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Debate Watch: The First Presidential Debate
“Watching the Debates: What Goes on Behind and in Front of the Cameras"riday, September 26, 2008
Mack Student Center
8 PM
Featuring Diana Carlin, professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas. Ms. Carlin served on the advisory board for the Commission on Presidential Debates from 1987 until 2000 and during that time she developed DebateWatch through a grant from the Ford Foundation in 1996.
Her talk will be followed at 9 p.m. by a large-screen viewing and discussion of the first presidential debate.
Still to come
*Oct. 8 – Bachelor of Science Video/Television students. Mandatory general information meeting for all recently declared and all prospective students (freshmen, sophomores and transfers) interested in the B.S. program. Common Hour in Room 300, Dempster. For more information, contact Prof. Randy Hillebrand at AVFRKH@hofstra.edu
*Oct. 13 – It’s Debate-able. Get debate and media savvy by joining film professor Skip Blumberg as he screens his documentary work from the ‘92 debates and leads the discussion on what really goes on before a debate hits the air. Note that we’re bringing this program to the north side of campus! 7 p.m. Netherlands Cafeteria. Refreshments will be served.
*Oct. 22 – They changed the way campaigns are won. This was the tag line for the film The War Room, the movie that kicks off our Reel Politics film series. We’ll screen this documentary on the ’92 Clinton campaign and the Q&A with filmmakers Chris Hegedus and DA Pennebaker will be hosted by David Schwartz, chief film curator of the Museum of the Moving Image at 7 p.m. in the Student Center Theater.
*Oct. 29 – RTVF Internship Workshop at 11:15 a.m. in Dempster Studio A. Mandatory for any students planning January or spring internships. Please note change in date from 10/22 to 10/29.
Club news
PRSSA – Dates for Common Hour Meetings: 9/24, 10/8, 10/22, 11/5, 11/22, 12/3
Hofstra Forensics, which offers students an opportunity to participate in intercollegiate speech and debate competition, welcomes new members. All students are welcome, no previous experience in speech or debate is required. This semester, we meet Tuesdays at 4.30 in 401 NAB. For more information about Hofstra Forensics, contact Dr. Matt Sobnosky, sphmjs@hofstra.edu.
Career Help
Quick Question Hours in Dempster – WRHU Rotunda – 5:30 to 6:30 pm
Career Center counselors will answer your résumé and cover letter questions on the spot.
Tuesday, October 7
Tuesday, October 21
Information soon to come about the School of Comm internship fair in November
Internships and Job Opportunities
Elmo needs YOU! Sesame Workshop has an immediate opening for a script intern. New shows are in production beginning in December. Hofstra alum Syndi Shumer heads up the script department. Her email is syndi.shumer@sesameworkshop.org. (If you are eligible to take an RTVF internship, remember, there is rolling registration!)
You know those stories you write in your journalism classes? If you’re proud of them, THE CHRONICLE would like to see them. Managing editor Delia Paunescu is looking for content. This is how you build a clips file! Take her up on it. Contact her at 813.892.0359 or email her at managingeditor@hofstrachronicle.com.
Educate ’08 at a glance
With SO much going on this semester, you’ll want to make sure you regularly check the Educate ’08 website from the homepage. But below are some snapshots of the activities that are of special interest to our majors.
Oct. 2 – Former New York governor Mario Cuomo in conversation with Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations at 12:45 p.m. in the Adams Playhouse
Oct. 2 – Vice Presidential Debate – A debate watch with Hofstra professors beginning at 8 p.m. in the Student Center Theater
Oct. 7 – Second Presidential Debate – A debate watch with Hofstra professors beginning at 8 p.m. in the Student Center Theater
Oct. 14 – Democracy in Performance – Historical performances by actors and scholars who will portray 22 famous Americans from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on the South Campus
Oct. 15 – Brian Lehrer Show –WNYC radio forum on youth issues from 10 a.m. to noon in Dempster Studio A
Oct. 28 – Former White House Press Secretaries Dee Dee Myers and Ari Fleischer at 3 p.m. in the Monroe Lecture Hall
Events
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Editor’s top picks this week:
htvinteractive
Monday, September 22, 2008
NewsHub, Dempster Hall
7:30 PM
Whether you’re a filmmaker, a PR major, a script writer, a news hound, or an actor YOUR work should be visible! Come learn how your original content can be seen on the web. Very few universities can offer the amazing opportunity. All ideas for short form programming are welcome! Refreshments will be served.
