Your news budget

Here is a list of stories from which you'll select your top picks for class discussion on Thursday:

You are editor of the Kaimin and must select four stories for Page 1 of tomorrow's paper. From the list below, which would you choose?
Are there any you would not run at all? What other information would you want to know about these stories?
If you were news director of KGBA, which story would you select to lead your morning news broadcast?


1. Journalism students did well in recent national competitions. Kaimin editor Bill Oram won a $7,000 Jim Murray Scholarship and a $3,000 NCAA Sports Journalism Scholarship. RTV senior Caitlin Mallory won a $1,250 Broadcast Education Association Scholarship and the student documentary “Montana Journal: Where are the Alternative Fuels?” won a northwest student Emmy.

2. George Bush will deliver the Mansfield Lecture in the spring, Mansfield Center director Terry Weidner announced today.

3. A professor of geography at UM died last night on campus from what the chief of campus public safety says is a suicide.

4. More than 30 students who eat at the Food Zoo turned up at the Health Service with what appears to be food poisoning.

5. Weezy will appear in concert in Missoula on Nov. 13.

6. Five monkeys escape from a psychology lab on campus. They are still at large at press time.

7. UM Grizzly football coach Bobby Hauck said the team will put aside distractions from last season that resulted from murder charges against one player and robbery charges against four former players and will win the Big Sky conference title this season.

8. The Regents vote to add 10 credits to UM’s graduation requirements, effective with freshmen entering in fall 2008.