Press release

November 30, 2013

Mr. William Garrison

President, West Virginia University

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will.gar@president.com

Dear Faculty and Alumni,

It has come to my attention of unforeseen circumstances that there is clarification needed about the palpability of the Heather Bresch EMBA degree in late 2007. I would like to inform all of you that Miss Bresch did complete her hours at WVU to earn her degree legitimately. She earned this EMBA during her time at the school.

However during her time here there were mix-ups that occurred which made her unable to graduate. The reason she did not receive her diploma was because of her failure to pay a graduation fee. As for the legitimacy of her credit hours I was informed the business college had a mix up with transferring records of nearly half her course work.

As President here I won’t let something like this happen again. A student shouldn’t suffer based upon a mistake made on the department. If a student has rightfully earned their degree we need to as a school to make sure all students receive what is theirs. I take full responsibility in making sure an even such as this goes noticed. I am also looking into the possibility of more mix-ups so that they are corrected.

Sincerely your president,

William Garrison

PUBLIC

November 30, 2013

Mr. Michael Noble

Public Relations, West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia

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On October 11, 2007 Heather Bresch received her EMBA degree from the University of West Virginia. There was then speculation by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette saying they have determined that Ms. Bresh did not complete all her required classes. However, the Post-Gazette they don’t know all the processes of a University. They received misinformation from an uninformed registrar who did not have recent records on Ms.Bresh.

WVU officials have confirmed with Miss Bresh’s inquiry that she truly did graduate from the University of West Virginia with an EMBA degree but had not received her diploma. This was due to the miscommunication in the business department in failure to transfer paperwork from her classes.

President Garrison was unaware of the situation until the Governor brought it to his attention. The only true reason Ms. Bresch couldn’t graduate was because of a graduation fee she failed to pay. President Garrison took this mistake and fixed what she had rightfully earned. He then took preparatory actions to make sure an event such as this could never happen in the future.

Budget Guide

Budget Guide

My name is Michael Noble I’m a sophomore in the photojournalism major at Western Kentucky University. Being a PJ major at any school is very expensive buying gear and just living, so budgeting is key and here are my top tips for an incoming freshman.

I’ll start things off with budgeting. It’s the most important thing not being broke in college. You need to know exactly how much you have at any given time. So what I use is my banks iPhone app. It tells me everything about my account instantly and from anywhere. I also have the bank send me a paper statement so I can see what spending in one long list. Then I have two different highlighters one for required purchases and the other unnecessary purchases. This will make your spending clear.

Since we are on the topic of banks they are important, as well as the accounts you select. Banks will offer you this accounts that sounds very flashy but if you look at the details they require the account to have at least $100 if not then they fine the account owner. Which as a college student isn’t very realistic.  So look for the bank’s student accounts these accounts features no minimum balance. Which is great to have because every dollar matters.

If the incoming freshman takes these tips they will have a financially successful freshman year.

Lead Writing Exercises

Lead Writing Exercises

Duane LaChance, 53 a pipe fitter for Gross Engineers suffer third degree burns after accidentally touching a wrench to a power line carrying 15,00 volts. 

Peter McCartney the rock and roll singer is in the Riverside Hospital for exploratory throat surgery after McCartheny’s performance his voice was reduced to a whisper.

Hattiesburg Board of Education me the morning of Tuesday October 8, the board accepted report and then passed a group of new rules purposed by the administration.

Associate professor John Dumont and associate professor George Johnson both from Backwater State University were killed in a Trans World Airlines crashed at Kennedy International Airport.

Norman Meeman Pulitzer Prize speaks at the William Oxley Thimson Memorial library to a audience of mostly English students.

Class Mate Interview

Alex Brislin

     Alex Brislin is 19 and longtime resident of Louisville,Ky. There he lived with his mother,father and brother Nick. Brislin is currently a sophomore at western Kentucky University pursuing his dream of film.
     "My dream is to one day make a super bowl commercial", Brislin said. One of Brislin  inspiration for film was the legendary landscape photographer Ansel Adams. This inspired him to start taking photos.He found his passion for film by first taking photos and then discovering that he like the motion picture format better. So he decided to follow his dream by going to Western Kentucky the only school in Kentucky that has a program for video.
     Brislin has other passion aside from video. Including photography ,hunting for deer,birds, fishing and hanging with friends.  He also enjoys watching Top Gear the UK version not the US version. Brisilin enjoys the witty humor and the clever car reviews.
    In summary Alex Brisilin is born and raised Kentucky resident that is chasing his dream of film and loves the outdoors.

NSA Whistleblower

The NSA recently experienced leaks about their programs that included unwarranted wiretaps. The man behind these leaks was Edward Snowden. Snowden believes that he is leaking these documents to let the public deicide.

Snowden is 29 and Booz Allen Hamilton as an infrastructure analyst for NSA in Hawaii.

            "I'm no different from anybody else. I don't have special skills. I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watches what's happening and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide, the public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong.' And I'm willing to go on the record to defend the authenticity of them and say, 'I didn't change these, I didn't modify the story. This is the truth; this is what's happening. You should decide whether we need to be doing this.'" Said Snowden. Snowden believes that he is doing what is just for the people of the US. That these programs should be judged on by public and the fact that they didn’t doesn’t seem right.

            Snowden didn’t want to leak these documents to hurt or aid other countries. Because of Snowden's actions of leaking these documents, the US government is looking for him on criminal charges of Theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information, as well as willful communication of classified intelligence to an unauthorized person.

Report Writing Exercises

Jet crash at parking lot
Today at noon a jet piloted by Air Force Major Rufus N. Herbernowki crashed into the parking lot of Super  Shopping Mall. Impact destroyed fifteen cars killing the pilot but no one on the ground was hurt or injured.

Tax increase for bigger city park
City Council choose to increase the cities property taxes but 10 percent. The taxes will be used to double the size of the city park. This will cause the average taxes to go up by around $50 annually.

University gets a all around raise
All the faculty and staff will get a 15 percent pay raise said Harold R Drazsnzak the universities vice president of finance. The raise is available because of increased funding from the state.

Journalism class boycott
Members of the Journalism Students association decided to organize a boycott of all journalism classes in protest of the increase tuition. The increase in tuition is about 10 percent and would beginning in the spring semester. There where about 200 students at the meeting. The president of JSA David S. Kuykendall said "We are confident that all journalism students will boycott all classes"

Assignment Two

The sport of rowing is a beautiful but intense sport. To be a rower it requires the precision to follow the exact movement of the rower in front of you. That’s not all a rower needs to know how to do they also need to put every once of strength into every stroke while keeping perfect form.

 Rowing which is many time called crew, is a team sport. With as many as eight rowers and a coxswain moving boat that is almost 18ft. The standard regatta (boat race) two kilometer long. However the race is over in less than seven minutes and usually a close finish.

Rowing is a sport that is treasure and loved in many European countries but not in the United States. This sport is rarely heard about and its gracefulness is viewed as much as it should be in the US.