JAMS: Debates and Free Speech

The Journalism, Advertising and Media Studies (JAMS) Living Learning Community (LLC) has had an exciting past few weeks. The JAMS LLC students have had a few fun opportunities to deepen their JAMS related knowledge, real-world experience and to meet others who are interested in their intended major.

JAMS LLC students had the chance to attend a debate between Democratic Senator, Tammy Baldwin and Republican challenger, Leah Vukmir, on October 8. JAMS Students were able to reserve tickets to this event, which was held in the Peck School of Arts, at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee (UWM), just a short walk from their LLC location. The Peer Mentor for the JAMS LLC took a few students to pick up tickets for this event after their JAMS 101 class discussion. A few upper-level JAMS students were able to over this event for their student organizations and the Media Milwaukee and JAMS social accounts. This was a unique event, UWM only offered tickets to a few groups of students.

The second fun opportunity JAMS LLC students had was attending Guest Speaker, Professor Alexander Tsesis, who spoke on freedom of speech on college campuses. This event was held in the afternoon on October 11, in UWM’s Physics building. While this guest speaker event covered JAMS related content, it was open to the public.  

UWM held an Exploring Majors Fair on October 22 in the Union Ballroom. This was an event open to all UWM students, but offered as an opportunity to the JAMS LLC to talk with JAMS upper-level-students and faculty to learn more about their intended major. JAMS was represented by upper-level-students, faculty, and advisors.

These events have given JAMS LLC students opportunities to explore their intended major, experience real-world JAMS related industry practices and learn more about specific topics within JAMS. We are about half way through the fall semester, and we still have a lot of exciting events to come!