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Here `Arjuna' is armed with information

P. Sudhakar

A tabloid brought out by students of St. John's College

COLLECTIVE EFFORT: A copy of the tabloid brought out by students of St. John's College, Tirunelveli. — Photo: A. Shaikmohideen

Tirunelveli: The most hunted name in the St. John's College Grounds, Palayamkottai, where the 66th all-India inter-university athletic meet is going on for the past four days, is `Arjuna', a highly informative eight-page tabloid being brought out by the students of Mass Communication, carrying excellent reports on all events, results, interviews with coaches, athletes and officials, etc., camping here for the event.

A group of 40 students of M.A. Mass Communication and M.Sc. Electronic Media, led by their `captain', Dr. P. Govindaraju, Head, Department of Communication, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, is bringing out this event newspaper. All these students play multiple roles such as reporters, photographers and sub-editors and send the final stories and photographs for layout and printing to the office of `Dinamalar', sponsor of the tabloid.

Five students - R. Padmalatha, B. Vinodh, A. Isai Selva Perumal, V. Rathish Kumar and J. Anto Sathya - have edited one issue each.

While reporters and photographers of other newspapers failed to capture an incident of an athlete injecting `something' seconds before the start of the final of hammer throw event on the third day, V. Vivekanandan and B. Bairose I year M.A. (Mass Communication), successfully followed it and a photograph of an official carrying the seized syringe was also taken. Though the officials could not prove that he had taken a `banned performance enhancer', he was prohibited from participating the event for leaving the field. As it was carried in the next issue of `Arjuna' in the most befitting manner, it won the admiration of every reader.

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