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The Daily OrangeBob Costas to address university
By Shayna Meliker
Posted: 9/24/08, 12:28 AM EST Section: News
Bob Costas, NBC sportscaster and Syracuse University alumnus, will host an on-campus question and answer session today.
Costas, who left the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1974 before graduation to work at WSYR-TV and Radio in Syracuse, will speak at 2:30 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse III.
After multiple play-by-play announcing jobs, Costas joined NBC Sports in 1980. He currently hosts the network's "Football Night in America" and was the primetime host for NBC's Olympic Games coverage.
Bob Lissit, an associate professor of broadcast journalism at SU, said Costas' experiences in Beijing could serve to inspire students.
"I think he had a marvelous opportunity to experience a major sporting event in a very unusual setting," Lissit said. "If I were a student anywhere on the SU campus, I think Bob Costas would be a wonderful person to come listen to."
Lissit said what Costas might have to share about the Olympics spans across academic disciplines, not just communications. He mentioned architecture, economics and political science.
But the event was being promoted only to Newhouse students and not to the entire university. Newhouse e-mailed its faculty at the end of last week, asking them to notify students of the event.
Jean Brooks, Newhouse's assistant director of donor relations, said the internal publicity in Newhouse isn't meant to make the event exclusively for its students and faculty.
An announcement for Costas' visit was posted on Newhouse's Web site, but it was not put on SU's events calendar or announced by SU News Services.
Kevin Morrow, director of SU News, said his office provides the vehicle for SU's colleges to announce events. The choice of whether to publicize an event to the entire university is up to the event's sponsor - in this case Newhouse.
"I know that Newhouse brought him principally to speak to Newhouse students," Morrow said. "There's a concern if it was widely publicized, the number of people wanting to get into the auditorium would exceed capacity."
Costas, who left the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1974 before graduation to work at WSYR-TV and Radio in Syracuse, will speak at 2:30 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse III.
After multiple play-by-play announcing jobs, Costas joined NBC Sports in 1980. He currently hosts the network's "Football Night in America" and was the primetime host for NBC's Olympic Games coverage.
Bob Lissit, an associate professor of broadcast journalism at SU, said Costas' experiences in Beijing could serve to inspire students.
"I think he had a marvelous opportunity to experience a major sporting event in a very unusual setting," Lissit said. "If I were a student anywhere on the SU campus, I think Bob Costas would be a wonderful person to come listen to."
Lissit said what Costas might have to share about the Olympics spans across academic disciplines, not just communications. He mentioned architecture, economics and political science.
But the event was being promoted only to Newhouse students and not to the entire university. Newhouse e-mailed its faculty at the end of last week, asking them to notify students of the event.
Jean Brooks, Newhouse's assistant director of donor relations, said the internal publicity in Newhouse isn't meant to make the event exclusively for its students and faculty.
An announcement for Costas' visit was posted on Newhouse's Web site, but it was not put on SU's events calendar or announced by SU News Services.
Kevin Morrow, director of SU News, said his office provides the vehicle for SU's colleges to announce events. The choice of whether to publicize an event to the entire university is up to the event's sponsor - in this case Newhouse.
"I know that Newhouse brought him principally to speak to Newhouse students," Morrow said. "There's a concern if it was widely publicized, the number of people wanting to get into the auditorium would exceed capacity."
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David Marc
posted 9/24/08 @ 9:42 AM EST
"Bob Costas to address university" is a misleading headline, made worse by its inappropriate tone. An "address" is a speech, and when "address" is used as a verb, it usually is reserved for a political or administrative leader who is speaking on a specific subject, often in a crisis situation (e. (Continued…)
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