Hello, Clair!

It was really nice to meet you.

I am the girl you met this past Monday. I tried to send you a message on your cstence@du.edu address, but it never went through.

Here is my “Flip the coin” article. Thank you for all your help. I am so excited about it being published!

Thank you so much,Lyuba Palm.P.C. If you have any questions, call me: 720 366 3170.______________________________________________If you are a Communications or a Journalism Major you might have to flip the coin in order to take the MCOM 2140 News writing and Reporting class because there is not enough space in the classroom.The classes are held in the lab that has fifteen computers. Usually there are at least three students that end up not having one.This class fills up really fast. To be enrolled in it you probably needed to register in Spring. If you did not register early enough, you have two options. One is to wait for the early registration in October. But if you are really driven to become a reporter quickly and you have luck on your side, try flipping a coin with a fellow student. If you win, you stay in the class!In order to attend this class and to do all the in-class writing assignments each of the students has to have it’s own computer that is hooked up to the printer. Ones you are finished with your work at the end of the class, you hand it in order to be graded.Ania Savage, who teaches News writing and Reporting tries to find a solution for the problem.”If you have a laptop, bring in a chair and let’s be cozy in here,” she says.Savage says, she fought for years for a bigger classroom but the situation remains the same; the room is always overcrowded with students. She explains this situation by the increase of a Communications and Journalism Major students within the past few years.Rodney Buxton, an associate professor of the department has a different opinion on the problem. He says that the number of journalism majors has remained the same. “Part of the problem, he says, is that a number of freshmen students who should be first trying to meet their core requirements are taking the upper division classes. He also does not see this situation changing in the near future.It is not a secret to anyone that the school of Communications is one of the oldest buildings on D.U. campus. There are gossips about a project to build a new building for this department. But nobody knows the exact dates when this will happen. One thing is for sure-until then students will be flipping coins!