Tunnel Vision Issue 20 • Spring 2014

Several of your former staff members and

Issue 20 H Spring 2014

UPDATES GALORE … Several of your former staff members and classmates give a glimpse into their lives since the Vanderbilt days … see page 3.

tunnelvision A publication for alumni of student media at Vanderbilt University

LEADERS

HONORS

STUDENT MEDIA LEADERS

STUDENT MEDIA AWARDS

The 2014-15 Vanderbilt Student Media Leaders… page 7

More honors for Student Media in Spring… page 11 Lauren Mandel see page 11…

THE CLASS OF 2014 HALL OF FAME CEREMONY 2014 Please join us for the Vanderbilt Student Media Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Reunion as we celebrate the 2014 inductees and reunite with fellow Student Media alumni 3:45 to 4:45 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 10, 2014

John Seigenthaler Center Vanderbilt University Seating is limited.

Please R.S.V.P. at vandymedia.org.

Guests of alumni are welcome.

VANDERBILT STUDENT MEDIA HALL OF FAME SELECTION COMMITTEE Many thanks to members of the selection committee for your time, commitment and careful consideration in naming the 2014 class of inductees.

Joe Bass (2005) Ann Carroll (1974) Chris Carroll Director of Student Media Paige Clancy (1998), committee chair Allison Malone Cotton (2007) Jay Graves (1993) Paul Kurtz (1968, 1972) Mary Elson (1974) Andrew Maraniss (1992) Pat Nolan (1973) Caryl Privett (1970) Chad Wilcox (2002, 2003)

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Celebrating 47 years in 2014

Bridget Kelley

Chuck Offenburger

Jeff Rothschild

Alison Scholly

Dave Sheinin

Vanderbilt Student Media Hall of Fame 2014 class named

by Ann Marie Deer Owens (B.A., 1976)

Five Vanderbilt alumni who worked in student media and then distinguished themselves in professions that include technology entrepreneur, public media executive, sports writer, columnist, and public radio editor will be inducted into the Vanderbilt Student Media Hall of Fame Oct. 10.

Selected for the 2014 class are Bridget Kelley, senior supervising editor of NPR's All Things Considered; Chuck Offenburger, former Des Moines Register columnist turned author and blogger; Alison Scholly, chief operating officer, Chicago Public Media; Dave Sheinin, sports features and enter-

prise writer for The Washington Post; and Jeff Rothschild, an engineer and entrepreneur who played a major role in Facebook's technical success.

A ceremony and reception to honor the fifth class of inductees is scheduled from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m. at the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt. The event will take place during Homecoming/Reunion weekend.

Chuck Offenburger Offenburger, of Jefferson, Iowa, grew up in Shenandoah, Iowa, and launched his journalism career at the age of 13 as sports

VSC completes 91.1 FM sale Officers representing Vanderbilt Student Communications and Nashville Public Radio signed closing documents May 22 completing the nearly three-year process to sell VSC’s 91.1 FM terrestrial radio license.

In June 2011, following a nine-month public study process, the VSC Board of Directors agreed to transfer radio station WRVU’s broadcast license to NPR for a sale price of $3.35 million.

The proceeds from the sale will launch a development fund to support innovative media experiences, facilities and operations for Vanderbilt students in perpetuity.

The transaction was delayed when a group of alumni and community members filed petitions in 2012 with the Federal Communications Commission to block the sale, and requested a state attorney general review.

The FCC denied the group’s petitions and granted VSC’s request to renew and transfer the license on March 18.

The Tennessee Office of the Attorney General completed its formal review on May 14, clearing the way for the sale.

Student-run radio station WRVU continues to provide eclectic programming via online streaming.

Interest in student radio at Vanderbilt has grown since the 2011 sale was announced, resulting in the 2013 launch of VandyRadio, a second station focusing on popular hit music. More than 100 students served on VSC radio staffs during the past year.

The 91.1 signal now uses the call letters WFCL and is used by NPR to showcase classical music and the arts. H

editor for his hometown's Evening Sentinel.

"Within a few days of my arrival on campus, I had met with the Vanderbilt Hustler editors and was writing stories," he said.

Offenburger majored in political science and enjoyed covering stories about speakers and programs related to that era, including civil rights and the Vietnam War. "During my career, I've often reflected about how my Vanderbilt experience opened the world for me," he said. "It gave a poor kid from a single-parent home in a small Iowa town the knowledge, tools and confidence to go compete for stories with many of the world's best Hall of Fame, continued on page 8

The WRVU sale: Why it matters

by Chris Carroll, director of student media

The basement of the Sarratt Student Center radiated talent and potential in the winter of 1996.

Tyler Kepner polished Saturday game stories for Tuesday’s edition of The Vanderbilt Hustler while Jamie Noble spun vinyl classics Coltrane and Charlie Parker on WRVU and Paige Orr crafted student profiles for the Commodore yearbook.

The Tunnel was alive with student editors moving copy over the Mac AppleTalk network, photographers developing Ilford HP5 black & white film and everyone, it seemed, pulling all-nighters twice a week.

I arrived that winter as Vanderbilt Student Communication’s new director of student media to offer advice and support to the seven student media organizations. What I saw was inspiring: passionate, ambitious students working tirelessly to serve their campus while learning, laughing and building relationships to last a lifetime.

Now, 18 years later, and with 17 media organizations under VSC, my admiration for each class of bright, dedicated students remains the same.

The media environment in which they work, however, has changed dramatically.

In late May, VSC’s deal to sell the

WRVU 91.1 FM terrestrial broadcast license to Nashville Public Radio was finalized. This was a game-changing, transformational event in Vanderbilt student media history. As is common with change of this magnitude, the sale provoked strong emotional responses, especially from a group of WRVU alumni.

These folks formed WRVU Friends and Family, a non-profit focused on blocking the sale and retaining terrestrial broadcasting for Vanderbilt students. Sadly, for some alumni, the long sale process aroused feelings of resentment, distrust and anger toward VSC. It’s easy to understand and respect the motivations of these alumni.

Each, as a Vanderbilt student, enjoyed an association with WRVU that positively impacted his or her life.

WRVU was their place to acquire skills, an outlet for expression, an opportunity to grow as a person, the chance to join a community of likeminded souls. It was home. It mattered.

It’s only natural to want to preserve that environment and experience and share it with today’s Vanderbilt students. I get that. Providing collaborative learning opportunities in media is VSC’s primary mission. And that’s The WRVU Sale, continued on page 2

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Developing a career in digital sports reporting

by Rob Shaw, Class of '04

Rob Shaw makes an appearance on Bloomberg Television (2013)

Rob Shaw, Strategic Partner Development for Sports Content at Facebook, was very active in sports media on Vanderbilt’s campus from 2000-04 with the Hustler and Vanderbilt Television. A decade later, Shaw still assures us that the golf cart that was often parked outside of his classes was in fact being used to transport heavy television equipment.

It’s been a wild ride since I packed my car and drove from Nashville to New York City 10 years ago after graduating from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications.

Those four years at Vanderbilt were a thrill at the time and continue to make a very positive impact in my life.

I spent the first month following commencement at my parents’ New York City apartment, where I mailed out video resumes with the hope of finding an entry-level job in sports television.

During my four years at Vanderbilt, I built my resume with internships at ABC Sports, CBS Sports, the Yankees Network, and the Nashville City Paper. I was also active on Vandy’s campus as a columnist for the Hustler and the station manager of Vanderbilt Television.

One of Vanderbilt’s strengths was the requirement to fulfill a comprehensive liberal arts curriculum. While I may not have appreciated it at the time, the fact that I had to take courses ranging from oceanography, poetry, and theater had broadened my knowledge base and interests. While work experience has enabled me to focus on the practical lessons for my career; Vanderbilt led me to become a well-rounded citizen of the world.

Unfortunately, this did little in my attempt to gain entry into the sports media profession. After I sent out 70 applications with little response, I realized that I lacked the key requirement for many of the jobs that I applied for: previous work experience.

In New York, I reached out to several Vanderbilt alumni hoping that someone could offer some wisdom. I was fortunate to connect with two Vanderbilt graduates: Mark Loomis and Willie Geist. Loomis was an executive producer at ABC Sports at the time. He recommended targeting smaller markets better suited for graduates to break into the industry. Geist, who was a reporter at CNN, suggested meeting the hiring managers in person.

A few weeks later I heeded their advice. I drove from Manhattan down the eastern seaboard, crossing west through Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana before reaching Texas. This trip, which took 21 days to complete, included 26 meetings at smaller market broadcast stations ranging from Charlottesville, Virginia, to Beaumont, Texas. Some of these visits were set up a few days prior, while others required me to drop in unannounced Alumni Column, continued on page 10

The WRVU sale: Why it matters, continued from page 1

why the sale matters.

By 2005 traditional media fabric was beginning to unravel. The revolution of Craigslist, Facebook, YouTube and more were taking hold and disrupting business models and consumer habits.

That same year VSC leadership and the board of directors launched an ongoing process of selfexamination and strategic planning. This was at a time when nearly all college media programs, and frankly many commercial media operations, failed to recognize the changing landscape. Most have paid dearly for their inaction.

VSC’s efforts resulted in pioneering projects like InsideVandy.com that garnered national acclaim and propelled our graduates to internships and jobs. The process also determined the long-term viability of student media at Vanderbilt would depend on a revenue source other than advertising sales.

The best option was to build an endowment to exclusively support student media opportunities in perpetuity. Now, almost 10 years later, the proceeds from the sale of the WRVU license, $3.35 million, will form the core of that endowment.

The future for college student media is far from certain. Countless premiere programs, from the University of Georgia to University of Illinois have substantially downsized. Others, from UCLA to Southern Illinois University-Carbondale are in debt and facing financial crisis. At some schools student media operations have simply and quietly disappeared.

Because of VSC’s decision to sell the license — essentially convert a depreciating asset into a growing investment — Vanderbilt media students will never face that challenge of extinction for lack of funding.

These days Tyler Kepner tweets several daily

reports as the national baseball correspondent for The New York Times, Dr. Jamie Noble teaches clinical neurology to med students at Columbia University Medical Center, and Paige Orr Clancy works as a VSC adviser coaching Vanderbilt media students to instantly publish worldwide using the supercomputers with high definition video cameras that each carries in his or her pocket.

These three distinguished VSC alumni undoubtedly also want today’s Vandy students to enjoy the same opportunities they had as undergrads. I would argue, however, they would not want VSC to ignore the advances in tools, techniques and technology that have developed since 1996.

WRVU is still broadcasting. Students work in a newer studio with better equipment than before the sale, and the experience of hosting a show hasn’t changed. It’s true that WRVU programming is streamed online for worldwide access rather than over-the-air transmission to middle Tennessee, but it turns out contemporary students prefer to consume media online.

It’s also true that Vanderbilt student interest in radio reached a new high this past year. VSC now has two streaming radio stations, WRVU and VandyRadio, staffed by more than 125 students.

For these students, the focus is creating content, regardless of the delivery system.

Most importantly, these students are having the time of their lives. They are gaining relevant skills, finding outlets for expression, contributing to campus life and building bonds with their peers they will talk about 20, 30, 40 and more years from now.

