Wrapping up a great year

Crossroads is a year-round effort, but during the 8 months that IWU is in session, we have the bonus of having Communication Arts students contribute to the program in many ways. These photos show just a few of our students working on a recent taping and they illustrate one of the key parts of WIWU-TV's mission - educating the media leaders of tomorrow.



We give students meaningful roles at WIWU-TV. Crossroads has a student producer and field producers of the segments you see. Some Crossroads alums are working in television stations across Indiana today and other current students will be interning this summer at some of the best television stations in the midwest. And at each step of their training, they have the professionals who staff WIWU-TV backing them up and assuring the quality of the programming. So thank you for watching Crossroads this year, and know that behind the scenes there are many ways WIWU-TV is preparing a new generation of media professionals to tell stories with purpose and positive values.

Indiana's Future?

You gotta love this job. This week, WIWU-TV station manager Paul Crisp served as videographer as we took a hardhat tour of the new Central Indiana Ethanol plant, hosted by General Manager Mitch Miller. The facility on Highway 18, between Marion and Sweetser, will be operational in June of 2007 and it's an impressive site already. When it's finished, it will run 24/7, extracting four different products from corn. Besides the 40 full-time employees, imagine the boost this gives to the region's farm economy, finding another market for the crop.

As fuel prices climb and the supply tightens the entire nation is looking to alternative fuel sources. Indiana is one of the states that will benefit. And if you've heard Ethanol isn't that efficient, tune in to see how the latest technology changes the game, giving Ethanol and this plant a very bright future. Or tune in to see how the hard-hat looks. Whatever the case, join us because these are the things happening in our backyard, and Crossroads is there to bring it to you.