Various kinds of exchanges with students are customary for Den/The Day. Last Friday, the newspaper’s editor in chief, Larysa Ivshyna, met with the members of the Ostroh Club of Free Intellectual Youth Exchange in Ostroh Academy to commemorate Unity Day together, and discuss the problem of Ukraine’s information policy. The Dnipropetrovsk Mining University held a presentation of the newspaper’s new project, Extract 150, conducted by our expert and regular contributor Yurii Raikhel. Den also had a meeting with students of the KROK University of Economy and Law, which was dedicated to the presentation of Den’s English-language digest, The Day, now appearing twice a week.
As noted by the literary editor of the digest, Jakub Parusinski, there are two reasons why the newspaper is important for students: it offers the possibility of practicing and improving one's English, and it constitutes a source of information which covers a wide range of topics such as politics, economy, society, and culture, thus allowing students to develop their analytical skills.
“Why is it useful for young people to read The Day? You, as students, should be versed in the main issues of political and social life, and learn how to reason for yourselves. One way to do this is by reading a variety of articles”, Parusinski went on. “When I moved to Ukraine, having lived a long time abroad, I started to look for publications that would help me understand this country. Among them was the English version of Den, which contained a wide range of articles from different spheres of life.”
“Without doubt, meeting The Day will be helpful for the students, as it presents an alternative to newspapers and mass media which are not always high-quality information,” Liudmyla Klymenko, head of the department of special language preparation, added. “The specificity of our teaching process is that we teach them to form their own opinions and views. We also teach them language skills, like rephrasing, we study copyright with them. It is also necessary for them to read English, so as to broaden their vocabulary.”
Apart from the digest, the students became interested with another project of the newspaper, the Ostroh Club of Free Intellectual Exchange of Youth. They were also curious about the ways to get to Den’s Summer School of Journalism. Apparently, not only has The Day found new readers, but potential contributors, too, as Den is created in cooperation with its readers.
