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Upcoming Stories:
The Head of The Charles Regatta
Summary: A look at the culture surrounding the event. Our focus will be on the people that this event attracts, the spectators, vendors, competitors, friends, family, etc. We hope to learn what draws such a wide array of people to the Regatta, their reactions to it, and what they will take away from it. This is what really makes the regatta unique and maintains the tradition, and we hope to capture that in our pictures.
Group Members: Amy Connors, Edward Wronsky, Genevieve Geiger, Patricia Moncure
Deadline: TBD
Local Bostonians Spice Up the City (tentative)
Summary: A profile of the Bostonians who give the city so much character. We are going to photograph and interview a variety of people and pick then put together a series of photos and short features about these people. Some people we plan to find include: Harvard newstand worker, Duck tour driver, Yawkee way vendor, street performers and musicians, North End bakers, DeLuca’s grocery store workers, and anyone else who happens to be in our path!
Group Members: Stephanie Colbert, Molly Ferrill, Jennifer Sanduski, Weilin Mun
Deadline: November 18
Soldiers on the Hill: The Intersection of Tufts and the Military
Summary: The Tufts undergraduate population consists largely of globally-minded, liberal, anti-war students. There are among us, however, a handful of students who commit their early mornings to taking leadership courses at MIT ROTC, their summers to training on military bases, and their nights to hosting cadets and midshipmen. For some, this lifestyle conflicts with the general sentiments articulated at Tufts; for others it is the ultimate expression of “active citizenship” on which Tufts so prides itself. Either way, the intersection of the Tufts and military cultures produces a unique conversation that we hope to explore.
Group Members: Britt Sloan, Louise Blavet, Kelsea Carlson, Patrick Schmidt, Mark Eisenberg
Story deadline: December 2, 2009
Ethnic Enclaves in Boston: Reclaiming Place and Identity
Summary: Boston is a city of 600,000. 150,000 of them are foreign-born – immigrants from all over the world: Somalia and Vietnam, Brazil and Italy. They play a vital part in the changing character of the city and the collective identity of its residents. But even as they change Boston with their presence and Boston changes them, many immigrants do their best to hold on to their pasts, whether in specific neighborhoods such as Chinatown for the Chinese, parts of Dorchester for the Vietnamese, the North End for the Italians, or in specific restuarants or cultural centers that become gathering places for the community. Our story would focus on one of these de facto community centers, and the use of public space to create that sense of community, that sense of “home”, and that sense of identity.
Group Member: Eileen Guo, Adam Aronow, Loan Nguyen, Jessie Wesley
Deadline: December 2, 2009
Somerville, A Gateway City: Then and Now
Summary: Oft dubbed Boston’s gateway, Somerville has historically been a doorway to the city for immigrants from all over the world. While earlier generations saw an influx of Italian and Irish, the 90s and 00s have seen the South American and Haitian communities within Somerville flourish. This ‘generational divide’ that exists within Somerville is a complex one that has led to escalating tensions within the city in recent years, but it has also given Somerville a unique feel and has allowed her to become a melting pot of various cultures and livelihoods.
Group Members: Elizabeth Herman
Deadline: TBD
Impromptu Davis
Summary: “Impromptu Davis” will profile street performers in Davis Square. Often taken for granted and under-appreciated, these musicians give extra character and soul to Medford’s Davis Square. JP Lick’s tastes that much better and cars racing by don’t seem quite as loud when accompanied by these selfless melodies. But why do the performers play? Where do they come from, and where do they go when the show ends? We seek to answer these questions in “Impromptu Davis.”
Group Members: Nathan Feldman…
Deadline: October 28, 2009
Coming Out Day
Summary: For this story, the group will be conducting casual, anonymous interviews as well as taking photos at the actual event on Wednesday, October 14th. The goal of the project, essentially, is to capture the spirit of the event through a slideshow of photos with voice-over. We’ll be going to the canon-painting on Tuesday night to talk with some planners of the event, shooting some pictures of various flyers and advertisements around campus, and, of course, shooting the actual event. In particular, we’d like to capture both personal experience and inter-personal behavior at the event.
Group Members: Emily Wyner, Lauren Hollender, MJ Murphy, Linda Khalil, Yen Yuen
Deadline: November 5, 2009
Gambling in Massachusetts
Summary: The story will focus on gambling in Massachusetts, with a specific focus on greyhound racing in the region. Recently, Massachusetts passed legislation that restricted the occurrence of greyhound racing and we plan to cover the effects of this ban. We plan to cover the current status of the Wonderland race track and investigate tangential stories that may stem from the race track coverage.
Group Members: Matt Roe, Jess Bidgood, Amanda Laz, Nick Dynan
Deadline: November
TMC: Go Outside
Summary: We are doing a profile of the Tufts Mountain Club by covering certain events happening this month. We will be going to Autumn Fest and the Trips Cabin Ribbon Cutting (24-25th). The focus of the story will be on people in the club, and on the cozy, fun atmosphere of their events, especially those at the Loj.
Group Members: Allison Fisk, MJ
Deadline: November
A Portrait of Silence
Summary: What is Deaf Culture? Is it a culture? It’s come to my attention that the Deaf are minorities among minorities. My goal is to promote awareness and insight into this rich and diverse culture. Next week I plan to go to Allston MA to the Horace Mann School for the Deaf for the 2nd annual culture day. I’m going to volunteer along with the rest of my group, in the child day care and hopefully get a story there. A very large percentage of Deaf parents have hearing children so we’ll be able to talk to both hearing and deaf children. We plan to go to a series of events and get some stories about people, their life and their experiences and we’d highlight their expression and their way of interacting, which is much different than the hearing. Then we will look in on a performance of the mime group at Tufts. This will serve as a contrast between an entire culture and performing art. What I hope to convey in both the photos and the narrative is peoples dependency on sounds and that the world can be just as beautiful in silence.
Group Members: Chelsea Gray, Sara Adelsberg, Asad Budruddin
Deadline: November 4,2009
