Congratulations to the newly elected 2012-2013 Eboard! We are so excited to have everyone on board and hit the next semester off with a bang. A big congratulations to the graduating board as well, and an electronic round of applause to them for making the past year a wonderful PRSSA experience. Looking forward to great times ahead!

And here is your new board:

Shira Palka, President 

Eva Huang, VP of Finance

Dear Bloggers, 

Hello! So just last week, for those of you who missed it, NYUPRSSA went to a mingling/social networking event held by NYPRSA. It was an awesome time at The Australian (near Times Square) getting business cards, presenting ourselves to PR professionals, and getting a glimpse of the PR life in the real world. PR professionals from different agencies got together to discuss their companies’ purpose and exchanged contacts — lots of “mingling.” A lot of the members of PRSA NY were shocked to see us so actively coming out to the event, and it was super encouraging to hear wonderful compliments of us really trying to join the PR world. In addition, we met a fellow undergraduate PRSSA organization — the chapter at Hunter college.

Getting to know fellow PRSSA members from different universities was also a lot of fun, but don’t worry if you missed out! The great thing about PRSSA and PRSA is that there are so many events/campaigns/competitions/conferences to attend that missing one won’t hurt too much.
Keep in mind that public relations is all about making connections and keeping in touch once you’ve made those connections, so it’s essential that we all actively seek to establish relations with our possibly future bosses! Don’t feel pressured, there will definitely be more events to come, so join us next time! 

Until then,

PRSSA Historian – Claire S. Ahn

Originally posted on 4/12/2011 via Wordpress

Hello PRSSA!

Hope everyone’s spring break is going fantastic! I actually stayed up last night catching up on some shows. Definitely worth it! If all of you are avid “Youtubers,” today’s popular video (and popular video for all of March) is Alexandra Wallace’s infamous video on Asians in the UCLA library. What intrigued me was the level of racism that still exists so strongly in today’s community. One can debate as to whether her video was really THAT offensive considering that some Asians actually even thought it was pretty funny. However, the prevalence of racism (even on a surface level) is evidently there, otherwise, it wouldn’t have become this big of an issue.

Racism and YouTube are both hot topics today and have been for a while, but what I wanted to talk about was the First Amendment. Do we need to make changes to it? Yes, it allows for the freedom of speech, which is why, according to the New York Times UCLA would do a “disservice to itself and the First Amendment if it goes ahead and disciplines her for the content of her words.” Because of the freedom of speech, Americans are saying that Alexandra cannot be punished just because her words were hurtful and a bit offensive; however, this was before the creation of media and internet. The reason for Ms. Wallace’s punishment, the NYT states, is “harassment against a group of students,” but technically, it wasn’t a specific threat or against the law. The words were simply a bit ignorant and biased. But who CAN’T say that on YouTube these days? During the days of the First Amendment and no technology, it was so much easier to determine what was against the law or not. So should we make a new amendment? One that involves the World Wide Web? One that involves a more applicable 21st century rule? Well, I guess that’s not something that’s exactly up to me, but it’s nice to think of possibilities to prevent these events from occurring again. Maybe if our amendments were more specific, then these occurrences could be dealt with more precaution and order rather than ambiguity and debate. The media is such an influential and powerful aspect of our lives today – it’s impossible to ignore that statement, so why not make some new changes to the original? Just some food for thought. Maybe it starts with us avid media watchers and fans 

Until next time,

Claire Ahn

Originally posted on 3/18/2011 via Wordpress

Dear PRSSA members,
Hello! Hope all of you are having a fantastic weekend.
The meeting went very well, and more people came out than expected so a word of thanks for that! Elias Buchwald, former president of the New York Chapter and co-founder of Burson-Marsteller, gave a captivating speech, brief and to the point, as did our professional advisor, Jeremy Bridgman. They introduced the world of public relations to us amateurs and briefly touched on the different paths of PR – working in a PR agency or being the PR person in a company.
Shortly after, our President Doreen Naor, introduced PRSSA as a network of student professionals interested in Public Relations, including what we hope to accomplish. Our Vice President, Stephanie Dressler, discussed upcoming events and Ben Spalding, our Treasurer, discussed possibilities in fundraising for these events. Gotta raise money! Our secretary, Cara McMahon, touched upon the different
committees within PRSSA so that every member can have an opportunity to be a leader.After all, what’s the point in being in a club if one cannot partake in its activities? So many people signed up, and now we have members in each committee! 
Lastly, our PR Director, Shira Palka, and I (Historian) introduced to the rest of the members our Twitter, WordPress, and Facebook (NYU Prssa) pages. So follow us! Valentine’s Day is approaching and we hope our events committee will be able to fundraise during the love holiday. For all the singles, this is for you. We’re hoping to promote “single-ness.”

We’ll keep you updated so check on our wordpress often!

Until then,Your Historian,Claire Ahn, on behalf of the entire Executive Board

For more details on what happened at the meeting, click here.

Originally posted on 2/12/2011 via Wordpress