Three Pitches

(1) National Hazing Prevention Week at WSU (Sept. 21-25)

WSU Greek councils will be putting on events throughout the week to educate about hazing. The story will focus on how the WSU Greek community has worked toward the goal of abolishing hazing practices or has had hazing cases recently that work away from that progress. Interviews could be with representatives of the IFC, Pan-Hellenic, Greek Life, and also associate members of various fraternities/sororities with semester long associate periods that have yet to go through initiation. The intended media outlet is the Daily Evergreen.

(2) Peace Corps: a possible trend in after-graduation plans?

Another "overheard" in Pullman: WSU students weighing the options for what to do after graduation and the possibility of the Peace Corps. Has interest in the Peace Corps become a popular trend? Has interest grown nationally according to recruiting numbers? This story would look at what the Peace Corps is doing currently in the area of recruitment on college campuses and would introduce the stories of students on campus who are planning to go into the organization upon graduating. Interviews would be of students planning on serving after graduation, as well as a possible telephone interview with the recruiter in Seattle. The intended media outlet is the Daily Evergreen.

(3) Cricket at WSU

In over 30 years of existence at WSU, the WSU Cricket Club has participated in regional competition and has offered a sport unlike more popular US college athletics. My story would be to investigate the club: facilitating the sport on campus with larger NCAA sports, how it's survived as a club and what the sport offers students looking outside the edges of stereotypical American sports. Interviews would be of players, the faculty adviser, and WSU students no affiliated with the club and their ideas on the sport. The story would run in the Daily Evergreen, as the student newspaper is ideal for sharing the story to the target audience (WSU students).