WAG - Guest Lecturing Today: Mr. Smith
So...
It seems my part in the reporting of the MU-NCAA continuing drama is not yet done.
I spent a decent portion of my Fourth of July weekend helping analyze Mizzou's 197-page response to the NCAA allegations. My job was tallying up what we were pleading guilty or no contest two, what violations we were partially true, which issues the university contested were even illegal, and what allegations we flat out denied.
I then helped with a breakdown of the 10 core allegations and a summary of the most serious charges.
After making copying about a dozen pages to make a "Highlights of the Mizzou response" board in the corner of the newsroom (which included statements about Ricky Clemons's alleged $250 payoff, why Christmas presents from Coach Snyder were receieved in February [because his wife gave birth on the 25], and a nine-page section that is largely redacted or blocked out concerning a prospective student gettting free housing at the residence of another MU student), I went home and had the luxury of forgetting about it.
I smiled when I saw my name in the paper Tuesday, for I took Monday off because I'd sacrificed my Saturday, but went back to ignorance.
Today, since I was the only reporter in the newsroom out of the three who had worked on the NCAA articles, I was asked to speak to the J-306 lecture about my part in the analysis.
When I came in, the topic on the board read "Parrot vs. Translate." After a brief introduction, I spent about 15 minutes speaking about interpretting the lawyer and the sports talk to give answers to the public.
I recounted the frantic pace we worked at when the response first came out and then how we slowed down to give structure to the chaotic mess of claims, counter claims, and "mitigating circumstances."
I bounced of a series questions or topic directions given to me by the main lecturer, who was coincidentally the editor I worked with over the weekend. Then, after a brief final reminder that organizing your notes can help you be more efficienty report and also provides good material for graphics or sidebars, I left.
I'll let you know later what the verdicts of the class were, but for now, I'm thrilled that I got to do an interesting "show and tell" before my peers. It will also make an interesting note in my end of the semester memo when I'm pleading for a decent grade.
(My part of the) class dismissed.
'Any_questions______Good'
