JRN1102 Troy University Tobacco Free Campus & Tuition to Roll Back Tweets Paper Write one tweet for each of the following situations as if you were a journ

JRN1102 Troy University Tobacco Free Campus & Tuition to Roll Back Tweets Paper Write one tweet for each of the following situations as if you were a journalist on the scene and were trying to scoop the competition and drive readers to your news organization’s website. The text of each tweet must contain all four of the elements listed in the section above titled “What’s in a tweet?” You may use fictional usernames, links and hashtags. The number of characters for each tweet must not exceed 250 because you want to leave space for someone to add information or retweet. Count your link as 23 characters because that’s the way Twitter will count it.

If you were actually tweeting, you would type these messages into the Twitter website or an app. But for class purposes, just type them into a file as directed by the professor. At the end of each tweet, type the number of characters. You can use Microsoft Word’s “Word Count” feature to help count characters. It’s under the Tools menu.

When you finish the assignment, submit it as instructed by the professor.

1. Troy University police, Troy police, Pike County sheriff’s deputies and state troopers are entering the second hour of a standoff with a female sophomore, otherwise unidentified, who has refused to put out her cigarette in compliance with the tobacco-free-campus policy. About a dozen officers are on the scene. She is smoking on the steps outside the library entrance to Wallace Hall and is now on her sixth cigarette. University Police Chief Grover C. Hall has been negotiating calmly with her for 15 minutes. Officers have not drawn their weapons, but the sheriff’s SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) team has been summoned. The smoker appears to be unarmed, except for a cigarette lighter. She has just sent a tweet alleging that the “Tobacco Free Campus” signs posted by the university are unconstitutionally vague because they contain no hyphen.

2. The Troy University Board of Trustees, now holding its quarterly meeting in the Scrushy Suite of the Trojan Arena, is considering a motion by trustee Lurleen B. Wallace to roll back tuition by 10 percent. Trustee Bibb Graves has called for an executive (private) session to discuss the proposal. Tropolitan reporter Clark Kent, who is covering the meeting, is objecting that the board cannot go behind closed doors because it would violate the state open-meetings law. Kent claims that he can hear and see through walls, and he says he intends to do live tweeting about what takes place in the executive session. (You are a reporter covering the same meeting for the Troy Messenger.)

3. Singer Paul McCartney’s concert tonight in the Trojan Arena is more than a sellout. Thousands of students are demonstrating outside the arena, insisting that they be admitted even though the university ran out of tickets and seats. The fire marshal won’t allow another person to enter the arena. The students’ spokesman — Gary Dickey, a junior political science major from Cullman — is suggesting that the concert be moved to Veterans Memorial Stadium. He says the students are willing to pay for admission.

NOTE: Do not actually post these tweets on Twitter. The events described are fiction.

You will be graded on accuracy, conciseness, spelling, grammar, whether you follow directions, and how well the tweet would accomplish its purpose.