Inauguration Trip
Students:
Our Front Row Seat
To History
SJ Mercury News
Photos, stories and student blog
CNN I-Report
"A
Trip 44 Years in the Making"
Behind the Scenes
Student Video Report
SJSU
Student Blogsite
KTVU
Ch.2 hosts student stories
CNN
SJSU Daily
Live
Updates
FOX 5
SJSU on DC Television
Student
Profiles

Anthony Orosco

Photo by SJSU's
Derek Sijder
San Jose State
University wishes
to publicly thank and extraordinary
public servant,
San Jose Firefighter
Anthony Orosco.
Anthony volunteered
to drive
the van for SJSU
students
traveling through
the cities in the
South which are
landmarks of
the Civil Rights
movement.
Anthony was always
'safety first,'
and was dedicated to our
"Education
on Wheels"
project.
All want to thank
Anthony Orosco
" for all his
wisdom, laughter
and for blessing us
with his
impeccable driving
skills."
Apple, Nikon, and
Pix Sense
Local
Silicon Valley
high technology
companies that
sponsored this trip by donating video editing software, digital
cameras and cell
phones with
high end
photographic
capability
to enable students to supply a variety
of websites
reporting on the
SJSU Inauguration
Trip.

You Tube: Background
Videos:
History of Civil
Rights
Photos
Musical Reflection
Champions of Justice
Death of Emmitt Till

Behind the Scenes
SJSU students
Inauguration Trip,
2009
 |
Inauguration
Trip
|
School Trip - The Plan
Potential donor letter
Trip
Itenerary
Press Release
NEWS COVERAGE:
SJ Mercury News -
2008
Reports on SJSU Trip
Front page story
Part Two, Page 19
Mercury News Online
Edition

2009
INAUGURATION
TRIP
FUNDRAISER
$25,000 Goal
Information Packet
TRIP PLANS
&
ITINERARY
The new
WHITE HOUSE
website

Inaugural Address
January 20, 2009
Speech & Video

President Barack H.
Obama
Official Biography

Vice-President
Joseph Biden
The Cabinet
The Agenda
White House Staff
The First Lady
Presidential Slideshow
A Recap
of SJSU's
historic travels...
MONDAY: JANUARY 19th

During the 8 AM HOUR
"Morning On 2"
KTVU-Channel 2 interviews

SJSU's
Justin Perry
Live from their
Washington D.C.
Bureau

44 Years to 44th President
Ch.2 Showcases
SJSU
Inauguration Trip Videos
Also Monday...
FRONT PAGE
Mercury News story on the SJSU
Inauguration Trip!

See:
STUDENT BLOG
Bay Area Newspaper posts
SJSU student Inauguration Trip
stories and pictures.

NBC11 COVERAGE
TV reporter joins students
on the historic trip.
More About Us...
SJSU students on the Trip
Trip
Departure Photos
SJSU
Goals
& Trip
Itinerary
Contact Us
San Jose State University
Related News:
Inauguration Schedule in DC
USA Today

SJSU
Students Go to DC
Fundraising for
Historic Trip - 12/9/08
Front Page Story
Part Two, Page 19
Mercury News Online Edition
44 Years Ago: 1964

MLK arrested in
peaceful protest
November 4, 2008

Barack Obama
Elected 1st African-American
President of the
United States
Traveling the Road to the
Historic
Inauguration
January 20, 2009
Fundraising Underway
To help SJSU Students
go to the Inauguration

Donations
by check
should be
made out to the
SJSU Tower Foundation
(Re: JMC
Inauguration Trip)
Please mail your
donation to:

Amy Freitag
Resource Analyst
School of Journalism
&
Mass Communications
San Jose State University
One Washington
Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0055
408-924-3241
Or drop off
your
donation on campus:

Dwight Bentel Hall
Room 105
THANK YOU!

