If I bring anything to the classroom, I hope it is professionalism. I advise students to develop discipline. Learn to work hard, to study hard and to play at a pace that is under control. None is mutually exclusive.
Students can do all three.
But to do the first two well, which are the lynch pins of their college adventure, they must be disciplined. Any fool can be thrilled by the novelty, but it takes a special person to be thrilled with the discipline needed to work and study at the highest level. If students want to unscramble what's going on in the world for people, regardless of how technology delivers the message, this college will help them do that. One, when a student's light bulb goes off and you can actually see him say, 'I get it. Dick Thien is a professional lecturer in the news-editorial department of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications.