Elizabeth Link

Girls love the romantic gesture. We love everything sparkly, expensive and insanely romantic. And that’s because movies make everything out to be one hundred times better than they might actually be in real life. Do you know a guy that would write you love letters every day for a year? That’s 365 letters, I can count on two hands how many my boyfriend has written to me. Unfortunately there aren’t many men in the world named Noah Calhoun.

However just because men may not be as crazy romantic in real life as they are in the movies doesn’t mean we still cant enjoy and wish for those types of things to happen to us someday. So in wishful thinking here are some movie moments, some realistic and some maybe a little less, that I think everyone can agree they hope will happen to them someday.

And then there is one of my favorite romantic exchanges from Sweet Home Alabama, “What do you wanna marry me for anyway?” “So I can kiss you any time I want.” Any Nicholas Sparks book turned movie will give you the romantic story of boy meets girl and eventually they live happily ever after. It’s what every girl wants eventually and there is no reason we can’t have it. So keep watching your oh too addicting romantic comedies and drop a few hints to your significant other and maybe they’ll get the hint and make one of your dreams come true.

On Thursday October 18, 2012, the Public Relations Student Society Of America (PRSSA) chapter at West Virginia University took part in the United Way’s Youth Day of Caring. The volunteers handed out information on healthy living, recipes and the farmers Market located on Spruce Street.
The Youth Day of Caring is a yearly initiative to get people under the age of 25 together to volunteer for a non-profit in their community. West Virginia is one of the least healthy states in the country and the PRSSA students felt that they should focus on trying to get people to change their outlook on junk food.
“It’s good for people to develop these habits early. College is a good place to start focusing on healthy lifestyles,” said Jack Lake, Community Service Chair for Volunteers. Lake talked to students about the benefits of being health conscious and also gave away free stress balls and plastic tumblers that were donated by LiveWellWV. PRSSA stationed a booth in the free speech circle across from the Mountainlair where they had posters advertising correct portion sizes for food, nutrition facts about alcohol and energy packed foods. The Mountaineer, Jonathan Kimble, even stopped by to take on challengers in a push-up contest.

Interesting facts I learned from the booth: The ‘cream’ filling in Twinkies is mostly shortening like vegetable or beef fat. According to efficientdrinker.com, a Long Island Iced Tea has upwards of 400 calories! As many as drinking 4.1 Miller Lites. The Benefits of drinking Green Tea include prevention of cancer, can increase metabolism, reduces heart disease, and can lower your cholesterol.

On Monday October 8th, The Pittsburgh Penguins PR team visited students at the West Virginia University P.I. Reed School of Journalism. This was the second time Jennifer Bullano and Jason Seidling had visited the Public Relations Student Society of America at its WVU chapter. They discussed things such as how they got their current positions, what they look for when hiring interns and some of the interesting things they get to do while on the job.
 Something that I found particularly cool was when Mrs.Bullano talked about how close she works with the team and especially the players and coaches. She mentioned after being there for a few years they are all like family and she knows many of them personally and has a connection with them that goes past just work. For someone like me who wants to work in sports it’s neat to think that some day I could be in her spot, talking to and getting to know players and coaches on a personal and professional basis.
Not only does she get to interact with these professional athletes but she also gets to travel with them. Who wouldn’t want to travel for free all over the country with professional athletes that you might consider friends? Sounds like the perfect job to me!
But Mr.Seidling did remind us that it’s not all fun and games 100% of the time. They have to keep track of statistics during the game, have media guides and sheets prepared for every game to hand out to reporters, and must give out credentials before every game to allow the media into the building along with many other things that change day to day.

WALLINGFORD CT- Carl Josephson is learning what it takes to be a staff writer for a local newspaper. The recent graduate of WVU studied print writing while attending school and is now using his skills as a sports writer for the New Britain Herald, a medium sized paper in New Britain Connecticut.
While he has only been at the paper for around two months, he said he has learned a lot about the profession and how to do well in it.
“Pay attention. I think that covers a lot of it, “ Josephson said. “Know what you’re doing when you start because you’re expected to know it, that’s why they hired you. And when they show you something make sure you pick up on it the first time so you will be able to do it the next time you’re asked.”
As a sports writer Josephson said he works most nights. Going into the office at around four or four thirty p.m., five days a week, then going out and covering local high school sporting events. Then coming back to the office to write up to three different versions of the story, with at least one being for the ten thirty p.m. deadline.
He also communicates on a daily basis with three different editors and executives above him.
He mentioned that he doesn’t always cover the same events, at the same schools so it gives him a little variety with his writing. And because there are so many sports in
the fall he could have multiple stories in the paper on any given day. However because football is so big in the area surrounding the paper, each sports writer is assigned one specific high school in order to build a relationship with the team, coaches, and players.