Inauguration
Trip
Faculty Co-Organizers:
Dr. Michael
Cheers:
mcheers@casa.sjsu.edu
or
Prof. Bob Rucker:
professorrucker@yahoo.com
SJSU OFFICE:
408-924-3240
|

School of Journalism &
Mass Communications
Fundraising Underway
To help SJSU Students
go to the Inauguration

Donations
by check
should be
made out to the
SJSU Research Foundation
(Re: JMC
Inauguration Trip)
Please mail your
donation to:
Amy Freitag
Resource Analyst
School of Journalism
&
Mass Communications
San Jose State University
One Washington
Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0055
408-924-3241
Or drop off
your
donation on campus:
Dwight Bentel Hall
Room 105
THANK YOU!
|
|
Local & National Media Coverage of Unique
JMC School
"Education on Wheels" Project
NBC
BAY AREA COVERAGE OF SJSU TRIP
Here in the Bay Area, NBC 11's Bob Bedell flew east
this weekend and joined the
SJSU student group on the final leg of their journey to the nation's capital.
Bedell reported on the student's stop at a historic civil right stop in
Greensboro,
North Carolina on the 6pm Sunday evening newscast.
Online Coverage
The Bay Area's KTVU
Ch.2 hosts student trip stories & videos
KQED-TV (PBS), Bay Area Channel 9 invited
SJSU's
Justin Allegri
to participate with local professional journalists on
their weekly reporter roundtable
program "This Week in Northern California." The live telecast aired
Friday, January 23rd,
and was hosted by award-winning journalist Belva Davis.
KRON-TV, Bay Area Channel 4 interviewed
two SJSU Students,
Jade Atkins and
Bianca DeCastro
about their historic travels through the landmarks of the
Civil Rights movement. Award-winning news anchor Ysabel Duron, who talked with
the students live on-air Sunday morning, January 25th, is a distinguished broadcast
journalism graduate of
San Jose State University.
National Network Aired Daily Live Reports on the
SJSU Inauguration Trip

HISTORY & MEMORIES NEVER
TO BE FORGOTTEN

Historic Inauguration of President Barack Obama
January 20, 2009
Wednesday, January 21st, students on the Inauguration Trip flew home from
Philadelphia, PA. Exhausted after their ten day trek across America,
students in the "Education on Wheels" project have a memory to
last a lifetime!

CNN i-Report
A Road Trip 44 Years In The Making

SJSU student Justin Allegri gets a kiss
goodbye from CNN anchorwoman Kyra Phillips!
All student profiles:
See photos and info about all students on the trip.
SJSU enjoyed a great visit to CNN headquarters in
Atlanta.
While they were there, students got to see the international network
cover a breaking story...a plane crash in the Hudson River in New York City.

The SJSU group arrived in WASHINGTON D.C.
January 17th, 2009

Dr. Michael Cheers and broadcast journalism major Jade Atkins-Nikolaou
were interviewed LIVE on TV FOX 5 in Washington DC.
Anchorman Will Thomas, a distinguished SJSU Radio & TV Journalism
graduate, conducted the interview.
SEE
IT ONLINE
At 10pm that Sunday night, it was possible that
President-Elect Barack Obama, his new administration,
President Bush and his people all could have learned
first hand about our SJSU Education on Wheels project!
2010 Post Civil
Rights/Inauguration
Trip - Special
Guest
 |
CNN Anchor
Kyra
Phillips
was the
School of
Journalism
& Mass Communications
Spring
2010
Convocation
Keynote Speaker
May 27, 2010.
|
Kyra Phillips
was instrumental
in 2009 in
getting
SJSU
network TV news coverage
of
our journalism,
public relations
and
advertising student
travels to the
Inauguration of
President Obama
through the
landmarks of the
Civil Rights
Movement. Ms.
Phillips
worked
with CNN
producers
to enable
the
ten SJSU new
media students
to offer live
daily
reports on
their 10 day
road trip with
stops
in Tennessee,
Mississippi,
Alabama, Georgia
and South
Carolina.
When
they arrived in
Atlanta at CNN
World
Headquarters,
the SJSU group was
given unique
access to news
production
meetings where
they interacted
with CNN
executives and
producers,
pitched story
ideas, and
participated in
a group
interview with
Ms. Phillips
which was
televised live
on CNN.
|
|
MONDAY: JANUARY 19, 2009
Mornings on 2, in the Bay Area, interviewed, via satellite
from their
Washington D.C. bureau
SJSU Radio & TV Journalism major
Justin Perry.

