More than meets the eye

  Just an Intro to Journalism Interview Paper where I turned a personal interview into a story. I feel like theres much work to do and to improve on.


  More than meets the Eye

LF – No doubt, LFC students, like many others, categorize each other based on different activities and crowds they’re affiliated with. It’s the human nature to judge and to be judged. However, it seems that most student have something that ties them to each other. It happens to be something that sets students apart from each other but at the same time tying them to together. This something happens to be culture.

        Donnie Cald, a football player for the college team, explains how culture is an important aspect of his life. Donnie is not an international student but at the same time he expresses the importance of culture. He elaborates, “Culture is something that sets me apart from everyone else but at the same time, it’s something that brings me together with other students because of diversity.”  Mhlon Mabu, an international student from Swaziland, Africa, reveals that culture is also an important aspect of life for him. Ardy Retti and Regi Mill share the same views as Cald and Mabu on culture although they both come from backgrounds of mixed culture.

          All these students live very different lives. Every day, each one of them work and aim toward different goals. While Retti works toward finding different creative outlets and expressing self in different artistic ways, Mill works toward reaching his academic goals and doing his best in developing his physique. In a similar way, Cald works toward being the best student-athlete he can be and Mabu works toward success. And when things get tough for these students, each has their own way of dealing with hard times. For, Mill, running is an escape from reality. Whereas the glory that awaits at the finish line is what keeps Mabuza going. On the other hand, his little brother and sister is what keeps Cald going. In the same way, Retti finds that he can go on during difficult circumstances with the support of his friends.

          No doubt that all these students come from different backgrounds. Cald plays football on the college’s team, Retti djs on the college’s radio broadcast and writes for the college’s literary magazine, Mabu is an international student busy with his studies, and Mill is busy working on his physique and involved in a fraternity. However, there’s more than meets the eye to these men. There’s culture to each one of them however different it might be. And it’s made them different from each other. At the same time, the importance of culture and values bring them together.