University Chronicle

Shun Jie Yong

Thumbing through the paper archives of the University Chronicle, it’s clear that a lot has changed since 1988.

Cartoons were edgier, hairstyles were fluffier and Michael Vadnie was the new adviser on the block.

In one of his early columns, Vadnie praised the outoing adviser, J. Brent Norlem.

He went on to talk about the ethics of journalism.

He channeled Tom Sawyer as he writes, “‘I’m afear’d’ I’ve got bad news. I’ve got lots of questions about ethics. Not many answers.

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It is not my intention to end this semester at a lower note. However, my recent experience in applying for funding from the Student Senate Finance Committee (SFC) has been disappointing.

Any Student Government Association should exist to serve in the best interest of its students and campus community, in my opinion. This means that the association should be prepared to support its students in any way possible to help them achieve personal or professional development.

However, there have been multiple occasions when me and my student organizations’ funding applications were turned down by the Senate Finance Committee this year.

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What a trip.

I’ve been employed at this newspaper for about as long as I’ve been a student at this university.

These parallel experiences have taught me so much, mostly because they ran parallel.

In my classes, I learned the tools, history, theory and practice of communication, between big groups and individuals, between people of differing cultures and people from the same family.

At the Chronicle, I communicated. With individual readers, sources and clients, with campus leaders, with faculty and staff and with the ever-important student body.

With 20,000 unique perspectives on every single syllable we publish.

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Hello readers!

Surreal. That is the best word I can find to describe my year at the Chronicle.

I started out my year at SCSU unsure of what I would find.

This was my first year as a “real” college student, having gone to SCSU for two years during high school.

My time as a PSEO student was very real, but I feel as though I just scratched the surface of what being a college student really means.

This year I took a chance and joined the Chronicle, also unsure of what I would find.

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The road taken…

by Michael Vadnie

University Chronicle adviser

1988-2013

I’ve taken to calling my imminent retirement “rounding the clubhouse turn” after a famous call in the sport of kings.

The privilege to teach and to mentor adult children of other people for 32 years during the one of most important times of their lives cannot be understated.

Perhaps more challenging — and fulfilling — is having served the SCSU community for a quarter of a century as adviser of the fiercely independent University Chronicle.

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I am writing this letter because I am concerned about the safety of St. Cloud State University students. Students now are afraid to walk the streets of their own town because they don’t feel safe. The St. Cloud police and public safety need to concentrate more of their work on violent crimes in the area. This is so concerning to me because I myself am a student enrolled at St. Cloud State, and I am worried about my safety and the safety of my friends and family. My brother is a junior at St. Cloud State and during his sophomore year he was walking to the gas station a few blocks from his house to grab a snack before the store closed. On his way back to his house, he was confronted by two men and they demanded him to fork over his wallet. Being the tough guy he thinks he is, he refused. The two men proceeded to mug him. Luckily he landed a few good punches, and managed to escape with his wallet and his life. Hearing this, I was a little intimidated to come to St. Cloud for college, but I didn’t think it was a serious reoccurring problem.

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Thank you, men’s hockey.

Thank you for the graduation present.

Unless you’ve spent the last week holed up in a remote corner of the library, you know that our fellas went to Pittsburgh this week, along with the athletics staff, the cheer team, the band, media and dozens of fans.

They were slated to win it all by NHL.com. We were all optimistic.

Our coverage plan here at the Chronicle went all the way through Saturday night. I was ready to tuck in for a long weekend of hockey.

Then Thursday happened, and I was crushed.

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Over the years, there have been many changes to education in an effort to reform the educational system to better our society. With all our efforts, why is it that the U.S. falls 25th in math, 12th in reading and 20th in science in comparison to other industrial countries?

The goal of education is, and should be, to prepare students for what is to come in their lives, to encourage students to achieve a level of knowledge that will allow them to continue to learn without the support of an educator. This goal is understood and accepted as fact through many of the publically funded schools within the U.S. Why is it that our society continues to teach in a method that does not support this form of education?

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Year by year St. Cloud State University has decreased issues with the campus and other issues. There are still current issues and a major issue affecting student at this university is parking. Where can you park? Parking tickets? Any parking places for students who commute? This is a big topic that needs to be revised.

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Sports analysts and media, to me, tend to be drama queens. They take situations in sports and explain them, but why do people in sports media press further into the lives of athletes off the court and outside the gridiron?

The obvious answer is that people eat these stories up. One example of a recent story in sports that got an unnecessary amount of attention, coverage, and broadcasting to the point where it was shoved down people’s throats was the Manti Teo fake-girlfriend-deal.

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