Karen Tapia-Andersen, a Los Angeles Times photographer and University of La Verne alumna, spoke to an estimated 40 students and faculty in the Arts and Communications Building on Nov. 30.
Our grandparents had radio. Our parents had television. In our generation, the blogging revolution is emerging into mainstream America and redefining the media.
A journey that took Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Don Bartletti thousands of miles from Honduras to suburban North Carolina by rail, raft, truck and foot brought him last Thursday to La Fetra Lecture Hall where he discussed his award winning series "Enrique's Journey," currently on display in the Carlson Gallery.
Photos of children fleeing from immigration authorities, riding on top of trains and hiding behind train cars are among the images that can be seen in the exhibit "Bound to El Nórte," in the Irene Carlson Gallery.
Last week, I got the opportunity to travel with the men's volleyball team to New York as a reporter for the Campus Times. Not only was I ecstatic about being given such an amazing assignment, but I got the chance to travel to the Big Apple.
I wonder what would happen if I stopped writing these columns. If one day my column was no longer here, and another person's smiling face and writing appeared. Would students complain or even bother to ask why?