Find and interview no fewer than five people of your choice on a topic also of your choice. The interviews must produce at least enough intelligence for you to be able to produce an interesting and unified story.

For example, you might wish to interview students, faculty and staff about parking issues on the campus, about using Blackboard , about the pace of summer classes as they differ from fall and spring semester classes, or about whether and why students prefer to live on or off campus.

You may not interview any student in this class, nor any journalism student, nor anyone who works on the bottom floor of Wallace Hall. If you interview your friends, lovers, roommates, classmates or professional associates, you will need that many additional sources for this story. In other words, friends, family, classmates and roommates do not count as sources for this story.

All interviews must be conducted in person (face to face or on the telephone), and each interview subject must be made to understand why he is being interviewed and that his responses may be published.