How different and how alike are the newspapers of UMD 1966 with the newspaper today?


As I read the newspapers articles I found out something interesting. It was a school newspaper that most of the articles were written from professors.
The newspaper has a lot of information about the events happening outside campus, issues concerning the Vietnam War, civil rights, but not a lot of information about student life and the stuff that happens in campus.
The newspaper has more articles that do not describe directly the students’ life, articles that address issues like the draft, the women’s rights, civil rights, abortion, war and protest.
These issues however connected directly to the students and those issues made their life.
For example during this period of time 1965-1970 students were drafted to go to war.
If they did not complete the requirements of the credit hours they had to be drafted. Women were concerned about their rights and also about their option of having abortion when they had an undesirable pregnancy.
The protest against the draft and the civil rights movement were other issues that added up to the tension of whether the students will be drafted to go to war.
As for the appearance the newspaper has a good appearance, pictures and ads, a lot of information and was well organized.
The newspaper today is different but it is also so much alike to the newspaper before. The newspaper today it has a different name before it was called Ad Hoc now it is called The Michigan Journal. I wonder when did they changed the name and why.
The Michigan Journal has more information about student life, sports and academic information and a small portion of the articles are written for issues that have not a connection with the campus life.
I found it interesting that now most of the articles are written by students and before they were written by professors (and a staff that was qualified just for it.)
I get this impression from the articles because the issues treated on the articles are responded very formal and strictly also in some articles there were some faculty issues treated by one of the faculty members.
On 1965-1970 the students were concerned if they were going to finish their studies because of the draft and now the students are concerned about their studies because of the cost. I found interesting that in The Michigan Journal a lot of students’ events are posted and also a lot of possible choices are offered to the students.
Political issues are not discussed as much in the Michigan Journal now maybe this happens because students are occupied with their studies and because now it is more than ever clear that a degree is important on getting a better job.
If we continue to read more articles and we analyze more in depth we might find other similarities and differences. For the articles that we read these were all the things that I thought were interesting.

A place where the movie will be directed.
It was 1950. John Price was sitting near the fire place and around him were his brothers, his wife and his children. His youngest child as curious as he was, started to ask his dad about his college time. He wanted to know more about his experience on the years that America was entering a war, when movies were just starting to show up on cinemas and theaters.
To give his son a pleasure John started to tell him about a letter that he wrote to his mom about his settlement on the college and also about all the things he did during his days.
John had a good relationship with his mom. He wrote to her about everything that he did during his days and also he was not afraid to write her about his studies and how he did his homework and also about his expectations on the grades.
By opening the movie like this it will be a connection between John price and his family but also with his son. It will show 3 Generation and what role they play in each others lives.
Not only that but John Price will travel with his memories back in time and he will remember those times when he was first admitted to his fraternity. When he traveled to go and see the games but also he will remember his friend and he will gives us more information on what happened to all of them.

John Price is the main character and around him revolves everything. He will be telling the story, explain it to make it easier for the viewer.
John Price is a student at Dennison College at Ohio. (He is not an outsider because his all family went to this college and to him it felt practically like a second home.) He was friendly, cared about the people around him. He did not believe in God even though he was obligated to go to every church meeting, dinners and also in one case he was called to lead the prayer before dinner. He was almost caught because he never had to do the prayers at home, and now he was chocked by the surprise that he was the first freshmen to be called.
He is funny always looking for a good time and also dedicated to his job and his family needs. He works and he wants to be independent even though he is dependent to his father about financial need.
He cares about his studies and seems that he catch up really quickly. He never expected that his teacher would read his paper even though he spent just some hours before it was due.
He likes to keep correspondence with his friends but also with his family. What he likes the most is to keep a diary with a lot of information about his college life. From his diary now we get a lot of info not only about the period of time but also we learn more information on how was the life of a college student like at that time.

We will have more characters for example his mom. The movie starts with a correspondence with his mother and from those letters the movie will develop and will explain the events.

Some main ideas that I want the viewers to get from the movie are,
Independence verses Dependence, college life, job responsibilities and school homework. Exploring and learning new things, going with the flow or making a separate decision and also the most important issue is family. All of these issues will be treated on the movie and the issues will be shown from John Prices life in college and his decision about his job or his studies.