Greatest Accomplishment at the Technician
Dwuan June recalls the satisfaction of the Technician being named All-American Newspaper, especially because some on campus doubted it could achieve that honor.
Interview on 2012-06-18 00:00:00 -0400
Transcript
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My greatest accomplishment at the Technician was being named All-American Newspaper,
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because that was something that they said couldn't be done, and "they" being the NC State faculty.
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Not all of them said that, Dr. Kochersberger believed in us, but most of them said that it couldn't be done.
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It was worth it, and that's what we wanted to do. We wanted to show everybody, those thirty thousand students at NC State,
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that your newspaper was worth your student fees, that your newspaper was just as good as the product that's just down the street that has a full pledged journalism school,
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that your product, that's being put together by engineers, physicists, computer scientists, and a couple writing English majors, is just as good,
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and that's what we wanted to do. That was our proudest moment.
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