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The fundamentals of Advanced Reporting

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The struggles of interviewing and writing by Darian Bazile Advanced Reporting, a required journalism course at UNLV, requires that students interview sources every semester and create newsworthy stories in training for a future career in journalism. The class, taught by Gregory Borchard, is a required course for journalism majors. Students learn the fundamentals of news writing and how to conduct interviews, an essential skill for those serious about a journalism career. As with other classes in the past, the spring semester 2018 students set out to interview people to create the foundations for the three stories they must write to pass the class. Students must then write out their stories and publish them through Blogger, a new experience for Advanced Reporting. "These are the things you have to learn if you want to be a writer in any capacity," said Anthony Milici, a student in the class and an aspiring sports journalist. "Being able to interview somebody you d...
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Capstone Cafe: The front and back

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The Boyd Dining Room reception area. (original photo) The class run like a restaurant by Darian Bazile The Capstone Cafe, an annual series of lunch and dinner services that run in March and April, gives UNLV's food and beverage hospitality students the chance to show their skills through a restaurant open to the public. As the Capstone Cafe's name suggests, it acts as a capstone course for the hospitality major. The class tasks students to run their own restaurant services as a culmination of the various skills they learned. Lunch services typically run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, on the second floor of the Frank and Estella Beam Hall building. Dinner services are held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Stan Fulton Building on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The practicing students put out three-course meals for $10, providing a nice local place for students and faculty to eat. "This class really gives students the opportunity to...
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Aaron Mayes and the side of Las Vegas no one sees

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Aaron Mayes stands in front of the exhibit. (Photo by: Darian Bazile) The documentarian photographer by Darian Bazile The Built exhibit, hosted on the first floor of UNLV's Lied Library, showcases the development of Las Vegas through photographs. The photographer is Aaron Mayes, the current Special Collections curator for visual materials. Much of his work focuses on collecting the visual history and culture of the city. Mayes, a photographer based in Las Vegas, worked for local newspapers and currently works for UNLV. The Built exhibit , his latest project, reflects his desire to showcase the unseen parts of the city that goes unappreciated to the outside world. "Most of my photographic education came from the school of hard knocks," Mayes said. "I learned from working at newspapers and pounding it out that way."  Mayes' photograph of UNLV punter Joe Kristosik for the  Las Vegas Sun in 1998 . Mayes first worked on the Henderson Home New...
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