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____________ APril "■2012
Freshman Excels at Linfield
Doors open
quickly at
smaller school
L in fie ld C o lleg e stu d en t
Ivanna Tucker doesn’t let being
a first-year student slow her
down.
The m ass com m unication
major brought so many fresh
ideas to her first day of class that
the school new spaper editor
tapped her to be features editor
for the Linfield Review, a high-
level editing position rarely held
by a freshman. Tucker was also
the only freshman to be voted to Ivanna Tucker
the executive council of her so- rority.
“It’s a small school, so you
can sometimes work your way
up fairly quickly,” she said.
Established in 1970
Tucker focuses her feature
stories on topics that attract col
lege audiences, writing about
everything from the female per
spective on college romance, to
tattoos, to Halloween “W ildcat
style.”
“Ivanna has a lot of innovative
ideas,” said Brad Thompson, a
mass communication professor
(©bserrier
is committed to cultural diversity
at Linfield College. “She doesn’t
think in terms of long, drawn-out
stories, but breaks up features
into modules that combine nar
rative, images, sidebars and snip
pets of information. She sees the
whole picture.”
T u c k e r’s g re g a rio u sn e ss
means she likes interviewing
perfect strangers, and because
communication comes naturally
to her. One of her goals as a
writer is to make sure other
voices are heard.
“Journalism is in an exciting
place right now,” Tucker said.
“It’s changing, and there are
opportunities to enhance print
journalism and connect with
new, younger audiences.”
Her goal is to write about
small issues that relate back to
larger issues, and to focus on
positive news. “You can’t fluff
away war or childhood hunger,”
she said. “But there are also a lot
of people who are actually en
joying their lives. I want to tell
those stories as well.”
“Ivanna has an obvious love
of life and learning,” Thompson
said. “I’m expecting great things
from her.”
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