News Interests on Campus

March 12, 2012, a simple interview is carried out on campus about the following two questions: What current or recent news story most interests you and why? What under-reported news story do you think deserves more attention? Among all the interviewees, some say they haven't read news report for a long time and therefore have no idea about what is going on out the world. Finally, three people's answers are recorded as follows:

Tracey Tan, an Early Childhood Education major says she is interested in Kony 2012 recently, because "it has arisen a hot debate internationally". Moreover, she believes that the nuclear crisis in Japan needs more attention.

Jenell, another Early Childhood Education major, has a special focus. Rather than paying attention to big national issues, her biggest concern currently is the final decisions of the Rutgen case, because "my friend attends that school" says she. Similarly with Tracey, she has an eye on the Kony 2012, and she thinks people haven't paid enough attention to it.

John Raffelt, an international history major, likes policy very much. He reads as much news as he could about the election as he thinks this concerns the whole nation, and even though he is not a Republican, he supports them. As for the current government, he thinks that people need to focus on the “fault system” itself rather than debating it as a political tool to be against or pro Obama. People should talk more about how to fix the system (like health-care), rather than whether the system should exist or not.