In the end, we all want the same thing: to preserve the unique experience that is Vanderbilt student media for generations to come. Now we’ve done that. That’s why the sale matters. H

Alumni speak to college sports journalists from around the country Robbie Bohren, Tennessee Titans Willy Daunic, 102.5 The Game Lee Jenkins, Sports Illustrated Tyler Kepner, The New York Times Mitch Light, Athlon Sports Buster Olney, ESPN George Plaster, 102.5 The Game Several alumni served as speakers at the sold-out Sports Reporting Training Camp Feb. 7-8 at The John Seigenthaler Center on Vanderbilt’s campus. The event was hosted by College Media Association, which is headquartered at Vanderbilt Student Communications, for more than 125 attendees — most of them college students — from 49 colleges and universities from 21 states. The alumni speakers included:

Also, Kyle Parkinson at Vanderbilt Athletics spoke, and Andrew Maraniss, partner at McNeely Pigott & Fox, helped with organizing the event and arranged for MP&F to sponsor dinner for attendees. Several members of the Vanderbilt Student Media sports staff participated in the workshop, and on Feb. 6, Jenkins and Kepner met with Vanderbilt student sports journalists for an informal discussion in the Student Media Newsroom in Sarratt. H

VandyRadio at 103.5 KTU in New York City

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Edited by: Chris Carroll and Paige Clancy Text by: Ann Marie Deer Owens and André Rouillard Photos by: Bosley Jarrett Layout and Design by: Jeff Breaux Printed by: Franklin Web Printing, Co. Please send address updates via mail, phone, fax or e-mail to: Vanderbilt Student Communications Attn: Alumni Mailing List 2301 Vanderbilt Place • VU Station B 351669 Nashville, TN 37235 615-322-6610 (p) • 615-343-2756 (f) chris.carroll@vanderbilt.edu • www.vandymedia.org

VandyRadio Station Manager Maralei Bunn with fellow staff members Viktoria Hallikäär and Jon Martz in New York City during College Media Association’s Spring National College Media Convention. While there, the students visited one of New York’s better-known FM radio stations, 103.5 KTU “The Beat of New York,” where they saw first-hand how a commercial radio station is operated.

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A glimpse into a few lives that helped shape student media at Vandy 1951

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Ormonde Plater H B.A., 1951 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Plater lives in New Orleans, LA, and said: My wife Kay and I moved into a retirement home, Lambeth House, in New Orleans, LA in March 2012.

Frank A. Riddick Jr. H B.A., 1951, M.D., 1954 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Vanderbilt Masquerader) Riddick Jr. lives in New Orleans, LA, and said: I am now largely retired after 50+ years of practicing endocrinology and carrying out management roles at Ochsner Clinic, a sizable health care system in New Orleans. As an undergraduate, I served on the staff of the Vanderbilt Hustler and the Masquerader. As a physician, my literary efforts have been limited to contributions to the medical literature. I served on editorial boards of several journals, wrote or contributed to 27 books or book chapters and published a bit over 100 articles in peer reviewed medical journals.

The Ochsner Journal selected me the featured contributor to its Summer 2013 issue and posted a profile on its Web version when it published my reminiscence of a stint in general practice in the coal mining area of Appalachia in the 1950s.

1955 Eugene H. Vaughan H B.A., 1955 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Vaughan lives in Houston, TX. George Nordhaus H B.A., 1955 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU) Nordhaus lives in Santa Fe, NM, and said: After 40+ years of founding and running the number one marketing and management communications firm for property and casualty insurance agencies, Insurance Marketing and Management Services, I formed AgenciesOnline LLC. AgenciesOnline is essentially a virtual marketing agency for the insurance industry, serving agencies across the U.S.,from interactive website creation, to development George Nordhaus of marketing campaigns, to quarterly news magazines. Perhaps our most visible activity is the Internet-based weekly miniwebinar entitled Monday Morning. Each week thousands of insurance folk receive the 20-30 webinars where George Nordhaus interviews the top marketing and management professionals in the industry.

1956 William F. Sasser H B.A., 1956 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Sasser lives in St. Louis, MO, and said: Thoracic Surgeon at St. Louis University.

1957 Tom Oden H B.A. M.S., 1957 (WRVU, Commodore yearbook) Oden lives in Amelia Island, FL, and said: After Vandy, I spent 5 years in the U.S. Navy; 29 years with IBM in Washington, DC, Columbus, OH, and Brussels, BE; and 16 years as a Golf Teaching Professional on Amelia Island. Married 54 years to Barbara Curley Oden. Three children, five grandchildren.

Dr. Bill K. Dwyer H B.A., 1957 (Raven - Founder) Dwyer lives in Chattanooga, TN, and said: In 1997 I retired from the practice of General and Cancer Surgery. In 1999, I began the first of 5 years of study in the Special Postgraduate Program in Bowen Family System Theory at The Georgetown Family Center in DC. This is my 12th year of seeing patients in Family Systems Therapy. Lost a good Papa Doc with Body Guard in Italy. friend and fellow Kappa Sig, Mitch Crawford; in contact sporadically with KS John Hatcher, recently had a good visit with other Kappa Sigs, Larry and Marion Creekmore. I have a great wife, Linda, Vanderbilt MSN, APRN; 5 interesting children and 8 exciting grandchildren, and an intriguing great-granddaughter! Life is good!

We love Destin, Fl, and foreign travel.

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Reber Boult H B.E., J.D., 1958 (WRVU) Boult lives in Albuquerque, NM, and said: In 2013 the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) presented me with its annual "Al Horn Memorial Award" "In Recognition and Appreciation of Your Lifetime of Ceaseless Work to Advance the I'm the person in the Cause of Justice and photo. It was taken by for Your Extraordinary my Vanderbilt classmate, Support for NORML." David Halpern.

Merrilee Allison Cunningham H Ph.D., 1967-69 (Versus magazine) Cunningham lives in Houston, TX.

1961 Ian Arnof H B.A., 1961 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Arnof lives in Carmel, CA.

1962 Diana Clark Hudgens H B.A., 1962 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Hudgens lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, and said: Still healthy, still happy, still working as a real estate agent...still missing my late husband Tom Hudgens, VU 59.

Working on a memoir of our life together.

1964

Wife Marsha Carton and Larry on recent family trip.

Lawrence E. Holder H B.A., 1964 (Commodore yearbook) Holder lives in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, and said: Continuing to work and teach part time at UF Health-Jacksonville in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. With wife Marsha enjoying our children and 6 grandchildren. Pleased with the continued academic advances at VU. David H. Thomas H B.A., 1964 (The Raven) Thomas lives in Hilton Head, SC, and said: Retired, divorced, living with my pal Molly, the yellow Labrador retriever that was given me by my daughter for my 60th birthday.

Best b'day present I've ever received.

1966 Edward Lamar Turner H B.A., J.D., 1966 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Spectrum) Turner lives in Paris, France.

Michael Quinn H B.A., 1966 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore yearbook) Quinn lives in Riverside, California.

James C Puckett H B.E., 1966 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore yearbook) Puckett lives in Midland, Michigan, and said: We live 12 miles north of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and I work for Dow Corning in Midland, Michigan, so we have 2 homes. My wife goes back and forth, but my work keeps me in Michigan 90% of the time. We get to do a lot of personal traveling and went to Alaska for a month in June 2013. I have 3 motorcycles and do a lot of long distance riding; often to the Pacific Northwest and Southwest. I have 3 children and my wife has 2 children. My third child turns 19 the end of May 2014, and he and I have traveled over 50,000 miles together on 2 wheels. He has been on his own motorcycle the last 6,000 miles. Life is good!

Susan and Jim Puckett with Denali (Mount McKinley) in the background.

1968 John Hindle H B.A. Ph.D., 1968 (Versus magazine, Spectrum) Hindle lives in London, UK, and said: Following a 35+ year international career in corporate marketing and communications, I'm retiring in August from fulltime employment at Accenture in London to pursue independent consulting and publishing opportunities, along with my continuing volunteer service on the Vanderbilt Board of Trust, and travel John Hindle. with my wife Joan.

We'll be relocating to Nashville later this year after living abroad for more than 20 years. And while we'll be keeping a residence in London, where we have many friends and business connections, we look forward to being closer to our children and friends in the US. There's a satisfying sense of symmetry about our return, too — as if to complete some kind of spiritual or intellectual circle, I'm pleased to have recently acquired former Chancellor Heard's home in Nashville, where he lived following his retirement in 1982 until his death in 2009. As an inspirational leader and a brave and eloquent advocate of free speech and independent thought, he has always been a touchstone of integrity and courage for me. Many good memories.

Robert Charles Rodgers H B.A., 1968 (WRVU) Rodgers lives in Olympia, WA, and said: I just released my new book: Seven Secrets of Healing: Healing from the Inside Out. Stepping aside from a focus on treatment options for chronic illnesses I focus on what it actually takes for the body to heal itself. The focus is not on diet and exercise which are obviously important but not Robert Rodgers. secrets to anyone.

Rather, the focus is on how to help the body heal itself from the inside out.

K. Gregory Tucker H B.A., 1968, MMgt, 1971 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Tucker lives in Readyville, TN, and said: Retired Attorney -- Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, and VP & Chief Litigation Counsel, Hospital Corporation of America. Now beef cattle farmer and Rutherford County Historian. Books: "Remembering Rutherford" (2010); "Rutherford...for Real" (2012); "Rutherford Ramblings" (2014)

1969 Donald Martin Wolfson H B.A., 1969 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Wolfson lives in Atlantic Beach, FL, and said: Mayor, City of Atlantic Beach 2005-2007 Wolfson Family Foundation, Chairman. CarPerks Founder, President & CEO acquired by TrueCar Sept, 2011. TrueCar Strategic Advisor 2014. Wife of 35 years - Karen Read.

Children: Kymberly (34), TrueCar Business Development; Erin (31), Ass't State Attorney FL 4th Circuit; Lance (28), Architect, RS&H, Charlotte, NC. Joe Stamper H B.A., 1969 (Commodore yearbook) Stamper lives in Cleveland, TN, and said: I'm in the upper-end retail home furnishings business and ready for retirement.

How about making me an offer.

Come on now.

Me and my Rubicon.

Henry Hecht H B.A., 1969 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Hecht lives in New York City, NY, and Stamford, CT, and said: Since leaving Newsday I have been enjoying the heck out of being a tutor, for the verbal sections of the SATs and ACTs, and for writing. After 35 years of being told what to do, I do what I want, when I want, where I want and how I want.

Lacey M. Ward H B.A., 1969 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Ward lives in Palestine, TX, and said: I retired from AT&T in 2012, and stay active with volunteer work, and restoration of a 1972 MG. Jim Rosenblatt H B.A., 1969 (Publications Board) Rosenblatt lives in Ridgeland, MS, and said: In August 2014, Jim Rosenblatt will transition from his position as Dean of the Mississippi College School of Law (MC Law) in Jackson, Mississippi, to a full-time Professor of Law. His eleven year tenure as dean makes him one of the longest serving Dean Jim Rosenblatt. in the legal academy. Jim previously served as an Army JAGC officer for 30 years retiring with the rank of Colonel.

