Apply to Washington Internship Program, see website: www.washingtoninternship.com; Send applications to E-mail: [email protected] or phone: (202) 829-5364
WASHINGTON--(COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Sept. 19, 2005--''So, if you`re going to be a lawyer, why not act like it?'' (to paraphrase a familiar line from the West Wing television show). The Washington Internship Program is currently accepting applications from young people in all law-related fields � as well as other areas of study � who would like to be included in a reality-television show set in Washington, D.C., which is being produced by Tiger/Tigress Productions to air as a national series on Court TV. The program will feature undergraduates, graduates, graduate students, law students, and young lawyers, among majors in other subjects, from all across the United States and around the world, who will help profile elite institutions while serving as interns in our nation�s capital.
If accepted into the Washington Internship Program, students or graduates are GUARANTEED internships in their fields of study and / or areas of interest, and they also have a chance to become TV stars. A select number of participants will be filmed at work and play � in offices and night-clubs, court rooms and national parks, with suspects behind bars and in bars that serve peanuts. The camera will reveal both the personal and professional lives of young people making the exciting transition from college to the ''real world.''
No acting background is required because all you`ll need to do is ''be yourself'' under circumstances you`ve probably never experienced in your life! The production company is looking for bright, intelligent, articulate young people who are passionate about their field of study. Five to ten interns will be televised while angling for press coverage in Congressional offices where our laws are made, accompanying police officers on high-speed helicopter chases in pursuit of criminals, meeting with juvenile offenders in jail, devising defense strategies and presenting them in court, or finding frightened prostitutes in so-called ''massage parlors'' in order to teach women brought to America under false pretexts how to escape from their captors.
By following interns in places like the U.S. Senate and Congress, the Public Defender Service, the United States Department of Justice, the Metropolitan Police Department, the Attorney General`s Office, the State`s Attorney`s Office, Polaris Project (which fights against modern-day slavery on a global scale), television viewers will identify with interns as they climb the steps of the Supreme Court for the very first time or cover that beat for Talk Radio News. Interns will become the eyes and ears for the rest of America � and all the people sitting in their living rooms who only dreamed that someday they�d get to crack a murder case, track down terrorists, photograph crime scenes, or advise senators on upcoming bills.
Interns selected to be on this reality show will live together, like in the Apprentice, but this time the former home of a government official in Washington, D.C. replaces Trump Towers in New York City. For a change, law-related topics about how to build a just society will ''trump'' the business of making money. All interns not chosen for the TV show still get to do the internships of their choice off-camera, and these positions often lead to fulfilling jobs in the future. Talk about when the runners-up actually beat the winners!
This reality television show will be like LA Law, The Practice, Judging Amy, Third Watch, and Over There all rolled into one � and then some! Law will be considered in the broadest sense of the term, including: government, the criminal-justice system, counter-terrorism, civil law, domestic and international matters, law enforcement, trial law, and the military. Wherever authority is involved in improving the world, interns contribute new insight and fresh blood.
This program, tentatively called The Interns, will demonstrate how student volunteers function: half as insiders who bring new ideas to staff members, and half as outsiders who criticize faults they are too idealistic to accept. The vigor and virginity that is youth visits the most powerful city on earth in order to renew the promise of America while interns also look for themselves. News of this program is spreading like wildfire.
But this show is more than Hollywood hype. The Washington Internship Program has been bringing the best and brightest to Washington, D.C. for twenty-one years. Interns come to WIP from 718 different colleges and universities and seventy-eight foreign countries. Students and graduates in the program take a course on ''Washington and Work'' one evening a week, which meets at Georgetown University in the summer and throughout the city during the rest of the year. Applicants who are accepted are given access to professional editors and representatives in the D.C. area who train them for phone interviews and get them placed in government or the private sector well before arriving in D.C. (for everyone who does not already live in the Washington area).
Interns can start and end the program on any dates they like (participating up to eighteen months), but anyone who wants to be in the TV show should apply immediately. People not on TV can live on a broad range of college campuses in the D.C. area or in apartment complexes and shared homes made available by WIP. Applicants learn within two weeks or less if they have been accepted into the Washington Internship Program. If interested in the TV portion, also include a two-minute video of yourself explaining why you�d like to be an intern in the nation`s capital. Part-time paid jobs are available for all interns, and everyone is eligible for these additional opportunities whether their internships are paid or not.
In addition to working at institutions, government agencies, organizations, and private companies in the greater Washington, Maryland, Virginia area, WIP interns are treated to a host of guest speakers, cultural and artistic events, and athletic activities. An annual weekend retreat was held for the last three years at the Bellarmine Retreat Center in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Pennsylvania, and WIP interns go to press conferences at the State Department, meetings in the National Press Club, lectures at the Elliot School for International Affairs of George Washington University, hearings of the Senate and House of Representatives, plays and concerts at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, cruises down the Potomac River, visits to Smithsonian museums, and baseball games at Camden Yards in Baltimore, among other events � all at no extra charge beyond tuition for the program.
Internships provide a way for students to discover the fields that are best for them while getting great experience on a resume, increasing the chances of being accepted into terrific law schools (or medical schools and graduate schools), or launching a career on the highest level without ''paying dues'' for decades at the bottom. Internships provide a bridge from education to careers. They are dynamic because crossing from youth to adulthood involves the power of both.
Dr. Linda Bayer, founder and director of the Washington Internship Program, is a former White-House speechwriter and strategic analyst as well as the author of eighteen published books. Her first doctorate was in English and art history, after which she studied psychology and education on the graduate level at Harvard University. An award-winning journalist who had a nationally syndicated column, Professor Bayer taught at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, Boston University, the U.S. Naval Academy, American University, and the Hebrew University in Israel where she occupied an endowed chair. Her novel, The Blessing and the Curse, was well-reviewed in the New York Times, among other newspapers, and she has written biographies of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Musician Quincy Jones, and Nobel Peace Prize-Winner Eli Wiezel. Her Gothic Imagination is in its second printing. The White House honored Bayer with three awards and printed two collections of opinion-editorials she wrote. To the extent that reality television needs a script writer, Dr. Bayer will fulfill that role for The Interns.
Tiger/Tigress Productions is the U.S. office of two of England�s most successful independent television production companies. TTP and its parent companies, Tiger Aspect and Tigress Productions, produce television programs seen in 130 countries and covering many genres: reality television, science and history programs, comedy, drama, animation, and feature films. The American office of TTP opened in August of 2001, and since that time its combined production offices in London, Bristol, and Bethesda have created over 190 hours of primetime programming for U.S. networks including: Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, National Geographic Channels, PBS, the History Channel, Bravo, Food Network, Discovery Health, and Court TV. TTP is currently in production of �POP Nation� for Discovery Channel.
To apply for The Interns and/or the Washington Internship Program, get an application from the first page of thttps://ite at: www.washingtoninternship.com or E-mail WIP at: [email protected] or call (202) 829-5364. Applications can be sent as text or attachments to the E-mail address (if paying the application fee with a credit card through Pay-Pal on the website), or send applications / fees (with check or money order) to:
Washington Internship Program
7606 16th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20012
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