Tuesday, November 24, 2015

The Fit Bods come to campus



    The Fit Bods is a new, fitness oriented organization that has been brought to Washburn University’s campus. The Fit Bods is an organization that solely focuses on fitness and the well-being of students’ health on campus. Malcolm Mikkelsen, sophomore and vice president of Washburn Student Government Association, is the creator of the Fit Bods. 
     The Fit Bods currently have 15 active, fee-paying members, who have paid their dues, as well as 32 members who are a part of the Facebook group Mikkelsen created. Kolin Klozenbucher was appointed as vice president of the organization in September. 
    The Fit Bods have a monthly meeting, which is the last Friday of each month at 3 p.m. at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. At each meeting, a guest speaker, whose career or life is built around fitness speaks to the members. The purpose of having a guest speaker in that field is to motivate and to answer any questions members may have in regards to advancing their personal fitness lifestyle.
    “I’ve always thought it would be awesome to have a fitness oriented group on campus. College is a hard experience, and one in which is tough to maintain a fitness schedule with. This group was designed to motivate individuals and to help them motivate one another. Holding each other accountable is something that I am really trying to implement into the core of the Fit Bods. I am looking forward to see all that the Fit Bods can do for me and my fellow Ichabods throughout our college experience," said Mikkelsen.
     The Fit Bods created a t-shirt that is available to all members. The shirt was made by Johnson Design company. The shirts will be ready for members on Dec. 10.  If you have any further questions, comments of concerns e-mail WUFitBods@gmail.com or join The Fit Bods page on Facebook.

12 comments:

  1. I think this article is great. The only correction I would make is saying the group was started at Washburn. Does Fit Bods exist anywhere else? If it does, you can say it was "brought' to campus, but otherwise I would just say the organization was started here.

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  2. I feel like I've seen your name a lot Mik Douglas. and I LOVE IT.

    I don't see anything grammatically wrong with this article. Great headline!

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  3. Great job! The grammar and AP style of this article was fabulous!

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  4. Since you've already introduced Malcolm as your source you would list his attribution after his quote as follows: "Mikkelsen said." I would also try to shorten his quote or at least break it up because it's too lengthy. I would come up with another verb for the headline as well.

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  5. Great job! I don't think you need the comma between "new" and "fitness" in the lede but otherwise this looks great!

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  6. The Fit Bods is a new, fitness oriented organization that has been brought to Washburn University’s campus. The "has been" is passive voice. I would rewrite this The Fit Bods is a new, fitness oriented organization that is new to Washburn University's campus.

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  7. I had no idea this was a thing! Great article!

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  8. I would just make the adjustments everyone suggested. Otherwise, cool story.

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  9. Good job! I really like the headline!

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  10. I really want to join this now...best article I have read yet.

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  11. Wonderful! I think Mikkelsen's quote was a little too long; perhaps it could be broken into two separate paragraphs?

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  12. very informative!. but I do not why there are two font in thei stoty and I think the verb in headline need stronger.

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