1970 William Eugene Livingston H B.A., 1970 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Livingston lives in North Olmsted, Ohio, and said: I am finishing a book on the Cleveland Pipers of the American Basketball League, a 1961-62 challenger to the NBA, and the first league in which a 3-point shot was used. The team was owned by George Steinbrenner, in his first venture in professional sports. The team was coached by black basketball pioneer John McLendon of Tennessee State, until Steinbrenner forced him out in midseason. The new coach was Bill Sharman, the former Celtic great and future Laker coach, who took over and guided them to the championship. The star of the team was Dick Barnett of Tennessee State, who started on the famous New York Knicks' 1970 NBA champions in the backcourt with Walt Frazier. Tentative title is "Piping Hot — The American Basketball League champion Cleveland Pipers and the Young George Steinbrenner."

The publisher didn't like "Pipe Dream," which I liked a good bit better. The allusion is to how Steinbrenner signed Jerry Lucas, the most publicized player in the country out of Ohio State, who was invited to join the NBA, but then his dream died because he couldn't raise the money for the admission fees. The ABL also featured a 19-yearold, proto-LeBro in league MVP Connie Hawkins.

Kent State University Press is doing the book, the same publisher of my book on 2004 Olympic gold medalist Tim Mack from Cleveland, "Above and Beyond — Tim Mack, the Pole Vault and the Quest for Olympic Gold," which won three national independent/university press awards.

1971 Mary Margaret Alsobrook Peel H B.A., 1971 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore yearbook) Peel lives in Nashville, TN, and said: Mary Margaret (Alsobrook) Peel, continues to work as a medical illustrator and Chief of Medical Media at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Nashville, TN. She directs visual communication (graphic design, photography, video and AV support) for research, public affairs, patient/staff education and the many medical teaching programs affiliated with Vanderbilt and other institutions.

One of her recent projects was the cover design and all prepress work on the three volumes of Medical Limericks by William Stone, MD. She is

Mary Margaret (VU ’71) and Joe Peel (VU '65 and '69) with their daughter, The Reverend Margaret Elizabeth Peel, at her ordination to the priesthood at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Sterling, VA, on December 18, 2013.

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alumni updates… married to Joe Peel, VU ’65 and ‘69. Their daughter, Margaret Elizabeth, graduated from Virginia Theological Seminary and was ordained as an Episcopal priest in Sterling, VA, on December 18, 2013. Mary Margaret continues to pursue her studies with nationally known and distinguished painters. She is a member of the Portrait Society of America, the National Portrait Society and The Chestnut Group, Plein Air Painters for the Land.

There will be another show of her paintings in July 2014 at the University Club of Nashville.

Brashear.

Judy Carney Brashear H B.A., M.A., 1971 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Brashear lives in Gainesville, FL, and said: Assistant Director, Poe Center for Business Ethics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.

Charles R.B. Stowe H B.A., 1971 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Versus magazine) Stowe lives in Greenwood, SC, and said: Charles R. B. (Chuck) Stowe Ph.D, JD, MBA, will be launching an on-line masters degree in Emergency Management in Fall 2014 as Program Coordinator.

He also serves as a Colonel JAGS Corps in the Joint Services Detachment, State Guard of South Col. Charles R. B. Stowe SC Guard, Joint Services Carolina and is Detachment. the liaison to the SC Emergency Management Division. He also has been serving as Assistant Vice President for Development and teaches management and entrepreneurship. Fifteen year old son Charlie has been admitted for his second summer in the drama program of The Governor's School, a public residential high school for the performing arts. Laura works part time in marketing in the educational publishing industry.

Bill Teegarden H B.A., 1971 (Commodore yearbook) Teegarden lives in Atlanta, Ga. Laurence Alan Bradley H B.A., 1971, Ph.D., 1975 (WRVU) Bradley lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and said: I've just completed 25 years as a faculty member in the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). I retired from UAB in April 2014. However, the NIH will soon fund for a second 5 year cycle the ongoing study shared by my lab and that of our friends/colleagues at the University of Florida on ethnic differences in pain and pain inhibition among persons with knee osteoarthritis. So, I am now a new parttime faculty member in Rheumatology at UAB and will continue my work until 2020! Thanks very much again to my mentor at Vanderbilt, Dr. Martin (Dick) Katahn and to all my friends at Vandy whom I also really treasure. See you all in Nashville for great football this fall!

inal children's books, Shaw edits manuscripts for writers seeking traditional or independent book publication.

1973 Stephen Womack H B.E., M.Div., 1973 (WRVU, VSC Board member) Womack lives in Macon, GA, and said: I took WRVU's former sports director, Donna Bumgardner to the May 23rd baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays. Donna was the first female announcer of the Vanderbilt Baseball Team back in 1974 over WRVU. Donna is suffering from stage 4 cancer of the breast, lungs, and lymphatic system. We have not seen each other in over 40 years, but reconnected over Facebook recently. Donna, who actually was a student at David Lipscomb, went on to work for WSM, several cruise lines, and Disney World. She currently is the narrator for the Heron Cam, where she is known as Aunt Heron, on the Disney Website.

Steve Womack, Wrvu Station Manager and News 1969-73.

Neil Skene H B.A., 1973 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Skene lives in Tallahassee, FL, and said: Neil Skene, A’73, is finishing his 11th year as volunteer head coach of Florida State University’s college mock trial team. The team won the national championship in 2013 in a final round against Rhodes College, and just finished in the top 10 out of 660 undergraduate teams (including Vanderbilt’s) from across the country at the 2014. FSU was one of four schools that placed two teams in the 48-team tournament, and the B team earned honorable mention with a top-half finish. Neil is vice chairman and a major shareholder of MedAffinity Corporation, which provides documentation software for medical and social services organizations, including electronic medical records. He also is writing the third volume of a history of the Florida Supreme Court, starting in 1972 and continuing through the 2000 elections. His son, Chris, is a Vanderbilt grad, A’09 (Chicago Law ’12). He and his wife, Madelyn, also have two daughters, Jennifer (Northwestern ’11, Yale Law ’14) and Katie, a blues singer and slide guitarist (Southern Cal Class of 2015) who has an eye on Nashville.

1974 Thomas Stuart McCloy H B.A., 1974 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) McCloy lives in Somerset, Kentucky, and said: Married 32 years to Susan S. McCloy (University of Kentucky). We have two children, Sarah, who received her Master of Nursing Degree at Vandy in 2011 and is an ARNP in Charlotte, N.C.; William graduated in 2011 from University of Colorado at Boulder and is employed as an Engineer in Training in Nashville, TN. Susan is a French teacher at the local high school; I still practice law.

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1972 Barry L. Master H B.A., 1972 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Master lives in Fairview, NC, and said: I'm still the attorney for Buncombe/ Polk Child Support Services, based in Asheville, North Carolina, helping over 7,500 families obtain and receive enforcement of their courtordered child support. Marcia and I are most enjoying being grandparents of Molly Rose Hillman of San Diego, CA, who was born last September. I remain a baseball fan and have enjoyed seeing, rooting for, and obtaining autographs of my heroes the Diamond 'Dores last season and this at road games in Columbia and Knoxville.

P.J. Shaw (left) and colleague at the Sesame Workshop offices in NYC with fairy Abby Cadabby.

Peggy Jo Shaw H B.A., 1972 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Shaw lives in Decatur, GA, and said: Peggy Jo Shaw is now in her fifth year as the Director of Public Relations at Atlanta's Holy Innocents' Episcopal School, the largest Episcopal day school in the country.

The author of Sesame Street, Disney and orig-

Lee Hall.

Lee Hall H B.A., 1975 (WRVU, Versus magazine) Hall lives in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and said: Enjoying a third career as director of communications/ investor relations for Knoxville-based Scripps Networks Interactive.

Stephen F. Daugherty H B.A., 1975 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore yearbook, VSC Board member) Daugherty lives in Clarksville, Tennessee, and said: Recently elected to Fellowship in the American College of Phlebology (only 50 Fellows nationwide in a 1900 member organization). I have been serving on the Board of Directors of the American College of Phlebology and on the Board of Directors of the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission--Vein Center Division (IAC-VC). The IAC-VC recently developed standards for accreditation of vein centers and we are reviewing centers nationwide as we work to

Stephen F. Daugherty, MD, FACS, FACPh.

improve care of venous disorders. We reported last year our vein center's experience treating obstructions of pelvic veins responsible for pelvic pain in women, a report called a "game changer" in the treatment of pelvic venous disorders. My practice is limited to the treatment of venous and lymphatic disorders.

1976 Merri Rudd H B.A., 1976 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Rudd lives in Albuquerque, NM, and said: Merri Rudd published the 5th edition of her book, Life Planning in New Mexico, a guide for non-lawyers about wills, trusts, probate and health care decisionmaking. The book has been a popular resource for seniors, their families, financial planners, health care professionals, lawyers, judges and students since its incepBook cover. tion. For the first time in 22 years a Kindle edition of the book is available, mostly because several grandmothers requested one. Merri's English Lit major from Vanderbilt has served her well during her years as an author, columnist, teacher, lawyer and judge.

Robert Wells Connell H B.A., 1976 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU) Connell lives in Newport, OR, and said: After nearly five years as a Senior Assistant Attorney General in Salem, Oregon, I took a year's sabbatical from the law. I used it for writing, recording, and performing original and rock and roll music in the central coast area. I was then urged to apply for the City Robert "Rob" Connell at Attorney posihome after an evening in town with the local bar assotion in Newport, ciation and Oregon Supreme which I did. I got Court. the job and have been there about seven months. I expect to renew my contract at the end of this fiscal year. I'm still married (nearly thirty years together with my wife), and have a 24 year old son who enjoys his life in Seattle as a computer programmer for Amazon. This September I renew old acquaintances at the bi-annual Beta Boat Brigade trip in Tennessee, where Beta Lambda brothers from the 70s and later gather for three days of fellowship and frivolity.

John Erin DuBois H B.A., 1976 (Versus magazine) DuBois lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and said: John, besides being an Assistant City Attorney, is tutoring students in math, science, Latin and Classical Rhetoric.

1977 Roger R. Ream H B.A., 1977 (WRVU) Ream lives in Herndon, VA, and said: Roger Ream is president of the Fund for American Studies (TFAS), an educational organization with a heavy emphasis on journalism. In 2013, TFAS assumed control of the Robert Novak Journalism Fellows program, which awards annual fellowships of up to $50,000 to young journalists with interesting book and writing projects. TFAS also sponsors the Institute on Political Journalism for

(L to R): Roger Ream, economist Art Laffer of Nashville, and Joseph Lhota, TFAS alumnus and unsuccessful candidate for mayor of NYC.

college students and presents annual journalism awards to professional journalists. Recently, Ream also became president of the Foundation for Teaching Economics (FTE) in Davis, California, an organization that teaches economics to high school students and trains teachers how to teach the subject. FTE was founded in 1976 and is now in a strategic affiliation with TFAS. Among the journalists who have participated in TFAS programs are Steve Hayes of Fox News, David Muir of ABC News, Lisa Myers of NBC News, and Katherine Connell of National Review magazine.

Pillersdorf with Janet and David School basketball player Cory Burchett.

