GRAD CHECK
Each year students make the legendary walk through the Campanile, down The Hill and into the real world. We're here to check in on them.
Steve Doocy
Year: 1979
Hometown: Algona, Iowa,
but raised in Kansas
Degree: Journalism
Back in the day: Doocy was the first person on the air with KJHK when the radio station broadcasted for the first time in 1975. He later became the station manager. KU taught him how to write and report a story well, he says. However, "I don't know if it prepared me for how tough the real world is." he says. "It's a pretty cutthroat world."
Today: Doocy is the host of America's number one cable news show "Fox and Friends" on the Fox News Channel. It runs
from 6 to 9 a.m. Eastern Standard Time every morning and covers news and questions of the day. He also wrote The Mr. and Mrs. Happy Handbook, which comes out next month.
Why he's a big deal: Through the years, Doocy has received 11 local Emmy Awards, the Associated Press' Feature
Reporter of the Year Award and the Sigma Delta Chi Society of Professional Journalists, Headliner Award.
He says: A pitcher of beer in New York is $75 so... "Cherish the days of the cheap beer, kids."
Whether you're singin' along, groovin' by yourself or just studying in the library, we'll catch you with the MUSIC THAT MOVES YOU
Katherine Loeck
Listener: Bryce Jones,
Salina Junior
Tune: "Leave a Clean
Camp and a Dead Fire"
by Juno
Action: Reading on
Wescoe Beach
He says: "They're just
perfect mix of grunge
and ambience."
Listener: Craig Frint,
Belleville freshman
Tune:"Punk Rock Song"
by Bad Religion (on
shuffle)
Action: Reading the
University Daily Kansan
on Wescoe Beach while
waiting for class
He says:"I listen to
everything, literally.
I go from country, to
rap, to Christian, to
instrumental."
Listener: Brian Arnold,
Overland Park freshman
Tune:"Give Up" by
the Postal Service (on
shuffle)
Action: Doing his "Calculus II" homework in Anschutz Library He says: "I think any music is good music to study to. As long as there is music on, I don't mind studying."
Listener: Libby Brickson,
Overland Park junior
Tune:"Gotta Understand"
by Jurassic 5
Action: Taking a smoke
break on a bench
between Wescoe and
Stauffer-Flint
She says:"I think they
have a really unique
style of rapping and
harmonizing."
Katherine Loeck