Not so great: part of it got cut so a quarter of it makes no sense. "Young people believe nothing can of the 29 fire alarms last year were related to maintenance or construction activity."
Yup, that's actually in the paper. FAIL.
Addition:
What they left out was actually pretty important, looking back on it. It should have read
“Repeated false alarms wears down the sensitivity to alarms,” River Forest firefighter Lester Telkamp said. “Older buildings can be bigger disasters because the fires can spread in less time, due to outdated building codes…Young people believe nothing can happen to them and parents expect children to be safe at school.” He said “It’s a huge help if people exit the building” and that Dominican might consider augmenting their fire safety program, making it a bigger part of the resident assistants’ duty.
Addition:
What they left out was actually pretty important, looking back on it. It should have read
“Repeated false alarms wears down the sensitivity to alarms,” River Forest firefighter Lester Telkamp said. “Older buildings can be bigger disasters because the fires can spread in less time, due to outdated building codes…Young people believe nothing can happen to them and parents expect children to be safe at school.” He said “It’s a huge help if people exit the building” and that Dominican might consider augmenting their fire safety program, making it a bigger part of the resident assistants’ duty.
False fire alarms are actually a rare occurrence, Nayder explained. There have been four to five alarms pulled without a fire since 2001, when he first started working at Dominican University. There were 29 fire alarms in total last year, but only two or three significant fires since 2001. Most of the 29 total fire alarms last year as well as the significant fires were related to maintenance or construction activity."
I think that's pretty significant. If they wanted to cut it to make it shorter, they should have cut the two final paragraphs of my story. THOSE were not so important. They were solely description of the types of alarms we have on campus, not the suggestion the firefighter made.
I REALLY REALLY REALLY wish I had my old job as copy editor back. PLEASE GOD, PLEASE!!! (But let nothing bad happen to Angela Romano or any other staff member to satisfy my request.)
Maybe this is the opportunity I'm supposed to take to remind myself how lucky I was to have that position, even though I felt sometimes as though it was futile. And I realize I cannot run a paper by myself, people make mistakes, etc. but come on. I think something's lacking in our judgment if we put certain articles on the front page and then chop them up messily. It's stupid. And I'm not taking it personally. It could have happened to anyone.
Which articles should have been on the front page? The one about the professor who died and the one about Haiti. Those are a great deal more important than mine.
Maybe this is the opportunity I'm supposed to take to remind myself how lucky I was to have that position, even though I felt sometimes as though it was futile. And I realize I cannot run a paper by myself, people make mistakes, etc. but come on. I think something's lacking in our judgment if we put certain articles on the front page and then chop them up messily. It's stupid. And I'm not taking it personally. It could have happened to anyone.
Which articles should have been on the front page? The one about the professor who died and the one about Haiti. Those are a great deal more important than mine.
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