Ned Pillersdorf H B.A., 1977 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine) Pillersdorf lives in Van Lear, KY, and said: Practicing law, coaching the David School varsity basketball team in Prestonsburg, Kentucky and serving as my wife Janet Stumbo's campaign manager in her bid to be re-elected to the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

1978 Kurt L. Schmalz H B.A., 1978, J.D., 1983 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Schmalz lives in Redondo Beach, CA, and said: For the past 31 years I have been practicing law as a business litigation attorney in California. I am a shareholder and CEO of the law firm of Lurie, Zepeda, Schmalz & Hogan in Beverly Hills, CA. Recent accomplishments include oral argument as lead counsel in the California Supreme Court on El-Attar v. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center and winning a $3 million jury verdict in Los Angeles Superior Court in Rhoades v. Lansdale. Also, former elected city councilman in the City of Redondo Beach. Enjoyed being back at Vanderbilt in October for my 35th undergraduate reunion and 30th law school reunion. Kurt Schmalz (Hustler editor-in-chief 1976-77)

1979 Margot Hornsby Fosnes H B.A., 1979 (Vanderbilt Journal of Economics & Business) Fosnes lives in Cross Plains, TN, and said: Just completed my 7th year as president & chief economic development officer for the Robertson County Chamber of Commerce, overseeing business development and recruiting for this growing community just north of Nashville.

I also serve as board member and secretary for Cumberland Region Tomorrow, a collaborative regional partnership Margot Hornsby which brings people of Fosnes. the middle Tennessee region together to address issues of land use and quality growth, and as a Governor's Appointee to the Regional Transportation Authority. In my off hours, my husband, Jeff, and I have enjoyed our season tickets to Vanderbilt football, men's basketball and baseball for more than 30 years!

We live in a 150 year old farm house on 20 acres with an assortment of animal friends.

Melanie Clemmons Becker H B.A., 1979 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, VSC Board member) Becker lives in Houston, TX. David Collins Peeples H B.A., 1979 (Versus magazine) Peeples lives in West Memphis,

David Peeples, West Memphis City Attorney.

AR, and said: I am completing my seventh 4-year term as the elected City Attorney for West Memphis, Arkansas.

1980 Kathleen (Kats) Smith Barry H B.A., 1980 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine, Commodore yearbook) Barry lives in Nashville, TN,

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and said: she works as manager of digital assets for UMCom. She says, “Since Vandy, my camera has taken me on paid photo assignments to 50 states and 15 foreign countries for news organizations.

Today my time is spent more in photo editing although I did cover Barry. the 20th anniversary of Africa University in Zimbabwe and UM bishops visiting El Faro Park in Mexico last year for UMNS. Received awards in 2013 and 2014 from RCC and UMAC for photo and video entries.

Now empty nester, (with Mark Barry Owen School '79) Proud parents of Joe, college student majoring in business and a published writer.

Fred Katz H B.A., 1980 (WRVU) Katz lives in Nashville, TN, and said: Running my own marketing company in its 18th year. Still occasionally freelance radio news.

Richard A. Schwartz H B.A., 1980 (WRVU) Schwartz lives in Louisville, KY, and said: I am currently a partner in the Law Firm of Kruger & Schwartz,concentrating in Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization. I have been married to my wife Tamar for 26 years. Tamar owns a real estate investment company. We have 3 children: Eric (24), Natalie (21) & Jessie (17).

Eric is a second year medical student at University of Louisville; Natalie is a junior at University of Arizona; and Jessie is a senior in high school and will be attending University of Redlands next year.

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas, effective July 1, 2014. He is also director of a great-books program at UNLV.

1984 Steven David Hall H B.E., 1984 (WRVU) Hall lives in Fort Myers, FL, and said: This past November, my wife and I were able to see the historic Vanderbilt football win over the Gators in the Swamp. Only she's a Gator.

Nonetheless, it was enjoyable.

Erin Maloney H B.A., M.P.P., 1984 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Versus magazine, Commodore yearbook) Maloney lives in Ankara, Turkey, and said: Living and working at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey since 1998.

David Gelfand H B.A. J.D., 1984; 1987 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Gelfand lives in Old Brookville, NY.

1985 Boyer Hendrick Barner H B.A., M.B.A., 1985 (WRVU) Barner lives in Nashville, TN, and said: I'm working as a consultant with two historic properties in Nashville in the WedgewoodHouston neighborhood: Houston Station and The Track One Building. It's great to be involved with the preservation and renovation effort. In addition for securing tenants, I work on branding the building, PR and events.

1981 Terrence L. Dugan H B.A., J.D., 1981 (Versus magazine) Dugan lives in Summit, NJ, and said: The VSC Board's concerns that Terry and Peggy (née Kolber) might break up during the year (1979 or 80?) they co-edited Versus continue to have been unfounded. Terry still works in Manhattan as a partner at one of the large national law firms. The closest he gets to media is that a big part of his law practice involve financing motion pictures and music catalogs. Peggy Dugan does international relocation.

Jeff Musial H B.A., 1985 (Commodore yearbook) Musial lives in St. Louis, MO, and said: Working at A-B Inbev in St. Louis and wondering if they still do traditional yearbooks!

August Sanusi H B.S., 1985 (Commodore yearbook) Sanusi lives in Charlottesville, VA, and said: I'm a family physician in Charlottesville, VA. I have been married for 22 years to a wonderful wife and have 5 children, ages 5-18 (4 girls and 1 boy).

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Jeff in Jupiter.

Valorie Cannon Rowe H B.A., 1982 (WRVU) Rowe lives in Nashville, TN. Graham P. Matthews H M.Div., 1982 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Matthews lives in Nashville, TN, and said: Currently, I am the Program Director of Early Childhood Education and a Tenured Associate Professor at Tennessee State University. I am also the Pastor of Key Memorial United Methodist Church in Murfreesboro,TN.

Philip Tate H B.A., 1983 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Commodore yearbook) Tate lives in Charlotte, NC, and said: Philip Tate, APR, Fellow PRSA, senior vice president with Luquire George Andrews (LGA) in Charlotte, N.C., has been elected vice chair of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)’s College of Fellows for Philip Tate, APR, Fellow 2014. The College of PRSA (B.A. 1983).

Fellows, founded in 1989, is a community of more than 300 senior PRSA members who are judged to have advanced the public relations profession.

David Fott H B.A., 1983 (WRVU) Fott lives in Las Vegas, NV, and said: David Fott's translation of Cicero's "On the Republic" and "On the Laws" has been published by Cornell University Press. He has been promoted to professor of political science at the

Lisa Pinkerton Rintoul H B.S., M.Ed., 1987 (Versus magazine) Rintoul lives in Darien, CT, and said: I taught college and high school English and writing for many years in Chicago and CT before stopping to raise three children. I have been involved in various publications in and out of work over the years. It's great to watch all of the impressive growth in Vanderbilt's student media.

1988 Rose Gregory Naccarato H B.A. M.A. Ph.D., 1988 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, VSC Board member) Naccarato lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and said: I am the KIDS COUNT Director at the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth.

We are a state agency that advocates for children, and I track data on children and youth and produce data-informed publications with policy recommendations. I also teach statistics classes to grad students as an adjunct faculty member in University of Maryland University College's online program. I am married (Mark Naccarato), and we have an eight-year-old daughter and fouryear-old twin boys. They keep us pretty busy, so I don't do too much else outside work and home right now, but they'll be more independent soon!

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Houston Station, Nashville, TN.

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Gregory Mayback H B.E., 1986 (Commodore yearbook) Mayback lives in Cooper City, Florida, and said: I received my fourth patent for a safety catheter that prevents injuries during use.

Bob Black H B.E., 1986 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Versus magazine, Commodore yearbook, The Vanderbilt Review) Black lives in Moorpark, CA, and said: My latest book, "Night of the Paranormal Patterns," is the first volume of what I call Mathematical Fiction, a style I've developed that uses storytelling to teach math concepts. It tells the story of a girl who can see vampires, werewolves and other monsters, and they all ask her to solve their math problems (because, as anyone should know, monsters are bad at math). I currently have some members of

Here I am with my books at the public library's booth in our local arts festival, one of several events I plan to participate in this year.

for Georgia Perimeter College as well as football for Reinhardt University. I've worked at the high school levels for Play ON Sports as well as CSS.

1993 Jim Snell H B.S., 1993 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Versus magazine) Snell lives in Nashville, TN.

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Wesley Odom H B.A., 1988 (WRVU) Odom lives in Pensacola, FL, and said: I am traveling to Spain in July to speak about my 2009 book, "The Longest Siege of the American Revolution: Pensacola" and to discuss the making of a documentary about it for Spanish television.

Mary Beth Pendley Ray H B.A., 1981 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Ray lives in Washington, District of Columbia, and said: I am a publicly-elected official, having been voted in as a Commissioner on the Advisory Neighborhood Commission in Washington, DC. I initiated and chair the Van Ness Vision Committee. I enjoy reliving my Hustler days by writing for our local e-magazine, the Forest Hills Connection, whose editor is considerably easier than Kevin Barnard, Charlie Euchner, and Scott Milner, although not nearly as entertaining! My husband Sheldon is a senior portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley. Daughter Betsy is a junior at Columbia University, studying in Morocco; Son Alex is still in high school, rowing varsity and working toward making Eagle Scout.

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a middle school book club test reading the next volume, "Night of the Frightening Fractions," which I plan to finish up and send to my publisher soon. My books are available from Royal Fireworks Press - http://www.rfwp.com - and also from my author website - http://www.rablack. com/.

Richard B. Johnston H B.S. M.D., 1989 (WRVU) Johnston lives in Atlanta, GA, and said: I'm an orthopedic surgeon with a practice in Atlanta and having a great time!

Clarence Eric Lutz H B.A., 1989 (Versus magazine) Lutz lives in Nashville, TN, and said: Currently practicing law as Senior Counsel in The Tennessee Attorney General's Office, Criminal Justice Division.

Jim Snell in Paris.

Blake Reynolds Hawley H B.A., 1993 (Commodore yearbook) Hawley lives in Marietta, GA.

1994 Jon Bonnell H B.S., 1994 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine) Bonnell lives in Fort Worth, TX, and said: After graduating from The New England Culinary School in VT, I began a career as a chef in 1998.

I opened my third restaurant this past year, published my Chef Jon Bonnell at Waters, third cookbook Bonnell's Coastal Cuisine, and completed restaurant. my first Ironman Triathlon at Lake Tahoe. I reside in Fort Worth with my wife and two children.

1995 Jessica Ehrlich H B.A., 1995 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Ehrlich lives in St. Petersburg, FL, and said: Jessica Ehrlich, former congressional candidate in FL-13, has begun a new role as a Democratic Analyst and appears regularly on Fox News and Fox Business News as well as on radio as a political analyst and pundit.

1991 Virginia Sorrell Lynn H B.A., M. Ed., 1991 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Lynn lives in Huntsville, AL, and said: A year ago my husband Scott and I welcomed our sixth child. She is our second baby adopted from the Republic of the Marshall Islands. We are surviving the chaos of big family living and savoring every moment before the older ones start leaving the nest.

Laurie Houston H B.A., 1991 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Vanderbilt Television) Houston lives in Knoxville, TN, and said: Still living in Knoxville and working for Jupiter Entertainment as an Associate Producer on the documentary series "Snapped" on Oxygen.

Looking forward to Homecoming this year!

