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Every semester, journalism students churn out piles of in-depth reporting and writing projects assigned by their professors. Some of that student journalism finds its way into student media on campus. Some gets published beyond the academy. Much of the classroom-generated student journalism, by its very nature, is unsuited for conventional college media. Professors try as much as they can to help students get such stories published in media outlets in the wider community. Unfortunately, professors and students don’t have the resources to ensure that every deserving story gets the attention of an editor. Most classroom-generated student journalism, therefore, lies for months gathering dust in boxes in the professors’ offices before it is eventually sent to the recycler or incinerator. Capital Bytes is a project designed to showcase to the world some of what would otherwise be laying gathering dust in a box in one professor’s office. The idea for such a showcase was suggested by some of my at students at Ithaca College three years ago. Its realization here at Capital College comes as a result of hard work by students in my journalism courses. Notables among them are Robert Trishman who has since graduated, Jason Showalter who will be graduating soon, and Jodi Preisler who has decided to stay a while. You can read their personal accounts of how they did in Personal Essays. The real stars of this show, however, are the students in J. Writing, in Reporting and in Advanced Reporting courses whose reporting made this possible. Click on any of the names above or on the bylines on the stories for information about the writers. I am proud to present some of their work on this site. . I hope future students in these and other journalism courses will keep this project alive. These stories are presented with little or no editing, in the form they were originally submitted by the students. They are the property of the students who wrote them. The Web team and I, however, take the blame for sloppy editing, grammatical and style errors, for the shortcomings in the design of these pages, and the incoherence of the headlines. Peter Kareithi
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