.80$142.80

InstructorsInstructors$116.32$116.32Meals/CGS Meals/CGS

Fees Fees $105.09$105.09

Supplies, rec., Supplies, rec., admin.admin.$76.61$76.61

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Shirts, bags, Shirts, bags, & notebooks & notebooks

$26.17$26.17

Room/AV RentalsRoom/AV Rentals$21.28$21.28

Cost Per Cost Per Camper Per Day:Camper Per Day:

$133.31$133.31

“Make sure to meet and make new friends as quick as possible.”

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“Be adventurous... you only live once.”

- Cameron WoodRockbridge H.S.

“Bring something to ride. Walking sucks.”

-Taro WhiteStaff ord H.S.

“Defi nitely have a friend come with you or someone you know.”

-Rachel TannerRockbridge H.S.

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The following camps are annual camps around the country that teach high school journalism. They all compare to jCamp at Virginia Tech.

Program: Kansas Journalism InstituteLength: June 24-28, 2012Cost: Lodging $450Location: University of Kansas*Meals provided

Program: Newsroom by the BayLength: June 26-July 1, 2012Cost: Lodging $2,195; Commuting $995Location: Stanford University*Meals provided

Program: High School Journalism Institute at Indiana UniversityLength: July 9-13, July 15-19 and July 22-26Cost: Lodging $375, between session stayovers are $25, Commuting $265Location: Indiana University*Meals provided

Program: Flint Hills Publications WorkshopLength: July 15-19, 2012Cost: Lodging $400 (early), $475 normal registrationLocation: Kansas State University*Meals provided

Program: North Carolina Scholastic Media InstituteLength: June 18-21, 2012Cost: Lodging $210; Commuting $140Location: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill*Meals not provided

Program: Ball State Journalism Five-Day Summer WorkshopLength: July 22-26, 2012Cost: Lodging $375Location: Ball State University*Meals not provided

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“Put yourself out there; make new friends.”

-Yasmine MaggioHerndon H.S.

“Th e classes are long, so be prepared.”

-Katherine Hall-WurstLoudon Valley H.S.

“It’s a good experience if you are looking to bettor your staff editorial leadership.”

-Mackenzie NicelyRockbridge H.S.

“Meet a lot of people. You can have a lot of great experiences with them.

-Josh WallaceChantilly H.S.

How Th ey Compare

Washington and Lee’s Department of Journalism is the nation’s only accredited journalism and mass communications program in a highly competitive liberal arts university.

• 2,203 undergraduate students• 282 faculty members on staff • $1.218 billion endowment• Established in 1749• Central location within the state• 325 acres• 42 majors• College Prowler campus dining rating: C+

Virginia Tech is a landgrant university with strong engineering, agriculture, architechture, and science programs. It is one of only two public universities in the nation that still houses both a military corp of cadets and a civillian population.

• 30,739 undergraduate students• 1,371 faculty members on staff • $600.6 million endowment• Established in 1872• Located in southewest Virginia• 2,600 acres• 65 majors• College Prowler campus dining rating: A+

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Students can often feel a clichéd yet persistent need for a jolt of energy. Caffeinated teas and cof-fees are very popular among students, particularly with jCampers.

Walking into Mill Mountain Coffee, the atmo-sphere was at once bustling and friendly. Regular customers were around sipping their chosen cups, and the whole place hopped with a coffee-fueled buzz.

Behind the counter, Brianna Hazelwood, 20, filled orders for customers and recalled how coffee has played a part in her studies.

“A lot of people like lattés and regular coffees,” Hazelwood said. “It gets really busy here around midterms and finals. I drank a lot of coffee in high school around that time too.”

Hazelwood, a psychology major at Tech and barista at Mill Mountain, prefers the Malawi Roast because it is lighter, compared to the other twenty blends the shop has.

She has been a coffee fan since she was 16, mak-ing her part of the 54 percent of adults who began drinking coffee regularly between the ages of 13 and 19.

As Hazelwood continued to make the orders, she added to the estimated 200 cups of coffee Mill Mountain sells per day.

“We go through a ton of iced coffees in the sum-mer,” she said, just as another customer ordered one.

Caffeine doesn’t just give people a zap of energy. It can also contribute to increased focus on an assignment.

According to an article by Laura Kern in the “Wisconsin Engineer,” reported caffeine is a stimulant that interferes with a brain chemical, adenosine. Adenosine has a calming effect on the body. Students will commonly capitalize on this by drinking teas and coffees while trying to cram in extra studying time.

Ben Cross, Langley High School (‘15), said cof-fee gives him energy for tests and studying. When he does drink it, he prefers mocha. Cross regularly drinks his coffee during big test weeks, but not as much during the summer.

“I would stay up late and study, then wake up really early,” said Jason Mao, who graduated from Tech in May. “Once I drank too much green tea and got really jittery.”

