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 This has Hardegree teaching in Georgia in 1992, as I said.

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  Media Day 2004 cancelled


    Lack of staff within mass communications cited as reason for
    dropping event this year


      By: Jeremy King


        Posted: 1/28/04

 For years, Media Day at the State University of West Georgia
 gave mass communications students a chance to interact with
 industry professionals and get a taste of what life would be
 like in the workplace after they graduated. In 2002 and 2003,
 Media Day expanded to recognize prospective students as area
 newspaper writers and editors critiqued high school newspapers
 in the Better Newspaper Competition.

 This year, however, students won't get that day of interaction.

 "This year, there will be no Media Day," said Amanda Lee,
 editor in chief of The West Georgian.

 According to Lee, the mass communications department chair put
 off any decision on Media Day until after one e-mail from a
 high school arrived asking how to enter the competition.

 "At that point, McCandless responded to my e-mail and said that
 Media Day was cancelled," she said.

 Brad Yates, mass communications professor, said that the
 department was simply spread too thinly to make the event
 happen. Several mass communications professors left UWG last
 year, and the resulting hunt for new staff members took priority
 over planning the event.

 Media day has been a tradition at UWG for many years, One
 professor, Glenn Novak, former chair of the Department of Mass
 Communications, has taught at UWG since 1984 and shared his
 experiences with Media Day.

 "Media Day was started by Shirley Alexander, a professor who
 specialized in print and broadcast journalism," Novak said.
 "When I worked on Media Day in 1985, the event was still in its
 early years."

 Novak emphasized the event's importance in creating visibility
 on campus for the fledgling mass communications program.

 "Back then, mass communications was still grouped under fine
 arts. A music professor was our chairperson," Novak said.

 Novak spoke highly of the format of Media Day both as created by
 Alexander and as modified by Marie Hardin, former print media
 professor at UWG.

 "Hardin changed the format to make Media Day a recruiting tool
 that reached high school students," Novak said. He praised that
 change calling it "innovative," and "an excellent move."

 The combination of the philosophy, mass communications has drawn
 criticism on campus.

 "I know that the department is now in flux with a new chair and
 budget cuts." he said. "I hope [Media Day] doesn't have to end."

 Stan Hardegree echoed the words of other UWG mass communications
 students, alumni and staff members when he criticized the
 combining of departments rather than hiring new departmental
 chairs.

 "Aside from the application of ethics, the disciplines of
 philosophy and journalism do not overlap."

 Hardegree is publisher of the Villa Rica Voice, a weekly
 newspaper in nearby Villa Rica. He is a West Georgia Alumnus and
 participated in Media Day's Better Newspaper Contest as a judge.

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 He also taught mass communications classes periodically from
 1992-1998
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 © Copyright 2007 The West Georgian


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