Download The
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
COLOR Volume 6 • Issue 3 www.threesixtyjournalism.org May 2016 $1 Minnesota Teens Report Stories & Issues That Matter Thre eS ix t y F o c u SCHOOL s Students, o n teachers and . officials weigh in VIOLENCE on the problem’s complex roots and debate how to keep schools TYUS n JONES safe. Page 20 The Timberwolves rookie and MN native talks life as a teenager in the NBA, Flip Saunders and more. n Page 10 ALSO INSIDE The state of transgender rights n Page 19 Marijuana use in high school n Page 23 More on school climate n Pages 22–27 ILLUSTRATION BY MINA YUAN Real Students. Real Stories. Volume 6 • Issue 3 Journalism Contributors in this issue: Aaron Young, St. Paul Johnson HS • Aidan Berg, Minneapolis Southwest HS • Alejandro Hernandez, Minneapolis Roosevelt HS • Annrose Jerry, Blaine HS • Bayan Algazi, St. Paul Harding HS • Daniela Garcia, Edina HS • Danielle Wong, Eastview HS • Erianna Jiles, Como Park Senior HS • Jennifer Delgado, Cristo Rey Jesuit High School • Kristy Ornelas, Coon Rapids HS • Louisa Akoto, Coon Rapids HS • Marissa Abara, Wayzata HS • Melisa Robles-Olivar, Minneapolis Southwest HS • Mina Yuan, Wayzata HS • Sebastian Alfonzo, St. Paul Central HS • Selam Berhea, Blaine HS • Shay Radhakrishnan, Math and Science Academy • Skyler Kuczaboski, St. Paul Harding Senior HS • Talia Bradley, Minneapolis South HS • Va Yang, St. Paul Johnson Senior HS • Zekriah Chaudhry, Minneapolis South HS PHOTO STAFF Special-use photos: University of St. Thomas • Minneapolis Roosevelt Students from St. Paul Harding High School, volunteers and staff participating To read more about ThreeSixty and Minneapolis Roosevelt High School Theater • Courtney Perry • David in ThreeSixty Journalism’s College Essay Boot Camp pose for a photo in April at Journalism’s College Essay Boot Sherman/Getty Images • Cristeta Boarini • St. Paul Harding High School Harding. Students in College Essay Boot Camp, a pilot program that took place at Camp, go to page 4. To read Harding and Minneapolis Roosevelt high schools this spring, completed a college students’ essays, flip to page 15. ThreeSixty Journalism essay during a five-day period over their spring break. Mail 5057, 2115 Summit Ave. St. Paul, MN 55105 www.threesixtyjournalism.org https://www.facebook.com/threesixtyjournalism CONTENTS MAY https://twitter.com/threesixtymn 15 ThreeSixty Focus on… Tyus Jones The Minnesota Timberwolves rookie—and one of Minnesota’s all-time great high school basketball players—talks to two ThreeSixty journalists about his rookie season and more. n 10 The gap year Thinking about taking a year off before college? A gap year can be beneficial, experts say, but it’s Bao Vang, Chad Caruthers, Miles Trump, n 12 Engagement Coordinator Executive Director Program Manager 19 not for everyone. You’re accepted A ThreeSixty student receives a Board of Advisors: Brian Bellmont, Bellmont Partners; Mike Alumni Spotlight Sara Pelissero went from budding welcome surprise when she finds out she’s accepted Burbach, St. Paul Pioneer Press; David Cazares, Journalist; Duchesne high school journalist in the Urban Journalism Workshop to an out-of-state university. n 13 Drew, Bush Foundation; Chris Havens, Best Buy; Doug Hennes, (the former name for ThreeSixty Journalism) to University of St. Thomas; Dale Kurschner, Twin Cities Business Football and concussions Measures have been multimedia producer at KARE 11. n 5 Magazine; Scott Libin, University of Minnesota; Dennis McGrath, taken to make the sport safer and manage concussions Himle Rapp & Co.; Lida Poletz, Weber Shandwick; Sara Pelissero, Social media with a purpose Students share social better, but some medical professionals have called for KARE 11; Toni Randolph, MPR; Colleen Stoxen, Star Tribune; Amanda media wisdom with peers at ThreeSixty Journalism’s an end to the sport in schools. n 14 first-ever Youth Social Media Summit.n 6 Theisen, KSTP; Wendy Wyatt, University of St. Thomas Powerful college essays During their spring Ex oficio member:Dr. Terence Langan, Dean, College of Arts and ‘A crash course in solitude’ A ThreeSixty student breaks, students from Minneapolis Roosevelt and Sciences, University of St. Thomas details life on her own after her single parent was St. Paul Harding high schools completed ThreeSixty n 7 Copyright 2016 All Rights Reserved seriously injured in a car accident. Journalism’s College Essay Boot Camp, a pilot program Swimming forward that helped students write college essays in five days. ThreeSixty Magazine will be published three times during the 2015-16 school year. A ThreeSixty student writes n Read several of their essays on page 15. ThreeSixty Magazine design and layout by Diana Boger. about the life lessons he received through a setback— n School climate Email [email protected] with comments, letters and questions about one of several—in swimming. 