What is newsworthy at Eastview?
Eastview is only going to be interested in things that have to do with Eastview or the community around Eastview (apple valley, eagan, burnsville and rosemount).
What Back Issues Can Tell Us:
1. What stories are covered every year?
• Theres always a homecoming and graduation issue. These issues come out during the time of year they are associated.
• Yes there are some of the same people from year to year but as the years go on the groups of writers change.
2. What was the biggest story of each year?
-Each year held different newsworthy stories. One year they had a featured article on Best buddies and another they had a big piece on teachers leaving Eastview.
3. How many personality sketches of students were run each year?
• There were a variety of people interviewed, always mixed gender and always representative of every grade. There were also a mix of band kids to jocks and everywhere in between.
• I wasn't able to read through every paper and article but I'm assuming that no one was featured twice because that would just make for a boring article.
• Yes.
4. How many personality sketches of faculty were run each year?
• Outgoing teachers were featured along with any that had some sort of significant news pertaining to EV (such as leaving the district)
• They are interesting and lots of people would enjoy reading about them.
5. What full page features (or center spreads) did the publication carry?
• Best buddies is the one that sticks out in my mind and yes it is still a very active club at Eastview.
6. What was a great year(s) for sports teams? Activities?
• We've had state champions in dance.
• I didn't read enough to find out if we had olympic performers.
• In 2006 we had a really great football season I guess.
7. Find a story that uses background information from previous years.
Action Valley "what teens find for fun in the town"
8. What topics did the paper editorialize about each year?
• There was always a worldly issue being discussed and how Eastview is helping out with it. In 2006 there was an American Red Cross fund raiser held by EV kids that raised money for Hurricane Katrina.
• This is actually still an issue, many people are displaced by this event.
9. What major news did the paper carry about classes?
• There was a story about DP.
• It went on to explain what it was and why the kids don't move for two periods.
10. Any new equipment?
• There was an addition of new electronic babies.
11. Any scandals involving students, administrators, or teachers?
• Not really any scandals.
12. What changes in fashion among students can be found?
- No longer is bleached blond hair cool, or dockers.
13. What signs of changing times can you find as mirrored in the concerns of students?
• Something that never changes is our concern fro public health. Any kind of outbreak of illness at school is always going to be news worthy.
14. Did the school have any championship academic teams?
• Art show winners?
• Band or choir awards?
• Science winners?
• National honors?
15. Which clubs were most active?
- Lego club and robotics were pretty active and were featured.
16. What campus events made the most news?
17. What movies and music groups has the paper reviewed?
18. What issues did cartoonists choose?
19. How has the publication’s format changed?
20. Did the demographics of your student population change? Why?
21. What are the school’s traditions and how did they develop?
• Who are the school’s traditional rivals? (Could vary between activites.)
• How did the rivalry begin?
22. What are five things most interesting about EVHS?