Slant story ideas 03/03/03

Slant issue 03/03, Meetings Thursdays at 8 PM

Submit your writing(s) by the Sunday before production at 1pm

Production runs from:

Sunday from 5-10

Monday from 1-11pm

Tuesday from 5-8pm

For all: Sarratt 130

Features

Front Page (300 words) x 3

Big Stories= 500-800 wordsish

Short Stories= 375-500 wordsish

Top 10 list

Around the Loop (ATL)

Fucked Image

Bastard Confession

Center Spread

Throwaways (w/ pics)

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New Ideass:

1. Parodies of popular books/stories
2. The Olympics
   1. Fake descriptions of what the sports are (DIBS: Andrew)
      1. i.     i.e. curling requires a hot hair styling tool
      2. ii.     Also, how they started: eg. 2-man lug
3. What should be sports (DIBS: Ryan)
4. Spring Olympics (DIBS: Caitlin)
5. Story about Drake, possibly relating to Degrassi (DIBS: JoJackson)
6. Rites
   1. Real interviews with the Rites lineup (perhaps smaller ones)
   2. We wanted O.A.R. and this is what you give us??
   3. Who we really should have for Rites
   4. Lost (DIBS: Zach)
      1. From the perspective of someone who has never watched the show.
      2. Meals get progressively smaller/worse each year
      3. Housing charts
         1. But written in Japanese with symbols etc which one cannot read
         2. Modest proposal on Spring break condom distribution packs (DIBS: Charlotte)
         3. ASB fake sites (DIBS: Jim)

10. BYX hazing

1. Puns off “bucks”
2. Hazing= making them read the Qur’an.

11. Better beer ads

1. Shotgun-ready cans (perforated)
2. Instead of super cold, luke warm so you can chug it better

12.  Beer games

1. Beer Olympic games

13. Greece Story

1. Connecting Greece’s debt to Greek life in debt, the destruction of Greek life, Pike going broke

14. Valentine’s Day movie—famous people + holidays = blockbuster

1. Independence day
2. Christmas Story
3. Ferris Buehler’s day off
4. Groundhog’s day
5. Etc.

15. March Madness—Vandy style (DIBS: Kyle Hope, but this will be collaborative)

1. Branscomb Breakfast v. Branscomb double
2. Hustler vs. Hustler store
3. Diet Coke vs. Rand Wall
4. Doesn’t have to make any sense

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STILL UNUSED IDEAS

1. 1.Fashion section
   1. Hobo fashion
   2. Fashion where everything is $1,000,0000’s
   3. Spoofing Versus
   4. “Party and Bullshit” (there is just so much Versus stuff to spoof)
      1. Soirées and this paper
      2. IMF money-loaning policies
      3. Post-raging pics
      4. Mardi Gras—point/counterpoint w/ Vandy vs. New Orleans
         1. NOLA version (DIBS: Justin)
            1. i.     Show me your tits
2. Vandy Version
   1. i.     Show me your Vandy card
   2. Rites of Spring lineup (DIBS: Meryem)
   3. Top 10 worst Baby names
      1. Window
      2. Jesus Condom
      3. Le-A
      4. Eurethra
      5. Randomly awesome (and deceptive) websites

http://www.menarebetterthanwomen.com
i. Self-explanatory

www.HighDEAS.com
i. The place for “inspiration”

www.redtube.com
i. Sneaky porn site

www.LPSG.org
i. Large Penis Support Group

http://www.studentology.net/tuesday/
i. Is it Tuesday?

http://iamawesome.com/
i. At least someone thinks so.

http://dicktowel.com/
i. Courtesy of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

more…)

7. Funny Calls to Action
a. Submit the most ridiculous opinion articles ever to the Hustler to see which one gets printed

8. Divinity school publishes their own humor magazine?

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