The “newsroom” is composed of Shima 203 and Shima 204, which are connected by a doorway between the two. The door to Shima 203 is typically locked in lieu of students entering through Shima 204 instead, as to not disrupt class in progress.
This is YOUR lab and newsroom.
This room is reserved for Journalism and Multimedia students in the Mass Communication/Journalism program at Delta College.
In order to keep this lab functioning properly, please adhere to the basic following guidelines:
- No food/drink inside the lab space
- Please push in chairs
- Clean up after yourself
- Throw away your trash
- Be respectful of other people’s property
- Don’t leave personal items out and unattended
Computers
- These are not your personal computers. All machines operating in Shima 203/204 are in a state of “Deep Freeze.” You are not allowed to save data to the hard drive in any way. Please note that data found on any hard drive will be deleted. Also note that all data stored on the desktop will be deleted upon next restart.
- Use the drive associated with your class. MCOM 11/12 students use Collegian.
- Editors often sit at the same machines. That’s OK. But that person doesn’t OWN the computer.
- You will share lab space with the MCOM 10 course. The students in MCOM will be instructed to work in Shima 203 instead of Shima 204 during production weeks. Journalism students have first choice of machines during production week. Outside of production week, it’s a first come, first serve situation.
- You may bump a student working on non-newspaper related work if necessary.
Printer
- You may use the printer to print papers for another class if you get approval from Tara or Matt. Your friends may not.
- No printing of flyers for any club or organization outside of The Collegian and Pulse of 209.
- Printing in color is not allowed with prior OK from Tara or Matt.
- Don’t print anymore than 50 pages at once. If you have a document that includes more than 50 pages, please ask your instructor for appropriate protocol (which is to send the document to the print center on campus).
- Any student found printing illegal materials, or making copies another instructor has forbade will be reported to student services for an academic integrity violation. So don’t think this is the place to make fake IDs. It is not.
Classroom space
- Pick up after yourself.
- Throw food-related trash into the garbage can outside of Shima 203 or outside of Shima 205.
- If the trash can is full, use common sense and don’t add to it. Don’t overflow it.
- Wipe up your own messes.
- For the love of journalism, push your chairs in when you leave the classroom.
Kitchen area
- Under no circumstances is anyone allowed to drink the Diet Coke in the refrigerator. It belongs to Tara. Leave it alone.
- Check with Matt before messing with the tea kettle.
- If your burrito has an unfortunate accident and leaves debris all over the microwave, wipe it up.
- Cover your food with a paper towel when warming it up, unless it’s in its own container.
- No real silverware in the microwave (and yes, apparently this has to be said).
- Don’t leave food in the refrigerator for more than a week.
- Don’t take another person’s food out of the refrigerator if yours doesn’t fit.
- Don’t take another person’s food out of the fridge, period.
- The ketchup, mustard, paper plates, napkins and cups can be used by all.
- Mark your food with your name, otherwise other staff members might assume it’s for all.
- If the Diet Coke isn’t marked, always assume it’s Tara’s.
Equipment storage
- The equipment cabinets are to be locked at all times.
- Matt is in charge of checking out equipment — check with him if you need a camera, SD card, etc.
- An equipment contract needs to be filled out before you can check out any equipment. See Matt for the contract
Visitors
On occasion newspaper staff members have visitors who stay long periods of time. That is generally OK.
It is not OK when a student visitor is rude or distracting to other staff members. Your visitor will be asked to leave and not come back if he or she is a distraction to the staff.
Please note that this lab is for Mass Communication/Journalism and Multimedia students, as stated above. Visitors using computers doing things not related to the program can be bumped from a machine at any time.
Lab hours
Lab hours are typically 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. unless the instructor notes otherwise. Please note that coming in at 3 p.m. to work on a page that has nothing on it, is NOT ACCEPTABLE. Please value your adviser’s time as well as your own.