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New Student Newspaper Now Taking Submissions
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07-10-2010 9:52am#1If you want to write for the upcoming student paper, send an email to communications@nuimsu.com with your:
*Name
*Email
*Phone
*Area of interest
In the newspaper, there are writers and editors. Editors manage any particular section and its writers, and get the articles back to me (Rob here) on time. Writers send in an article (or two, or three) every issue. We already have all the editors we need, and a good bit of content, but if anyone wants to write they are absolutely more than welcome. Some of the standard areas of interest are:
*NUIM News
*National Student News
*Local News
*Opinion, Letters (also accepting letters!)
*Techie Stuff
*Sports
*Events (not limited to Union events; if your band is playing somewhere we'll help showcase it)
That's just part of it, we also have lots of other sections that already have the content done for the first issue.
For free, we also have a classifieds section for:
*Rooms for let
*Books
*Laptops
...pretty much any student-y stuff, so if you've got a spare room in the house you're trying to let, we'll happily publish it. Send it to classifieds@nuimsu.com.
Writers also get a writing style guide (which, if followed, will make your essays significantly more awesome).
*Rob
PS: Just saw Trinity's paper. I like our chances for Student Newspaper of the Year
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MaynoothSU wrote: »If you want to write for the upcoming student paper, send an email to communications@nuimsu.com with your:
*Name
*Email
*Phone
*Area of interest
In the newspaper, there are writers and editors. Editors manage any particular section and its writers, and get the articles back to me (Rob here) on time. Writers send in an article (or two, or three) every issue. We already have all the editors we need, and a good bit of content, but if anyone wants to write they are absolutely more than welcome. Some of the standard areas of interest are:
*NUIM News
*National Student News
*Local News
*Opinion, Letters (also accepting letters!)
*Techie Stuff
*Sports
*Events (not limited to Union events; if your band is playing somewhere we'll help showcase it)
That's just part of it, we also have lots of other sections that already have the content done for the first issue.
For free, we also have a classifieds section for:
*Rooms for let
*Books
*Laptops
...pretty much any student-y stuff, so if you've got a spare room in the house you're trying to let, we'll happily publish it. Send it to classifieds@nuimsu.com.
Writers also get a writing style guide (which, if followed, will make your essays significantly more awesome).
*Rob
PS: Just saw Trinity's paper. I like our chances for Student Newspaper of the Year
Just a few questions,
(1) Could you not call it a newsletter? It's just that "newspaper" sounds a tad bit pompous and self-important.
(2) Could you not just make a website, instead of going through all that money and effort with regard to publication/ production etc for a newsletter that very few would probably read to begin with?
(3) Seriously, how much are events in NUIM worthy of their own newspaper? I'm sorry, but I can't help but get the feeling that articles will be comprised of "Mary is looking for her lost textbook", "Jimmy reviews canteen cauliflower and cheese", "Margaret wonders if the lighting in the new theatre is............." etc etc.
Don't get me wrong, if you have news worthy articles which aren't just about any old trivial nonsense – for the sake of fill up a few pages – then I might consider wasting my money on it. Otherwise if i'm looking for news i'll stick the indo or some other paper if I’m going to be spending €2.
Pardon my cynicism here, but if I want to find anything out about NUIM, I can just come to boards.ie or some other website - I don't need to buy a newsletter called “The NUIM Times”/
I'm sorry but I think its going to be a flop, put your time/ money and energy into something more productive like studying and books. If I (along with most people I know of) couldn't be ar$ed reading amateur local prints like the liffey champion, or spending money on it, I cannot for the life of me see how you think people are going to read a newsletter constricted to NUIM - and god forbid pay for it.
If it's free, I probably still wouldn't read it as I have better things to be doing than reading the most mundane, trivial nonsense penned by self-styled "roysh we're journalists now loike" students.
p.s. believe it or not sports and local news is covered in the liffey champion (I still wouldn’t buy it). Or you can simply use the google search engine to find out these things for free.
Sorry maybe i'm missing something here, but your post made me laugh, what with all the "newspaper" "editors" "opinion" snippets.0 -
Apologies for the really long post
Computer Sci wrote: »Just a few questions,
(1) Could you not call it a newsletter? It's just that "newspaper" sounds a tad bit pompous and self-important.
Well, it's going to be an actual newspaper with lots of pages'n'everything so there's no point calling it something it's not.(2) Could you not just make a website, instead of going through all that money and effort with regard to publication/ production etc for a newsletter that very few would probably read to begin with?
Probably would be a bit inaccessible to some people, not everyone is great at computers, even when they're at college
(3) Seriously, how much are events in NUIM worthy of their own newspaper? I'm sorry, but I can't help but get the feeling that articles will be comprised of "Mary is looking for her lost textbook", "Jimmy reviews canteen cauliflower and cheese", "Margaret wonders if the lighting in the new theatre is............." etc etc.
Hell, I even think Sligo IT has it's own paper/magazine, so it's no harm in NUIM having one either. Especially seeing as this isn't exactly the first year of it.Don't get me wrong, if you have news worthy articles which aren't just about any old trivial nonsense – for the sake of fill up a few pages – then I might consider wasting my money on it. Otherwise if i'm looking for news i'll stick the indo or some other paper if I’m going to be spending €2.
Pardon my cynicism here, but if I want to find anything out about NUIM, I can just come to boards.ie or some other website - I don't need to buy a newsletter called “The NUIM Times”/
I'm sorry but I think its going to be a flop, put your time/ money and energy into something more productive like studying and books. If I (along with most people I know of) couldn't be ar$ed reading amateur local prints like the liffey champion, or spending money on it, I cannot for the life of me see how you think people are going to read a newsletter constricted to NUIM - and god forbid pay for it.
