By: Ta’sia Tillam, Devin Jones, George Williams, and Journee’ Perry
The students in a Journalism I class at Hazelwood East, started a digital newspaper. Two weeks ago, the students divided themselves into five equal groups, and began writing, editing and publishing articles for the paper. The idea for the blog came from Ms. Goff, a new English teacher at East.
Throughout the school’s existence, Hazelwood East published a newspaper called “The Spartan Spectrum”, it was written and edited by a Journalism II class. Today’s students never knew about the paper. When Ms. Goff introduced the idea for the blog, she asked the student journalists to come up with a name. The students agreed that the name should stay“The Spartan Spectrum”.
Asia Vaughn, a senior at East, said, “A blog seems interesting, I would probably read it.”
Two other anonymous upperclassmen were interviewed and gave the impression that they didn’t think the spectrum would have a huge impact towards the school, with nonchalant answers. Comments such as, “People in the school wouldn’t too much care that it is here and wouldn’t want to read it.” The other simply came out and said, “This newspaper would not impact anything.” Tese student quotes lead me to believe we aren’t going to get too far with the new, improved Spartan Spectrum.