questions

What is newsworthy at Eastview?
Things that are happening in students lives.


What Back Issues Can Tell Us:
1. what happened in years before



What stories are covered every year?
homecoming valentines day graduation


• What time of year did these stories run?
right before the event


• Are any of the same people involved year after year?
a few


2. What was the biggest story of each year?
homecoming


3. How many personality sketches of students were run each year?
14


• What types of students were interviewed? (athletes, student leaders, etc.)
people who were involved with the topic of the article


• Was any one student constantly featured in one year? Why?•
no because nobody wants to read a whole paper on one person


Do you think this was fair?
yeah


4. How many personality sketches of faculty were run each year?
1


• Which teachers were featured?
mr harloff


• Why those particular people?
because he was the coach

5. What full page features (or center spreads) did the publication carry?

katrina


• Are any of those topics still relevant?


not really


6. What was a great year(s) for sports teams? Activities?


2205-2006


• Did the school have any state champions?


swimming


• Olympic performers?


gymnastics


• Other honors?


speech team did well


7. Find a story that uses background information from previous years.


november 2005 has to do with october


8. What topics did the paper editorialize about each year?
best buddies katrina




• What stand did the paper take?





• Has the problem been solved or is it still an issue?





9. What major news did the paper carry about classes?


being a student aid


• Any curriculum changes?


new courses


• Any major new programs?


ap phsycology


10. Any new equipment?


no


• Any building programs?


no


11. Any scandals involving students, administrators, or teachers?


no


• What happened?





12. What changes in fashion among students can be found?

clothing styles



13. What signs of changing times can you find as mirrored in the concerns of students?

facebook / myspace / xanga



• What concerns never seem to change and would continue to make good stories year after year?


homecoming


14. Did the school have any championship academic teams?


speech team


• Art show winners?• Band or choir awards?• Science winners?• National honors?





15. Which clubs were most active?
speech




16. What campus events made the most news?
sports




17. What movies and music groups has the paper reviewed?
train




18. What issues did cartoonists choose?
messy lockers




19. How has the publication’s format changed?
theres not as many pages




20. Did the demographics of your student population change? Why?
no




21. What are the school’s traditions and how did they develop?• Who are the school’s traditional rivals? (Could vary between activites.)
apple valley
eagan

rosemount
everyone else
• How did the rivalry begin?
sports




22. What are five things most interesting about EVHS?
1. the teachers
2. the classes
3. the food
4. the students
5. the activities