2020 Win the Best Batch in FLASCo 2022

 

Class of 2020 with the medals received at the closing ceremony

Friday (23/9/2022)

by Della, Frishilla, and Nathania

Salatiga - The biggest awards in FLASCo this year were accomplished by Coronators as the best batch after being announced at the closing ceremony of FLASCo 2022 which took place on the SWCU basketball court at 4 PM local time. 

After participating in a series of FLASCo 2022 activities which went on for 4 days against other batches, including Old Stars, 2019, 2021, and 2022 batches, Coronators successfully won 6 awards as below. 

1. 1st Winner of Men's Soccer

2. 3rd Winner of Women's Soccer

3. 2nd Winner of Men's Basketball

4. 2nd Winner of Women's Basketball

5. 3rd Winner of Mobile Legend (E-Sport)

6. Best Batch Award

Apart from the number of trophies they won, to get the Best Batch award, Coronators have met several assessment criteria. Along with the 21st and 22nd batches, 2022 is the first year for the 2020 class to take part in FLASCo activities due to the pandemic conditions which caused all activities to be canceled in the last 2 years. 

At the FLASCo closing ceremony, the 20th batch also known as Coronators looked solid by wearing jerseys with images of its proud mascot, a bat. The symbol of a bat itself is a representation of the corona-19 virus that 20 batches ended up following online learning since they became freshmen. Coronators' slogan is: Coronation, stay in action. The meaning of this slogan is that even though we were "born" in the era of covid-19, still give the best action and performance. 

Outstanding! UKSW has successfully hosted SWCU OMB Carnival 2022

Frisshilla Agustin (392020009)
Nathania Carissa Vida (392020032)
Della Oktaviani Leiffitar (392020043)

Picture: The atmosphere of the SWCU OMB Carnival 2022 in front of the Language and Arts Faculty last Saturday (10/09/2022)

Salatiga -  Huge crowds gathered on the city streets on Saturday, September 10th, 2022 to watch one of the big activities routinely held by the Satya Wacana Christian University which was the carnival SWCU OMB.

It has been a long time for Satya Wacana Christian University to host the carnival after being absent for over 2 years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Officially opened by the Chancellor and the head of the Salatiga tourism office on the SWCU main campus, the carnival headed down the streets of Salatiga City as a form of welcoming their new students and also as a form of requesting permission to be part of the city of Salatiga. More than 2500 new students along with several student ethnic groups and the people of the city of Salatiga have taken part in the carnival by showing Drumblek,  a drum group, and 16 costumes that represent representations of traditional houses and rare animals.

Despite the heavy rain, it didn’t break the enthusiasm of the participants to walk as they continued to beat the drums. The carnival routes started from SWCU - Jl. Monginsidi - Jl. Moh. Yamin - Jl. Langensuko - Salatiga Roundabout - Jl. Diponegoro - Jl. Raden Patah - Jl. Yos Sudarso - Perempatan RUTAN - until it reached SWCU. During the celebration, several streets in the city of Salatiga could also be seen closed due to the carnival. 

Different from the last carnival that was held in 2019, this year, SWCU OMB led a theme “Fostering your imagination and Adaptability” by showing the SWCU CS Marching Blek, Flag Group, Costume Group, and Ethnic Group. This year’s carnival was also enlivened by the performance of Pancuran Drumblek, Gadalisa Drumblek, GTS Drumblek, Siloam Drumblek, Drumblek PPA Eklesia, Sapu Joget, and Satya Riders Community.  

One of the interesting things about this year's carnival was the existence of  "Sapu Joged". Another innovation that has never been in a similar carnival before. Interestingly, Sapu Joged itself is taken from the words 'Sapu' and 'Joged'. In the Indonesian language, the meaning of sapu is a tool for cleaning while joged means dance. It has been proved when this line carried brooms in their hand while picking up trash around the road that was passed by the parade. 

With the end of the 2022 SWCU OMB carnival, the entire series of activities held by SWCU in welcoming new students will also end. Cheers, and welcome to the city of Salatiga.

Is Journalism Really That Interesting?

Journalism is a job that makes journalists always have a desire to 'find out something new.’ If you want to be a journalist, you must have a high curiosity characteristic. Because that is the main key to being a journalist. A journalist's jobs are to collect news, report an event (reporting), write news stories, edit news scripts, and present news (publishing/broadcasting) through print media or electronic media.

Journalism is one of the jobs that I found interesting because for me personally, it’s because my dad used to be a journalist when I was 4 years old, but not for long. And he told me that when he became a journalist, he gained a lot of knowledge because like it or not he had to gather a lot of information from the news that he had never heard before. He became more knowledgeable about everything, and he also once owned a magazine company. Once, I used to go with him to deliver magazines to neighbors' houses. I think it is very engaging if we can add a lot of knowledge from interviewing people to gathering information. Although sometimes when interviewing people my father said it didn't always go smoothly, for example, the people he interviewed didn’t provide the information that he need and when he wants to interview people in the field, sometimes he has to get deal with heavy rain, voices that are too noisy, etc. Yea, every job has its advantages and disadvantages. 

Moreover, by studying journalism, we can improve our writing skills and we can upgrade our skills in interviews too. Actually, writing is not that easy, it requires extraordinary sincerity, we must pay attention to the structure and we have to write according to the news sources that we have got, for example, we must convey in written form what we get from the people we interviewed. We must write news that is actual and reliable. So that people who can read our news feel satisfied, and can spread it widely (such as on social media) and people will read it a lot. Hence, the news that we write can provide knowledge and even new perspectives for those who read it. Isn't that very interesting, right?