BIG NEWS...
The SJSU Inauguration Trip was on the front page of the
See the current SJ
Mercury News Student Blog
(with photos from their trip!)
The day before the Inauguration, the SJSU
student group
met with
Bay Area South Bay
Congresswoman Zoe
Lofgren in her
House of Representatives office next to
capitol hill.
She surprised the group by giving them tickets to the Inauguration
and to the Inaugural Parade!
SJSU Public relations Prof. Chris DiSalvo and her family,
along with
new College of Applied Sciences & Arts
Dean, Charles Bullock, were also in Washington to the historic day.

Behind
the Scenes on this Trip
The public is invited to
contact us with your comments.

Trip Co-organizers, Prof. Bob Rucker, Dr. Michael Cheers or the students at
professorrucker@yahoo.com
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tuesday, January 13th
KTVU Channel 2 -
SJSU Inauguration Trip Project
STUDENT BLOG
-
Going LIVE on CNN !
Monday, January 12. 2009
The SJSU Interview
Ronnie Agnew,
Executive Editor,
Jackson Clarion Ledger.
Agnew is the only African American editor at a major daily newspaper in
Mississippi.
Depart Jackson for Philadelphia, MS (Neshoba County) 87 miles (two hour drive)
and view
the area where the KKK killed the three civil rights workers
James Chaney, Andrew
Goodman
and Michael Schwerner,
who died registering black voters. Overnight stay in Selma, Alabama.
On June 21, 1964,
three young civil rights workers—a 21-year-old black Mississippian,
James Chaney, and two white New Yorkers, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael
Schwerner, 24—
were murdered by the
Ku Klux Klan
near Philadelphia, in
Nashoba County, Mississippi. |
 |
"In Mississippi, in the 1960s, when
segregation was king, racism the status quo, and bigotry the law, it was
young people who rose up and challenged the system."
More from
Ben Chaney
James Chaney
Andrew Goodman
Michael
Schwerner |
Sunday, January 11th - Visit the
National Civil
Rights Museum; Depart for Jackson,
Mississippi. Drive through the destitute towns Tunica, Tutwiler, Marks and
Clarksdale
along the Mississippi Delta. They stop along the Tallahatchie River to reflect
on
Emmitt Till, who was killed
by whites in August 1955. Overnight stay in Jackson, MS.

Emmitt Louis Till was
abducted and murdered in August, 1955.
Background Information
PBS Online:Emmitt
Till Timeline
You Tube Video:
Death of
Emmitt Till


|


 |
SJSU Students Justin Perry
and Justin Allegri
First special video report
focused on the group's
powerful interview with
Memphis Civil Rights activist
Rev. Samuel Kyles
|

