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Luna’s idea is to foster com
munication. Using the boards
students would trade textbooks
talk about upcoming events
warn each other when there’s
no hot water and have some
where to talk when the Internet
is down (during which the in
ternal USC network — includ
ing Blackboard — would still
work), t
Students, he said, are defin
ing communities less by geogra
phy than by technology. “The de
gree to which a community
comes together in a cohesive
manner,” he said, “is clearly cor
related to the degree of its com
munication.”
The proposal is already being
tested. Housing established four
experiments, three with the first
year students living in the
Holiday Inn, the Clarion
Townhouse and Adam’s Mark ho
tels, and one at the Maxcy honors
dorm.
“And the students have taken
it and run with it,” Ernest
Pringle said. “The students in
Maxcy recently had hall govern
ment candidates posting over
Blackboard.”
If the experiments succeed,
Housing will expand e-commu
nities to all residence halls. It
hopes to take advantage of pre
existing groups, such as the en
gineering community at Bates
House or the pre-med community
in Moore. Their e-communities
will be tailored specifically to lo
cal needs. ' •
The program’s biggest problem
so far has been that students
haven’t known about it, Pringle
said.
The program was quickly put
in place at the beginning of the
school year and lacked a public
relations campaign.
Justin Smith, a first-year com
puter engineering student in
Maxcy’s pilot e-community, <
agreed.
“I was accessing a digital drop- i
box for my classes and just hap- ]
pened to see it,” he said, “but i
there wasn’t really much on
there.”
He said most of the Maxcy i
events he knew of he saw on fly- ]
ers and through e-mail. i
“I was just looking around,” i
said Danielle Dabney, an unde- 1
dared first-year student also in !
Maxcy, and “just happened upon i
the community board.” She said 1
that’s typical of how most people
find it.
“Not many people know it’s
there,” she said. “If they put up
something that was important,
and we knew it was there, it could
be useful.”
The resident advisers in i
Maxcy promote their e-commu- ]
nity with prizes for online trivia 1
contests, but still use conven- 1
tional means to send priority in
formation.
Megan Ivey, a second-year bi
>logy student and an RA in
Ylaxcy, said she uses the Maxcy
‘-community to post announce
nents, but “when I send out e
nail announcements,” she said,
'I get more response.”
In the future, students who live
in campus and log on to
backboard will receive a broad
:ast message informing them of
he e-community. As more pro
fessors require students to use the
lystem, Housing hopes e-commu
lities will increase in populari
y
Helen Diamond, the Maxcy res
dent hall director, confirmed that
!3 percent of Maxcy’s residents
lave already accessed the Web
;ite.
“It’s very early for us,” Luna
laid, but he said similar tech
lologies such as AOL Instant
Messenger had caught on, and
hat e-communities over Black
ioard could work as well.
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sive in the heat — were all cos
tume rentals from North Carolina.
The students’ professor, Laura
Kissel, assigned
groups randomly.
The pair had the
same goals: “We like
to shock people - and
to entertain people,”
she said. They also
had the same spirit.
bile is too short to he serious,
Board said.
Students on Monday only
stared as the anonymous snow
man basted chicken in front of the
Russell House. One approached to
touch, but she lost her nerve. Most
simply passed by and pretended
not to notice.
At the end of Monday’s hap
pening, students lined up inside
the Russell House windows to
cheer the artists.
“What? He must be hot, first of
all,” said Kelly Cheung, a first
year advertising student, “so why
is he in a snowman suit in the
middle of September?” She added,
“I wasn’t thinking too well when
I saw him.”
Tuesday, the happening was
louder and more in
tense, and it gar
nered more reac
tions.
“I wanted to ask,”
said Justin Moody, a
third-year political
science student, “but
l was too atraia.
“Editing will be the most diffi
cult part,” Board said while the
spectators left. “The shooting fin
ished in 15 minutes.” With three
cameras that took separate
footage, they must splice the best
angles and best reactions into one
video to show the class when their
project is due in two weeks.
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people - and to
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trademarks without permission
was wrong and was upset when
they saw the nature in which it
was being used. Greek organiza
tions are now encouraged to be
careful whom they give their li
censing rights.
“Students will be encouraged to
use only companies that have re
ceived trademark permission,”
said Dan Shaver, president of
Affinity Marketing Consultants
Inc., which represents 26 national
and international fraternities and
sororities. “The goal is to improve
quality products for sororities and
fraternities and to combat nega
tive stereotypes people have of fra
ternities and sororities.”
“Fraternities and sororities do
nothing that is considered racist,
sexist or demeaning of others,”
Shaver said. “When a company
agrees to use trademarks, they have
to agree to follow this principal.”
Shaver urged students to make
sure before buying products that
the vendor is approved by the
sorority’s or fraternity’s head
quarters. This will insure the
quality of the product being pur
chased, he said.
USC students were angry over
Taylor Corp.’s using Sigma Chi’s
name without permission from
headquarters.
“I feel that Sigma Chi deserved
to win,” said first-year pre-med
student and Chi Omega sorority
member Ashley Bragg. “Not only
did they lose profit, but Taylor
Corp. was wrong in going against
the ideals of the fraternity and us
I
mg their letters and symbols in of
fensive situations.”
Traci Jefferson, a first-year
nursing student, agreed.
“If the company using the trade
mark was advertising something
a little closer to what the fraternity
stood for, then it wouldn’t be so
much of a problem,” she said. “The
fact that the company is advertis
ing liquor and things that go
against the fraternity’s principles
makes it a much bigger deal.”
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