NEWS The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 19, 2005 - 3A * ON CAMPUS *Profs to speak about sex and American culture Professors Matt Lassiter, Valerie Traub, Eric Rabkin and Luis Sfeir-Younis will be speaking about how sex, American values and popular culture intersect, interact and affect lives. The lecture will be held in the Kuenzel Room of the Michigan Union from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. Campus ministry explores God and gender The Wesley Foundation Campus Min- istry will explore the possibility of being faithful to both a feminine and Chris- tian calling. They will explore issues and obstacles of experiencing a feminine side of God. The event will be held in the lounge of the Wesley Foundation, from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. Psychological society holds mass meeting The Undergraduate Psychological Society will hold its mass meeting tomor- row at 7 p.m. in 4448 East Hall. Students wondering what to do with their psychol- ogy degrees after graduation or interested in research opportunities should stop by. Food will be served at the event. CRIME NOTES Maintenance car vandalized on Catherine Street A maintenance vehicle parked in a lot located on 1000 Catherine Street was vandalized sometime on Friday night or early Saturday morning, according to the Department of Public Safety. The front driver's side window was smashed along with the passenger side, and the handle on one of the doors was broken. The vehicle was also full of tools that were not stolen. There are no suspects at this time. Negotiation to get back stolen cell phone fails Larceny of a cell phone was reported after the victim lost the cell phone at the University Golf Course on Saturday morn- ing. The victim, who was visiting Ann Arbor, was able to use another phone to call his stolen phone and thereby com- municate with the suspect. However, the victim was unable to negotiate its return. Subsequent attempts to reach the suspect were unsuccessful, according to DPS. Stationary 'U, Bus Falls Victim to Hit and Run A University bus driver reported that a vehicle hit his bus while it was parked on the 500 block of South State Street and then drove off. The driver said the vehicle was last seen headed down South Street toward Hill Street. The DPS shift super- visor could not offer a description of the suspect or the vehicle. THIS DAY In Daily History Regents approve lower tuition hike Sept. 19, 1980 - Over 200 faculty members and fellow students attended Friday's memorial service for slain Uni- versity graduate Rebecca Greer Huff. Huff, a recent 30-year-old graduate who had started working on a Master's in Business Administration at the Busi- ness School, was tragically murdered a week ago. She was the third woman in the Ann Arbor area to be killed in the last five months. Tech-savvy university professors offer classes, lecture via podcasts WASHINGTON (AP) - When Suzan Harkness, a political sci- ence professor at the University of the District of Columbia, noticed she was repeatedly asking her young pupils to take off their iPod headphones in class, it seemed almost obvious. Why shouldn't they be listening to her lectures, instead of music? "I thought I'd become as hip as they are and use the barrier that had come between us," Harkness said. "It's just another way to reach them." Harkness is one of a growing number of tech-savvy professors across the country who are making their own podcasts - a combina- tion of the words iPod and broadcast - by recording mini-lessons or even full lectures and interviews. They then post them on the Inter- net for students to download and listen to on their MP3 players. It's the same idea radio and television broadcasters have been try- ing in recent months by reformatting news, sports and talk shows for the iPod generation. Once a student finds his professor's podcast - usually posted on a university Website - the file can be downloaded automatically each time he plugs in his portable player. Harkness said all she needed to get started was a microphone and a computer program to edit the sound on her laptop computer. So far, her students approve of the first podcast, which runs just more than six minutes, complete with intro music. "Sometimes reading can be difficult, but if you actually hear it, you kind of retain it more," said Tamara Burrowes, who will com- plete her bachelor's degree at UDC in December. "You might listen Google execs worry about to it over and over again as you're riding on the subway." The idea makes sense for students, whether they speak limited Eng- lish or simply learn better by hearing, said American University inter- national politics Prof. Patrick Jackson, who records his lectures with a lapel mic plugged into his own iPod. "You're dealing with a generation of students who grew up multi- tasking with several IM (instant messenger) windows open, brows- ing online and listening to their iPods," Jackson said. "If you want to engage with them, then you need to engage with the sort of practices they use." There doesn't seem to be much fear that students will skip class for some extra sleep, knowing they can download the lecture later. "I've always thought that coming to class was sort of something optional anyway," Jackson said. Class time is better used for interaction, debate and one-on-one mentoring, he said. Jackson assigns his students to use their iPods as recording devices to conduct interviews for his research methods class. They play back the results over classroom speakers. The university has arranged for