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Candyce M. Roberts
Online Portfolio
Fall 2010
About Me
I am Candyce Roberts a senior, Journalism and Media Studies major and a
Psychology minor. As a native of New York City, I have seen first handedly how
important education is. I believe it is important that I first educate myself so that
I can educate the world around me. After earning my Bachelors degree I plan to
attend law school where I will earn my JD MBA in Corporate Law and Journalism.
I would like to practice corporate law so that I can ensure that all people are
receiving their First Amendment Rights.
I am currently active in many organizations. I am the managing editor of
the Belle Magazine (print) and I serve as president of my residential hall council.
I am parliamentarian of Iota Iota Iota Women’s Honor Society. I also serve as a
Student Ambassador as well as a member of the Liberty Belle: NY Connection. By
remaining active on campus I feel that I have a plethora of opportunities to serve
my Bennett sisters and my community while educating myself at the same time.
I was the marketing intern for the Carolina Peacemaker. My internship
was broken up into two parts. The first half I worked out in the field going to
local businesses and trying to sell advertisement space in the newspaper. The
second half of my internship I was an in house intern where I assisted with the
billing, sales, and ad placement for the newspaper.
Candyce Roberts
900 E Washington St. Greensboro, N.C. 27401
(646) 702-3915
Personal Mission StatementTo obtain an internship with this firm where I can educate myself and build my
portfolio.
Education St. Agnes Academic High School
Bennett College for Women
Professional Experience Belle Magazine – Editing Manager 2009-2010
Belle Magazine – Sales Staff 2009
Carolina Peacemaker- Marketing Intern 2010
Educational Courses News Reporting I and II
Where I interview people of the community and produce stories for magazine, web, and broadcast.
Feature Writing
Where I produce newsworthy feature stories. In this course I was taught the fundamentals to writing a good feature.
Writing Across the Media
Where I produced stories in varies media forms. In this class I was taught skills to be versatile in the media field.
Extracurricular Activities Bennett College Association of Black Journalist
Belle Magazine
Community Service National Association of Negro Business and Professional Youth Club
Queens Child Guidance Center- Peer Tutor
4 Loko Frenzy Hits Campuses
Four Loko, the high-octane alcoholic beverage favored on college
campuses, is again under fire.
Liquor stores report significant increases in sales of the popular alcoholic
beverage Four Loko, and most students praise the product, which is known for
its potentially dangerous combination of alcohol and caffeine according to The
Hoya (Georgetown University’s Newspaper).
Four Loko comes in a 23-ounce can that contains the equivalent of five
cups of coffee and six cans of beers. Comprised of alcohol, taurine, guarana and
caffeine, the drink has both accelerating and depressing effects according to The
Hoya. A pack of four cans costs $2.50, boosting the appeal of the drink for
students bound to a budget.
“Four Loko doesn’t cost much and is not hard to find that’s why many
college students purchase it,” says Theresa Washington student at Bennett
College.
Several colleges have already banned the drink. The University of Rhode
Island is the latest, after 30 students fell ill or were injured during a campus
concert last month. Because Four Loko has such potent effects, school
administrators have opted to pre-emotively nix the availability of the product
according to Kate Drummond a reporter for the New York Times.
Michigan has banned all alcoholic, caffeinated energy drinks from being
sold in the state after nine Washington college students were hospitalized last
month after consuming Four Loko, known as "blackout in a can," according to
USA Today.
Four Loko, which is produced by Chicago-based Phusion Projects and has
been singled out for criticism by health experts due to the large number of
incidents related to the drink according to The Los Angles Times.
"We're disappointed by the recent call to ban our product from being sold
in many states, especially in Chicago where our company is headquartered,
because we know curbing alcohol abuse will not be accomplished by singling out
a lone product or beverage category." "Making college campuses safe and healthy
environments for learning is a goal we share with administrators -- even those
who have chosen to ban our products," say Phusion Projects in an interview with
The Los Angles Times.
Four-Year Student Life Time Activist Profile for Jean Neff Herbert
Jean Neff Herbert spent her early life in Pottstown, Pennsylvania before
migrating to Greensboro, North Carolina in 1959. When Herbert entered Bennett
College for Women she was greeted with more than just your average college
experience. Along with books and classes, Herbert was greeted with Jim Crow
Laws, segregation, and inequalities to minorities. Although Herbert is a woman
of Caucasian decent, she was very much involved with the movement to end
racism.
Unconscious of being a minority at Bennett, Herbert says “I felt it was my
duty to help make changes in the mistreatment in my surrounding”. Therefore, in
her sophomore year she began picketing, singing, and making slogans with the
other students in her college community. What started out a student effort to
end the wrongs being done to people of color turned into an era of change
formally known as the sit in movements.
Herbert not only picketed and sang with her peers. She also took part in
sitting at the counters that would not serve people of color. By sitting at those
counters Herbert wanted to show unity while proving that minorities could
indeed coincide with Caucasians. Because Herbert came from a home where she
was taught that everyone takes care of one another, she had no problem helping
bring a change to the Jim Crow era. “ Ending Jim Crow meant bettering the
world,” says Herbert.
