Return Applications to Ms Leben’s box by the
end of the day Friday March 19, 2010
No late applications will be accepted.
Note: We realize that
students will be asked to turn in next year’s schedules before our selection
process is complete, however we have been granted an extra time to choose our
staff. We will give the counselors a list of all the students who have been
accepted to Lake Views, and those schedules will be dealt with individually.
You will be notified ASAP if you have been accepted to the staff or not.
Steps in the selection process:
1. The adviser, this year’s student editors and next year’s editors will read this application.
2. When choosing Lake Views staff, we give first priority to students who have taken Journalism. We have also found that it is sometimes necessary for us to turn down students who will be seniors, as we attempt to achieve a balance between upperclassmen and underclassmen.
3. We speak to the teachers listed below as references, and English teachers, and we ask about meeting deadlines and class behavior.
4. Finally, we check absences, because attendance is very important in a newspaper class.
Name_______________________________________________Grade next year_______
Please circle the position you are applying for:
Reporter Photographer Artist Advertising Team
Do you have any experience in photography?_____ Have you taken a photography class at LOHS?_____ Do you own your own camera?_________
Do you have any cartooning or art experience?_____ Do you have any experience with in-design?______ Do you have any experience with Photoshop?_____
Please list your English teacher and one other teacher who would be willing to serve as references for you.
1.___________________________________________________
2.____________________________________________________
Because of the
uncertainties of scheduling at this time, we don't know what period Lake Views
will be. In the past it has been 4B period.
Application
continued on back page, please turn over.
Lake Views
staff application — Part 2
Please read this carefully: If you are chosen to be a
staff member, you will be expected to meet deadlines, write clearly and
consistently and cooperate fully with the other class members. Student editors will be giving you
assignments, editing your work and asking that you stay after school to finish
set tasks. Before every deadline, staff members are required to stay at school
until about 7 p.m., or until all pages are finished.
Lake
Views can be hectic, exciting and boring—all in the same day. Even though the
class officially meets every other day, Lake Views is an everyday “job.”
Reporters need to check in every day to pick up assignments, and interviews
often have to take place out of class. Please consider these factors when you
explain why you would like to be a member of the staff.
Step
number one: In order to better evaluate your potential as a member of the
newspaper staff, we ask that reporters
submit a piece of writing, photographers submit one action and one other photograph,
and artists submit two
drawings. All work will be returned if
requested.
Step
number two: Please answer the following questions on your own paper.
(We
ask that you type your answers.)
1. What
specific qualifications do you feel you have to offer Lake Views?
2.
Why would you like to be on the Lake Views staff, and which section would you
like to be a part of? (Sections include news, opinions, features and sports)
3.
Describe other time commitments you may have that will need your attention next
year. Include jobs, athletics, and other activities. How will you handle
conflicts between these areas and your commitment to Lake Views?
4.
The staff structure is set up so that you will be given instructions by a
student editor, who might be in a lower grade than you are. Your writing will
be read and edited by student editors. How do you feel about this, and how
would you handle a conflict in a situation of this kind?
5.
Being on staff requires you to be able to multitask and use a variety of
skills. Often you will write multiple articles and page design for one issue.
How do you feel you can handle multiple responsibilities under tight deadlines
and challenges thrown at you during the process?