Journalism student awarded
'Top Ten' status, $10,000
Parker Howell is one of 10 nationwide recipients of a
fellowship from the Scripps Howard foundation
BY GABE BRADLEY
NEWS EDITOR
The top editor at the Emerald is
one of the 10 best collegiate journal
ists in the country, according to the
Scripps Howard Foundation.
Journalism major Parker Howell,
Emerald editor in chief for the up
coming year, was awarded a $10,000
“Top Ten” fellowship by the founda
tion, whose mission is to
think it demonstrates my level of com
mitment and what I want to put into
working as a journalist,” Howell said,
Howell, who has a 4.09 GPA, came
to the University as a freshman in the
fall of 2003.
“I decided to come to the Universi
ty just based on the strength of the
program,” he said.
He plans to work for a daily metro
paper upon graduation.
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Every year since 1999,
the foundation has picked
10 collegiate journalists
from nominees across the
country to receive “Top
Ten” fellowships.
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ism major with a focus in
news and editorial, Howell
is also a multimedia minor.
“I just have always been
interested in visual design
and different electronic art
forms,” he said.
Howell said his interest
in multimedia has also
served him in journalism.
“I think they have a lot
to do with each other,”
“We’re looking for excellence in
journalism,” Scripps Howard Vice
President Sue Porter said. “We meas
ure it by their contributions ... their
internships, their grades, their letters
of recommendation. They’re nomi
nated by their school.”
The foundation solicited nomina
tions from over 140 schools.
“It is definitely an honor to be
picked for a fellowship just because I
Howell said. Just the rules ot design
and how to convey ideas — how to
express yourself.”
This will impact how Howell runs
the Emerald this year in that he plans
to increase the paper’s Web presence
through blogs and “a lot of multime
dia options,” he said.
Howell first came to the Emerald as
a reporter covering city and state poli
tics during spring term of his freshman
year. During the 2004-05 academic
year, Howell served as a reporter cov
ering campus and federal politics.
“I definitely recall my time work
ing as a reporter fondly because I
got to meet a lot of interesting peo
ple and cover a lot of issues that I
think truly have an effect on stu
dents,” Howell said.
He said one of the most interesting
stories he covered was the series he
wrote on gun control. It was “fasci
nating to research,” he said.
“Another one of the stories that
stands out to me was the Sunriver
story,” Howell said, referring to a se
ries of stories that he and Emerald
senior news reporter Meghann Cuniff
wrote about members of the ASUO
who illegally drank and smoked mar
ijuana on a student-fee funded retreat
in Sunriver, Ore.
“That story was particularly diffi
cult because no one wanted to talk,”
he said.
Howell’s interest in journalism
started at Glencoe High School in
Hillsboro. He found a great outlet for
his interests in art and writing when
he started working for his high
school paper, the Crimson Times.
Howell eventually became editor
in chief of the Times his senior year,
and runner-up for the Oregon High
School Journalist of the Year.
“I really enjoyed it and worked my
way up from there,” Howell said.
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the types of technology purchased,
monitor size and the physical layout
of a computer lab.
To pay for the transition to more
group-use-friendly computer labs, Har
ris said the information services de
partment will need to evaluate spend
ing priorities.
“I think part of the challenge here is
not to come up with new money.”
Rather, Harris said, the challenge will
be to reorder priorities when it comes
to allocating existing funds in the nor
mal replacement cycle.
The primary consideration in this
process is “how to make best use of
the technology fee that is charged to
students,” he said.
Harris has already spoken with vari
ous decision-makers on campus re
garding his plans for more group-use
friendly workstations.
“Everyone seems very interested in
these ideas,” Harris said.
He hopes to continue to drum up
support when he reports for work in
early August.
“I need to obviously make a number
of visits when I get to campus,” he said.
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department works very closely with
the libraries to provide students ac
cess to technology.
“That partnership between those
two organizations is really critical to
being successful and offering better
services to students,” Harris said.
Harris also wants to make sure com
puter labs best serve their primary users.
“Part of that is just the idea of
seeing what’s appropriate for the
different areas.”
Harris mentioned a music-oriented
computer lab where the machines
might need to be hooked up to elec
tronic keyboards as opposed to a busi
ness computer lab that might be more
oriented toward producing presenta
tions as an example of how different
computer labs can cater to the needs
of different departments.
Harris said the University’s national
reputation in terms of information
technology and the institution’s rela
tionship with several professional as
sociations contributed to his decision
to come to the University.
“The opportunity to work in some of
the groups that the University is already
a part of was obviously very attractive,”
Harris said. “It’s going to be great to
work with people that up until now I’ve
only known on a seeing-them-once-a
year basis at national conferences.”
Also, Harris said he was glad for the
opportunity to live in Eugene.
“There’s obviously some quality of
life issues,” he said. “I’m living in the
middle of Atlanta. The traffic and con
gestion and the heat and humidity
kind of get old after a while.”
Harris said he and his wife are glad
they don’t have to worry about where
their kids are going to go to school.
“We spent a little bit of time in the
Northwest on vacations,” Harris said.
“So it’s an area that I’m familiar with. ”
The local recreational and cultural
opportunities also appealed to Harris
and his family.
“ We used to do a lot of cross-coun
try skiing, so the opportunity to go up
to Mount Bachelor and do some of
that just sounds really great. ”
Particularly, Harris said he is excited
for the Oregon Bach Festival.
“My wife has a music background,”
Harris said. “That there are so many
things related to the arts (in Eugene) is
also really attractive to us.”
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