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MONDAY, MARCH 31 - Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tale
Room 103, Dempster Hall, 7 pm
A performance presentation by E. Patrick Johnson of Northwestern University sponsored by GARP, Women's Studies, LGBT Program and Dr. Bernard Firestone, Dean, Hofstra HCLAS.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2 – Learn how and why Web 2.0 is part of your future career
NewsHub, Dempster Hall, 7 pm
Steve Rubel (Hofstra alum) is a digital marketer with over 15 years experience. He will explain what you need to know about Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Viral Marketing and the list goes on, in order to succeed in the "real world." Steve has been named to several prestigious lists, including: The Forbes.com Web Celeb 25, PC Magazine's 100 Favorite Blogs, Media Magazine's Media 100, the AlwaysOn/Technorati Open Media 100 and the CNET News.com Blog 100.
MONDAY, APRIL 7 – WCBS2 News Director David Friend
NewsHub, Dempster Hall, 7 pm
Provided there's no breaking news (again), David will be here to "give it to you straight" about the broadcast journalism business. Co-sponsored by RTNDA. Refreshments will be served.
TUESDAY, APRIL 15 – Hofstra TV alums explain "twebivision"
Studio A, Dempster Hall, 7 pm
Join us for a discussion of the present and the future of television and film for the web with special guests and alums Ragtag Productions, Angel Acevedo, Brian Amyot and Steven Tsapelas, the creators of the hit internet web-series: We Need Girlfriends. Additional special guests include Sans Pants Productions' Mike Api, Chris Vespoli and Evan Menak, the makers of the viral video "The Maury Povich Home Pregnancy Test." The discussion will include the topics of television production for the web, viral videos, and filmmaking for the small screen. Co-sponsored by HEAT and htvinteractive. Refreshments! Questions: E-mail
TUESDAY, APRIL 15 – PR alumni panel and networking event
Room 246 BDC (2nd floor Axinn), 7 pm
PRSSA gives you yet another chance to circulate your résumé and make connections.
THURSDAY, APRIL 24 - Find YOUR niche in PR!
Student Center Multi-Purpose Room, 7 pm
PRSSA presents the 2nd Annual "Find Your Niche!" event where you can figure out YOUR specialty by hearing speakers from many different fields of PR.
MONDAY, APRIL 28 - TV/Film Alumni mixer extravaganza
Studio A, Dempster Hall, 6:30 – 9:30 pm
The School of Communication Alumni Association, Dempster Rats and H.E.A.T. invite you to come meet and mingle with folks in the industry who are actually getting paychecks. I'll be sending out the E-vite URL in a few days. Let me know if you're interested with a quick email. Already almost 40 alumni coming! I expect Studio A to fill to the rafters. Lots of good food and fun. If you're a senior TV or film major you'd be crazy not to come.
Still to come…
Journalism ethics panel – Save April 17th for a "sex and politics" ethics event hosted by the Press Club of Long Island.
University events with a "comm" component
Friday, April 4 – WLIW Town Hall Meeting "Leaving Long Island"
Studio A, Dempster Hall 2:30 – 4:30 pm
Come be part of the audience! Or maybe YOU have something to say about the high cost of living and working here as a soon-to-be college graduate! The show is taping for a late May broadcast on WLIW21. An RSVP is a MUST to Assistant Dean Murphy. Reply to this email.
Thursday, April 17 – The Simpsons writer and producer, Mike Reiss
Student Center Multi-Purpose Room, 7 pm
Hofstra Hillel invites everyone to come hear this Emmy award-winning, very funny man who produced or wrote more than 100 episodes of this landmark series.
Educate '08 has a wonderful roster of media speakers coming to campus this semester including David Nagourney, Charlie Cook, Elisabeth Bumiller, David Gergen, Maureen Dowd, William Kristol, Paul Begala, James Carville and Mary Matalin. Check the website at: http://www.hofstra.edu/academics/educ8/educ8_events.html
Career Help
How to Get a Job in Journalism
Friday, April 11 11 am to noon Dempster 117
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.
Wednesday, April 9
Wednesday, April 30
Internships and Job Opportunities
Hofstra Spring Job & Internship Fair
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
11 am - 3 pm
David S. Mack Sports & Exhibition Complex (Arena)
(The Blue Beetle will be providing transportation from The Student Center every 10 minutes to the Mack Sports & Exhibition Complex).
