Professor Robert Hohlfelder just got back from an underwater archaeology where his team found a submerged church. I don't know that much about what he's studying, but it would be neat to do a story about the science of underwater archaeology. I think people in any of the area papers would think this was interesting. The Camera might be the most receptive. There really aren't great art possiblities, maybe just a mug of him or portrait in his office with equipment.
Crampons are devices that people attach to their boots to help climb on the ice.
I know that when the first teams tried to summit Mount Everest, they couldn t use crampons, even though they existed, because they made frostbite worse. They attached over the boot, and when the foot swelled, the climbers toes would be cut off from the rest of the body. I think it would be interesting to do a crampons through the ages story. Since the ice season is almost over, I probably couldn t pitch this until next winter. I think the Daily or the Campus Press would be interested in it then.