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[email protected]. Doudna’s construction Panthers set for history unveiled top 25 showdown Page 3 Page 8 THE DAILY Friday NOVEMBER 16, 2012 VOLUME 97 | No. 63 DAILYEASTERNNEWS.COM astErn Ews TWITTER.COM/DEN_NEWS E“Tell the truth and don’t be afraid.” n STUDENT LIFE CAA Council approves new minor Staff Report e Council on Academic Aairs unanimous- ly approved a sports media relations minor and new course during its meeting ursday. Joe Gisondi, an associate professor of jour- nalism, said sports media relations is a rapidly growing eld, where training and experience is necessary to be hired. “Sports-information people used to just hire journalists to do the job,” Gisondi said. “Writ- ing is still an essential part of it, but it’s moving more and more toward some of the marketing and multimedia aspects.” e sports media relations minor will require 19 credit hours in journalism classes and three in kinesiology and sports studies classes. Gisondi will be one of the instructors of the new course, “JOU 2850: Sports Media Rela- tions,” that will be required for completion of the minor.