8 From transgender rights to school participating in ThreeSixty. violence, from marijuana to racial divides, from school Tackling the achievement gap Generation Next, ThreeSixty Journalism is a nonprofit program of the College of Arts and Sciences plays to college aspirations, ThreeSixty students report a Minneapolis-based nonprofit led by the previous at the University of St. Thomas. Donations from individuals like you provide a and write a series of stories that help shed light on the mayor of Minneapolis, is working each day to close the n 19 significant amount of ThreeSixty’s operating budget. To contribute, please visit complex issue of school climate. education achievement gap. n 9 http://threesixtyjournalism.org/donate. 2 threesixtyjournalism.org NOTEWORTHY About the ThreeSixty Scholar Award ThreeSixty welcomes four new board members Each year, high school seniors who are graduates of ThreeSixty programming compete for the ThreeSixty Scholar award—a SINCE DECEMBER 2015, ThreeSixty full-tuition, four-year scholarship to study communication and Journalism has welcomed four new journalism at the University of St. Thomas. Currently, there are members to the ThreeSixty Board of four ThreeSixty scholars attending St. Thomas. Advisors: Amanda Theisen, a senior producer at KSTP-TV; Toni Randolph, Amira Warren-Yearby, 2015 Scholar editor for new audiences and weekend Warren-Yearby, a freshman, has been editor at Minnesota Public Radio News; active on campus in Swing Club and Colleen Stoxen, deputy managing editor Black Empowerment Student Alliance, in at the Star Tribune; and Chris Havens, which she was voted onto the executive manager, communications at Best Buy. Chris Havens Colleen Stoxen Toni Randolph Amanda Theisen board as the Marketing and Public “Toni, Amanda, Chris and Colleen Relations Chair this spring. She also strengthen an already impressive leader- the World Series. She has worked as the my role on the board.” has focused on teaching and mentoring ship group,” said ThreeSixty Executive newsroom’s Front Page Editor, Nation/ Randolph, an award-winning jour- students, and began teaching dance to Director Chad Caruthers. World Editor, Deputy Metro Editor and nalist, has been with Minnesota Public students at St. Paul Humboldt through Twin Cities Mobile Jazz. NewsBreak video host. She is responsible Radio since 2003. Prior to her current This summer, she will take a filmmaking class at St. Thomas Chris Havens for news operations, including personnel, assignment, she was a reporter cover- and will teach social studies at Breakthough Twin Cities. Havens joined the Best Buy hiring and recruitment, and coordinates ing a variety of subjects, including Deborah Honore, 2014 Scholar Communications team in June 2014 companywide with Human Resources, homelessness and immigration. Before Honore, a sophomore, returned this after spending more than a decade in Finance and News Production. moving to Minnesota, Randolph worked semester from a January trip to Ethiopia, newsrooms, including the Star Tribune Before working at the Star Tribune, at WBUR-FM in Boston for more than where she filmed a documentary on the in Minneapolis. He has leveraged his Stoxen was a copy and layout editor at seven years. She covered Massachusetts relationship between Ethiopian churches journalism expertise to significantly the South Bend Tribune, Modesto Bee politics, airport security and the clergy and poverty in the country as part of improve Best Buy’s employee communica- and a reporter at the Grand Forks Herald. sex abuse scandal. Randolph began a college project. While she edits the tions vehicles, creating more timely and She has a journalism degree from the her public broadcasting career as news documentary this semester, Honore is in-depth stories and helping to launch a University of North Dakota and grew up director at one of her hometown public working for the University of St. Thomas new external blog targeted at consumers. in Bismarck. radio stations in Buffalo, N.Y., shortly videographer and focusing on school. Next year, she hopes His job, as a manager in Communications, “I’m delighted to have the opportunity after earning her M.S. from Columbia to study journalism and new media as part of a study abroad is a mix of coaching, planning, editing and for an up-close role with ThreeSixty,” University’s Graduate School of program in Morocco, as well as travel in January to South Africa. writing, in addition to keeping an eye on Stoxen said. “In connecting with the pro- Journalism. what’s happening in the communications gram via the Star Tribune, I’ve seen how Simeon Lancaster, 2013 Scholar field. dedicated the staff is to mentoring a new Amanda Theisen Lancaster, a junior, returned in A graduate of the University of St. generation of journalists, which we truly Theisen has been at KSTP-TV since December from Morocco, where he Thomas journalism program, Havens need. The kids are so sharp and a great 2006, producing a variety of morn- spent four months studying journalism has nearly 15 years in journalism, with burst of energy, and helping aim them ing and evening newscasts. She is also and freelancing with Round Earth roles at newspapers in Minnesota and toward a bright future in news is an honor.” involved in many of the station’s special Media.