Federal Student Loan Repayment Program

For my feature story, I plan to find out more about the student loan repayment loan that the federal government offers. This program allows agencies to repay federally insured student loans as a recruitment or retention incentive for candidates or current employees of the agency. You are eligible for the program if you are a permanent employee, term employee, temporary employee, or employees serving on excepted appointments. Federal employees can receive up to $60,000 and must provide a three year commitment to the agency or department that provided the repayment. If the employee becomes unemployed by the agency within the three year time frame, then the recipient must pay back the amount in full to the agency. I emailed people today, but I haven't gotten a response. I hope to hear from someone soon so I can begin setting up interviews.

Female Players Of 'Crazy Sport' Jettison Jerseys; A Memorable Moment On Steps of Memorial

Feature stories are ones that don't concern a specific event or pronouncement. They tend to focus more on interesting stories than they do important stories or stories that depend on substantial background information. Feature leads gives the reader a preview of what's coming, unlike summary leads which give the reader the five W's and an H. They can be anecdotal, narrative, descriptive, or question leads. I think that Female Players Of 'Crazy Sport' Jettison Jerseys; A Memorable Moment On Steps of Memorial is a good example of a feature story.

This story fits the definition of a feature because the story is more interesting or unusual than important. The story isn't giving the readers any important information, but merely talking about an interesting thing that happened with a women's rugby team.

This lead is different from other leads that we have practiced in that it doesn't tell us what happened. It just sets the scene for the story by hinting that the women's rugby team did something.

I think that the nut graf is when the writer says "A crazy stunt but not illegal." I think that this is the nut graf because it shifts from talking about what the women did to talking about the law says about baring one's breasts.

Revised Lede

Here is my revised lede:

College students accumulate most of their debt from non-emergency purchases, according to the U.S Public Interest Research Group.

I'm still working on it, but this should give you an idea of my direction.