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- <title>
- Aug. 08, 1994: To Our Readers
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Aug. 08, 1994 Everybody's Hip (And That's Not Cool)
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- TO OUR READERS, Page 4
- Elizabeth Valk Long
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- <p> As many a college student will attest, a summer internship
- can amount to little more than making coffee and sorting mail.
- Not so at TIME. Every year we welcome aspiring young journalists
- into our corridors and put them right to work on regular assignments.
- For nine weeks, each of the New York City-based editorial interns
- is given the duties of a full-time staff member. To be up to
- such rigorous training, they must bring considerable qualifications
- to the program--and this year's crop of nine certainly do.
- Says Julie Hopson-Pettinelli of Time Inc. Human Resources, who
- selected them from about 100 applicants: "Their resumes are
- truly impressive."
- </p>
- <p> Sarah Van Boven, for example, is a senior at Princeton who interned
- for a semester last year at the Voice of America in London.
- She has applied her experience reporting for the VOA's international-programming
- service to the task of writing for the news digest in our Chronicles
- section.
- </p>
- <p> In the Maps and Charts department, Rhode Island School of Design
- senior Jason Lee has used his knowledge of computer graphics
- to create illustrations, including a map of O.J. Simpson's estate.
- Marisa Campbell, a senior at New York City's Queens College,
- and Susanne Seinader, a recent graduate of Ryerson Polytechnic
- University in Toronto, have researched and collected photographs
- for the Pictures department. Hakim Fajardo from the University
- of Vermont and Victor Nunez from Wesleyan University have worked
- on special projects.
- </p>
- <p> The interns' experiences have cast new light not only on journalism
- but sometimes on their studies as well. Chitralekha Zutshi,
- a recent graduate of the College of Wooster in Ohio, and Kanchan
- Chandra, a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Harvard,
- have been researching, writing and fact checking for TIME International's
- Milestones section. "In academia facts are subordinate to theory,"
- says Chandra. "But after this, I'll never be able to look at
- facts the same way."
- </p>
- <p> Stanford senior Romesh Ratnesar earned a place in intern lore
- by finishing one workday in the Business section at 8 a.m.,
- having spent the previous 22 hours juggling three assignments,
- including fact checking a late-breaking story about the now
- defunct CBS-QVC deal. Ratnesar's comment on the episode typifies
- the enthusiasm that all the interns have injected into our working
- lives this summer. Says he: "You hardly notice the time."
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