THE LISTENING PROJECT
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Mack Student Center Theater
8 PM
Featuring a Q & A with Co-Director Dominic Hawes and film correspondent, Han Shan. This documentary film follows four unique Americans through fourteen countries - from a Shanghai hip-hop club to a war-ravaged Kabul neighborhood to a village at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro - in each place asking “what do you think of America?” In beautifully-photographed locales, we encounter fascinating and diverse characters who reveal not only the impact of the U.S. on their lives, but also their perspectives on crumbling empires, human fellowship, and what it means to be a citizen in a globalized world.
Day of Dialogue VI: Facing the Future Together
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
An incredible roster of events from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. including
• Returning soldiers’ views of the Iraq war
• A panel about the United States policy on Iran
• Panels about the United States and how it is viewed by other nations
• A guided dialogue about issues facing Israel and Palestine
Domestic policy events will tackle such issues as the economy and energy policy, race and gender politics and the role of religion in the presidential election.
Featured domestic policy events include:
• Heritage or Hate, a documentary film by Hofstra University Professor of journalism Dr. Gregory Smith, about the differing views on the meaning of the Confederate Flag
• Dr. Allen Weinstein, archivist of the United States
• Diana Carlin, a professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas and DebateWatch founder will discuss how debates such as John F. Kennedy vs. Richard Nixon can shape electoral politics
• Joe Szabo, political cartoonist speaking about "Immigrants and/in America"
For more information: http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/Colleges/HCLAS/CCE/cce_events_dayofdialogue08.html
htvinteractive
Monday, September 22, 2008
NewsHub, Dempster Hall
7:30 PM
Whether you’re a filmmaker, a PR major, a script writer, a news hound, or an actor YOUR work should be visible! Come learn how your original content can be seen on the web. Very few universities can offer the amazing opportunity. All ideas for short form programming are welcome! Refreshments will be served.
THE LISTENING PROJECT
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Mack Student Center Theater
8 PM
Featuring a Q & A with Co-Director Dominic Hawes and film correspondent, Han Shan. This documentary film follows four unique Americans through fourteen countries - from a Shanghai hip-hop club to a war-ravaged Kabul neighborhood to a village at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro - in each place asking “what do you think of America?” In beautifully-photographed locales, we encounter fascinating and diverse characters who reveal not only the impact of the U.S. on their lives, but also their perspectives on crumbling empires, human fellowship, and what it means to be a citizen in a globalized world.
Day of Dialogue VI: Facing the Future Together
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
An incredible roster of events from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. including
• Returning soldiers’ views of the Iraq war
• A panel about the United States policy on Iran
• Panels about the United States and how it is viewed by other nations
• A guided dialogue about issues facing Israel and Palestine
Domestic policy events will tackle such issues as the economy and energy policy, race and gender politics and the role of religion in the presidential election.
Featured domestic policy events include:
• Heritage or Hate, a documentary film by Hofstra University Professor of journalism Dr. Gregory Smith, about the differing views on the meaning of the Confederate Flag
• Dr. Allen Weinstein, archivist of the United States
• Diana Carlin, a professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas and DebateWatch founder will discuss how debates such as John F. Kennedy vs. Richard Nixon can shape electoral politics
• Joe Szabo, political cartoonist speaking about "Immigrants and/in America"
For more information: http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/Colleges/HCLAS/CCE/cce_events_dayofdialogue08.html
Debate Watch: The First Presidential Debate
“Watching the Debates: What Goes on Behind and in Front of the Cameras"riday, September 26, 2008
Mack Student Center
8 PM
Featuring Diana Carlin, professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas. Ms. Carlin served on the advisory board for the Commission on Presidential Debates from 1987 until 2000 and during that time she developed DebateWatch through a grant from the Ford Foundation in 1996.
