ADLER JOURNALISM BUILDING—According to sources, Journalism Professor Colson Boyle has agreed to teach a class this spring aimed to equip journalism students with the necessary set of skills to write a response to Stephen Bloom’s article in the Atlantic about his twenty years of Iowa life.
Students who enroll in the class will learn how to make their opinions sound valid despite living in Iowa. “It helps if they double-major in International Studies or Spanish or something,” said Boyle. “Nobody respects a Journalism-and-Nothing major.”
One of the main focuses of the class will be pretending that you have no idea what Professor Bloom means by the phrase ‘waste-toid’ and then stating that you nor anyone you know uses meth.
The final three weeks of the course will be in a workshop-format. “You don’t just want to say, ‘Hey Bloom, you’re a dick.’ You have to really hit it home,” explained Boyle, “by challenging Bloom’s sources and adding in a bunch of your own numbers and statistics about how great Iowa is. We need to bounce these ideas off our peers.”
At the end of the semester, students will be encouraged to post their responses to their personal blogs where they will go safely unread by anyone.
