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For my third story I am going to write about the new buildings that Wake is planning to build in the next five-ish years according to their 30-year plan (https://prod.wp.cdn.aws.wfu.edu/sites/119/2018/11/WFU_MP_2018.11.7.FINALV2.pdf) . Wake plans to construct a new building on Davis Field within the next five years so I will focus my questioning around that building. I want to discuss energy and water conservation and the possibility of locally sourcing the materials needed for the buildings. It will also be interesting to learn more about what steps are being taken to retrofit the current buildings to make them more energy-efficient and green. I plan to talk to Mike Draughn, Director of Maintenance & Utilities at WFU, to discuss buildings and energy. Further, I will talk to John Wise, VP for Hospitality and Auxiliary at WFU. Other potential sources include Deedee Johnson and various students.

I want to write a localization story about the mental health of college students. The issue of mental health is an international issue that has been getting more attention as the years go on. The most recent group of college students are part of a generation whose members experience higher levels of stress, depression, and anxiety than any prior generation. College life can exacerbate these mental health issues and leave university mental health counseling centers facing challenges of unprecedented scale. 

I want to write about this mental health issues on college campuses because like my previous story, this issue hits close to home. I’ve battled with mental health issues and have known some great people who have lost that battle. 

I plan to interview students from from all four grades and ask about their experiences with mental health and whether or not they have sought counseling on campus. I don’t know what the responses will be, but I definitely want it to connect to the Counseling Center on campus, which I will also interview. I want to know what the Counseling Center has been doing to address an increase of students coming forward with mental health issues. 

My first story will cover University Theatre’s “How I Learned to Drive”, a play by Paula Vogel and directed by Brook Davis. Show dates include Sept. 20-21 & 25-28 at 7:30 p.m.; Sept. 22 & 29 at 2:00 p.m. at the Ring Theatre. The play is a memory play detailing a woman’s sexual abuse by her uncle when she was young in little vignettes of her life. This play deals with issues of childhood sexual abuse, an important issue for college-aged students, especially as the “Me Too” movement continues to have a worldly impact. I believe that this play is newsworthy because it is performed not only by our WFU peers but also corresponds to the national “Me Too” movement.

Reporter: 

David M. Halbfinger 

Bio: 

David M. Halbfinger is the Jerusalem bureau chief of The New York Times. He covers Israel, the occupied Palestinian territories and the Middle East. 

Before taking up his post in 2017, Mr. Halbfinger spent four years as metro political editor, deputy metro editor, presidential campaign editor and then deputy national editor, posts in which he oversaw political reporting in the New York area, managed the political reporters covering the 2016 presidential campaign, and helped lead coverage of the United States.

As a Times reporter from 1997 to 2013, Mr. Halbfinger frequently gravitated toward political and investigative reporting while ranging from Manhattan and the Bronx to posts as bureau chief in Long Island, Trenton and Atlanta, and as a Hollywood correspondent in Los Angeles. He also covered the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry. 

He was a winner of the Jesse Laventhol Prize for deadline news reporting by a team for his coverage of the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003.

Before coming to The Times, Mr. Halbfinger worked at The Boston Globe, New York Newsday and The Philadelphia Business Journal. He received a bachelor’s degree in English from Yale. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children.

Reason: 

I’m currently in two classes related to Halbfinger’s area of expertise, The Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, and Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. His articles are specific and highly detailed. They are published almost immediately after the event covered actually happened. He lives in Israel, so he is in the heart of the action. Halbfinger is an award winning reporter for deadline news reporting which impresses me. One of the coolest parts of journalism is good deadline news reporting because the reporter can’t have a human reaction to the event in real-time. He can’t sit there and experience the fear or shock that comes from witnessing an event because he needs to publish a story on it within a deadline. That ability is so fascinating. 

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Reporter: 

David M. Halbfinger 

Bio: 

David M. Halbfinger is the Jerusalem bureau chief of The New York Times. He covers Israel, the occupied Palestinian territories and the Middle East. 

Before taking up his post in 2017, Mr. Halbfinger spent four years as metro political editor, deputy metro editor, presidential campaign editor and then deputy national editor, posts in which he oversaw political reporting in the New York area, managed the political reporters covering the 2016 presidential campaign, and helped lead coverage of the United States.

As a Times reporter from 1997 to 2013, Mr. Halbfinger frequently gravitated toward political and investigative reporting while ranging from Manhattan and the Bronx to posts as bureau chief in Long Island, Trenton and Atlanta, and as a Hollywood correspondent in Los Angeles. He also covered the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry. 

He was a winner of the Jesse Laventhol Prize for deadline news reporting by a team for his coverage of the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003.

Before coming to The Times, Mr. Halbfinger worked at The Boston Globe, New York Newsday and The Philadelphia Business Journal. He received a bachelor’s degree in English from Yale. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children.

Reason: 

I’m currently in two classes related to Halbfinger’s area of expertise, The Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, and Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. His articles are specific and highly detailed. They are published almost immediately after the event covered actually happened. He lives in Israel, so he is in the heart of the action. Halbfinger is an award winning reporter for deadline news reporting which impresses me. One of the coolest parts of journalism is good deadline news reporting because the reporter can’t have a human reaction to the event in real-time. He can’t sit there and experience the fear or shock that comes from witnessing an event because he needs to publish a story on it within a deadline. That ability is so fascinating. 

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