Brief #10 - Listening Posts (Campus)

People receive information from more than news mediums such as the internet, tradition cable news networks, magazines, and newspapers. One of the oldest ways of receiving information is by word of mouth. You can pick up information in a lot of different places. We all have heard of barber shop or beauty shop banter, locker room talk, and even Sunday afternoon gossip after church. The places where you can go just to catch the 411 are listening posts.

 There are tons of places that you can tune in to what's going on at Southern Arkansas University and for me it's the cafeteria. I work in the cafeteria four nights a week and see almost every student regularly. Wiping the salad bar I can listen in on the football players say what went right and wrong at last week's game, sitting in the pizza corner I can over hear on what parties are planned for Thursday night, and at the end of the night cleaning the cereal dispensers I can "ear hustle" on the girl's table and figure out whose dating who. Listening post are anywhere you can pick up information that you didn't know before.