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Summer Journalism Visitation Program at UF

 

 


Student on the Issues Role Models in Action Teen Life College Life Creative Corner Entertainment Sports Eco Eyes From the Publisher/Founder Did You Know? Travel


By Land, By Air, By Sea -Travel with Role Models
2007  
12/07/2007

South Africa's big scrum, Part III (Bill Maxwell)

11/29/2007

South Africa's big scrum, Part II (Bill Maxwell)

11/19/2007

South Africa's big scrum, Part I (Bill Maxwell)

09/29/2007

There must be an easier way to get bumbleberry pie! (Asia Clifford)

   
2006  
10/25/2006

Horseback Riding in Wyoming (Asia Clifford)

04/02/2006

Behold the Beauty of Nature While Backpacking (Adam Chancey)

   
2004  
05/27/2004

Living in Spain Changed Me Forever (Lauren Ricks)

03/09/2004 Two 16-year-olds Return to London, Part II (Karishma and Kashmira Patel)
02/26/2004  Two 16-year-olds Return to London, Part I (Karishma and Kashmira Patel)
   
   

Students on the Issues
2008  
03/20/2008 The Pursuit of Puppyness (By Samantha Mackson)
   
2007  
12/13/2007 Plain White T's (By Samantha Mackson)
05/31/2007 The Stem Cell Dilemma (By Natalie Shibley)
05/25/2007 The Laramie Project Sparks Debate on Values (By Jordan Osserman)
05/15/2007 A Miami Immigrant Speaks Out (By Evelyn López)
02/26/2007 Juvenile Crime: What's the Deal? (By Adam Rynuzah)
02/18/2007 The War In Iraq Affects the World, Not Just a Few People (By Caleb Ambrose)
   
2006  
11/28/2006 Americans Can Do Something About Obesity (By Jennifer Neiss)
11/09/2006 Immigration Threatens to Divide the United States (By Dalia Sabbagh)
09/27/2006 We Must Do Better at Preventing Teenage Car Crashes (By Katherine Diaz)
09/12/2006 Changing the World Part 1 (By Laureen Ricks)
08/09/2006 Girls Feel Pressure to Use Drugs (By Sharika Richardson)
07/27/2006 What is real about reality TV? (By Molly Wing)
06/27/2006 Interpretations of the Separation of Church and State Continue (By Jessica Muni)
06/16/2006 Eminent Domain: Not a Single Citizen is Safe (By Amber Hall)
04/16/2006

Different tuition rates for in-state and out-of-state students are unfair (By Alan Tarrab)

02/10/2006

Could Bush have Weathered the Storm?(By Leslie Capobianco)

   
2005  
11/25/2005

Drowning in a Sea of Waste (By Maxx Kumiski)

11/06/2005 Budget Crisis is Especially Serious for Young People (By Alan Tarrab)
10/25/2005 More than Just a City's Tragedy (By Carly Blustein)
09/09/2005 How you can help (Compiled by Barbara Little)
07/21/2005

The Economic and Political Effects of War (By Benny Hyman)

06/13/2005

Super Size Me? (By Amy Cavaretta)

03/14/2005

Yellow Fever Sweeps Nation (Carly Blustein)

   
2004  
12/17/2004 Crime and Punishment (Karishma Patel)
11/28/2004 A Time to be Thankful in Spite of Hurricane Havoc (Role Models Today Contributing Writers)
11/03/2004 Public Education is Still in Crisis (Candace Mitchell)
09/14/2004 This War Was Not Right (Emmerson W. Sealy Jr.)
02/18/2004 Celebrating Black History: Black Firsts (Maxwell, Bill)
01/08/2004 Aspiring Journalists Gain Experience at UF Workshop  (Elizabeth Cheney)
   
2003  
05/20/2003 Do You Really Understand the Opposite Sex? (Ricks, Laureen)
   
