{"id":4432,"date":"2012-11-07T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T03:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=4432"},"modified":"2012-11-08T09:23:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T14:23:32","slug":"underclassmen-take-on-leadership-roles-on-election-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/4432","title":{"rendered":"Underclassmen take on leadership roles on Election Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"By Claire DeRoin–
\n<\/strong>Lying on the newsroom floor Wednesday morning in sheer exhaustion, Katie Copple and Jianna Hoss, both sophomores in the field of mass communication, bantered back and forth and reflected on their Election Night experience. Tuesday night found them newsroom reporters as they directed fellow mass communication as well as political science students. A team of vote-counters would keep track of key races, then report to Copple and Hoss, who were the on-air reporters that delivered the messages in front of the cameras.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter yelling, \u2018Tally sheets! Tally sheets! Tally sheets!\u2019 I\u2019m surprised I didn\u2019t lose my voice,\u201d Hoss laughed. \u201cWe kept track of the percentage of votes for all of the toss-up elections: presidential, senate, house,\u201d Hoss said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to interview vote counters that didn\u2019t want to be interviewed,\u201d Copple said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to remember to look at the camera,\u201d Hoss added.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd say names we couldn\u2019t pronounce,\u201d Copple said. \u201cWe were rushed. It was hard. We were trying to get all of the information. Our final broadcast was ten minutes because there was so much! Local races, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and national stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hoss and Copple knew what their roles would be before Election Night rolled around, but despite their advance planning, it was a learn-on-the-fly situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe poli-sci students kept coming in shifts,\u201d Hoss said in dismay. \u201cThe new ones would come in and not know what to do. We had to keep training them.\u00a0 But some peoples\u2019 replacements never came, so they had to stay all night.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first time around, it was chaotic,\u201d Hoss continued. \u201cWe had to figure out how the tally sheets worked, and teach the poli-sci people how to do things. It was easier early on, but as more states came in, it got tough. The second we were off camera, we had to get going on the tally sheets again,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

\u201c[We had] Lots and lots of wasted paper,\u201d Copple said. And of the newsroom: \u201cAnd it smelled like a men\u2019s locker room.\u201d<\/p>\n

Overall, their positions provided good leadership experience, Hoss said.<\/p>\n

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