Talon Marks is hanging on

Your name

Sat Aug 29 2009 14:54

What is the status of TM this semester? Did it meet its 20-student minimum? Will there be a print edition and online edition?

Paul Rubalcaba
Former TM Editor

Randy Economy

Sun May 31 2009 05:23

I suppot KEEPING THE TALON MARKS on THE PRESSES and ON THE INTERNET. I am a FORMER EXECUTIVE EDITOR of the TM from 1979-81 and THE COMMUNITY IS BEHIND KEEPING THE TM OPEN AND ALIVE! Visit my BLOG at www.Economy4ABC.Blogspot.com and I will see you at the Board of Trustees Meeting this WEEK!! Keep Hope Alive!

Your name

Sat May 30 2009 22:54

Save the environment. Online only!!!

Erick Galindo

Fri May 29 2009 19:01

Mr. Paul Rubalcaba and anyone else interested in donating money to the cause or even time, please contact editor@talonmarks.com ASAP.

Thank you,
The Committee to Save the Talon Marks

Oscar Franco 2009-2010 ASCC President

Mon May 25 2009 15:37

"I think Talonmarks should be consider a public service, not a class," therefore, it would not be fair to cut it. As President of the ASCC, I would like to express my support for Talon Marks....We'll try everything we can to let the paper serving our community.....

KSMR

Sun May 24 2009 15:11

YES....The paper is gone

Paul Rubalcaba

Sat May 23 2009 23:51

How can i help? How much money do you need. I am a former Editor of TM and awardee of the Most Professional Journalist Award in 1972. What will it take to keep the presses rolling?

Paul Rubalcaba

Sat May 23 2009 23:46

As a former editor of TM and the awardee of the "Most Professional Journalist Award" in 1972, I am obviously close to this decision. Please let me know the dollar figure needed to keep the printed copies in circulation...and how soon you need the money to keep the presses rolling.

PAUL RUBALCABA
Class of 1972

Keith Estabrook

Sat May 23 2009 20:46

Am I to understand that in a school with 20,000+ (at least at my time there) students, the Talon Marks can't find 20 students to take the production class?
The TM has a more than 40-year tradition of serving the students and community at CCC and has won many awards for its efforts. The paper was instrumental in getting the word out to the students during my term in student government, when the ASCC sued the college over the distribution of profits from the student-owned bookstore and the failure of the district to pay off the bonds for the bookstore and student-union buildings after we had forwarded the money to the district. I was very pleased to sign the agreement with the district that settled the case out of court and secured the financial future of the ASCC for many years to come.
Additionally, under the great chief C. Thomas Nelson and editors like Susan Phillips and Nancy Ballard, the TM won many awards at Journalism Association of Community Colleges state conventions. I got a great start to my journalism BA on that staff and won first place for newswriting at the state convention in 1987, something that I attribute to Mr. Nelson's excellent tutelage.
Don't let what must surely be one of the most long-lived continuously published community college newspapers in the state die such an ignominious death.

Keith Estabrook
Poolville, TX
ASCC president 1986-1987
Talon Marks staff writer 1984-1986

rusty

Sat May 23 2009 18:16

Perhaps, English/BusComm. class students could be encouraged to volunteer time (extra credit?) to help with functions of the paper, including grammar & spelling checks, footnotes, etc.. Miraculously, some of those students may thereafter even consider enrolling in a journalism course.

ashley

Sat May 23 2009 17:19

even if we had outside contributors the problem wouldn't be solved because they'd need to be enrolled in the class.

DanaRose Crystal

Sat May 23 2009 16:03

If you accepted people who can contribute via online/College Publisher, like Cypress Chronicle does, you could have enough submissions for print and online. Think about re-doing your enrollment and copy the Chronicle.

Mel

Sat May 23 2009 15:29

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :'(