2002  
03/11/2002 Is Black History Month Still Necessary? (Ricks, Laureen)
02/22/2002 Living With Spina Bifida (Hensel, Robert)
02/15/2002 Celebrating Black History: Black Firsts (Maxwell, Bill)
02/14/2002 Mathematics: It’s Not Just Arithmetic (Portier, Sarah)
01/07/2002 What Does the FCAT Really Mean To You? (Jackson, Mellaniece)
   
2001  
12/11/2001 I Take the First Amendment with Pride (Roop, Charles E.)
12/05/2001 I Was Right at Ground Zero: Washington, DC (Casanova, Gino)
11/27/2001 How Elderly People Contribute to My Society (Patel, Karishma)
10/09/2001 The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance (McClendon II, Donnie)
09/25/2001 Celebrating My Indian Culture in America (Patel, Kashmira)
09/07/2001 Our Freedom (Rumala, Courtney)
06/25/2001 I watched as she sometimes closed her eyes to remember (Rich, Kendra)
03/2001 Electrifying Election Mumbo-Jumbo (Davis, Brian)
03/2001 Meeting the Internet Challenge (Ricks, Laureen)
03/2001 Blocking the Debate (Fultz, Lisa)
02/2001 The National Spotlight Heated Up in Florida (Ricks, Laureen)
 
1999-2000  
1999-2000 One Florida Initiative Receives Mixed Reviews (McCloud, Bridgette)
1999-2000 There is Something More to Youth than Stuttering Lingo and Hip-hugger Jeans (Ricks, Laureen)
1999-2000 This is How We Do It at Academy Prep (Gaines Jr., Paul)
1999-2000 On-line High School: Today's Technology for Lifetime Learning
(Ramos, Anthony)
1999-2000 One Florida Spurs Debate (Celeste, Manoucheka)
1999-2000 An Academic Rite of Passage (McCloud, Bridgette)
1999-2000 Lee County Stands Up Against Racism (Casanova, Gino)
1999-2000 Osceola High School is an International Destination (Eilers, Tera)
1999-2000 Retired American Teacher Brings Hope to Costa Rica Community (Galloway, Jim)
1999-2000 RMT Writers Get On-the-job Training at the St. Petersburg Times
(RMT Staff)
   
   

Role Models In Action
2008  
01/12/2008 Student ambassadors are celebrated at holiday dinner
   
2007  
10/25/2007 Emails from the field: Our RM Ambassadors check in with us
   
   

Teen Talk
2006  
03/15/2006 Make Every Dollar Count (Carly Blustein)
   
2004  
08/18/2004 To Live and Laugh and Learn (Lindsey Sikes)
01/21/2004 Attending Boarding School Must Be a Balance (Candace Mitchell)
   
2003  
01/16/2003 Teens Cope With Life Changes (Futch, Stephanie)
   
2002  
11/25/2002 Mitchell Attends Our Nation's Oldest Boarding School (Mitchell, Candace)
11/15/2002 What Makes People Tick? (Ricks, Laureen)
09/05/2002 A Look Back at My Step from Elementary to Middle School (Sims, Z'Kera)
07/17/2002 Rattlers Wanted! (Jackson, Mellaniece)
06/05/2002 What a Wonderful Hero I Have (Futch, Stephanie)
04/26/2002 I Wouldn't Trade Cheerleading for Anything (Futch, Stephanie)
01/14/2002 Laws of Life
   
2001  
09/18/2001 My Definition of a Hero
05/07/2001 Being a Senior Hits Your Pocketbook Hard (McCloud, Bridgette)
02/2001 We Never Really Failed, As Long as We Didn't Quit (Casanova, Gino)
 
