Assignment 10: Listening Posts

News can get around fast.

On a smaller campus like SAU, news can get around quicker than just any other town or city. The community here is really close knit, mainly due to all of the events that go on around campus, but also through the unity we all share through the classes we take, the team we support, or the dorm we live in while on a college campus.

I get most of my state or national news through social media resources such as Twitter or Facebook. Among the personalities I follow are multiple news medias like ABC News, NBC News, CNN, BBC World News, and Fox News. On my phone, I have three Twitter accounts that send me notifications every time they post: NBC Breaking News, Dr. Reppert, and the unofficial Big Ben account.

I get most of my local news through my friends and passerby in my dorm, Honors South. If my

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friends and I aren't in the Blue and Gold Cafeteria for lunch or dinner, we're hanging out in the third floor lobby of Honors, probably playing Guitar Hero, Settlers of Catan, or just talking about our days. We're usually in the lobby till the early morning hours, around two or three in the morning. Of course, if it's a weekend we'll be in the lobby till way later than that to get Shipley's Donuts the next morning when they open at five.

I have a very diverse group of friends with varying backgrounds, occupations, political beliefs, and majors, so it's very easy to local news from all over campus with multiple opinions. We're all from a different parts of Arkansas, with a few of us being from out of state including Texas, Louisiana, Michigan, New Zealand, and even India. Throughout the course of the day, we're all on different parts of campus due to differing majors, so any news that's on campus will most likely make it to someone in the group.

If news does happen to slip through the cracks, by hanging out in the lobby and being friendly with essentially everyone in the Honors dorm, any news that comes through the dorm will make it into the ears of one of us.

News is important, whether local, state, national, or international. Build a listening post!

States highlighted in red indicate the home state of a friend in my 'friend group'.