[Imc] IMC Print Group Minutes, 14 Oct

[Michael Feltes]

IMC Print Group Meeting:
14 Oct 2001, 3:00 PM
First Week of Cycle

Facilitated by Pauline
Minutes Taken by Mike F.

Attending: Robert, Paul Mueth, Mike W., Belden, Aaron,
Dave, John, Brent, Pauline, Mike F., Scott, Omar, Brian,
Charles, Phoenix 
Charles and Phoenix - newcomers, recent HS graduate and
Urbana HS student, respectively


Story Ideas:

Community Forum (1) 
 - response to Sarah Kanouse's article in Oct issue;
in hand

Media (1)
 - The Octopus' Ongoing Saga
    - Brent's partner unable to continue, need someone
to pick up and run; what's done is on the Newswire

Human Rights (1)
 - German govt. response to 11 Sep
   - Eva Neumann, German native and local writer
      - issues with news programming censorship and turnover
of private student records to the government by Humboldt
University
      - US connection: asst. librarian @ UCLA suspended
w/ pay for questioning US policy in public forum
   - Belden and Eva mtg. on Thurs.; story in progress


Environment (2)
 - Alloy Casting pollution
   - written by Lindsay Robertson, well on the way to
completion
 - Environmental effects of WTC collapse
   - idea looking for a writer

Labor (3)
 - GEO considering strike (Robert, getting started)
 - Non-union construction in Central Illinois (Mike F.,
getting started)
 - Charles Koernigan visit to Bloomington (Nick Bervalier
and Mike F., getting started)

Arts (2 + Newspoetry)
 - Rose Marcak 
    - not sure, Brent may need help with this story
 - ICEN's Art Sale (Mike W.; getting started)
 - John and Robert collating Newspoetry

Government (3 + 1 national)
 - Deconstructing the Rule of Law, Pt. 1
   - John's done, Mike F. and Omar taking a crack at
editing
 - NORML (Avram; in hand)
 - Bush and Bin Laden (Al Kagan; will need revision)

 - 5 Lies about the War (from Pittsburgh; likely needs
abridgment and revision)

Community Profile (1)
 - Athen Chilton, local artist (Sandra; in hand)

first drafts due next week

New Spoke:
Proposed that Mike F. take over for Brent as spoke to
Steering Group
 - approved by lack of voice vote ;)
 - spokes now Mike F. and Aaron

Form Letter:
 - Letters intended to solicit articles from progressive
or underrepresented organizations
 - Danielle and Pauline's list was lost into the ether
of computer failure; Pauline will reconstruct
 - Final draft of the letter ready [attached]
 
Distribution:
 - very little accountability for making sure that all
routes are delivered
 - Omar and Belden taking care of leftover routes
 - more rigorous delivery for future issues; Mike F.
on the job

McChesney and Rosenstein
 - not much help here, very few journalism grad students
for these two professors who are focused on print and/or
audio
 - Paul Riismandel and Pauline making presentation about
the IMC to a grad class by Nancy Benson; perhaps we'll
have some people interested from there

New Section on Youth
 - Robert and Phoenix would like to start a new section
focusing on activism among high school age students,
going in large part through SWI Forum @ Urbana HS
 - discussion about concerns of having a section on 

 - issue tabled to future date when articles come in
from these groups

Tabled discussion of mission statement to next week
 - Roget's will be brought

FIRST DRAFTS DUE NEXT WEEK!


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