1999-2000  
1999-2000 Volunteerism Needs Help (Casanova, Gino)
1999-2000 The Cookbook for Living (McClendon, Donnie)
1999-2000 A Lecture in Taste (McClendon, Donnie)
1999-2000 Minority, the Growing Majority (Miller, Liza)
1999-2000 Helpful and Harmful Speech (Miller, Liza)
1999-2000 Generation X - What Is the Mark They Will Leave for the Millennium (Ricks, Laureen)
1999-2000 Standing Up to Stress (Brock, Amanda)
1999-2000 Balancing Finances Begins at Young Age (Davis, Brian)
1999-2000 Everyone Needs Encouragement (Ricks, Laureen)
1999-2000 Future Plans (McCloud, Bridgette)
1999-2000 Often Impractical, Name-Brand Fashions are HOT (McCloud, Bridgette)
1999-2000 Taking Another Look At the Year 2000 (Lewis, Miranda)
   
   
   

College Life
2005  
01/12/05 My Internship Multiplied my Respect for Journalists (Laureen Ricks)
   
2004  
03/17/2004

I Make the Time to Mentor (Erica Dickens)

   
2002  
11/15/2002 What Makes People Tick? (Ricks, Laureen)
06/26/2002 Newspapers are Vital to Society (McCloud, Bridgette)
05/27/2002 Hints for On-the-Job (Clifford, Angela)
05/19/2002 Internship: The Experience of a Lifetime (McCloud, Bridgette)
05/10/2002 Only a Couple of Months Ago, Blood Donors Crowded Blood Banks
(Ricks, Laureen)
03/27/2002 The College Experience is Truly Amazing (McClendon II, Donnie)
02/14/02 Valentine's Day in College Isn't What You'd Expect (McClendon II, Donnie)
   
2001  
05/21/2001 Is Religion a Touchy Subject on Campus? (Ricks, Laureen)
2001 From the Top of the Totem Pole to the Bottom (McCloud, Bridgette)
 
1999-2000  
1999-2000 Non-Traditional USF Business Course Benefits MBA Students
(Bolten, Steven)
1999-2000 Kauffman Interns at USF Gain Business Knowledge from CEO's
(Brass, Wayne)
1999-2000 USF Student is Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity's "Brother of the Year"
(Brown, Teresa D.)
   
   
   

Creative Corner
2008  
02/29/2008 What Has The World Gone To (Bernice Meristil)
02/11/2008 Twenty Reasons to Love Being An African American Woman (Jerrica Long)
   
2005  
09/20/2005 The original days (Kalah McCutchen)
03/30/2005 We Love You (Kalah McCutchen)
   
2004  
08/24/2004 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Kashae Foster)
05/20/2004 I Am The Flag (Courtney Rumala)
02/30/2004 The Count of Monte Cristo (Courtney Rumala)
02/11/2004 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Courtney Rumala)
01/31/2004 "My Own Prison" (Brandy Wojo)
   
2003  
01/08/2003 When the Lights Go Off (Griffin, Aubrey)
   
2002  
11/06/2002 Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet & Author (Rumala, Courtney)
09/28/2002 Falling Up (Kluver, Centennial)
07/25/2002 Poems at Play (Rumala, Courtney and Little, Barbara)
06/18/2002 Mime: The Silent Art (Ricks, Laureen)
05/27/2002 An Admirer's Letter to Toni Morrison (Mitchell, Candace)
05/08/2002 Poems by Courtney Rumala
  Cartoons by Don Addis
   
2001  
12/19/01 When You Know It's Me (Standifer, Kymiel)
11/15/01 We Are No Longer Divided (McCloud, Bridgette)
11/07/01 Journey to Cross Creek (Rumala, Courtney)
10/26/01 I am a Person (Schiller, Lisa)
 
1999-2000  
1999-2000 Where You End is Where We Begin (Thompson, Sylvia)
1999-2000 The Story of The Hairless Frog (Douglas, John C.)
1999-2000 Railroad Blues (Bottern, Christopher)
   
   
   

Entertainment
Movies: 2008
05/22/2008 A Sh'mal World (Directed by: Michelle Friedline and Laureen Ricks)
 
