Sting Ray Current full of opportunities
Written by Catherine Rudniski, Aug 29, 2011, 0 Comments
The Project 10 Sting Ray program is for students with disabilities, to give them the opportunity to go to college just like every other regular student here at USFSP. I am the editor-in-chief for The Sting Ray Current, which similar to The Crow’s Nest. It’s about information and activities that we Sting Ray students do on campus and on a daily basis.
As editor-in-chief of The Current, I make sure that every student writes two to three articles for every issue. There is one issue every semester. Every student has a deadline to submit his or her articles to me, from the first meeting to the final one. It is about a two-week deadline at the maximum. I look over everyone’s articles and edit them. I try not to re-word anyone’s articles; I just try to rephrase them to make the article sound better, and to make it more understandable for the reader.
The students do a wonderful job of writing their articles and getting back to me if they have any questions. They may also ask the other editor Danielle Roberts-Dahm if I may not be available at that particular moment.
When Roberts-Dahm handed The Current over to me last fall semester I was not sure of what I was getting myself into. For the first issue I edited, I wrote four articles and no one submitted their articles to me on time, so the deadline got pushed back further and further. No one felt the need to ask me if they needed help; they always went to Roberts-Dahm because I was new to this.
The issue finally was printed in January 2011 but we all put our hard work into it. The next paper came out in June 2011. It was much easier the second time around. Deadlines were not made, but it was still published with everyone’s articles intact. You can see the most recent issue of The Current in the Davis Hall student lounge and the CAC.
Rudniski is editor-in-chief of The Sting Ray Current. For more information on Project 10 Sting Ray and to read past issues of The Sting Ray Current, visit www.project10.info.