Students don’t always use coffee as a study aid.

“Sometimes I really like going to Starbucks and getting a more fun, sweet drink,” said Yasmine Maggio, Herndon High School (‘13). “But other times I’ll go because I want some energy.”

Starbucks’s caramel frappuccino and cara-mel macchiato, two of the most popular sweet drinks, have between 100 and 150 milligrams of caffeine in a 16 ounce serv-ing. In comparison, their Pike Place roast coffee has 330 milligrams of caffeine in a 16 ounce cup.

The allure of kicking back with a sugary cup of coffee at Mill Mountain can tempt even non-coffee drinkers. In a newsroom, however, coffee is a staple that goes hand-in-hand with reporting.

“I’d never had coffee before my high school newspaper bought a coffee maker for the class,” said Emily Hughes, Stone Bridge (‘13). “I’d never tried it before that, but now I like it a lot.”

Dietrick Dining Center, with its diverse food options, inexpensive yet high-quality products and receptive-ness to customers, is popular among Virginia Tech students and visitors alike.

Tech’s on-campus dining has gained a reputation nationwide because of its top-level university food.

Virginia Tech takes claim to dining-related awards dating back to 1992 — the Princeton Review lists Tech as No. 3 for Best Campus Food in 2012 and No. 1 in 2009. Student-driven website College Prowler rated campus dining an A+.

An exclusive option for caffeine addicts is located on the bottom floor of Dietrick — Deet’s Place, a coffee shop unique to Tech which roasts their own beans, offering fair trade coffee and a special “Hokie Blend.”

Also located on the lower level of Dietrick Hall, DXpress is an extremely popular, nearly 24-hour eating facil-ity that is open only during the school year, providing hot and cold food for students to grab on the go.

The upper floor is comprised of eight widely varying shops that make up D2, the only “all-you-can-eat” facility on campus. D2, which was radically redesigned in 2004 from a previous cafeteria-like style, now relies on a “mise en place” philosophy — a French dining style meaning “everything in place.” This allows dishes to be pre-pared quickly in batches in front of the diners, keeping food fresh even during crowded mealtimes.

Furthermore, D2 utilizes local meat and vegetables from Kentland Farms in its dishes, although these products do not make up the majority of its meals.

New Student Orientation provides dining services with the opportunity to serve new students who will become frequent diners, as well as their parents.

“We’ve tried to take a good sampling (of foods)… so they get a good idea of what these kids would see over a period of time,” said Kelvin Bergsten, assistant director of dining services. “We’re always adjusting.”

Bergsten said the facility also incor-porates menu items normally found in other dining halls during orientation.

Some campus favorites include bar-becue chicken pizza, tortellini, barbe-cue hot dogs, pear and goat cheese salad, Mississippi mud pie, beef and chicken fajitas, and chimichangas. Tech also serves unique options such as beef churrascaria, prepared on a Brazilian spitfire grill.

Bergsten said Dining Services makes an effort to tweak, improve, or throw out less popular items.

“A lot of what sets us apart is we’re very progressive. We’re constantly self-examining our food,” Bergsten said. “We come back and say, ‘Okay, how do we incorporate that and is it a feasible incorporation?’”

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Adopted: Look beyond stereotypes

She had to develop a dossier and compile a vast array of background information, including three certi-fied birth certificates. After jumping through numerous hoops for the paperwork, she had to pass a home study, interviews by a social worker, police background checks and parent-ing classes.

Susan thought she was almost done after she turned in her final paperwork to the Department of Child Services in the District of Columbia. However, days before the adoption was supposed to be approved, she got a phone call from the adoption agency telling her they had not received the paperwork. If it didn’t reach them by a certain date, she would be put on hold indefinitely.

“I knew in my heart that Lucy was waiting for me and I knew that paperwork needed to go in with that group,” Susan said. “I had to move heaven and earth, and everybody told me there was no way I could get it in, but I knew I had to do it or things wouldn’t work out the way they were supposed to.”

Lucy agreed the way things worked out for her and her mother is the way they are supposed to be. Her general knowledge about China’s culture and history helped her fill in the blanks enough to keep her curiosity satisfied. Whether or not her assumptions are correct, she said being part of an inter-national adoption changes her entire sense of curiosity.

“If a kid was given up for adoption by American birth parents, they’re closer to home so they have a better under-standing about what their birth parents would be like. I would not be able to communicate (with my birth parents) because there would be a whole cul-ture clash, not only in language, but their whole life would be totally differ-ent from mine. Being internationally adopted removes us from our cultures,” Lucy said.

Although she considers herself com-pletely Americanized, one of the first things people say when they meet

Lucy is, “Wow, you speak really good English.” Their ignorance, which can be frustrating to her, has sparked a certain interest in learning more about China. While she has read books about her birthplace, she has not devoted a lot of time to the topic.