Games: 2006
08/17/2006 How Do Video Games Affect Kids? (By Blake Smith)
 
Music: 2005
08/18/2005 Hip-Hop Betrayal (By Laureen Ricks)
07/28/2005 Meet Cowboy Troy: The Pioneer of "Hick Hop" (By Carly Blustein)
 
Broadway: 2005
06/08/2005 The Phantom of the OperaTruly a Timeless Tale (By Carly Blustein)
 
Movies: 2004 - 2005
11/18/2004 Napoleon Dynamite (By Karishma and Kashmira Patel)
09/23/2004 Spiderman 2 (Karishma and Kashmira Patel)
07/14/2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Karishma and Kashmira Patel)
05/13/2004 Mean Girls (Karishma and Kashmira Patel)
   
Music: 2003
01/23/2003 High School Rappers Drop an EP (Robinson, Antonia)
   
Music: 2002
04/19/2002 Urban Music Bridges Cultural Differences (Mitchell, Candace)
03/21/2002 Celebrities Give Their Money to Good Causes (Brown, Brandi)
   
Music: 2001
10/17/2001 Aaliyah (Brown, Brandi)
03/08/2001 Trio Bridges the Way Between R&B and Pop (Brown, Brandi)
05/14/2001 The Incredible Creed (Elliott, Amanda)
   

Music: 1999-2000

1999/2000 Are Artists Stripped of Profits? (McCloud, Bridgette)
   
Movies: 2001-2002
01/30/2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 
The Movie to Rule Them All
(Fultz, Lisa)
12/05/2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Bewitches Fans and Skeptics Alike
(Fultz, Lisa)
06/12/2001 Third time's not the charm - The latest "Crocodile Dundee" movie fails to deliver (Fultz, Lisa)
   
Movies: 1999-2000
1999/2000 X-Men Movie Review (Casanova, Gino)
   

Eco Eyes on the Environment
2008  
02/18/2008 Eau Gaillie's ECOmmodores Soar above the Average Environmental Club
   
2007  
08/15/2007 What have you done for the earth lately? (Barbara Little)
04/25/2007 Earth to America: It's Time to Fight Global Warming (Benjamin Benomar)
01/23/2007 Student Aims to Improve Community through Environmental Responsibility
   
2006  
09/21/2006 Pluto is No Longer a Part of the Milky Way Planetary Alignment (Carrie Ray)
09/21/2006 Pollution Affects the Whole World (David Rodriguez)
04/26/2006 Student's "Turtle Talks" Educate and Inspire (Alexander "Zander" Srodes)
03/25/2006 Returning to Brazil Provides Students with International Awareness to Environmental Issues (Raphael Franca)
02/16/2006 Sea Turtles (Adam Chancey)
01/12/2006 Congratulations to our 2005 Environmental Stewardship Award Winners
   
2005  
08/18/2005 A 646-Pound Catfish was Netted in Thailand
06/24/2005 Student’s Eagle Scout Projects for the Environment Soar
04/28/2005 On April 28th the Ivory-billed Woodpecker was Rediscovered in Arkansas
3/20/2005 Student Embraces Earth Day Everyday
2/23/2005 Student is a Proactive Environmental Leader ( Timothy Hamilton Stripling)
   
2004  
12/05/2004 Birth of a Hurricane (Courtney Rumala)
10/28/2004 Put Yourself Ahead of the Game
10/20/2004 Student Environmental Stewardship Community Service Award
08/18/2004 Arrival of periodical cicadas occur every 17 years
05/10/2004 May 27 is Rachel Carson Day
03/09/2004 Eastern Whooping Cranes are taking flight
02/11/2004 Spirit and Opportunity Rovers Land on Mars
01/21/2004 Lightning occurs in 7 different forms
   

Sports
2006  
04/08/06 March Madness Heats Up (Kyle Sandell)
   
2005  
07/11/05 High School Athletes Juggle Benefits and Drawbacks of Sports (Kyle Sandell)
   
