S P E C I A L E V E N T S
T H E Y ' R E W A T C H I N G U S !
IMSA's grand opening certainly
attracted the media. Students,
faculty and administration were
constantly being asked to answer
reporter's questions for television,
newspapers and radio. How did
IMSA's students react to all of the
attention?
"I don't know if they were really
interested in IMSA as a place of
higher learning or just as a way to
attract readers."
"I didn't mind it. I relished having
the attention paid to me."
"All the articles said basically the
same thing. It made me wonder if
the reporters were actually paying
attention to what they saw."
"In one sense it was kind of
nice because I've never been in
the newspapers or on TV. You
feel special. But, I don't think the
media conveyed what this school
really is."
"It was just media attention.
It's the same type of attention
that anything else gets. There was
good, there was bad, there was
Jeter."
"I basically ignored it."
"It was alright. There were some
fair assessments and there were
some unfair assessments."
"I thought it was interesting
because I've never been covered like
that before."
"I think they were very negative
because they treated us as geeks,
nerds, whatever. When I came here I
expected to be portrayed as a normal
student with talent, not as a misfit of
science."
"It was a necessary evil."
The reporters above and right were
just a few of many that visited the
Academy during its first year.
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