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It's been a long time since I was a J-School student. (Laughs) I left here in 1973. I guess
the excitement of any newsroom is wonderful, you know, and the teachers here taught, and
the editors were your teachers, and, you know, the best newsroom personnel teach and work
with each other. But it was very special here. It was. And there, just about everybody was
my age, so we were all making the same mistakes. There was this feeling that we're all in it
together. When I came here, I didn't know anyone, and I lived in McReynolds Hall. And
it was three days before I saw another Black student, and he was from Guyana and wouldn't
talk to me! (Laughs) And, later on, I found out that most of the Black students who were
here were on a...in a different dorm. And then I heard that they were, that a couple
of them were talking about starting a Black student newspaper. And they heard that I was
interested in journalism, so I made friends through the shared love of journalism, and
we founded Blackout newspaper, which I understand is coming back.