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Sacred Spaces: The Architecture of Fay Jones

UA journalism professors and filmmakers Larry Foley and Dale Carpenter have completed a new hour-long documentary, “Sacred Spaces: The Architecture of Fay Jones.”  The documentary, which tracks the career of the visionary Arkansas architect, will be given an advance screening at the Fayetteville Public Library Feb. 7 at 2 p.m. in the library’s Walter Community Room. The screening is free and open to the public.

The film will premiere on the state-wide public television network AETN on March 25 at 9 p.m. and will air again on March 28 at 1 p.m.

Copies are also available on DVD through the University of Arkansas press.

Financial opportunities for students

The Arkansas Newspaper Foundation will provide four paid internships for the summer of 2010.  Each position pays $2,700.00 each for the 12-week program. Internships are for journalism majors or candidates who are attending Arkansas colleges and universities and are interested in print advertising, reporting, or other newspaper-related careers. 

Preference will be given to newspaper journalism majors (including advertising), to junior and seniors, to students with working experience (part-time jobs and internships); and to those who show professional promise.

Please submit a completed application that includes a short essay (one page or less) on your philosophy of journalism’s role in society and any supporting documents you choose.  Download this application or visit www.arkansaspress.org.  You may also email the ANF Director at karenb@commpub.com for more information.  The selection process is scheduled to be completed by April 2, 2010.

University of Arkansas journalism students are also invited to apply for scholarships administered by the Walter J. Lemke Department of Journalism. Please type or write in all parts of this application as legibly as possible. Submit application form and your packet to: Walter J. Lemke Journalism Department, University of Arkansas, Kimpel 116, Fayetteville, AR 72701 by 4 p.m.on February 28, 2010.

Journalism Grad Meets with White House Aide

UA journalism grad Julie Petty was among a group of advocates for people with disabilities who met with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel about his use of the word “retarded.”

The aide, famous for his blue language, came under attack recently for calling a group of liberals “f-ing retarded.” To help quell the controversy, Emanuel met with Petty, who is the former president of Self Advocates Becoming Empowered; Tim Shriver, the CEO of the Special Olympics; special needs advocate Hannah Jacobs; Andrew Imparato, president of American Association of People with Disabilities; and Ricardo Thornton, an advocate and Special Olympics athlete. The face-to-face meeting with Emanuel included a discussion about how the use of the term “retarded’ is derogatory and hurtful to people with intellectual disabilities, according to the Special Olympics Web site.

After the meeting, the group released the following statement: “The R-word is polluting our language.  Every day our community hears this word – in schools and workplaces, in print and in movies, on radio and television.  And every day they suffer its dehumanizing effects – mockery, stigma, ridicule.”

Petty graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2004 with a concentration in news/editorial.

 

 

 

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