CSUN IN BRIEF 
January 26, 2012 by Rochel Leah Goldblatt
CSUN gives out scholarships
CSUN awarded $33,500 in scholarships to 51 students from a budget of $35,377.
Scholarship recipients are decided by a committee of eight CSUN members, headed by vice president pro-tempore Jennifer Rowe.
Applications were submitted by students electronically and the committee makes its choices based on a blind review process, where no names are attached to the applications.
Applications were assessed based on a three-degree scale and each applicant’s GPA was considered in scoring their application.
The committee awarded five $1,000 Think Ability Scholarships, five $1,000 Head Start scholarships, 10 $500 Tom Wisener Scholarships, five $1,000 Pre-Professional Scholarships, 10 $750 Leadership Scholarships and six $1,000 Student Teaching Scholarships.
Ten students were also awarded Study Abroad Scholarships.
The next set of scholarships will be available in February for applications and are due on March 19.
Out of everything that happened at this meeting, this is it? Really? This is hardly an overview of the meeting.
I’d like to make a correction that the scholarship budget is $90,000. Something that I did not mention in the interview I had with The Rebel Yell. $35,377 was recently awarded to students.
43 students were awarded scholarships for their commitment to academics and The Rebel Yell was able to report 7 sentences on it? Where are the priorities?
Looks like the priority of the Rebel Yell is to make CSUN look bad. “Bury anything that makes CSUN look good” must be the new motto.
The students of UNLV, whose fees go toward this paper, deserve a more balanced and comprehensive look at campus news. Reaching this goal will be the RYWatcher mission from now on.
I also agree, I have noticed that almost everything the Rebel Yell reports about the University or CSUN is pretty negative.
The ‘opinion’ section is really just a one sided version of what goes no. It is there to criticize the University, The President of the University/his staff, and then moves on to target CSUN.
I really wish it was more balanced.
I love how people that criticize the Rebel Yell for not being more “balanced” won’t even reveal their real names!
@Rachel Stephens
There are five individual pieces of news reporting about CSUN in the latest issue of The Rebel Yell, and that is not mentioning the live-coverage we do at every single meeting. If that’s not enough for you, I don’t know what is.
@rywatcher
Exactly how does this piece of news make CSUN look bad? By all means, do the research yourself; that’s why we at The Rebel Yell made the decision to become journalists in the first place. But if a little unfiltered reporting bothers you, good luck trying to be comprehensive, much less objective. In any case, we look forward to the competition
@UNLV Student
I’m sorry if what we report leads you to draw a negative conclusion about your elected representatives or the university. Our priority is not to report what you want to hear, but to report what is happening on our campus. Instead of directing your anger at the press for doing its job, take your opinions to the floor of the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents, or CSUN where they belong.
The opinion section is labeled opinion for a reason: it contains opinions. Being a campus newspaper that respects the First Amendment, we do not censor the views of our writers unless they are inflammatory or factually incorrect. If you’d like to share your opinion, write a Letter to the Editor or contact Cole Peterson, our Opinion Editor, at opinion@unlvrebelyell.com to get started.
@Ian Whitaker: I love reading the rebel yell but the comments you just wrote were very unprofessional as the editor in chief of this newspaper. I’m embarassed for you.
@RYReader
I’m sorry that you feel that way, and you are entitled to your opinion. I don’t feel it unprofessional to explain what the priorities for our news section and opinion sections (being distinct entities) are to students who may be confused.
Being at the paper for as long as I have, hearing constant criticism of the student press for doing no more than it’s primary function in a free society (to report facts) gets old after a while. But I understand your concern and you make a fair point. If it makes a difference, I humbly apologize to you or the above commenters if I offended them in any way. Further, I will leave my comments here published so that others may benefit from this exchange, and perhaps see the simple point I am trying to make.
I believe it is important to understand the role of the press, and the reality that not everything reported will be about things one finds positive or pleasing. There is nothing we can do about that as journalists, because to violate that sacred pact between reader and reporter is sacrosanct.
I noticed that the $2500 that can benefit any student that wants to attend the inauguration is a “bad thing” that received an entire article and then a hit piece in the “opinion” (first amendment doesn’t mean it can’t be criticized) section. The $35,377 that benefits 43 students, and really no other students, is basically treated as neutral and buried in the “in brief” section. Priorities, folks.
Side note: I totally agree with the use of scholarship money and the inauguration dinner. It’s just interesting to see what people choose to belly-ache about.
I think Ian might be the confused one around here.
Don’t think that folks haven’t noticed to echo chamber the Rebel Yell has set up for itself. The paper is tipped off by certain people, then those same people scoop up copies of the paper to show everyone how important the “issue” is. In turn, the Rebel Yell has an article or opinion piece about how everyone is talking about this “issue”. And so on and so forth.
Convenient system you’ve got set up here. Unless, of course, you are a student trying to find an objective campus news source.
RYWATCHER and RYAN BALLARD:
Wait so how is the reporting by the rebel yell biased? Do you actually have proof of this or are you just moonlighting as people with the same kind of agenda that you accuse others of having? I’ve read the paper since I got to this campus and it’s been nothing but accurate and objective the entire time, and I’ve attended CSUN meetings myself.
If you are going to accuse people of bias, you should have some proof other than pointing to the fact that the student newspaper covered controversies within student government. That’s par for the course in any news publication and the fact that you are faulting them for what amounts to doing what they are supposed to do, is utterly ridiculous and shameful.
@rywatcher, others
Feel free to submit a Letter to the Editor detailing your concern.
Ian, I understand that – but an overview just mentions what happened without having to read 5 separate articles. The ones you wrote were always good summaries.
As well, not all the articles were up online when I posted that comment.