First Impressions

Question: how would you respond to being told you are in the first class in a department’s history to converge two different aspects of the same field for a particular class and goal?

Well, if your name were Steve Schucker, most likely you’d respond with some sort of joke about how last night Larry Hughes made his first attempt to pass the ball to a teammate.

Though I think the punch line to that joke would be negative and not at all the feeling you’d want to have with a daunting task like the one this sports journalism course is undertaking.

It’s hard enough just to get taken seriously in a program that pretentiously looks down on sportswriters as being frivolous or unimportant.

Yet, here we are, given the first chance at combining two separate areas of our desired field into an experience unlike anything else being offered in the Columbia journalism department.

The challenge, although one that might seem a little challenging from the outset, looks to be well worth any difficulty that goes along with it, and I know I for one will be looking forward to learning more about a broadcast side to journalism I avoided like Schucker after a game of pick-up in the summer.

Oh, how I hope Steve never sees this.