Lucy said she probably deals with the same social issues most other Asian-Americans do. She prefers to laugh it off and joke about her race with her friends. She has learned to fully embrace being from another country, something she sees as being inherently American.

“I think my own personality leads people to really see past stereotypes, especially after they meet me,” Lucy said.

Susan recognized that spirit the moment she first met Lucy. She had traveled to Changzhou, China, where the orphanage was located. The five families who had come there together stood in the reception center, waiting. Then the aides started bringing the babies out one by one.

Susan said, “They brought Lucy in and I immediately recognized her. They put her in my arms and it was the most amazing thing. I just held her and she let me hold her, she didn’t cry or anything, and she just looked around.”

As she talked, Susan’s voice picked up and filled with emotion. She described the moment as one of pure joy and excitement, and said every moment since has been the same.

Because of their racial differences and since Susan is a single mother, it was obvious Lucy would grow up knowing she was adopted. Regardless, Lucy’s mother didn’t think it was either neces-sary or right to keep the truth from her child, unlike other families at the time. Lucy said her mother raised her to be proud she was adopted and to see it as a part of who she is.

“It’s always something that we’re not afraid to talk about, but in general it’s not really a discussion because its just so normal,” Lucy said. “When a family is different from most people they try to hide it and they’re uncomfortable about talking about it, but I’m not.”

from page threeYour article is finally finished. You’ve spent weeks gathering sourc-

es, conducting interviews, and checking facts.

The piece has been edited, re-edited, and revised more times than you can count. The head-line is gripping and the photo editors have added dynamic images.

The paper is ready to print. All it needs now is the green light. But, what happens when a con-troversial article raises red flags and gets the red light?

While most student journal-ists will hopefully never have to worry about monetary issues, some student newspapers may be pressured to finance them-selves.

Who has the final say about what can or cannot be pub-lished: the paper or the pay-check?

As a journalist, I can safely say that my best friend is the First Amendment. It was estab-lished by the Supreme Court, in Tinker v. Des Moines, that students shouldn’t forfeit their rights to free speech upon enter-ing into a school building.

This applies doubly to student journalists who rely heavily on their freedom of the press. Some may argue a newspaper financed by a school is subject to censorship at the administra-tion’s discretion.

Most, if not all, public high school publications are subject to censorship if stories are deemed inappropriate because of fac-tors like obscenity, racism, or potential disruption. However, some privately funded newspa-pers claim their independence affords them the right to run whatever articles they please.

How should censorship affect private schools with religious

affiliations? As the Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper of a Roman Catholic high school, I am aware of the potential for significant conflicts between my paper and the school and between my school and the religious authority to which it answers.

It’s not difficult to run impor-tant stories without pushing the wrong buttons. A private school a few minutes from Washington D.C. can find plenty of contro-versial stories to run without touching on subjects like abor-tion or same-sex marriage.

I simply have to identify other topics of interest to my student body. Honestly, editorials con-cerning changes to the uniform create just as much buzz.

Other editors are not as hesi-tant to take a more confron-tational approach. Sam Smith of Huntington High School in Huntington, W.Va. is not afraid to manage his staff his way. A past conflict with his principal about a feature from a handi-capped student’s point of view has caused Smith to reaffirm his commitment to the student readers.

“A story like this is impor-tant to all students,” he said. “My peers and my staff mat-ter more to me [as an editor] than the administration, and if the administration doesn’t like it, they can take it up with me.” Smith said having contacts in the Student Press Law Center can be a major asset.

A tight budget can also cause major setbacks. Deepa Shivaram of Western Albemarle High School recently saw her publi-cation shift from a bi-monthly newspaper to a full-color maga-zine published four times a year.

“It’s actually more expensive to publish a magazine, but it raises

readership as well as adver-tising.” she said. “Our budget never really struggled with the paper, but it always affects the magazine. You never know how much money you’re going to have.”

Uncertainty about if and when a new issue will be able to print can be taxing on the morale of a staff. When the need for new equipment is added onto an already costly project, it can become downright exhausting.

Haters gonna hate.There will always be oppo-

sition to student newspapers printing what they believe is an important and hard-hitting story. While students may balk at censorship, it is important to keep in mind that principals and administrators at schools have a responsibility to uphold the dig-nity and reputation of a school as well as all of its students, fac-ulty, and staff.

Communication is key.As a journalist, I value the rela-

tionship I have with my school’s administration, not only in print journalism, but in broadcasting as well. Cooperation between staff and administrators can also be effective in advertising and financing a paper.

As a staff, it is important to have an established mission statement and system in place when it comes to dealing with censorship conflict. A crucial part of managing a newspaper is to uphold your paper’s integrity. A little respect can go a long way.

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