1992 Lori Altorfer Pinjuh H B.S., 1992 (Commodore yearbook) Pinjuh lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and said: After more than 15 years of practice in employment and immigration law, I opened my own law firm, The Pinjuh Law Firm, LLC. My practice focuses on immigration, both family and employment based. I help US citizens and lawful permanent residents bring family to the US. I help interPinjuh. national students, scholars, professors, researchers and professionals immigrate to the US or maintain lawful status in the US. I also work with US companies to maintain I-9 compliance, handle I-9 audits by the Department of Labor, and bring employees from outside the US or hire foreign nationals in the US. John Morgo H B.A., 1992 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU) Morgo lives in Atlanta, GA, and said: I am doing play-by-play for Georgia State softball. I also filled in for Dave Cohen and announced a Georgia State baseball game against Arkansas State. In addition to this, I announce baseball and basketball

Jessica Ehrlich appearing on Cavuto on Fox Business Network March 2014.

1998 Amy Holtzman H B.A., 1998 (WRVU, Versus magazine) Holtzman lives in Atwater, OH, and said: Raising my 2 year old daughter with my husband Randy. Living on our small farm in rural Ohio.

Jennifer Leach Spears H B.S., M.A., 1998 Spears lives in Kingston Springs, TN, and said: I have two wonderful children and a loving husband of 10 years. We have lived in Kingston Springs, TN for the last 8 years. I have been lucky enough to work from home for the last 7 years as an instructional designer. I am currently working as an instructional design consultant for The Regis Company based in Golden, CO (http:// regiscompany.com/) which creates innovative and immersive simulations to challenge leaders to evaluate the root cause of their specific leadership and/or change management issues.

My husband, Bert, and my two children Eliza Jae and Braden.

Ryan Mitchell Porcello H B.A., 1998, J.D., 2002 (WRVU) Porcello lives in Nashville, TN, and said: I currently live in Nashville and work as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Tennessee. I married my wonderful wife, Wyla Posey Porcello, in March 2013. I'm still looking

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Washington, DC, and said: I will be working with African Risk Capacity in Johannesburg this summer on natural disaster risk solutions for sovereigns. Afterwards, I'm most likely moving to NYC to work for the New York Fed monitoring macro risk as it applies to international banks in the US.

1999 Rob Joseph Lowe H B.A., 1999 (WRVU) Lowe lives in Charleston, SC.

2000 Jaime Lyon Cooper H B.S., 2000 (Commodore yearbook) Cooper lives in Fairhope, AL. Doug Jennings H B.A., 2000 (Versus magazine) Jennings lives in Austin, TX, and said: I recently returned to the States after a two-year stint serving as Assistant Attorney General for the island of Yap, which is part of a small Pacific nation called the Federated States of Micronesia.

I'm currently living in Austin, where I'm enjoying life Doug and his beautiful girlfriend Erin. and studying for yet another bar exam.

2001 Michelle Zimmermann Donahue H B.A., 2001 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Donahue lives in Frederick, MD, and said: After relocating her family to Frederick, Maryland in 2011 from the DC Metro area for a little more elbow room, Michelle now works as a freelance farm and garden writer. Her most recent work, an article on edible hibiscus, is slated to be published in a national-circulation horticulture Michelle Z. Donahue, B.A. English, 2001. magazine this winter.

She also writes about her own experiences with gardening and cooking as well as dispenses advice at her blog, www. ploughandfurrow.com.

2002 Parag Gupta H B.E., M.Eng., 2002 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Gupta lives in Evanston, IL, and said: Parag Gupta is STILL a final year Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. However, he will be defending, without question, in December 2014.

He recently spoke about his long graduate school experience in a TEDx talk titled "So, Um...12 Years, Huh?!" at the TEDxNorthwesternU 2014 conference in April. The talk may be found at http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=32QCk1fRpfY. Parag significantly misses his more carefree days at Vanderbilt where he served as one of the Hustler's senior sports photographers for two years as well as a member of its advertising staff for two years prior to that endeavor.

Ashari.

I've continued working on my photography, focusing on portraits and event photography (www.parwanaxa.com) while working in healthcare strategy consulting.

2003 Lena Basha Anthony H B.S., 2003 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Anthony lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and said: After eight years as a writer and editor at a custom media company in Nashville, I'm now a freelance writer specializing in whatever someone will pay me to write.

These days, that means a focus on health care.

I'm also a regular contributor to the magazine for the Daughters of the American Revolution. I have two kids -- Thomas (3) and Ellen (1) -- and I find freelance writing to be the perfect career for me.

Except on days I wake up at 4 a.m. to work before the children get up.

Shobhana Gupta H B.S., 2003, M.D., 2007, Ph.D., 2011 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Gupta lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

2004 Rob Shaw H B.A., 2004 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Vanderbilt Television) Shaw lives in New York City, NY, and said: I transitioned to Facebook where I lead sports content and then my beautiful wife Jennifer and I had Wyatt Andrews Shaw, Wyatt Andrews Shaw Candidate for Class of join the world. He 2037. will join his father in cheering for underdogs including the Vanderbilt Commodores and the New York Mets.

Anita Genetti H B.S., 2004 (WRVU) Genetti lives in College Station, TX, and said: Currently serving as a Marine Officer Instructor for the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps program and a professor of Leadership & Management in the Military Sciences Department at Texas A&M University.

Stan Hopkins III H B.S. M.B.A., 2004 (Versus magazine) Hopkins III lives in South Orange, Nj, and said: Christina Martens '04 and Stan Hopkins '04, '07 welcome the birth of their

D'nelle Throneberry Dowis H B.A., 2005 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore yearbook, Orbis, The Vanderbilt Review, VSC Board member) Dowis lives in Nashville, TN, and said: In addition to continuing to grow my WordPress website consultation business, Berry Interesting, I've spent the last few months training our new puppy and serving on the planning crew for WordCamp Nashville. This summer, I'm planning D'nelle with her husband, to learn PHP... in Chris and their puppy, between trips to the Cece. dog park.

2006 Lindsay Miller H B.A., 2006 (Vanderbilt Television) Miller lives in Seattle, WA, and said: Last May, I had the honor of serving as Class Speaker at Wharton's MBA graduation ceremony. It calmed the nerves to know that there were a few other Commodores in the audience! In the year since business school, I have been working with bestselling author and TED superstar Susan Cain as she launches a Quiet Revolution to empower introverts for the benefit of us all. We've got big plans ... stay tuned. On the personal side, I moved from Philadelphia to Seattle, got a wrinkly dog named Pudge, and will be getting married in August (unfortunately, he didn't go to Vandy, but hey窶馬obody's perfect).

My cousin, Nina, won't be able to attend the wedding, as she will be in Nashville for orientation as a member of the Class of 2018! The typing of which makes me feel ancient.

Me, Lindsay Miller, with my fiance, Alex Ende.

Photo taken Thanksgiving weekend, when 30 of my relatives gathered outside Austin to celebrate Bubi's 90th birthday. (Bubi = my grandma, Bernice Luskey.).

Ryan Denzer-King H B.A., 2006 (WRVU) Denzer-King lives in Atlanta, GA, and said: Ryan is an experienced ESL teacher and IT enthusiast. He recently moved back to his home town of Atlanta, GA, and is currently looking for new opportunities.

Jacqueline Wilde Kurdziel H B.A., 2006 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Kurdziel lives in New York, NY, and said: In November 2013, I married Chris Kurdziel (fellow Vandy '06 grad) in Kiawah Island, South Carolina. We're now living in New York and I currently head up strategic partnerships at a financial planning startup LearnVest.

2007 Carolina.

second child, daughter Carolina Rose Hopkins.

Born April 12th at Morristown Memorial Hospital weighing 6.5lbs and measuring 19.

Me (and my family) during my TEDx talk.

Michael Minihan H B.S., 2002 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Minihan lives in Orange, CA, and said: Currently pursuing an MBA at The Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine, looking to pursue careers in Global Marketing & Strategy in Med Device or Pharma. Previously worked 7 years at experiential marketing agency George P Johnson in L.A. I live in Old Towne Orange, CA with my wife and 8 month old son, Grayson.

Parwana Ashari H B.S., 2002 (Versus magazine) Ashari lives in Washington, District of Columbia, and said: Recently married to the bassist from Cut Copy, I've spent a bit of time getting involved in various media outlets.

2005 Caroline Collins McKenzie H B.A., 2005 (Commodore yearbook) McKenzie lives in Birmingham, AL, and said: Caroline McKenzie is the Deputy Editor at Country Living magazine. Earlier this year her article "35 Secrets to Southern Charm," which she wrote for Southern Living, won Folio's Regional Magazine Article of the Year. The same story was also a finalist for the American Society of Magazine Editors' Personal Service Article of the Year. Caroline lives in Birmingham with her husband, Stuart, and two-year-old son, Mac. In February the family welcomed a baby girl, Virginia.

Eugene Karl Montoya A. H B.A., 2005 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Montoya A. lives in

Tim Bowles H B.A., 2007 (Orbis) Bowles lives in Sacramento, CA, and said: I currently live in Sacramento with my wife, Laura, and our two dogs. I'm in the fifth (final?) year of a PhD program in ecology at UC Davis, where I study plant-soil-microbial interactions in agricultural systems. Despite five years in California, I still get excited about the two lemon trees in my backyard.

Adam Setren H B.A., 2007 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine, InsideVandy.com) Setren lives in Memphis, TN, and said: Adam Setren (BA Chemistry, A&S 2007) is a general surgery resident in Memphis, TN. He can tell you more than you ever wanted to know about butt pus.

2008 Madeleine Pulman Smithwick H B.A., 2008 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, InsideVandy.com, Commodore yearbook) Smithwick lives in Atlanta,

GA, and said: Six years on from graduating from Vanderbilt and I'm living in Atlanta and still working for Nissan North America. I currently manage all advertising and marketing for the Southeast Region (250 dealers in 11 States). I got married on April 5th to Brett Smithwick who I met at Nissan, and we honeymooned in the US and British Virgin Islands for twelve days. We bareboated on a 41' monohull "Tootsie"... with Brett at the helm, and me as his first mate, we went wherever the wind would take us! We live at home with our golden retriever Rory, and my two new stepchildren - Saige, 10 and Mason, 6.

Our dream is to one day own our own beautiful sailboat...!

Justin Charles Roberts H B.A., 2008 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU) Roberts lives in Austin, TX, and said: My wife and I have a little girl on the way (due this July)! I'm currently working as an attorney in the Elections Division at the Texas Secretary of State's office. However, this June, I'll be joining Parsley Coffin Renner LLP in downtown Austin. Our firm represents electric utilities, natural gas distributors, and transmission pipeline companies. We've been very blessed. I hope all of the other alumni of Student Media are doing well!

2009 Matthew B. Orton H B.A., 2009 (Vanderbilt Political Review) Orton lives in Greenwich, CT, and said: After graduating from Vanderbilt in 2009, I briefly worked for an internal hedge fund at Goldman Sachs Asset Management with a focus on quantitative strategies. The aftermath of the financial crisis made me reconsider working in the financial services industry for a while, and I was able to go Matt Orton, Istanbul. back to school to earn my MBA at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell. After receiving my MBA in 2011, I started a career trading equity derivatives for a large investment bank in New York City, where I continue to work today. I also got engaged to fellow Vandy classmate Katie Emerson and we will be married in May 2015.

Dustin Swysgood H B.E., 2009 (WRVU) Swysgood lives in Baton Rouge, LA, and said: My wife, Mary, and I have been married for over a year now and just purchased our first house. She will be starting graduate school at LSU to pursue her masters in architecture this summer. I continue to work for Baker Hughes in our downstream chemicals sector.