Open to Hofstra students and alumni with Hofstra ID's.
This is one of the LARGEST JOB FAIRS IN HOFSTRA HISTORY!
Over 130 organizations from ALL INDUSTRIES seeking ALL MAJORS will be attending! Organizations will be offering FULL-TIME and PART-TIME JOBS, INTERNSHIPS and SUMMER positions! This Fair is open to FRESHMAN, SOPHOMORES, JUNIORS, SENIORS, GRAD STUDENTS & ALUMNI.
For a complete list of participating organizations, please visit www.hofstra.edu/career and click on "Job Fairs" on the left-hand side. Students need to dress for success and bring plenty of resumes!!!
The Career Center Staff has OPEN office hours Monday - Thursday from 2:00 pm -4:00 pm and Friday from 11 am -1 pm to review students' résumés before the event.
(The posting of advertisements and job announcements does not indicate an endorsement from Hofstra University or the School of Communication. The University is not responsible for the accuracy of the off-campus postings. As such, students are responsible for checking the credentials and integrity of an employer.)
Courses to consider
TV Sports Reporting and Producing – JRNL 74 and RTVF 85
M, F 9:35 – 11:05
Students must have completed either JRNL 16 or RTVF 64 to enroll. You will be doing TV sports packages and learning more about sports reporting from a Glenn Petraitis, a pro who has been working in small TV markets and NYC for several years.
Media, Urban & Suburban Communication – MASS 110
M - 6:30-9:30 PM
Media Studies major credit or serves as liberal arts elective credit
Professor Susan Drucker
The course examines urban and suburban life and explores how media affect those environments. Emphasis is placed on the reciprocal relationship between cities and the options of mediated communication. Topics include gated communities, shopping, the branding and marketing of cities, contested spaces, journalism and community life, media images of the inner city and suburbia, public policy and media infrastructure, digital cities, virtual cities, global cities, Wi-Fi and media rich environments. Pre-reqs: MASS 1 and MASS 11
Media and Popular Culture – MASS 125
M, W 2:55 -4:20 PM
Prerequisites: MASS 1 and MASS 11.
Scholarships
Film students: If you are interested in being considered for the Max Benjamin Kolb Scholarship – open to film majors only – please see Prof. Katzman as soon as possible. The scholarship, to be awarded to several filmmakers in the form of a check to help cover the cost of course-related films, will be awarded late in April.
2008/09 scholarship deadline: All applications for School of Communication scholarships to be awarded in the 2008-2009 academic year are due in Assistant Dean Murphy's office by April 30th. Applications are available on the bulletin board outside the Dean's Office on the third floor of Dempster Hall. Scholarships will be awarded as tuition remission on your September bill.
Film Festivals
Mezcla Media Market, Inc. is a not-for-profit international Hispanic media organization created to be a hub of media and art professionals, showcasing and promoting Hispanic artistic and literary work. Our organization's involvement in the following mediums: advertising, broadcasting, journalism, publishing, cinema films, and Internet, enables us to disseminate information and accomplish our mission.
We wanted to send a special invitation to your department to an event that we will be hosting in conjunction with an organization on your campus (Hermandad de Sigma Iota Alpha, Inc) on April 8, 2008 in the Student Center.
We will be showcasing short films that were shown at our 2007 LILIFF out in the Hamptons. There will be producers, writers and directors presenting and speaking about their films, their experience writing and directing and getting into the industry.
We will be supplying information about NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers) and Mezcla/LILIFF and also accepting submissions for our 2008 film festival.
Info: www.mezclamediamarket.com
Submissions needed for "I Heart Tap Water". You can get info at www.takebackthetap.org. We're asking students to create a 2-minute YouTube video about why they think tap water is great (as opposed to bottled water). There is a prize of $1500 for the winner, and the contest judges include Alec Baldwin. Deadline is soon.
Did you know….?
An invitation for all: Tom Kolb, the father of Max Kolb, a Hofstra film student who died tragically several years ago, invites everyone to attend the screening of a film he has produced about Max. It's called the boy with the smile – a joyous celebration of the life and times of max benjamin kolb. It will be held at Anthology Film Archives on Sunday, April 13 at 4:00 pm. The venue is at 32 Second Avenue at East 2nd Street in Manhattan. If you'd like to go, an RSVP to SCOScoop is appreciated.