Jackson to train other professors on ways to use the new technology at a conference next month. As appealing as it sounds, Georgetown University School of Medicine Prof. Rochelle Tractenberg said she ran into prob- lems recording biostatistics lectures last year. Her graduate stu- dents told her that they liked having the lectures available, but they weren't listening to the three-hour recordings very often, if at all. The experiment with Apple iPods began in earnest last fall when Duke University spent $500,000 to hand out the 20 giga- byte devices for free to all 1,600 freshmen. Duke reported mixed results, with professors using them in dozens of courses but having trouble with recording quality and sharing files. Harkness said she never intended to make the $300 iPod a require- ment for her class. "I'm not promoting that they go out and get one if they can't afford it," she said. The files can be downloaded for listening on any computer as well. But Harkness said most of her students already bring their iPods to class. College students are about three times more likely than any- one else to own an MP3 player, according to a February study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. More than 21 million iPods have been sold, according to Apple, as well as thousands of accessories made to go with them, including microphones and car adapters. The growing market has sparked Internet ventures, poised to start selling lecture downloads for $5 apiece. Apple has also added a podcast section to its latest version of iTunes, where a growing number of colleges have submitted podcasts from speeches on campus. For Jackson, this all means academia will have to adapt to the new tech culture - whether by challenging students to express their ideas through blogs or offering more interactive audio and video features for their lessons. 1" book scanning NEW YORK (AP) - Tony San- Learned and Professional Society Pub- filippo is of two minds when it comes lishers. "Just because you do something to Google Inc.'s ambitious program to that's not harmful or beneficial doesn't scan millions of books and make their make it legal." text fully searchable on the Internet. Morris and other publishers believe On the one hand, Sanfilippo cred- Google must get their permission first, as its the program for boosting sales of it has under the Print Publisher Program obscure titles at Penn State University it launched in October 2004, two months Press, where he works. On the other, before announcing the library initiative. he's worried that Google's plans to cre- Under the publishers' program, Google ate digital copies of books obtained has deals with most major U.S. and U.K. directly from libraries could hurt his publishers. It scans titles they submit, industry's long-term revenues. displays digital images of selected pages With Google's book-scanning program triggered by search queries and gives pub- set to resume in earnest this fall, copyright lishers a cut of revenues from accompany- laws that long preceded the Internet look to ing ad displays. be headed for a digital-age test. But publishers aren't submitting all their The outcome could determine how easy titles under that program, and many of the it will be for people with Internet access to titles Google wants to scan are out of print benefit from knowledge that's now mostly belong to no publisher at all. locked up - in books sitting on dusty Jim Gerber, Google's director of content library shelves, many of them out of print. partnerships, says the company would get "More and more people are expecting nomiore than 15, percent of all books ever access, and they are making do with what published if it relied solely on publisher they can get easy access to," said Brewster submissions. Kahle, co-founder of the Internet Archive, That's why it has turned to libraries. which runs smaller book-scanning proj- Under the Print Library Project, Google ects, mostly for out-of-copyright works. is scanning millions of copyright books "Let's make it so that they find great works from libraries at Harvard, Michigan and rather than whatever just happens to be on Stanford along with out-of-copyright the Net." materials there and at two other libraries. To prevent the wholesale file-shar- Google has unilaterally set this rule: ing that is plaguing the entertainment Publishers can tell it which books not industry, Google has set some limits in to scan at all, similar to how Website its library project: Users won't be able owners can request to be left out of to easily print materials or read more search engine indexes. In August, the than small portions of copyright works company halted the scanning of copy- online. right books until Nov. 1, saying it want- Google also says it will send readers ed to give publishers time to compile hungry for more directly to booksellers their lists. and libraries. Richard Hull, executive director But many publishers remain wary. of the Text and Academic Authors To endorse Google's library initia- Association, called Google's approach tive is to say "it's OK to break into my backwards. Publishers shouldn't have house because you're going to clean my to bear the burden of record-keep- kitchen," said Sally Morris, chief execu- ing, agreed Sanfilippo, the Penn State tive of the U.K.-based Association of press's marketing and sales director. How far will you go? Commitment. It sets- us apart. School of Information master's students serve communities in Ann Arbor, in other states, and on other continents. 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