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Assassination - 1968
SJSU students interview with Rev. Kyles the
first night of their Inauguration Trip
will be posted on the KTVU/CH. 2 website by Monday evening. ( Link to be
posted here)
The
School of Journalism & Mass
Communications
is sending several
SJSU students from diverse
communities to the Inauguration
of Barack Obama
by way of America's civil rights
landmarks in the South.
The goal for these journalism,
advertising and public relations
students -
to walk back through time and
learn at these historic sites
how the blood, sweat and
tears of the 1950s and 60s equal
rights pioneers paved the way
for all
people of color, women, gays and
lesbians, the disabled and
religious cultural groups
in America to be recognized,
appreciated, and valued in our
society,
and to have equal opportunity to
live the American dream.
TRIP PLANS
&
ITINERARY
Information:
San Jose State University
Local Media Coverage:
SJSU Inauguration Trip
San Jose Mercury News
Published: December 10, 2008
Dana Hull, Reporter
Print Edition:
FRONT PAGE STORY
Part Two, Page 19
Mercury News Online Edition
INAUGURATION TRIP
PRESS RELEASES:
SJSU Announces Inauguration Trip
November 6, 2008
(San Jose, CA) - One of the west
coast’s most respected schools for
journalism education
has begun fundraising to send a
group of selected students to
history in the making on
January 20, 2009 in Washington D.C.
”Before they get there, we want our
Bay Area ethnic
and cultural students to explore,
learn, connect and report back to
their communities
the connection we share with the
civil rights movement which made the
election of the first
African-American as president
possible,” says
Dr. Michael Cheers, who
conceived this
cross-country learning experience
for San Jose State University
journalism, advertising
and public relations students. “Now
we are asking local individuals and
businesses to help
us raise the funds needed to pull
off this once in a lifetime
opportunity to connect
California’s diverse communities
with America’s historic past.”
Cheers, an award-winning,
internationally known
photojournalist and National
Geographic
Fellow is the Coordinator of the
SJSU Photojournalism degree program.
He and his
students were inspired by a poignant
online multimedia election night
presentation
featuring the life and the historic
impact of the Obama election for the
95-year-old aunt
of SJSU colleague and former CNN
Correspondent,
Professor
Bob Rucker.
The two
African-American journalists talked
with their students about covering
the inauguration in
a unique way. “They were excited
about being a part of history and
finding their cultural
connection to the civil rights
movement,” Rucker says. “Some also
saw the connection
to the ongoing struggle of same-sex
couples to have the right to marry
as the modern
day struggle for equal protections
and civil rights.”
The two veteran educators believe by
taking a group of diverse students
to
Washington DC in January, by way of
a van driving tour through Memphis,
Tennessee
( home of the national Civil Rights
Museum ), Selma, Alabama and
Atlanta, Georgia
(places Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. made famous with his voting
rights marches in
the 1960s), Cheers and Rucker
believe the SJSU students will get a
better understanding
and an invaluable appreciation of
the blood, sweat and tears 44 years
ago which set
America on the course to this year’s
“Change” election in 2008.
More than 600 Journalism School
students, representing nearly all
Bay Area ethnic and cultural
communities, can apply for selection
by Cheers and Rucker to go on the
cross-country trip. Between six to
ten students will be chosen. “Each
applicant must identify
their understanding of civil rights
history, and demonstrate their skill
at using laptop and
new technology software to write
multiple news stories and shoot,
edit and post photos
and video online as part of a daily
reporting assignment while on the
trip,” says Rucker.
Cheers adds “this will be a working
trip, an ‘education on wheels’
designed to produce
work which can be shared with the
Bay Area community back home and
people
around the world.”
To realize this goal, however,
Cheers and Rucker must raise a
minimum $25,000
to cover the costs of student
airline flights to Memphis where
they plan to start their
van tour through the South. They
will also need overnight motel/hotel
accommodations
for ten days on the road, and
insurance must also be secured.
Students will get
academic credit for their effort,
but they must pay that cost along
with food and daily
expenses.
“We are hoping local Silicon Valley
high tech companies and media
outlets
will help underwrite this effort and
sponsor this historic caravan,”
Rucker says. “It’s a
golden opportunity for local
businesses to showcase some of their
new technology
and connect with Bay Area cultural
communities in a personal and
powerful way like the
San Jose Mercury News slideshow and
audio presentation about my
95-year-old aunt
and mother.”
LIVING TO SEE IT was
produced by photojournalist Pauline
Lubens
at Rucker’s San Jose home on
election night.
Cheers and Rucker are asking local
community leaders to help them raise
the
funds and secure donations of new
technology before SJSU goes on
Thanksgiving
break in two weeks. SJSU student
applications for the Inauguration
trip
will be taken beginning on campus
Monday, November 17th in the
School of Journalism and Mass
Communications.
Any amount
of donation from private
individuals, groups, local
businesses, schools,
government officials, etc. are most
welcome! Thank You!
 
CREATIVE DONATIONS - THANK YOU!
The School
of Journalism and Mass
Communications
at San Jose State University
wants to thank Nikon, Apple and Pix
Sense
for providing new technology
cameras, video editing & web design
software and high definition cell
phones
for student on the trip to use to
post their efforts on the
KTVU Channel 2 website.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 |
Give us your feedback!
|
SJSU
Journalism School office
408-924-3240
|