As I went on my journey this weekend to interview people on campus about the recent snow storm, lets just say people were a little less than willing. Even as I motioned for people's attention outside of Coppee Hall they still completely ignored me, keeping headphones in tact while walking straight ahead as if I did not even exist.
When I finally ran into some people who were willing to be filmed, they still made me feel like i was wasting their time. I tried to be as quick as possible, but sometimes it is hard when you are trying to film things in the right light while following the rule of thirds at the same time.
Once I did get all my footage, there was one strong overall consensus about the snow storm: Lehigh sucks at notifying students. One poor kid that I interviewed even went to this early class on that Wednesday morning because he had no idea that classes were cancelled. I mean come on Lehigh you charge us practically $50,000 dollars a year in tuition so I think the least you can do is shoot us a short e-mail to let us know classes are cancelled during a snow storm. It seems that more people found out about the storm through social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter, which I find kind of sad even though they same to be the new means of on-line communication.
In the end, both of these issues could have been solved within 2 minutes. Students agreeing to do a 2-minute interview and for the Lehigh staff to stop being lazy and send out a simple e-mail stating "school is cancelled."
