“Pennygate”

I am not sure that anyone actually has read or heard about this story. I thought it was interesting and profound.

According to the news, students at Readington Middle School each brought in $2 worth of pennies to pay for lunch. The students pulled this prank in order to protest their short lunch. The students only receive a half-hour for lunch. The school made a huge deal and decided to give a 2-day detention to about 29 8th grade students. Bad PR for those who are sympathetic to the students’ cause.

Below are links to two different news sources about the story:

http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/pennies.readington.township.2.666113.html

http://www.nj.com/hunterdon/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1204797913104490.xml&coll=12

I happen to be on the students side. I think it is amazing to hear about young adults fighting for a cause—whatever it may be. I think it is unwise to punish these students who protested in a non-violent way. They made their point and I applaud them.

I read several other blogs about this topic. I love reading entries by angry parents. It is so amusing.

Here is an example: “If, like you say, these students have a problem eating in 30 minutes, I’m even more inclined to think they are out of line. Your telling me that with 675 students, only 29 couldn’t eat in that amount of time? Everyone I know only had half an hour to eat and we ate in 10 minutes so we could go out and play. We had to sit for 10 minutes. These kids have every right to protest but not at the expense of all the other kids. No wonder why most lunch ladies are crabs having to deal with something that they have no control over,” from a blogger named Jane (Parentdish.com).

Isn’t that great. Angry over something so simple and non-violent. Lovely.

Today was busy…I need sleep

Ah…today was tiresome. Besides my mass-load of work I had for my classes, I also was inundated with work for yearbook. Some may say that I am complaining, but if someone knew the pressure on me as yearbook editor they would feel slightly bad. Today I met with my amazing publisher for a 9 a.m. meeting. However, this meant that I had to be up around 6ish so that I could travel over to campus and prepare for the meeting. Our meeting went until 10 minutes before my class–that’s about 31/2 hours. I had class, drove home (because my mommy is really ill), went back to campus for class, was text messaged by a staff member in a jam, and now I am doing work for my night class that I have in 15 minutes. After night class I have a meeting at 9:45 p.m. and that won’t end until we get the work done. Then it is home to write a paper. Phewww…I am tired writing about it.

On a stellar note, Chris got into Penn State’s Aerospace Engineering Graduate Program.

On another good note, I was able to eat lunch today!

Finally, Luther Vandross is the man (that’s to you Christine-lol)!

Super Tuesday

Today is the day we can look forward to getting a new President. I don’t know about all of you, but that’s something to cheer about!!

Life in PR class

Oh PR,

I still find it odd that we are writing a blog for class. It’s sort of odd for me. I am fairly private about my thoughts and feelings. Usually when someone talks to me I am silly and stupid because I love to make people laugh. Subsequently, it feels odd to write my real thoughts and feelings. Luckily though, this blog doesn’t really have to do with “me” — per say. It has to do with my thoughts about our night class.

I might add that I feel a bit behind. I don’t know why. I think I just feel that I know so much less about PR and thus, it feel like everyone is running circles around me. I don’t consider myself a great writer and I know very little about PR cases and blogs. Our main text book is okay. I find it to be a bit drab. No color or life to it. The book by David Meerman Scott is pretty good. I normally wouldn’t have been interested in reading it.

Oh and by the way, when we were talking about case study 4-2 on page 83, I totally didn’t get the entirety of the problem at first. I am better now.

I don’t really know what else to say. I have been staring at the computer trying to figure out what to say. Better luck next time…hopefully.

Blogging for PR

The internet has revolutionized the world. People now sit around computers looking up facts, chatting to friends in Singapore and typing their hearts content for the world to read. It would only seem proper for everyone to align themselves with the current and present technology. So, why not blog for Public Relations? It seems reasonable and practical. It seems like a quick way for companies to see how people truly feel about their organization. It seems new to me because I have never looked at a blog — but perhaps I am in the minority on that. If most people “blog” or peruse “blogs” than it does seem like a great way for PR practitioners to spread their word. Mostly though, I think I feel indifferent about it. Personally, if I were working in the PR department at a company and we had a crisis, I wouldn’t turn to a “blog” to let the world know how we were handling things. Hey, but that’s just me. I seem to be a late adopter of ideas.

-Laura

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