Newsletter - October 2014

Type-Hi Newsletter October 2014

Distinguished Adviser Eddye Gallagher, Tarrant County College’s longtime director of student publications, will receive a national award this month to honor her years of service in advising.

College Media Association will present Eddye with the Distinguished Two-Year Newspaper Adviser of the Year award Oct. 30 at its national convention in Philadelphia. Her predecessor, Joe Norton, won the same award in 1975.

Eddye has taught at Tarrant County College since 1970 and has directed the college’s student publications unit since 1999. In that time, her staffs have won numerous national, regional and state awards. More importantly, she’s seen a number of students go on to become

successes in various media.

Congratulations to Eddye on a prestigious and deserving honor.

Eddye Gallagher

Newspaper thieves still busy on campus

The Student Press Law Center reported on its website that each year dozens of student newspapers and other publications across the country are stolen.

Most recently, SPLC reported that 800 copies of the student newspaper at Elmhurst College (IL) were found in trash cans and compost bins. Five Rho Theta members admitted taking the papers.

Iowa State also reported that 1,900 copies of the Iowa State Daily had been thrown in trash cans across campus.

SPLC reported in 1997 that the center had heard from hundreds of student publications that have had problems with newspaper theft.

Thefts are reported to the SPLC from across the nation and marked on a map of the US. Texas locations identified on the newspaper theft map include Midwestern State University (2004), University of North Texas (2001), Texas A&M-Commerce (2010), University of TexasArlington (2001), TCU (2008), University of Texas-Austin (2001), San Antonio College (2012), Texas A&M-Kingsville (2011), University of Texas-El Paso (2008).

SPLC, 1101 Wilson Blvd, Suite 1100, Arlington, VA 22209.

Spring convention returns to Dallas Sheraton Hotel for 2016

The 2016 TIPA convention will be March 31-April 2 at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel (400 North Olive St.).

This hotel hosted the TIPA convention in 2005 and again in

2009 for TIPA’s 100th anniversary.

Room rates will be $179 for executive suite (single, double, triple, quad) and $159 for queen/ queen (single, double, triple, quad).

Cut-off date for reserving rooms is 5 p.m., March 9, 2016.

Dallas will also host the 2017 convention at the Crowne Plaza Dallas Downtown.

Texas Intercollegiate Press Association c/o Department of Mass Media, Communication & Theater Texas A&M University-Commerce 2600 S. Neal Box 4104 Commerce, TX 75429 Ph: (903) 886-5231 Fax: (903) 468-3128 E-mail: Fred.Stewart@tamuc.edu TIPA Federal ID No. 20-2121596 Please check appropriate blank: __ 2-year school

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Membership deadline: Dec. 23, 2014 (Purchase orders accepted)

TIPA Membership (per school)………………………….$90 Membership Period: (Jan.1 – Dec. 31, 2015)

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Time to update directory information

If you have not updated your school’s TIPA directory information, please send it to the Central Office before the end of the year.

If you are an adviser new to TIPA or know of an adviser new to TIPA, please pass contact information on to the Central Office.

TIPA Directory Update Information

Name of School Mailing Address Web site Name, email, telephone of Director of Student Media Media Name, email address, web (adviser(s) name, email, phone) (Please provide this information for each student media outlet) Please forward information to the Central Office by the end of the year.