The Boss and the BootlegThe Widener student working the door at the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band show on a freezing February night in 1975 looked quizzically at Michael Turner when he presented his $6 ticket...read more Published in the Spring 2013 issue of Widener Magazine, the story won a Silver CUPPIE Award from the College and University Public Relations and Associated Professionals and is part of the collection at the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at Monmouth University. |
Connecting Past, Present, and Future
Deep in a dimly lit corner of your college or university library is a secure room crammed with boxes full of forgotten memories. Few people seem to notice it and even fewer enter. This may sound like the suspenseful setting for an Alfred Hitchcock film, but this place is actually a cornucopia of amazing content: your institution's archives...read more Published in the February 2014 issue of CASE CURRENTS magazine. |
Sour Notes
It's a cool fall day in "The Big House" on the campus of the University of Michigan. College football's largest stadium can barely contain the 110,000 screaming fans as the Wolverines battle cross-state rival Michigan State University...read more Published in the February 2011 issue of CASE CURRENTS magazine, the story won a Silver CUPPIE Award from the College and University Public Relations and Associated Professionals. |
A Nursing Leader's Nightmare
At night she heard the screams. Her hands cuffed tightly behind her back, Rula Al-Saffar waited in a Bahraini jail cell as the guards tortured her colleagues.
She agonized not only for her fellow medical professionals--locked up for providing medical aid to Arab Spring protesters in Manama, the capital city of Bahrain--but in fear of her own safety. She knew she would soon hear the keys unlock her own cell...read more
Published in the Fall 2012 issue of Widener Magazine, the story won a Gold CUPPIE Award from the College and University Public Relations and Associated Professionals.
At night she heard the screams. Her hands cuffed tightly behind her back, Rula Al-Saffar waited in a Bahraini jail cell as the guards tortured her colleagues.
She agonized not only for her fellow medical professionals--locked up for providing medical aid to Arab Spring protesters in Manama, the capital city of Bahrain--but in fear of her own safety. She knew she would soon hear the keys unlock her own cell...read more
Published in the Fall 2012 issue of Widener Magazine, the story won a Gold CUPPIE Award from the College and University Public Relations and Associated Professionals.
Postscript was the sister publication to Widener Magazine. I served as editor of Postscript from 2008 to 2012, selecting and assigning stories and writing and editing content.
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