2010 Nikki Bogopolskaya H B.A. B.S., 2010 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine, InsideVandy.com) Bogopolskaya lives in New York, NY, and said: Nikki currently manages brand partnerships at Foursquare, working with Fortune 1000 brands and agencies to utilize the app for advertising. She also runs the fashion & lifestyle blog Sew Fetch (www. sewfetch.com).

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Carolyn Q. Fisher H B.A. M.A., 2010 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Fisher lives in New York City, New York, and said: After completing my undergrad degree, I received a Master of Accountancy from Owen. Currently, I'm working at a hedge fund in NYC, but am contemplating starting my own business soon. Who knows what the future holds!

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Mason Sneed Hensley H B.E., 2010 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine, InsideVandy.com, Commodore yearbook) Hensley lives in Dallas.

2011 Eliza Laura Horn H B.A., 2011 (Vanderbilt Political Review) Horn lives in Houston, TX, and said: I am a Marketing Specialist at Deloitte.

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ALLYSON PATTERSON Editor The Vanderbilt Review

ANDREW RIGGS Director VU Finder

TAYLOR BECK Director RVU Records

MARALEI BUNN Station Manager VandyRadio

LOGAN WILKE Station Manager WRVU

SCOTT HEAD Station Manager Vanderbilt Television

DIANA ZHU Director Vandy Interactive

JAMES CROSS Editor in Chief Slant

STACEY OSWALD Editor HerCampus

BRITTANY ROSENTHAL Director Spoon University

TYLER BISHOP Editor in Chief The Vanderbilt Hustler

TOMMY PRUCHINSKI Editor in Chief The Torch

Aimee Sobhani H B.A., 2011 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Orbis) Sobhani lives in Atlanta, FA, and said: I am working for Counts Law Group, a boutique media law firm.

Chris McDonald H B.A., 2011 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine, InsideVandy.com, VSC Board member) McDonald lives in Lexington, VA, and said: After spending last summer, fall and winter in the Northern Virginia/Washington D.C. area serving as Senior Policy Aide to Terry McAuliffe's successful gubernatorial campaign, Chris returned to Lexington, VA this semester to finish his law degree at Washington and Lee University School of Law. Upon graduating from W&L Law this May, Chris elected to remain in Virginia where he will spend the summer preparing for the Virginia Bar Exam.

Chris McDonald (far right) at an inauguration event with Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe and First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe.

John Overton Foshee H B.A., 2011 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Vanderbilt Political Review) Foshee lives in Chicago, IL.

Foshee.

2013 Melissa Lynn McKittrick H B.A., 2013 (Vanderbilt Political Review) McKittrick lives in Kansas City, MO, and said: I'm a first-year medical student at the University of Kansas Medical School, and am about to start my second year (my "M2" year) this summer!

Benjamin Ries H B.A., 2013 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Versus magazine, InsideVandy.com, The Slant, Orbis, Vanderbilt Television) Ries lives in Atlanta, GA, and said: I spent the summer after graduating from Vanderbilt interning for Senator Mark Warner and then for Representative Jim Cooper in Washington, D.C. In August, I moved to Atlanta, GA, to work as a caseworker at the law firm Rogers and Hardin LLP. I will be applying to law schools in a few months and (hopefully!) entering one in the fall of 2015.

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reporters -- and have a great time doing it."

Offenburger was named editor-in-chief of The Hustler late spring of his junior year. "Next fall I skipped most of my classes, which was a dumb decision, but we were trying to turn the twice-weekly paper into a daily," he said. "I was broke and lived in the Hustler editor's office on the third floor of Alumni Hall. After ending up on academic probation, I could no longer be editor."

It was fortunate that Offenburger kept writing and covered the Vanderbilt baseball team with his friend Douglas T. Bates III. "Then-Vanderbilt Coach Larry Schmittou credited us with helping launch a new era of Vanderbilt baseball by generating more student support," Offenburger said. He also got serious about his studies and earned his bachelor's degree from the College of Arts and Science the summer of 1969.

Highlights of his career have included writing more than 4,000 columns for the Des Moines Register, where he reported and reflected on the experience of being an Iowan. Offenburger left the paper in 1998 but continues to write on a freelance basis. He and his wife, Carla Offenburger, co-manage Offenburger. com, a news and opinion website where he blogs about a variety of topics, including his experiences as a cancer survivor and his devotion to Vanderbilt baseball.

Jeff Rothschild Rothschild, of Los Altos, California, grew up in New Jersey. "I thought it would be interesting to go to college in a different part of the country, and my love for music and radio attracted me to WRVU," he said. Rothschild worked at the station throughout his his undergraduate and graduate school years (1973 to 1979). "I started with a graveyard shift when the station was still in Neely Tower, but became involved in many aspects of the operation." He served as station manager during the 1976-77 school year.

Rothschild especially enjoyed learning radio production and helping stage on-air concerts. "I appreciated the WRVU staff members' enthusiasm and support for each other, especially in providing constructive feedback," Rothschild said. "We didn't have faculty to provide instruction about radio, so we had to learn from each other."

Rothschild majored in psychology and received his bachelor's degree in 1977 from the College of Arts and Science.

He then studied computer science in the School of Engineering and earned a master's degree from the Graduate School in 1979.

Career milestones for Rothschild

include co-founding Veritas Software in 1988 and gaming company Mpath Interactive in 1995, and signing on at Facebook in 2005. In a recent interview with Forbes, Facebook Chief Technology Officer Michael Schroepfer credits Rothschild for much of the social networking firm's technical success. Rothschild is vice president of infrastructure engineering at Facebook and a consulting partner with Accel Partners.

He was recently elected to a five-year term on the Vanderbilt Board of Trust and serves on the university's Technology Transfer Advisory Committee.

As Rothschild reflects on his student media experience, he notes the educational value of being part of a team working together to deliver a quality product or service. "The nature of being a student-run activity provides an additional opportunity to push yourself by taking leadership roles that would generally not be possible in a similar commercial enterprise," he said. "Working at WRVU helped me build self-confidence and develop leadership skills that have benefited me throughout my professional life."

Bridget Kelley Kelley, of Bethesda, Maryland, is the second New Jersey native in the 2014 class. She came to Vanderbilt from Cranford High School, and like so many students, fell in love with the campus during her initial visit. Kelley worked for The Hustler all four years at Vanderbilt (19841988), progressing from staff writer to news editor and editor-in-chief.

"Many of my closest friends were my fellow tunnel rats, and I loved the time we spent working on the paper, hanging out in the halls and relaxing on- or off-campus when we didn't have school or newspaper deadlines," she said. One of student media perks for Kelley was a press pass to campus sporting events. "My friend Mary Collier was the photo editor, and she would set me up with a camera and a pass, and we would take photos courtside at Memorial Gym," Kelley said.

Kelley earned her bachelor's degree from the College of Arts and Science in 1988 with a double major in English and history. Prior to joining NPR in 1994 as an editorial assistant for Morning Edition, she worked as a freelance reporter and producer in London and later in Washington, D.C. Kelley advanced to the helm of Weekend Edition, where she was responsible for the planning and programming of the Saturday and Sunday morning programs.

Along the way, she has helped shape NPR coverage of major stories, including Hurricane Katrina, terrorist attacks, U.S.

presidential elections and more. She is now the senior supervising editor of All Things Considered.

Kelley noted that some of the issues she reported on as a student journalist continue to be covered. "Stories about rising tuition, racial and ethnic diversity on campus, and sexual assault on campus are still in the news," she said. The Hustler gave me the opportunity to immerse myself in these and other stories on campus and in the community."

Dave Sheinin Sheinin, of Baltimore, Maryland, came to Vanderbilt in 1987 as the recipient of the Fred Russell-Grantland Rice Scholarship.

"I grew up in Carrollton, Georgia, where a high school math teacher named Alice Robertson first alerted me to the existence of a Vanderbilt scholarship for prospective sportswriters," he said. As a first-year student, Sheinin broadcast news updates for WRVU and also wrote for The Hustler, whose editor-in-chief that year happened to be Bridget Kelley.

One of his favorite media memories was covering the men's basketball team's run to the Sweet 16 in 1988 with Will Perdue, Barry Goheen and Barry Booker among the players. He also wrote a Versus magazine profile of Perry Wallace, a Vanderbilt basketball player who was the first African American to play varsity basketball in the SEC. "I spent one year as sports editor before giving up student media to concentrate on my music studies and a fledgling opera career," he said. Sheinin earned his bachelor's degree from the College of Arts and Science in 1991 with a double major in English and music.

Sheinin has been covering baseball and writing features and enterprise stories for The Washington Post since 1999.

His books include RG3: The Promise (Penguin, 2013), which is about Heisman Trophy winner and Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III. He advises today's aspiring journalists to experiment with working in a variety of media. "Diversify. Try being a generalist.

Then zero in on something you love, and then try being a specialist in that field. You will find, as I did, that it's impossible to stink at everything." Sheinin has been recognized six times by the Associated Press Sports Editors. In addition, he received a first-place National Headliner Award for his coverage of Washington National's baseball player Stephen Strasburg's rookie year.

Alison Scholly Scholly, of Chicago, grew up in nearby Glenview, Ill., and graduated from

Glenbrook South High School. "I wandered into WRVU the second half of my freshman year," Scholly said. "I wanted to focus my extracurricular efforts into one organization, and I thought I would like being a disc jockey. It turns out the station also needed off-air help, so I became assistant music director."

At the end of her first year at Vanderbilt, several members of the WRVU leadership were graduating. Among the prospective candidates for general manager, Scholly was the only one who had strong enough grades for the position, and she was named GM her sophomore year. She served as business manager after that and continued her DJ duties.

Scholly said that her student media activities provided strong friendships and a respite from her studies. "I would escape to the tunnel to hang out with and be part of 'a merry band of misfits' that did not necessarily fit the Vanderbilt stereotype," she said.

Scholly majored in anthropology and earned her bachelor's degree from the College of Arts and Science in 1990.

Scholly’s early experience in student media was the reason she pursued her master's in journalism. When she graduated from Northwestern in 1994, she was hired into the nascent field of online media. For the next 14 years, Scholly served in many roles creating new digital products, eventually serving as vice president of interactive for the Chicago Tribune Media Group, overseeing all of Chicago Tribune's web and mobile products.

Since June 2010, Scholly has been chief operating officer for Chicago Public Media, which includes WBEZ, Chicago’s news and information public radio station, and has helped the station expand its influence in a rapidly changing media landscape. "WBEZ Chicago is one of the premiere places for journalists to work in public radio – the institution is admired for its ability to pair investigative reporting with distinct storytelling," Scholly said. Chicago Public Media also produces national shows like “This American Life” and co-produces “Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me.”

H H H The Vanderbilt Student Media Hall of Fame was established in 2009 to honor Vanderbilt alumni who have achieved outstanding personal or professional accomplishments and/ or have made distinguished lasting contributions to their field and/or society in general.

To be eligible for recognition, alumni must have worked as a student staff member at least 10 years prior to the Hall of Fame induction date.

Students Participate in ESPN Broadcast Students involved at Vanderbilt Television and The Vanderbilt Hustler participated in the March 30 broadcast of Vanderbilt baseball versus Kentucky as part of the ESPN Campus Connections program. Thirteen students performed various roles in the broadcast, including stage manager, camera operator, and audio assistant.

