Serving San Jose City College
Vol. 43, No. 12
Thursday, November 2, 1989
"What was your worst fear?" was the opening question asked by Janet Childs during two hour-long earthquake stress workshops held at City College on Monday, Oct. 23. The earthquake counseling service was donated by the Centre for Living with Dying, a United Way agency. Childs holds a Bachelor's degree in both psychology and EngL - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ' lish, but most of her education has Janet Childs of the Alum Rock Counseling Center or faculty interested were invited to attend two special come from her 20 years of experispeaks to Maria Garcia's Career Planning class about sessions held by Garcia on Monday, Oct 23. Topics ence. Childs has been involved with the "Women Against Rape" earthquake-related psychological effects. Any students included fear of the "Big One." group and counseled during suicide photo by Robert Garcia crises. She also counsels at the Alum Rock Counseling Center which deals with adolescents and their problems. Approximately 30 people attended the 11 a.m. workshop.
20 colleges to participate
City College will .play host to NorCal JACC conference
San Jose City College will host this year's NorCal conference of the Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) on Saturday, Nov. 4. More than 200 students and journalism instructors from 20 colleges are expected to attend, according to conference chair and City College Times advisor Art Carey. Dr. Carl Jensen, a professor of Communication Studies at Sonoma State University, will be the keynote speaker. Dr. Jensen is also the director of "Project Censored," an annual list of stories that the news media ignore or down play. The topic of his speech will be "So You Want to Change the World?" Dr. Jensen has more than 30 years of experience in the media, including stints as a reporter, publisher, public relations practitioner,
Dr. Carl Jensen .. .keynote speaker
advertising executive and educator. He has written and lectured extensively about the mass media and press censorship. In addition to Dr. Jensen, many other professionals in various fields of journalism will be in attendance. Several Bay Area journalists will be presenting workshops on investigative reporting, digital imaging, newspaper design, public relations and broadcasting. A last-minute workshop has been prepared to show how the professionals covered the Oct. 17 Lorna Prieta earthquake. "We dropped one work shop and substituted one on the covering the quake," said Carey. "It's the biggest story to hit the Bay Area in years." Among the media participants will be members of the San Francisco Examiner, the San Jose Mercury News, the Sacramento Bee , KTVU (Channel 2), and KARARadio. Area print journalists Gary Webb , Mark Wiggington, Fran Smith and Gary Blonston of the Mercury News, William Prochnow and Seth Rosenfeld of the San Francisco Examiner and George Wedding of the Sacramento Bee are just a few of the professionals who will be on hand to lend their expertise. Another segment of the conference gives student journalists an opportunity to go head-to-head in an on-the-spot newswriting competetion. This competetion, and the bring-in photo competetion, are just two of the many catagories in which awards will be given in the NorCal award ceremony, which
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