{"id":361,"date":"2009-11-20T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T08:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2009\/11\/20\/padgett-84-provides-special-day-for-student-journalists\/"},"modified":"2009-11-20T08:30:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T08:30:14","slug":"padgett-84-provides-special-day-for-student-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2009\/11\/20\/padgett-84-provides-special-day-for-student-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Padgett ’84 Provides ‘Special’ Day for Student Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Howard W. Hewitt <\/i>(Bachelor Advisor<\/i>)- “What’s special about this place,” asked Director of Public Affairs Jim Amidon, standing in the Bachelor<\/i> office Thursday with a handful of students.<\/p>\n

“That’s what special,” replied senior Patrick McAlister nodding toward Tim Padgett ’84 who was talking journalism with freshmen and sophomores in the adjoining room.<\/div>\n
Padgett spent Thursday with Wabash student journalists catching up, sharing advice, heaping praise, and making suggestions. Padgett is Miami and Caribbean Bureau Chief for Time Magazine<\/font><\/a><\/i>.<\/div>\n
The veteran journalist met with approximately 30 Bachelor<\/i> staffers over lunch. He talked about the changing face of journalism and his work for Time<\/i>. He praised the group and its leaders for the Bachelor’s emergence in recent years as one of Indiana’s best college newspapers.<\/div>\n
\"\"Later Thursday afternoon he met with a group of Bachelor<\/i> staffers, primarily freshmen and sophomores, and critiqued recent papers, offered suggestions, and urged the students to embrace the value of the experience regardless of their future plans.<\/div>\n
Throughout the day he emphasized how his liberal arts education plays out in his daily work and in the important pieces he writes for the national news publication.<\/div>\n
But perhaps it was a more private gathering with student publication advisors Jim Amidon, Steve Charles, and me along with Gary James, Patrick McAlister and Chuck Summers that was even more “special.”<\/div>\n
\"\"Dinner conversation was filled with laughter, stories and the liberal arts. The three senior leaders who have been such a big part of the Bachelor’s<\/i> recent success reveled in the give-and-take conversation with the veteran journalist and Latin American expert.<\/div>\n
The conversation ranged from politics, to Catholicism, texting, wine, national media, cigars, Wabash faculty, and late into the night on many other topics.<\/div>\n
Padgett didn’t get to see what impressed me the most. I left early to return Gary James to campus and we ran into a sophomore who had attended both sessions. He was full of ideas and stories he wanted to write after listening to Padgett’s talks. Gary and he shared ideas and texted another student who wasn’t even at the dinner with suggestions.<\/div>\n
Most of the students seemed truly energized by Padgett’s suggestions, praise, and enthusiasm.<\/div>\n
That is what makes this place special!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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