Campus and Community Briefs
Utah Statesman printed Tuesday
Monday’s Utah Statesman was not distributed until Tuesday this week because of a failure with the printing press at Bear River Publishing Company.
A broken belt delayed the printing and distribution of both The Statesman and the Logan Herald Journal and other papers printed at the plant, located in Preston, Idaho.
JCOM professor charts war, press
Mike Sweeney, Utah State University journalism professor and media historian, teamed up with the National Geographic Society to produce a comprehensive picture of how journalists go to war and how they tell what horrors and heroism they see there.
The result is “From the Front: The Story of War,” a 320-page examination of war and the role of journalists and photographers who have risked their lives to record the images and stories of conflict from the front lines and send them back home.
“For two centuries journalists have gone to war,” Sweeney wrote. “Many … have fought their own battles against government and military officials, because they think the public has the right to know the news. When they succeed – when they get it right despite all obstacles – war correspondents can shake the world.”
This history of how humans have recorded and told the story of war is illustrated with some of the most famous images of the greatest armed conflicts of all time.
Sweeney’s book examines journalists at war from the Crimea to Kuwait to the terrorist attacks of September 2001. His work tells the story of the wartime storytellers from Richard Harding Davis to publisher William Randolph Hearst.
USU int’l student receives award
Rommel Orbe, a junior majoring in international studies and French at Utah State University, received the Piemonte medal and plate for his outstanding work at the Italian Consulate of Salt Lake City.
The awards were presented to him in person by Consul Giovanni Maschero on Oct. 26.
Orbe is a member of the International Student Council. He is planning on studying diplomacy in Italy once he receives his degree at USU. He worked for the consulate last semester. During the Olympics, he met authorities from Italy and other nations.
Orbe was born in Quito, Ecuador and comes from an Italian family. He speaks Spanish, Italian, English and French fluently and has a basic knowledge of Russian.
University survey concerns women
A 2001 faculty survey concerning Utah State University women’s issues will be presented by Grayson Osborne, Nov. 21 at noon in the Center Colony Room in the Taggart Student Center.
Osborne is the associate director of Analysis, Assessment and Accreditation. The presentation is sponsored by the Tri-Council for Gender Programs. Dessert will be
provided.