Although the sit-in movement is the main topic of this era, that is not all
that protesters fought for. According to Herbert, Integration of public places was
the other call for change. Herbert recalls protesting and marching to bring about
change to public places that would not allow integration. “Movie theaters would
not allow blacks and whites to be together and student were not having that,”
Herbert passionately stated.
After finishing her studies at Bennett College, Jean Neff Herbert took her
experiences and education and relocated to Chicago, where she began her career
as a social worker. Her desire to pursue Social Work came from her experiences
at Bennett along with at her church home in Pottstown.
“I believe that my time at Bennett was spent wisely,” Herbert says as she
recalls her Bennett story. At the time Herbert did not know that the sit in
movement would have such a great impact upon the South. She is unsure if
today’s Bennett students understand the true struggle and impact of the sit-in
era. She would like Bennett students to understand that the time of Jim Crow
was more than an era but a movement, which means it never stops.
How to Story: How to prepare for the LSAT
As freshwomen quickly turn into seniors and seniors prepare to embark
on their career paths, graduate and professional schools are commonly the next
step. Many students wish to become lawyers therefore, there are many steps
they must be prepared to follow. So, if law school is your future you’ve got to
take the dreaded LSAT. Keithara Davis, a graduating senior at Spelman College
says, “I knew the LSAT would be rough, but once I became focused I knew I
would do well.” Here are six quick and easy steps to preparing for the LSAT. If
you follow these steps you will do quite well.
Think Preparation Not Study!! The LSAT is not a test you can spend hour
memorizing for. However, when preparing for LSAT you should basically obtain
and learn the test-taking format, which consist of five 35-minute sections of
multiple-choice questions. If you learn how the test is structured and what is
expected you are on your way to a great score.
Give Yourself Plenty of Time. Preparing for the LSAT is not a fly by night
type of deal. You must set aside enough time to continuously study. Do not play
to take the test in December and wait until November to begin studying. It just
wont work out right.
Familiarize yourself With the Format. You will face questions of three
types: logical reasoning, analytical reasoning, and reading comprehension. These
questions will appear in five formatted sections: one reading comprehension,
two logic problems, one section of logic games, and one "experimental" section
that doesn't count towards your score but is used by the Law School Admissions
Council to test future exam problems. You will also have a short writing sample
to complete in the allotted time; this section is not scored, but is used by law
school admissions personnel to assess your writing skill conditions. You can
download a free sample LSAT from LSAC.org, and you can also purchase
preparation materials at Law School Admission Council’s bookstore as well as
any major bookstore or website selling test preparation products or books.
Once you have practiced learning the need skills move on to step 5, which
is Get Fast. Set a stopwatch to time yourself on the practice sections. Remember
that the LSAT is a timed test. Therefore, you want to increase your speed as well
as your accuracy in answering. Keep track of your time during all of your
practice sessions and set goals for yourself.
Now that you have the steps to success, a high score on the LSAT should
be no worry.
Practice Practice Practice. Practice makes perfect and everyone wants a
perfect score. Give yourself plenty of opportunity to practice taking the test
under similar
Senior Portfolio Story
A New Type of Mother
College students are now caring baby bags along with book bags as they
try to juggle their hardships of motherhood and school. There once was a time
when mothers were considered to be middle-aged working class women.
However, in this day and time college aged mothers are becoming more and
more popular.
Kiara Jay’e, a senior at Virginia State University, says, “I thought being a
student was hard, but being a student and a mother is extremely difficult. My life
is no longer my own.”
According to www.livestrong.com more than one-third of all women get
pregnant before age 25, which is generally the category that college women fall
in. The rate of college-aged pregnancies have increases 7.1% since 2003
according to The Sloan Work and Family Research Network at Boston College.
Student mothers not only have to prepare bottles and change diapers but
they also have to write papers and take tests. Which may often time leave them
feeling like there is just not enough hours in a day. For many college mothers
this means a social life is a thing of the past.
“I don’t live the average college life, I don’t have a lot of time to spend just
hanging out with friends. My time is divided up between my daughter, work, and
school.” Says Jay’e.
People often say that your college years are the best years of your life
because you can have fun while just worrying about school. But for these college
mothers college is just not that simple. It evolves hassles that people generally
face later on in life. These college mothers do not have it easy.
Link for sound slide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjrvgJIAZrk
Student Parents Alternative Story Question and Answer
1. What struggles do you face as a parent concerning school that other students don’t face?I can not really get involved in on campus activities because not only do I have school work to complete and a son to raise I also have to work a part-time job to provide for my child.
2. Is school a bigger challenge now that you are responsible for another life?Yes, because I don’t have to just succeed for me I am obligated to succeed for my son as well.
3. How do you balance your time between studying, parenting, and socializing?Time management, but it isn’t easy. After classes I try to spend as much time with my son as possible before work. After work I have to put in time studying. As far as a social life there isn’t much time for that.
4. If you had a chance to not be a parent and wait until later on in life would you?Honestly yes I would I love my son but its not easy.
5. What advice would your offer to other students that are expecting a child?I would tell them know that it’s not easy and its time out for games. I would tell them to try and find a support system in people that you trust. I would also tell them to be ready for anything.
6. Does having a child affect your post graduation plans?Yes and No. I’m determined so nothing can stop me from being successful. However, as a parent sometimes you have to put your life on hold for your child.
Current Status
I am currently graduating senior May 2011.
