Kannada Press Day

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You won’t believe the way we make news here at St Aloysius College, Dept of Journalism. just the other day (Wednesday) we had Almadhyam inauguration, and media carried it with glee.

Now we are preparing for Kannada Press Day on Saturday. We have a State level programme. Mr Sugata Shrinivas Raju, of Outlook weekly is addressing the public, with Dr Shrinivas Havanooor.

Why don’t you come and participate? Come in great numbers.

The First Yr students are shaping up well; lots of zeal, vitality and good will

Being an IAS; Commerce Association Inauguration

29 June. Attempting a UPSC exam is a major hobby in India, said Mr Rajesh Naik, speaking to the Final Year Journalism students.

Mr Naik, a former student of Journalism, is currently got a posting on probation for tresury after getting into the top ten in KPSC. He also has attempted a UPSC exam. Mr Naik gave a bird’s eye view of competitive exams, it modalities, and on how to prepare for such exams.

Commerce Association Inaugurated
The inauguration of the Commerce Association was held in the Auditorium today. The programme began with a prayer song.

The Chief Guest of the day, Prof. P.S. Yedapadithay, Chairman & Professor of the Department of Post Graduate studies of Mangalore University, inaugurated the Association by lighting the lamp

P.S. Yedapadithay gave a few tips to the students on how to conduct oneself in the academic year of credit based semester system.

After Fr. Principal’s address a cultural function followed.

Reminders to all the Journalism Students

One more significant event has been well conducted by the students. That augurs well for such a vibrant student body at the Dept of Journalism.
1 July 2006 Saturday: Kannada Press Day. Celebration at SAC Xavier Block Hall at 5.00 pm. Mr Sugata Shrinivas Raju, Outlook, will be the chief guest (“Globalisation and Small Newspaper”). Prof. S Havanoor will be the Guest of Honour and Rev. Fr Eugene Lobo (Principal) will be President. This is brought to you by Dept of Journalism in Collaboration with Abhinava quarterly.

* Now the seminar-submission day is fast approaching; hardly a few hours!
On the heals of seminar, final years have their Dhwani magazine to work on. I would like to have their plans and sketch for the forthcoming issue. Meeting with the Dhwani group will be on Thursday (29) afternoon.

The First Years have already been introduced to Al News and Al Week. Their work begins now – scouting for news and presenting it to the Campus.
They will also look after the Journalism Notice Board.

The Second Year students have to plan their activities along the reporting lines. And please remind Madam about Ripples.

Al-Madhyam Comes Alive, Once Again

28 June. Al Madhyam Occupies Central Stage If you have aptitude, you can make a good journalist stressed Mr S Nandagopal, Senior Correspondenct with The Times of India, while inaugurating Al Madhyam, the media forum of St Aloysius College. He was speaking on Journlism – A Career Perspective.

Journalism is a way of life; it cannot be taught, Mr Nandagopal said, while criticizing journalism education. In his broadside against the system, he said, the syllabi are not updated to suit the needs of the profession. But he had a word of praise for the Department of Journalism, at SAC, for its innovative practices and practical approach to teaching.

Earlier, Mr Nandagopal inaugurated the forum by lighting the lamp along with Rev. Fr. Eugene Lobo, Principal , Ms Suman Mendonca, President of the forum, Fr. Richard Rego & Miss Anisha Sheth, Secretary.

After the entire gathering watched a short documentary made by Abrar Khan and Arron Menezes, final year students of journalism at SAC, Rev. Fr. Dr. Eugene Lobo spoke to the students about the role of journalists, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses. He also congratulated the staff and students of this important department of the College.

The formal inauguration was followed by a short informal get-together of all the students of Journalism organized by Nikhil D’Sa (III Yr).

Commerce Students in Orientation ProgrammeAn Orientation Programme for the First Year B.Com students was held by the Department of Commerce here on Wednesday.

The programme began with a prayer service after which Fr Francis Serrao, Recto, and Rev.Fr. Eugene Lobo, Principal, addressed the students. Prof. Eric Patrao, Vice Principal, spoke on discipline while Prof. Lourdusamy introduce various associations of the College.

Prof A.M. Narahari, Dean, Dept of Commerce, spoke to the students on the Credit based Semester System.

Staff Seminar for Better Understand Semester System
26 June 2006. A seminar was held in the auditorium for the lecturers of St. Aloysius College to better understand the credit based semester system which is introduce in the Mangalore University (MU)

Prof. Narahari, Dean of Commerce, introduced the resource person Dr. Madhav Rao, Prof. of Statistics, M.G.M College Udupi, who used a PowerPoint Presentation to explain the new system at MU. Dr. Rao also facilitated a question and answer session after his talk, to clarify lecturers’ doubts.

The seminar was followed by a meeting of the Presidents of the College Associations.

Dept of Kannada Releases Books
27 June 2006. A seminar cum book release function was organized by the Mangalore University, in collaboration with the Dept. of Kannada, St. Aloysius College.

The event held at the auditorium of St Aloysius College was attended by Kannada lecturers of various colleges as well as the local media.

Prof. K.M. Kaveriappa, Vice Chancellor of Mangalore University was the Chief Guest. Also present were Dr. Amrith Someshwar, Dr. Chinnappa Gowda, Dr. Ganatha Ekkaru, President of “Vikasa”, Dr Srinivasa Havanooru and Rev.Dr.Fr. Eugene Lobo, Principal, St Aloysius College.