Hustler Sports Editor Alison Mast was able to shadow the professional play-by-play crew in the broadcast booth, and VTV Station Manager Lauren Mandel served as field producer, creating feature pieces about Vanderbilt baseball coaches and players that were played throughout the broadcast.

“It’s such an amazing learning experience,” Mandel said. “To be able to work side by side with professionals in a live broadcasting environment is really a thrill.”

This broadcast marked the fifth consecutive year that students involved in Vanderbilt media groups were selected to participate in the ESPN Campus Connections program. H

VTV Station Manager Lauren Mandel interviews Vanderbilt baseball coach Tim Corbin as part of the ESPN Campus Connections broadcast.

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Covering Sexual Assault at Vanderbilt:

Lessons Learned

by André Rouillard (B.A., 2014) Hustler Editor-in-Chief 2013-14

The story broke in early July. It immediately made national headlines and stirred the collective consciousness of the Vanderbilt community, conjuring outrage and disbelief. A female student allegedly had been raped on campus by four football players. We hoped the allegations would go nowhere, but sat glued to our computers watching the headlines pile up like points at a football game — and we were on the losing team.

In some ways, it really couldn't have been any worse from our perspectives.

On one hand, there sat our ascendant and beloved Vanderbilt football program, stopped in its tracks by an allegation of gang rape going into its biggest season in decades. And on the other hand we had ourselves: a student media team that had not yet covered a single story together, its members scattered across the country and engaged in full-time internships. Only one member of our six-member leadership team had ever led coverage of any kind of news story. Any kind of perceived advantages The Hustler had in covering this rapidly developing story — its student angle and access, its on-campus location — were squandered on its staff's inexperience and dispersion. It seemed that The Tennessean had a new story or interview up each day — but what could we do? We reposted developments in the case on InsideVandy, and crossed our fingers, hoping nothing else happened before we all returned to campus in August.

I suspect that this is a position that very few newspapers have found them-

' Student editors Tyler Bishop, Andr��e Rouillard and Hannah Sills worked as a team throughout the academic year to cover major campus stories like sexual assault.

selves over the course of the last few cen- personal connections guided him to The a storm like this. turies. Here we were, presented with one Hustler's opinion pages during his sophIt's been good to hear that the other of the biggest and most important stories omore year. Several semesters of increas- editors felt the same way. News Editor in the history of campus and our organi- ingly passionate involvement later, and I Hannah Sills said, "It just was the sort of zation — and our inexperienced hands found myself at the helm of Vanderbilt's thing our experience hadn't entirely prewere bound tightly. Even pared us for, but the when we got back to stakes were so high campus, were any of us it wasn't the time for really equipped to cover a 'learning from misstory of this magnitude? takes,' it needed to be WWW.INSIDEVANDY.COM WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2013 VOL. 125, ISS. 39 I knew that I certainly right the first time. The wasn't — and I was the difficulties were everyeditor-in-chief. thing ranging from I also wasn't the one how do we even cover who had the experience a criminal court case leading news coverage — and how do we make SPORTS that distinction fell on the call about what Homecoming games New campus crime statistics were released on Sept. 30, but these year by year Tyler Bishop, then-direcrumors to report, to numbers may not tell the whole story of sexual assault at See how Vanderbilt has fared against its homecoming game Vanderbilt. The Hustler looks at why the official count may be tor of InsideVandy.com things like how do we opponents through the years underreported as part of a larger commitment to covering issues and now set to be next remain balanced in surrounding sex and sexual assault on campus.

PAGE 22 SEE PAGE 2 year’s editor-in-chief. I our coverage when we on campus LIFE The first installment in a multi-part series had been the opinion know certain parties, Virginity on campus nearly 8 months in the making National

By MICHAEL GRESHKO editor, and supervising like the university, are 4 students share elements trends of their experiences in being sexually inactive at Vanderbilt copy editor before that. I constrained in what in underreporting could count the number they can say for legal PAGE 18 of news stories I had writreasons."

OPINION ten on one finger.

In late August, I couldn't help but after a few weeks question our identity. of diving headfirst OUT OF 100 COLLEGE STUDENTS: Who were we – who into our coverage, was I — to be saddled the pressure became A rape survivor’s with the responsibility overwhelming. The call to action Sexual assault activist tells her of providing the campus Tennessean and other story and speaks out for an environment more supportive perspective to this story news outlets had beat of dialogue that had just grabbed the us to the punch withPAGE 12 attention of the nation's out fail: They broke media? stories, they uncovHell, I wasn't even ered new details first, interested in journalism, nor had I 125-year-old student news organization. and they posted updates as soon as entered college planning to do anything I had found friends, a community, and rumors surfaced. We were just students newspaper-related. I was just an English a purpose on campus at The Hustler, but Lessons Learned, continued on page 10 major who loved to write, and whose nothing to prepare me to lead a ship into

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reported at VU in 2012

PROVIDED BY JEAN AND ALEXANDER HEARD LIBRARY

SECRET SOCIETIES Features writer --------------------

Like any good mystery, my tale begins at midnight.

It was sometime in February. I was sitting on my lumpy couch flipping through the channels when, with a flash of worry, I thought that I had left my car unlocked after going to the grocery store earlier in the day. To get past the nagging thought, I sighed, threw on some sneakers, and trudged through the darkness to the 24th Avenue parking garage.

Sure enough, my car was locked. False alarm. But as I stood there in my pajamas, completely alone, my phone rang.

I was surprised by the call. After all, you don’t expect your phone to ring while alone in a parking garage in the middle of the night. The atmosphere is just too cinematic.

At the other end of the line was a friend of mine who was out with a group of people. As music and jovially buzzed people blared in the background, my friend — leery of being overheard — posed a startling question, one whose answer would increasingly occupy seven months’ worth of spare time, more than 30 interviews and too many trips to Vanderbilt’s archives to count: “What if I told you that there’s a secret society on campus?”

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This infographic is derived from data presented in the Campus Sexual Assault Study, prepared in 2007 for the National Institute of Justice. The study surveyed 5,446 collegiate women and 1,375 collegiate men. The students equally represented all four undergraduate classes.

15 will be victims of attempted or completed sexual assault during their college career but will not report their assault to campus authorities or police

2 will be victims of sexual assault during their college career and will report the incident to campus authorities or the police

83 will not be victims of attempted or completed sexual assault during their college career

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— our plates full with schoolwork every evening — and these were professionals, covering this story 24 hours a day. And even though myself and the other editors recognized this disparity, it didn't help to soothe the sting of the inadequacy we felt every time we re-posted a Tennessean story to fill coverage gaps.

We needed a plan. At the moment, we weren't adding any value to the conversation by simply cataloging each new development out of a sense of obligation.

If students and Vanderbilt community members were getting their case updates from the Tennessean, we needed to give them something they couldn't get from the Tennessean.

A team, hastily cobbled together with some video equipment, headed into Rand Dining Hall, ready to interrupt any student at dinner on the slim chance that they might something interesting about the alleged incident and the firestorm that had erupted since the story broke.

The product, 921 words of "student reactions" to the incident, was acceptable.

It seemed odd to have a "reactions" story eight weeks after the fact, and unsurprisingly, no single interviewee said anything particularly interesting. But as an exercise in helping our team come to an understanding about what we needed to do this year, that hour spent in Rand irritating our classmates was a little more transformational.

What we ended up discovering that evening was that dialogue had shifted from the event, culpability, and consequences to the implications of the event for Vanderbilt's campus and its culture, namely concerning sexual assault. We learned that students had associated a crime allegedly committed by several members of the football team with the issue of sexual assault on campus at large.

People were talking — not necessarily about this sexual assault, but about the problem of sexual assault. As campus shifted its attention, so did The Hustler.

After that night in Rand, our team informally dedicated the year to covering the

issue of sexual assault on Vanderbilt's last question above is especially heady, campus — and to hopefully enacting and one that people outside of Vanderbilt some real change along the way. seem particularly keen on getting an The Hustler was lucky to strike at the answer to. But then again, our job as right time. The incident at Vanderbilt in journalists is not to answer questions — June joined a host of other stories that it is to ask them. And I think the fact that contributed to making 2013-2014 a ban- we had not been asking this question to ner year for reform and awareness of sex- the students we interview speaks volumes ual assault on college campuses across the about the answer. country. Instead of stationing a reporter at Our team dove headfirst into the issue, the courthouse all day every day, our team and we unwittingly began to serve as went where advocates for the Tennessean, reform.

We “On one hand, there sat our NBC and the had opinions New York Times on certain preascendant and beloved Vanderbilt couldn't go: vention and football program, stopped in its Into the hearts awareness protracks by an allegation of gang and minds of grams and on rape going into its biggest season the increasingly certain campus in decades. And on the other hand large number institutions. we had ourselves: a student media Vanderbilt stuBut while we team that had not yet covered a dents becomfound it easy to ing active in single story together, its members care about the the area of issue (unsurscattered across the country and sexual assault prising after six engaged in full-time internships. " prevention. We or so months weren't just of complete journalists — we were student journalists. immersion in it), the rest of campus The letters we received from students, didn't seem to share our passion. We faculty and alumni, the relationships we just couldn't figure it out: It was plain built with institutions like The Margaret that sexual assault was a problem, and Cuninggim Women's Center, and the that people believed that it was a probcampus forums held by Provost McCarty lem at Vanderbilt — so why did our beginning in December all serve as evi- fellow students still scoff at prevention dence of our coverage and its effective- and awareness programs? Why was The ness this year. Our attention was focused Hustler still looking at the reports of rape less on posting case updates from the that appeared on the Vanderbilt Police June incident and more on constructing Department's crime log every month or a picture of sexual assault on Vanderbilt's so? Students are being raped on campus campus. How often does it happen? Who every month, and often with no justice — does it affect? And does Vanderbilt have why does no one care? a serious problem when it comes to the This all changed in April, when a sexual safety of its men and, primarily, its thread on an online, anonymous college women? message board publicly named an alleged I don't think we've answered these rape victim — "the girl that ratted." questions yet — but we learned enough The participants in the thread, shielded this year to opine on the subject in an by anonymous usernames, went on to editorial, and to talk openly with our shame the alleged victim and her decipeers, administrators, and other journal- sion to report the crime, a result of proists as authorities regarding the student bationary sanctions being placed on the perspective on campus sexual assault. The fraternity at which she reported she had

been assaulted. All of a sudden, the issue became real. Students have heard that campus rape happens and they know that it shouldn't, and they know that they and their friends would never be complicit in it — but now, in this thread, they had a victim and proof that their peers and classmates were participating in a culture that robs students of their sense of safety, their agency, their decency, their health, and of their right to seek justice.

A campus-wide solidarity movement quickly followed The Hustler's publishing of an editorial condemning what was written in the thread. Finally, in the words of the editor of our Life section, Kelly Halom, people "got it." It wasn't enough for students to see the victims of these crimes — they had to see their classmates, the perpetrators, caught redhanded. Only then was the collective outrage powerful enough to reach and galvanize all corners and segments of campus. In my time in student media here at Vanderbilt, there has been much grumbling from the Hustler newsroom that no one on campus cares about the issues we cover, that no one even reads the newspaper — but now, I can point to an example that discredits these complaints. After nine months of hard work putting together a puzzle of how the issue of sexual assault affects Vanderbilt, our team was able to sit back and watch students, faculty, and administrators being impacted by our coverage in real time.

