DC wins top college paper in Texas
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:45 pmPage 1 of 1
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:45 pmDC wins top college paper in Texas
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:50 pmI guess they don't take off points for inaccuracies in reporting the facts.
DC wins top college paper in Texas
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:54 pmJunior wrote:I guess they don't take off points for inaccuracies in reporting the facts.
Lol. Beat me to it on their sports coverage.
Re: DC wins top college paper in Texas
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:11 pmwow, must be some bad papers out there
Re: DC wins top college paper in Texas
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:39 amThis "competition" must be similar to the UIL marching contest for bands - everybody gets a "1" and a big [deleted] sweepstakes trophy.
Re: DC wins top college paper in Texas
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:37 pmMaybe they just rotate the award.
DC wins top college paper in Texas
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 12:21 amDanFreibergerForHeisman wrote:Maybe they just rotate the award.
More likely they were the only Texas entry.
Re: DC wins top college paper in Texas
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:00 pmdid this also come from the onion?
Re: DC wins top college paper in Texas
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:09 pmDefinition of "old" ... when I was in school, I picked up the DC to read about the various SMU teams, and found several in there! They were well-written and informative, too.
Re: DC wins top college paper in Texas
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:05 pmRednBlue11 wrote:did this also come from the onion?
now THAT was funny.
DC wins top college paper in Texas
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:23 pmCoxMustangFan wrote:I'll admit I've only read like three issues, but I didn't think they were too bad (as college newspapers go). Perhaps I just caught them on really great days...
The online sports coverage is sometimes rife with inaccuracies. Such as quoting stats from several seasons past.
Re: DC wins top college paper in Texas
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 1:38 amI pick it up anytime I'm in the Fondren Library. It's usually a pretty good read. Though, for reasons stated in this thread, I stay away from their sports write-ups a bit.
Re: DC wins top college paper in Texas
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 10:24 amhttp://www.smudailycampus.com/2.7493/smu-fraternity-sigma-chi-bans-cargo-shorts-1.2136944
Top notch reporting of important issues like this will win you awards
Top notch reporting of important issues like this will win you awards
Re: DC wins top college paper in Texas
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 1:06 pmSurprised. The paper is thin in content, gives space to non-SMU stories and is not particularly engaging. Journalism here and everywhere is on the decline. 