Flash Online Spring/Summer 2001

Petrone gift supports teaching, research
UO Foundation trustee Dave Petrone and his wife, Nancy, have established a faculty fellowship in the SOJC with an endowment gift of $100,000. Full Story		ALSO INSIDE: Reporting nets the Pulitzer Prize Two SOJC alums are recognized as part of Oregonian staff Seattle Day-Trippers Students explore the professional world of public relations Goold gift for Allen Hall transformation Gift to the SOJC will be used to support renovations Recent election dramatizes role of media by Stephen Ponder Teen magazines play important role in adolescent girls' lives by Debra Merskin New Politz Fund generates future for grad students Flux magazine wins Pacemaker, other national awards Entrepreneurial grads join network for global research and resources Students kick off job search at Career Fair

Alumnus finds success in fiction and Hollywood
	"It’s a dark, romantic comedy about sexually compulsive behavior. If people were upset about Fight Club, a dark comedy about violence, they are really going to be upset by this one.” --Chuck Palahniuk
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Snowden interns take real-world experience to their journalism careers
	Catching up with past interns from the Charles R. Snowden Internship Program means looking far and wide—from the UO campus to Los Angeles to Chicago.
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Susan Orlean delivers 2001 Johnston Lecture
	Susan Orlean, acclaimed author and staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, delivered the School’s annual Johnston Lecture to a full house in Gerlinger Lounge on campus April 5.
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SOJC advisory board, recognition for staff, students surviving J202, and SOJC workshops.

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Nick Kristof, associate managing editor of The New York Times, visited the School on May 7 to deliver this year’s Ruhl Lecture, “Spies, Wars and Massacres: The Ethical Dilemmas of a Foreign Correspondent”. The same evening, The Payne Awards for Ethics in Journalism were presented. We’ll report on both events in our next issue.

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