Her talk will be followed at 9 p.m. by a large-screen viewing and discussion of the first presidential debate.
Still to come
*Oct. 8 – Bachelor of Science Video/Television students. Mandatory general information meeting for all recently declared and all prospective students (freshmen, sophomores and transfers) interested in the B.S. program. Common Hour in Room 300, Dempster. For more information, contact Prof. Randy Hillebrand at AVFRKH@hofstra.edu
*Oct. 13 – It’s Debate-able. Get debate and media savvy by joining film professor Skip Blumberg as he screens his documentary work from the ‘92 debates and leads the discussion on what really goes on before a debate hits the air. Note that we’re bringing this program to the north side of campus! 7 p.m. Netherlands Cafeteria. Refreshments will be served.
*Oct. 22 – They changed the way campaigns are won. This was the tag line for the film The War Room, the movie that kicks off our Reel Politics film series. We’ll screen this documentary on the ’92 Clinton campaign and the Q&A with filmmakers Chris Hegedus and DA Pennebaker will be hosted by David Schwartz, chief film curator of the Museum of the Moving Image at 7 p.m. in the Student Center Theater.
*Oct. 29 – RTVF Internship Workshop at 11:15 a.m. in Dempster Studio A. Mandatory for any students planning January or spring internships. Please note change in date from 10/22 to 10/29.
Club news
PRSSA – Dates for Common Hour Meetings: 9/24, 10/8, 10/22, 11/5, 11/22, 12/3
Hofstra Forensics, which offers students an opportunity to participate in intercollegiate speech and debate competition, welcomes new members. All students are welcome, no previous experience in speech or debate is required. This semester, we meet Tuesdays at 4.30 in 401 NAB. For more information about Hofstra Forensics, contact Dr. Matt Sobnosky, sphmjs@hofstra.edu.
Career Help
Quick Question Hours in Dempster – WRHU Rotunda – 5:30 to 6:30 pm
Career Center counselors will answer your résumé and cover letter questions on the spot.
Tuesday, October 7
Tuesday, October 21
Information soon to come about the School of Comm internship fair in November
Internships and Job Opportunities
Elmo needs YOU! Sesame Workshop has an immediate opening for a script intern. New shows are in production beginning in December. Hofstra alum Syndi Shumer heads up the script department. Her email is syndi.shumer@sesameworkshop.org. (If you are eligible to take an RTVF internship, remember, there is rolling registration!)
You know those stories you write in your journalism classes? If you’re proud of them, THE CHRONICLE would like to see them. Managing editor Delia Paunescu is looking for content. This is how you build a clips file! Take her up on it. Contact her at 813.892.0359 or email her at managingeditor@hofstrachronicle.com.
Educate ’08 at a glance
With SO much going on this semester, you’ll want to make sure you regularly check the Educate ’08 website from the homepage. But below are some snapshots of the activities that are of special interest to our majors.
Oct. 2 – Former New York governor Mario Cuomo in conversation with Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations at 12:45 p.m. in the Adams Playhouse
Oct. 2 – Vice Presidential Debate – A debate watch with Hofstra professors beginning at 8 p.m. in the Student Center Theater
Oct. 7 – Second Presidential Debate – A debate watch with Hofstra professors beginning at 8 p.m. in the Student Center Theater
Oct. 14 – Democracy in Performance – Historical performances by actors and scholars who will portray 22 famous Americans from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on the South Campus
Oct. 15 – Brian Lehrer Show –WNYC radio forum on youth issues from 10 a.m. to noon in Dempster Studio A
Oct. 28 – Former White House Press Secretaries Dee Dee Myers and Ari Fleischer at 3 p.m. in the Monroe Lecture Hall