For our second assignment, The Channel 4 News Team had to ask the Seniors of Roger Williams University the hardest hitting question out there; "What are you going to do after college?"
To answer this, we interviewed four soon to be graduating Seniors Corrie Scozzafava, Alan Goodwin, Dan Davis and Taryne Brown.
After the interviews, we discovered that the common trend is that seniors don't have the answer to that question. Even seniors who have an idea of what they want to do, haven't heard back from employers or haven't even applied yet.
Looking on the bright side however, RWU's President, Roy J Nirschel believes that the reputation of the school is growing with the help of alumni who recruit on campus for their employers.
One thing is for certain, as long as there are seniors graduating from college, there will always be a handful of them whose path is unclear. Enjoy the following movie!
Brittany Costa - Reporter
Jake Dumond - Camera Man
Gregory Walsh - Executive Producer / Editor
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
My Spring Break
For my spring break, i went to Fort Myers, Florida to see the Boston Red Sox at their Spring Training facility. This was my second time going to spring training, so i knew what to expect and where to go to meet the players.
I went to two games, however, for this post i will focus on the first game i went to on March 14th. We got there at 9:30 am for the 1:05 start time because they let all the fans in early to meet the players. It is usually a hit or miss depending on how the players are feeling that specific day.
The first player to come out and sign was starting pitcher Clay Buchholz. He was called up last season and threw a no hitter against the Baltimore Orioles on September 1st, 2007. (Ironically the Sox were facing the Orioles for this game) Buchholz started signing down the 3rd base line and as he approached my girlfriend and I, he backtracked for a few minutes. He obviously forgot where he left off, so while trying to return to signing autographs he ended up skipping over us. Unfortunately we did not get him that day but i will have more to report on him later.
Immediately after Buchholz skipped us, rookie centerfielder Jacoby Ellsbury came over and signed three autographs before running into the dugout. Luckily we received two of the three autographs. So that made up for being skipped over by Buchholz.
While everyone was distracted by Ellsbury and Buchholz, centerfielder Coco Crisp came over and threw a ball into the stands. I positioned myself to catch it and it's a good thing i did too because the guy next to me wasn't paying attention so it would have hit him in the head. The nice thing about these warm up balls are that they have been used in previous MLB games, however MLB baseballs are only used for a maximum of seven pitches in order to keep the ball fresh, so they are thrown in the warm-up bucket and then usually they wind up in the hands of the fans.
Shortly after this, Crisp came back out
The Red Sox went on to win this rain shortened game 5-3. It truly was a great day all around. Below is a quick video i made using my Flip Video Ultra. It was great to have on the trip to capture the greatness that is Spring Training. (The song used is "Shipping Out To Boston" by The Dropkick Murphys.)
I went to two games, however, for this post i will focus on the first game i went to on March 14th. We got there at 9:30 am for the 1:05 start time because they let all the fans in early to meet the players. It is usually a hit or miss depending on how the players are feeling that specific day.
The first player to come out and sign was starting pitcher Clay Buchholz. He was called up last season and threw a no hitter against the Baltimore Orioles on September 1st, 2007. (Ironically the Sox were facing the Orioles for this game) Buchholz started signing down the 3rd base line and as he approached my girlfriend and I, he backtracked for a few minutes. He obviously forgot where he left off, so while trying to return to signing autographs he ended up skipping over us. Unfortunately we did not get him that day but i will have more to report on him later.
Immediately after Buchholz skipped us, rookie centerfielder Jacoby Ellsbury came over and signed three autographs before running into the dugout. Luckily we received two of the three autographs. So that made up for being skipped over by Buchholz.
While everyone was distracted by Ellsbury and Buchholz, centerfielder Coco Crisp came over and threw a ball into the stands. I positioned myself to catch it and it's a good thing i did too because the guy next to me wasn't paying attention so it would have hit him in the head. The nice thing about these warm up balls are that they have been used in previous MLB games, however MLB baseballs are only used for a maximum of seven pitches in order to keep the ball fresh, so they are thrown in the warm-up bucket and then usually they wind up in the hands of the fans.
Shortly after this, Crisp came back out
The Red Sox went on to win this rain shortened game 5-3. It truly was a great day all around. Below is a quick video i made using my Flip Video Ultra. It was great to have on the trip to capture the greatness that is Spring Training. (The song used is "Shipping Out To Boston" by The Dropkick Murphys.)
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