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Lucas Lamb

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1. What is the social scene at BSC like during COVID? Are students breaking rules or finding new ways to maintain a healthy social life?
2. What is the student athlete experience like in the year 2020?
3. Does BSC's perimeter fence do more harm than good?
4. How are professor's coping with virtual/hybrid learning?
5. Has BSC provided enough resources for mental health in the year 2020?
6. What's the deal with spiked seltzer? Why is it a statewide phenomenon?
7. How many student's attend a religious gathering once a week or more?
8. What's the deal with an Auburn church pushing conversion therapy?
9. Write a profile about the Jefferson County Memorial Project.
10. What was sidewalk film festival like in 2020?
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  1. Post by Sarah Brinson
    Re: Story Ideas
    Obviously I am biased but I would love to see a story about the JCMP. Also the story about BSC's perimeter fence is really interesting. ALSO did not know about the church in Auburn pushing conversion therapy but wtf. 
  2. Post by Glenny Brock
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    Lucas, you know from EH305 that I dream of you writing a 2,000-, or 4,000-, or 10,000-word history of and meditation on the fence. In fact, I wish that you (or we as a class) would take some time to walk the perimeter. I think it would be interesting to walk it and just see what we see. Maybe next week or the week after.

    Also, a brief survey of BSC's mental health resources — for COVID and otherwise — sounds great. That would be so helpful to so many people and interesting besides. Why don't you do that first, in part to write a short, fast piece.


    This brings to mind something an editor said to me once:
    "Sometimes the story is the boss and sometimes it's the clock."
    His point was that some stories you work on for days or weeks or months and some you work on for two hours tops. The latter approach, a lot of times, is determined by a deadline and a sense of urgency. But often it's about managing your personal resources by learning to prioritize. I think you could report on and write 600-800 words about BSC's mental health resources in a total of four or five hours. By comparison, even a 600- to 800-word story about the fence might take you a few hours a day for several days depending on your angle.

    I'm all for the JCMP story too.


  3. Post by Emma Clare Johnson
    Re: Story Ideas
    I really like your first story idea about social life at BSC. Last semester before we left, I truly believed everything was going to go back to normal but obviously it is not. I think writing about social life would be super cool to see how people are staying busy on the weekends as well as what nightlife looks like and how it has shifted throughout the pandemic. 
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