Some of the students have maintained their contacts from the week and ended up with full scholarships. It could happen again.

We look for the students with the best applications, not where they are from.

These students are the cream of the crop. We have hundreds apply every year from all over the country. Students can use this for continuing their education in broadcast journalism.

We love it. We learn from them at the same time they are learning from us.

It?s very dismal. Nationwide, federal grants haven?t kept pace with tuition, so students have to borrow more. Loan indebtedness is soaring.

We don't have a plan if a pandemic comes around, we can't turn 53 buildings, 32,000 students and 1,800 teachers into a kind of virtual school. We couldn't even do that in a year. We don't have a plan for sending curriculum by e-mail to students. We'll be doing whatever we can in the best interest of the community. . . . And we would do whatever kind of enrichment activities we could.