TV studio deserves consideration

by Lauren Mulkern

When I entered High School, I considered the clubs and activities I would participate. One club that never crossed my mind was the newspaper. Now look at me, I am one of the editors in editorial journalism. I first began participating in the newspaper at the beginning of this year when I was enrolled in intro to journalism. I decided to sign up for this class because there were no other electives that sophomores could take that gave me a small amount of interest. I later found out that Mr. Turley was the teacher of this class. I already knew Mr. Turley because of volleyball. Entering this class I figured that it wouldn’t be my favorite time of the day. Now all I look forward during the day period six journalism. I guess the point of this story is to express the great interest that I now have for communications thanks to Mr. Turley. I know that most likely I won’t be a journalist. I still enjoy participating in the club at school. However, I do have a strong interest communications.
My dream has been to be the next Katie Couric. However, Meredith Vieira came along and stole my dream job. What was she thinking? This has to do with the fact that I want to be a news anchor. While I attended classes at the Columbia Scholastic Press Association I noticed how large my love for this is. I was also informed that we have a T.V. news studio. I got so excited and just thought about how much I could learn if I could take classes using this brand new studio. I attended a class at Columbia that was called “Bringing T.V. Broadcast to Your School”. I figured by the time I am a senior I can get this started. Of course it would take a lot of hard work and dedication but I was up for the challenge.
However, I was just informed that the T.V. news studio was going to be turned into a music room. Being a person who could care less about music, I was livid. However, I did put into consideration that there were other students in the school who did enjoy music. While I was considering this, I remembered that music has its whole section of the building. They have a wonderful auditorium, band/chorus classroom, and a dressing room. What more do they need? What does communications have? Oh ya, we have one tiny news room. Do you see how I can be so upset? I would be extremely happy if this was just a crazy rumor and I could still be able to learn in the T.V. news studio. However, for now I have to prepare myself with the horrific idea that this room will no longer be for T.V. broadcasting. How cool would it be to have morning announcements with people’s faces? I think it would be wonderful.