It is my hope that future student journalists at Vanderbilt feel frustrated by any perceived campus apathy. I hope it moves them and drives them to spend hours, days, weeks, months shedding light in dark corners and painting a compelling picture of the issues they care about.

And I want them to know that they are students first and journalists second.

Remembrance of this fact will serve not only to boost GPAs, but also to tie student journalists to the community that they are, inextricably, a part of. H

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since my earlier calls and emails went unanswered. nity to learn the cutting edge of television technology.

The journey was very rewarding. I learned a Just six months into my time at CBS, I proposed a great deal about the United States and I learned a lot documentary to my News Director. He appreciated my about myself. Eating meals alone for three weeks just interest, but said that we lacked the resources to carry it months after graduating college was going from one extreme to another.

Fortunately, my main goal was accomplished.

I moved to Panama City, Florida, as the weekend sports anchor for the local NBC affiliate. Vanderbilt’s network helped guide me to this opportunity.

After a few months in Panama City, I was fortunate to be asked to join the CBS affiliate in Tallahassee, Florida. As the fifth man in a fiveperson sports department, immediate career advancement did not appear likely. However, my experience from Vanderbilt Television opened a door.

During my senior Shaw joined by Bloomberg Sports Co-Founder Bo Moon on the ESPN Set for Baseball Tonight. year at Vanderbilt, I proposed a digital transformation for Vanderbilt Television. out. I countered that my friend, a videographer, could I remember creating the budget and studying the tech- capture the video. I would host and narrate, and finally, nology and most of all I remember Director of Student all of the editing would be done on my personal comMedia Chris Carroll emailing me that my proposal had puter in the comfort of my home “off the clock.” The been approved! An Apple computer had replaced the News Director would not guarantee that the documenarchaic SVHS tape-to-tape editing decks. Non-linear tary would reach air, but he was willing to at least give editing saved countless hours while providing portabil- me the opportunity. That’s all I needed. My 30-minute ity. Vanderbilt Student Media provided me the opportu- documentary about Jackie Robinson’s roots in southern

Georgia aired on multiple CBS affiliates and earned me an Associated Press Award and a Society of Professional Journalism Award.

Over the next three years, I produced three additional documentaries, then created a weekly sports show that aired 81 episodes in Florida and Georgia. I also moved up the ladder in the sports department, eventually becoming the Sports Director and lead Anchor. My experience at Vanderbilt Television opened my mind to new technology that allowed me to take on greater responsibilities that furthered my career. Fortunately, Tallahassee is also where I met my future bride!

In the four years since I left Florida, I have transitioned to the business side of the industry. I earned an MBA at NYU Stern and spent four years developing the media business at Bloomberg Sports. I worked with a talented group of analysts to impact how broadcasters used advanced analytics to broadcast the narratives of sports.

We came up with “The Book,” an informative graphic featured on CBS NFL broadcasts highlighting whether a coach should choose to go for an extra-point or twopoint conversion after a touchdown. We also introduced many analytical tools into MLB, NBA, and soccer broadcasts throughout the U.S., Canada, and England, viewed by hundreds of millions of sports fans.

After four years at Bloomberg Sports, I recently joined Facebook, where I lead integration with sports content. Half of the Internet is on the social media platform, and I am excited to be a part of mapping out the experience for sports fans and broadcasters.

Vanderbilt played a very important role in allowing me to live out my dreams. On April 9, my family got a little bit bigger and better with the birth of my son Wyatt Andrews Shaw. I have already started putting money aside to fund for my son one of the greatest gifts my parents gave me. An education that opens “Dores” and provides the knowledge needed to enter. H

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Student Media Awards

Students working in Vanderbilt Student Media earned awards for their work in television production, photography, design and reporting. worked to bring it to the air, and then continued to try out innovative ideas for the show, like a competition format and involving professional chefs in the broadcasts.

Cotter may be most wellknown, however, for his work with WRVU. After training to become a Neal Cotter. photo by Bosley Jarrett.

DJ for the station, he quickly stepped into a leadership role in his sophomore year by becom, presented ing the station’s training director. Cotter annually to a student who has achieved always worked to push Student Media to distinction in Vanderbilt student journew levels of excellence, and this drive nalistic projects, was given to Neal was on full display when, as training Cotter, a graduating senior who worked director for WRVU, he redesigned the in Student Media since his first year at training process to include online video Vanderbilt. Cotter’s involvement with tutorials and a structured lesson plan.

Student Media spanned across three He continued this work his junior year divisions—WRVU, The Hustler and by adding distinct training requirements VTV—and included serving on the VSC for talk and music.

Board of Directors.

This year, Cotter served as the sta For The Hustler, Cotter wrote music tion manager for WRVU, and in this reviews and covered Rites of Spring. His role he worked to overhaul the stawork has resulted in a front-page story in both his sophomore and junior years. tion’s website, improve its visibility on campus, and broaden the student During his time with Student Media, DJ experience by adding elements like Cotter also developed a cooking show for VTV called “Kitchenventions.” Cotter guest speakers and music exchanges.

Less tangibly but no less significantly, developed the concept for the show,

The Charles Forrest Alexander Award in Journalism

Cotter also worked this year through his leadership role to inspire his staff with a positive, fun attitude to ensure that WRVU is producing the best broadcasts possible.

The WRVU Award for Dedication to Excellence in Radio, endowed in 2007 by former

WRVU General Manager Dr. Jamie Noble, was given to Logan Wilke, who served as a music director at WRVU. His dedication to strengthening relationships with record labels increased WRVU’s presence as both a radio station and a source for quality music programming. He also hosted the popular show “Tune City, Tennessee,” wrote articles for the WRVU blog, and always assisted with other duties at the station as needed.

The Geyer Award for Excellence in Interpretive Reporting was given to Michael

Greshko, who spent seven months researching the history of secret societies at Vanderbilt and investigating rumors that a new one had started. He conducted more than 30 interviews and became intimately familiar with Vanderbilt’s archives. The result of his reporting was the three-part series “Kings Among Men,” a work rich with information and captivating stories. H

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The Scoop crew, with Producer Lauren Mandel in the middle.

Missouri Student Society of News Design: College News Design Contest

The Hustler was awarded first place for overall design of a newspaper

by Missouri Student Society of News Design, which hosted the juried contest to honor excellence in design and graphics. The contest was co-sponsored by the Society for News Design.

College Media Association: Apple Awards

During CMA’s national college media convention, on March 15 in New York City, the Vanderbilt Television arts and entertainment program “The

Scoop” won second place for Best Entertainment Broadcast. The Scoop features news and views on music, movies, television, fashion and popular culture.

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for his extensive investigative piece on secret societies at Vanderbilt “Kings Among Men” Best Photojournalist - Bosley Jarrett, photo editor

Other TAPME awards: Tennessee Associated Press • Best College Media Website - second Media Editors: College Awards place to InsideVandy Director Tyler On March 22 at the First Amendment Center on Vanderbilt’s Peabody Campus, Student Media staff members won first place in the following categories in the Tennessee Associated Press Media Editors College Awards: • Best Ongoing Coverage - Tyler Bishop and Hannah Sills for their reporting on sexual assault on campus • Best Feature Story - Michael Greshko

Bishop • Best Sports Coverage - third place to Sports Editor Allison Mast • Best Newspaper Reporter - third place to Tyler Bishop • Best Multimedia Package - third place to Tyler Bishop, Hannah Sills, André Rouillard and Scott Head for “Students React to Sexual Assault on Campus” H

GLOBALVU student international publication VandyINTERACTIVE student digital group SPOONUNIVERSITY student online food publication ADORE student fashion publication HHH

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Alumni Spotlights…

Vanderbilt Libraries spotlight Rice, Russell

by Ann Marie Deer Owens (B.A., 1976), Senior Public Affairs Officer at Vanderbilt

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Vanderbilt Libraries pay tribute to two renowned sports writers who were Vanderbilt alumni and longtime colleagues in "The Golden Age of Sports Journalism: Grantland Rice and Fred Russell."

The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, is on display on the Vanderbilt Central Library's second floor, adjacent to Special Collections."We are pleased to spotlight Fred Russell and Grantland Rice, two beloved alumni whose uplifting journalistic style focused on the positive aspects of the fans, athletes and teams that they covered," said Connie Vinita Dowell, dean of libraries.

Rice, who studied Greek and Latin, earned his bachelor of arts degree from the College of Arts and Science in 1901.

He was a prominent sports writer, columnist and poet during the first half of the 20th century. A popular sports and pop culture blog called Grantland.com, established in 2011, continues to honor Rice's legacy with contributions from highly respected sportswriters.

Rice's poetry includes "Alumni Football," which ends with the lines: “For when the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.”

Russell, who was in the Vanderbilt Law Class of 1927, covered sports for the Nashville Banner from 1929 until the paper closed in 1998. Russell penned more than 12,000 columns and interviewed numerous sports legends, including Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Ty Cobb

The last typewriter used by Grantland Rice is included in his collection and the exhibition. Photo by John Russell/Vanderbilt.

and Muhammad Ali. Among the books he wrote was his autobiography, Bury Me in an Old Press Box: Good Times and Life of a Sportswriter.

Olympic history and the athlete as hero are important themes in the exhibition as both men reported on several of these international competitions.

The exhibition includes coverage from the 1972 Olympics, where Russell turned from a sports journalist to a breaking news reporter during the Munich Massacre. The tragedy involved 11 Israeli athletes being taken hostage and mur-

dered by Palestinian gunmen from the Black September group. "Russell went from covering hurdles and who was winning the shot put to relaying the latest on life and death situations," Smith noted.

In 1956, the Thoroughbred Racing Association established the TRAGrantland Rice Memorial Scholarship in Sports Journalism at Vanderbilt to honor Rice's legacy. Three decades later the name of the scholarship was changed to include Russell, a protégé of Rice's. The legacies of these two sports journalists live on through the Fred Russell-Grantland Rice

Scholarship, which provides a partial tuition scholarship to Vanderbilt students interested in pursuing a career in sports journalism.

Rice's accomplishments are also being honored on campus through the naming of Rice Hall, located within Moore College. Moore is one of the two new residential colleges opening fall 2014.

"The Golden Age of Sports Journalism: Grantland Rice and Fred Russell" will remain on display through April 20, 2015. H

Good times with members of the Class of 1973

Long time friends, many from the Class of 1973, gathered at Mason's Restaurant in Loews Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel, on April 13, to celebrate classmate Steven Greil's birthday. Steven is often recognized for his leadership on the Concert Committee, and for bringing nationally known acts to campus, especially Mountain, Gordon Lightfoot, and the Grateful Dead. After graduating, he began a 35+ year career in music, entertainment, and performing arts, at Sound Seventy Productions from 1973-80 as a concert promoter and artist manager, at GreilWorks from 1981-1988 as an artist manager and television producer, and for over 15 years in major leadership roles in Nashville's performing arts at TPAC and the Nashville Symphony.

Those pictured from left to right in the back row are Carla Chamberlain, Mary Ann McCready, Tom Winton, Gayle Brinker, Cliff Knowles, Janet Schneider, and Clark Thomas. Second row is Steven Greil and Beth O'Shea, and Jane Hardy is in front. Everyone enjoyed hearing Steven's strategic plans for staying young, and great stories about some amazing musical adventures.