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Sign this petition @ room207*online

"There has been some discussion about early afternoon classes and how most of us would have a hard time making it to Annenberg for a 3:45 class once a week for a whole semester.

Things could get a whole lot harder if the trend of offering required, core courses in the daytime continues without much comment from those of us who are working and interning. The required course for Global Comm is scheduled in the daytime next semester, as is Cody’s 510 course. What if that was the exact course you needed to graduate, as it is in the Globals case?

We would like to make it known to the administration that we would like at least one required course be taught in the evening every semester so that working students are able to finish their degrees on schedule.

We have an opportunity to present this directly to the Dean in one week, so we need your virtual "John Hancock" fast! Please “sign” your name (please use a real name) and the program you are in by making a comment to this post  and we will present our “petition” to the Dean when he comes to our Comm 599 class on Nov. 28th.

This isn’t confrontational in any way…we just want the administration to know that this is an issue many of us care about, and that working students who can’t be on campus all day need to have options to get through the program and keep our jobs.

-The room207*online team."

Sign this petition @ room207*online

"There has been some discussion about early afternoon classes and how most of us would have a hard time making it to Annenberg for a 3:45 class once a week for a whole semester.

Things could get a whole lot harder if the trend of offering required, core courses in the daytime continues without much comment from those of us who are working and interning. The required course for Global Comm is scheduled in the daytime next semester, as is Cody’s 510 course. What if that was the exact course you needed to graduate, as it is in the Globals case?

We would like to make it known to the administration that we would like at least one required course be taught in the evening every semester so that working students are able to finish their degrees on schedule.

We have an opportunity to present this directly to the Dean in one week, so we need your virtual "John Hancock" fast! Please “sign” your name (please use a real name) and the program you are in by making a comment to this post  and we will present our “petition” to the Dean when he comes to our Comm 599 class on Nov. 28th.

This isn’t confrontational in any way…we just want the administration to know that this is an issue many of us care about, and that working students who can’t be on campus all day need to have options to get through the program and keep our jobs.

-The room207*online team."

MTV Cribs @ Annenblog - Part 2 - YOUR Feedback Worked

Due to the many responses on Annenblog's first post about MTV Cribs @ Annenberg's Lobby, the lobby has been cleared out in order to begin making the suggested changes. Get your comments in before Thanksgiving in case they make the changes then! 

Keep the feedback coming!

MTV Cribs @ Annenberg's Lobby

We have MTV's Cribs - one of the hottest shows on TV. Annenblog - one of USC's hottest new blogging sites. But what about the Annenberg lobby?

In some ways the lobby is very cool but what could be done to improve it? Brighter lights? Couches to make it more comfortable? Multiple screens like in the downstairs computer lab? Why is the tv always on CNN? What do YOU think?

What Happened to Freedom of Information?

A little scary: evidently the University of New Mexico recently banned access to Facebook on their campus, citing both legal concerns and problems with spam:

http://www.dailycolonial.com/go.dc?p=3&s=1297

or

http://badgerherald.com/news/2005/10/17/new_mexico_bans_face.php

and here for a poll taken by the UNM student newspaper on whether or not students feel the ban to be fair:

http://www.dailylobo.com/main.cfm?include=results&poll_question_id=14449&

If I found out that USC banned access to a site like this I would be most displeased, to say the least. Who would have thought a university would engage in censorship of this sort? Not me. What is up with this?

--E.W.

Wasn't the weather just crazy on Monday?

image from www.latimes.com

See today's article and photos on LA times. The weather was awful yesterday. Cold, wet and gloomy. Some places even had hail. So many people were probably caught in the rain or stuck in traffic. On my way to school, I saw 4 accidents on just about 3/4 mile stretch of Freeway 110. This is so not Southern Cali weather! Today's slightly better but still gloomy...looks like it's going to rain this evening again. I'd better set off for class earlier. *yawn* I feel so sleepy when the weather's like this...

- Tze Wei

USC student allegedly abandoned her newborn child in a dumpster

Read this lastest news from LA Times (Oct 13, 2005): USC Student Charge in Newborn Abandonment

It's so sad. Comments anyone?

Is "info-tainment" necessarily bad?

During his visit to Annenberg late last month, legendary CSB newscaster Walter Cronkite talked about the subject of entertainment in news, and it's clear that his is a "never the twain should meet" viewpoint on the subject:

"We've got to be on guard constantly to eschew entertainment in the news," Cronkite said. "That's not our function. If we undertake it ... we're going to be cheating the public."

Do you agree, and if so, why? If not, why don't you?