After a short speech by Mr Chinnappa Gowda on the importance of Kannada in the Undergraduate syllabus, ten books were released by the Chief Guest, published by the Publication Division, Mangalore University.
“Far From Home, Confessions of a Foreign Student” a novel written by Douglas Waudo, an ex student of St. Aloysius College, was released in the teletorium, here on Tuesday.

Present were Fr. Rector Francis Serrao who released the book, Principal, Rev. Dr Fr. Eugene Lobo, and Prof. Lourdusamy, H.O.D., Dept of English.

BBM Results announced

27 June. The results of the BBM examinations held in April-May June, 2006 have been annouced. The overall percentage of University results is 67.6%, in which girls score an impressive 82% and boys 58%.

The St Aloysius College BBM results for this year stand at 70%, too. Congratulations to Dean, all the staff, and students.

Department of Kannada organised the release of books published by Prasaranga. Prof. Kaveriappa, Vice Chancellor, was the chief guest.

Mr Abhaya Simha, addressed the final year students on video editing and scripting.

Documentary Film Making Workshop

For this much awaited news, please visit www.sacjournalism.blogspot.com.

You will find much more – like news of staff seminar, Al Madhyam inauguration, Kannada press day celebration, college activities, etc.

If you are interested in learning more about documentary filmmaking workshop, please contact “yours truly” at:

Head, Dept of Journalism
St Aloysius College
PB 720
Mangalore – 575003.

Documentary Workshop

You are in for a treat, if you are a film buff. The Department of Journalism of St Aloysius College Mangalore, is organising a Documentary Film Making workshop in October 2006.

The workshop will take place during the October vacation from Monday to Sunday (that is after 19th October) for the convenience of students. It will be a full time, practical workshop, involving around 10 hours of practical work daily!

The Department intends to take only 25 students, so that all get a chance to handle camera, light, sound, edit, besides scripting. Since single CCD digital cameras are a rage, these days, and easily accessible to youngsters, we have decided to teach filmmaking using single CCD digital (handycams) cameras.

Anyone interested in learning filmmaking, can apply with her/ his CV.
mail your querries to:
richiersj@yahoo.com

Fr Richard Rego SJ
Head, Dept of Journalism
St Aloysius College
PB 720
Mangalore – 575003.
Ph. 0824-2423576 (r)

For outstation students, board and lodging will be arranged.
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* The staff of SAC had half a day of seminar by Prof. Madhava Rao, on Credit Based Semester system. Dr Rao explained nitty gritty of this new system.

* Abhaya Simha, an alumnus of SAC, and a final year student of Film Direction at FTII Pune, shared his expertise in editing using adobe premiere. The journalism students were too eager to learn from him. Soon after, some students almost finished editing a news capsule! Thank you Abhay.

* Kannada Press Day at St Aloysius: Department of Journalism in collaboration with Abhinava, a Kannada journal (Bangalore based) has organised a public function in the College auditorium, on 1 July 2006, at 5.00 pm.

Mr Sugata Shrinivas Raju, Bureau chief, Outlook ( South Asia), will be the chief guest. He will address the gathering on “Globalisation and Small Newspapers”. Fr Eugene Lobo, principal of SAC will preside over the funciton. All are cordially invited.

* Al-Madhyam – media forum of SAC will hold its inauguration on Wednesday, at 3.10 pm. Mr S Nandagopal, Times of India, will be chief guest. He will speak on Journalism: Career Perspective.

Memorable Day SAC

It was a day full of activities at SAC. You will read brief details at www.sacjournalism.blogspot.com.

Four of our students were eager to attend the programme at Aloysian Boys’ Home, Ullal, and record their performance. One could not due to health; the other three were so enthusiastic that they caught everyone else’ attention with their zeal, agility and love for the (J) Department! When they returned it was 9.00 pm. Bravo!

The Al-TV news will commence from Tuesday. For some unavoidable reason, we were not able to edit it today. The students team had come with great enthusiasm; they shot the anchor part, and also captured it. We hope to edit it tomorrow. And then on, Al-TV will be there, daily, for you.

Many Celebrations at SAC

KPSC (Karnataka Public Service Commission) held its (clerical level) exam today at our various institutions like St Aloysius College, St Aloysius PU College, and StAloysius High School. Many of the over 4,00,000 students who appeared for the exams all the Karnataka State for about 1,000 posts, there were many from St Aloysius College, too. One of them was caught up on the way, due to landslide; he reached half an hour late, and could not write his exam!

Mr Jeevan Pinto, Head, Dept of BCA, chose a different path to his life, when he chose Ms Wilma to be his spouse. The nuptials were blessed at SAC Chapel.

Feast of St Aloysius Gonzaga was celebrated at Aloysian Boys’ Home, Ullal. Ms Gurtrude, Asst Director for the Welfare of Women and Children was the Chief Guest. Frs. Rector (Fr Francis Serrao), Leo D’Souza (Director of ABH), Principals and other Jesuits from the Jesuit Residence, SAC, also attended the lovely programme organised by the little kids. Besides Jesuits, there were scores of other guests to watch and appreciate the kids.

Staff Seminar

It was a non-working day for students. But for the staff, it was a hectic day! The staff had a meeting (yours truly was in the Heads of the Department meeting); when he emerged out of the meeting, a severe headache accompanied him!

It was all about IQAC, university sponsored certificate courses and impending autonomy. Lots of demands from the teachers. Lots of meetings; lots of activities.

Well, anything for my College!