The development of Mosaic, a newsletter for Ball State international students : an honors thesis (HONRS 499)

Abstract

As a Journalism major, I wanted to complete a thesis that would include all of the components that make up my curriculum -- writing, editing and designing. I had gone to the International House in January, 1991, to interview Director of Foreign Student Programs Kirk Robey for an Orient yearbook story I was doing on international students with on-campus jobs. He gave me copies of their newsletter to help me with my research.The newsletter was done on an IBM computer monthly by the two graduate assistants in their spare time. It had no name, but was simply titled "Ball State University International Student Newsletter." This was in large, bold ITC Bookman type with the month and year in the same style under it. It had two three-inch columns, with a .75-inch margin on the left, a 1.25 margin on the right and fluctuating top and bottom margins. The body typeface was nine-point ITC Bookman and the stories had short, bold, l 1-point titles of the same font. Some issues used clip-art to take up space and break up the type, and every issue had the "Benny-in-a-globe" to the right of the newsletter title. It was simple and suited its purpose, but in my opinion, it was not very appealing.