2004  
10/08/04 Something Separated Softball from Every Other Failed Activity (Carly Blustein)
   
2002  
10/03/02 Basketball Star Profiles: Kidd, Bryant and Webber (Jones, Joshua)
   
1999-2000  
1999/2000 Michael Jordan's Retirement (Ramos, Anthony)
1999/2000 March Madness (Suchy, Michelle)
1999/2000 Mother of Athlete Pushes Him to Succeed (Grayson, Lisa Gayle)
   
   

From the Publisher/Founder
2008  
01/12/2008 For children, books make the best gift
   
2007  
02/12/2007 Memories of Mrs. King
   
2006  
11/17/2006 When I began to look inside
08/24/2006 What does it mean to be an American?
02/24/2006 King displayed grace, dignity, beauty, dedication to justice
01/28/2006 More Young Blacks are Suicidal
   
2005  
12/16/2005 A tribute to a great man, August Wilson
09/09/2005 Coping in times of suffering
02/15/2005 Role Models Today Publisher & Stillman Scholar in Residence Begins Writing Weekly Column
   
2004  
02/18/2004 Celebrating Black History: Black Firsts
   
2003  
09/21/03 'We're in this struggle together'
07/08/03 A dialogue on race takes center stage
05/28/03 Service to others give meaning to life
   
2002  
09/16/2002 You're Never Too Young to Learn about Politics
02/03/2002 Blacks share a duty to one another
   
2001  
06/06/2001 Graduates, serve your communities
2001 Literacy is Freedom
   
   
   

Did You Know?
2008  
02/18/2008 Eau Gaillie's ECOmmodores Soar above the Average Environmental Club
   
2007  
08/15/2007 What have you done for the earth lately? (Barbara Little)
04/25/2007 Earth to America: It's Time to Fight Global Warming (Benjamin Benomar)
01/23/2007 Student Aims to Improve Community through Environmental Responsibility
   
2006  
09/21/2006 Pluto is No Longer a Part of the Milky Way Planetary Alignment
09/21/2006 Pollution Affects the Whole World (David Rodriguez)
04/26/2006 Student's "Turtle Talks" Educate and Inspire (Alexander "Zander" Srodes)
03/25/2006 Returning to Brazil Provides Students with International Awareness to Environmental Issues (Raphael Franca)
02/16/2006 Sea Turtles (Adam Chancey)
01/12/2006 Congratulations to our 2005 Environmental Stewardship Award Winners
   
2005  
08/18/2005 A 646-Pound Catfish was Netted in Thailand
06/23/2005 Student’s Eagle Scout Projects for the Environment Soar
05/18/2005 On April 28th the Ivory-billed Woodpecker was Rediscovered in Arkansas
04/20/2005 Student Embraces Earthday Everyday
02/23/2005 Student is a Proactive Environmental Leader
01/31/2005 Congratulations to our 2004 Environmental Stewardship Community Service Award Winners
   
2004  
12/05/2004 Birth of a Hurricane
10/28/2004 Put Yourself Ahead of the Game
08/2004 Arrival of periodical cicadas occur every 17 years
05/2004 May 27 is Rachel Carson Day
03/2004 Eastern Whooping Cranes are taking flight
02/2004 Spirit and Opportunity Rovers Land on Mars
01/2004 Lightning occurs in 7 different forms.
   
2003  
04/21/2003 April 25, 2003 is National Arbor Day
01/08/2003 Miss Florida 2002 promotes land conservation
   
2002  
11/06/2002 Rapid Temperature Changes Cause More Brilliant Fall Foliage
10/03/2002 October 23rd is Mole Day
09/05/2002 The Florida State Wildflower is Coreopsis
07/17/2002 The gopher tortoise is a keystone species
06/05/2002 June 21 is the Longest Day of the Year (AKA Summer Solstice)
05/08/2002 May is Clean Air Month
05/10/2002 The cardinal is n