A few points:
- The newspaper is going to be free. Well I assume so, it has been every other year I've been here.
- I don't know if you were in NUIM when it was around, but people read The Spoke, which tended to be so awful it was laughable. I imagine this year's newspaper will be quite successful.
- Some students at this college are actually quite good writers, so I imagine there'll be some pretty interesting articles
If it's free, I probably still wouldn't read it as I have better things to be doing than reading the most mundane, trivial nonsense penned by self-styled "roysh we're journalists now loike" students.
p.s. believe it or not sports and local news is covered in the liffey champion (I still wouldn’t buy it). Or you can simply use the google search engine to find out these things for free.
Sorry maybe i'm missing something here, but your post made me laugh, what with all the "newspaper" "editors" "opinion" snippets.
You probably wouldn't find a whole lot of info about NUIM-based sports events/stuff going on in the SU by using google. Well apart from here, but I imagine about 90% of the student population haven't even heard of boards.ie
I don't mean to sound bitchy, I just know that a lot of people are putting hard work into this newspaper (namely this forum's very own banquo) so there's no point being dismissive of it before the first edition even comes out. Hopefully it'll change your mind about it 0 -
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The only point I can make is that an "Arts student's flowery prose" is obviously not good writing, seeing as the mark of a good writer is to carefully consider the audience, content and medium of their written piece. And yes, you'll find there are quite a few good writers by that definition in Maynooth.
Also, The Print was an interesting enough read last year. For people who don't have an automatic "Oh I'll check boards!" response (unlike me
), it gives some pretty useful info about clubs and socs, NUIM events and talks, political stuff happening around campus, and then general interest stuff like reviews and interviews. Oh, and as far as NUIM news not being worthy of a newspaper - NUIM has been in national newspapers quite a bit in the last while. For one, a research team from the Biology department finally pinpointed the moment of the Big Bang. I think that's a pretty newsworthy achievement. Even outside of academia, we've been covered because of protests against fees and educational cuts and against Bertie Ahern's appointment as an honorary Professor. You'd be surprised at the amount of events that take place on campus that are both newsworthy and in need of publicising - the Clubs & Socs noticeboards look a state with posters most of the time, and most academic departments don't update their websites a whole lot. Not even to get into national issues that might be (and have been in the past) of significant interest to NUIM students.
That said, you made one good point about putting the newspaper online. In addition to a printed edition, that'd be handy. 0 -
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I gotta echo computer sci and their remarks regarding the newspaper. It seems like an awfully backward step to be funding a newspaper rather then creating a website.
You give the reason for this as "Probably would be a bit inaccessible to some people, not everyone is great at computers, even when they're at college".
I don't really think that's a great reason, I think the college would be aiming to try and get all their students to have the skills to open a web browser and find a website. The college also have tons of computers for students to use. If you are worried about the numbers reading it, I am sure you would be able to email it to all student emails or get online subscriptions.
Newspapers seem like an incredible waste, looking at the cost of it firstly and the likely impact it will have in the college. Would it not be better to to use skills and resources available at the college, to build the website and run the magazine or whatever it will be from there? Plus it does not seem very green does it? I thought colleges were trying to be more green these days
Plus, gotta ask, how much does it cost these days to produce a newspaper? If you had an option to make a website for pretty cheap, pretty much free considering the amount of CS students, or use a significant amount of money to fund a paper, why choose the latter? That money could be much better used.
On a positive side, I think the idea of producing news for students is a great thing and would love to see articles that are not just an ego-boost for the writers and editors.
Your first issue should look at why the old campus canteen segregates us mere common folk from trainee priests? Rather then putting reserved signs on tables (like I see for other groups who need the tables), it has weird office cubicle walls to prevent people from even looking into the priest section, ha. Not the most modern approach is it? When we have our student canteen rebuilt, are we going to segregate ourselves from outsiders too?
It would also be nice to see some articles looking at the prices of food in the college compared to food in the village and asking the bizarre question of why stuff seems to cost a hell of a lot more here?0 -
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Turn these into 500 word articles and I'll put them
In.
This is how it works!The Waltzing Consumer wrote: »I gotta echo computer sci and their remarks regarding the newspaper. It seems like an awfully backward step to be funding a newspaper rather then creating a website.
You give the reason for this as "Probably would be a bit inaccessible to some people, not everyone is great at computers, even when they're at college".
I don't really think that's a great reason, I think the college would be aiming to try and get all their students to have the skills to open a web browser and find a website. The college also have tons of computers for students to use. If you are worried about the numbers reading it, I am sure you would be able to email it to all student emails or get online subscriptions.
Newspapers seem like an incredible waste, looking at the cost of it firstly and the likely impact it will have in the college. Would it not be better to to use skills and resources available at the college, to build the website and run the magazine or whatever it will be from there? Plus it does not seem very green does it? I thought colleges were trying to be more green these days
Plus, gotta ask, how much does it cost these days to produce a newspaper? If you had an option to make a website for pretty cheap, pretty much free considering the amount of CS students, or use a significant amount of money to fund a paper, why choose the latter? That money could be much better used.
On a positive side, I think the idea of producing news for students is a great thing and would love to see articles that are not just an ego-boost for the writers and editors.
Your first issue should look at why the old campus canteen segregates us mere common folk from trainee priests? Rather then putting reserved signs on tables (like I see for other groups who need the tables), it has weird office cubicle walls to prevent people from even looking into the priest section, ha. Not the most modern approach is it? When we have our student canteen rebuilt, are we going to segregate ourselves from outsiders too?
It would also be nice to see some articles looking at the prices of food in the college compared to food in the village and asking the bizarre question of why stuff seems to cost a hell of a lot more here?0 -
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