Sunday, January 22, 2017

Capstone Report 1: New Year, New WSHC

For my capstone I am both running a radio show called "Let's Get Reel" on Shepherd's radio station, 89.7 WSHC, as well as work on the station as Program Director for the semester. The new year came in, and with it, new opportunities for the station. We at the station have had a rough start with staffing the first week of classes, but we've started to gain a few students last week for both DJ positions and both PR and marketing positions. We've kept in contact with a cool app called Slack. It helps us a lot with keeping communication on track. I have been appointed as WSHC's representative for Shepherd's SGA weekly meetings, and from there I hope I can network with other campus organizations to get WSHC on the map at Shepherd.



As for overall public relations and marketing, we're bringing in a graphic designer to help us with our prototype flyers that we wish to post across campus by mid-February. We have also set up both Twitter and Instagram sites for WSHC, that are still on private settings until all functions of both social medias are completed. A new website for WSHC has been created by a fellow student this year, and it is pretty fantastic. With it, we can create bios for Spring 2017's staff, as well a schedule of radio shows we have lined up for the semester. Along with all this, we have a few big plans that we hope to get approval for, so I'm not gonna spoil them now in case they don't happen, but they are pretty neat. 

Tomorrow starts Week 3 of both school and capstone progress. I am meeting with my adviser to make sure I am using my time and resources well so far. Also, between you and me, the physical aspect of the station has been pretty cluttered lately due to lack of sufficient storage for a bunch of useless CDs. So this Friday, a couple staff members and I are clearing room in one of the communication department's basement closest to put all those CDs in. We want to creating an inviting environment at the station, and that can't be made possible until the boxes full of hundreds of CDs are gone.

That's pretty much it for progress on my capstone the past two weeks. I'm pretty proud at how far we're getting the station this early in the year. My dream is to have it fully functioning and staffed by the end of this semester. Who knows, maybe it'll spark a lot more interest next Fall after I graduate. That's a nice a idea that keeps me going on the project some days. 


Thursday, January 19, 2017

Wright Brothers Headline

Two Brothers Soar Above the Earth!


By: Jesus Villarreal


On Dec. 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright did the unimaginable and created a vehicle that could soar. The vehicle flew above 120 feet over a 12 second period on it's first flight. Such a feat wasn't accomplished overnight, yet, the Wright brothers were persistent.

The brother's dream was first thought up in their bicycle shop in 1896.