Asking your college's police inspector what plans they have in store for a zombie outbreak is no easy task, but last week I managed to pull it off with some good results.
My first out-of-class story for journalism 200 went pretty well. I was able to interview Bill Wardwell, Inspector at MSU's police department; Joe Petroff, the main dude in charge of MSU's safety coordination; and even Ali Khan, the CDC's assistant surgeon general. I think those three guys definitely contributed to the 3.2. (Hopefully the rewrite helps out)
Considering that the grade is a 92%, I'm happy about it.
For the student interviews in this story, I asked a few guys in Snyder hall some questions, and got some pretty bad answers. Obviously nobody knew what to do in an emergency, but some of the answers I got were just stupid. My favorite, the second one I included in my article, was about how Joe Vanderstelt would go outside to watch a tornado, a monsoon, and even severe hail. I warned him that there's a chance that this could get published and to give me a better answer than that, but he didn't listen. Ah well.
I now need to make a video about this story, because it's either that or I make a video about the job market after college (boring). I'm going to hopefully get some good B-roll of zombies and building fires (via ps3) when I get home this weekend, but going home means that I'm away from my interview people. I'll have to either track down MSU kids in Muskegon or do them in the one hour gap I have between getting out of work and hitting the road for Muskegon today.
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