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Friday, October 17, 2003:

Alias 3D Software for free
Maya Personal Learning Edition(TM) 5 software is now available for free download from www.alias.com/mayaple. Maya Personal Learning Edition 5 offers almost every feature found in the full commercial version of Maya Complete(TM) 5 including an industry-leading set of modeling, animation, rendering and effects tools.
Samantha Blackmon // 10/17/2003 02:46:42 PM

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The rhetoric of icons. This is interesting to me, especially after a conversation that I had with Julia R. yesterday about interface design and M$ Word.

Boxes and Arrows: Learning to Love the Pixel: Exploring the Craft of Icon Design (link swiped from datacloud)
Samantha Blackmon // 10/17/2003 11:52:52 AM

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Charlie Lowe ponders whether or not blogs will become the next email or IM craze for college students. I personally wonder if blogs can ever reach that level if students see them as being educational tools. I also wonder if something that is not synchronous can ever have the same level of immediate gratification that one gets from IM. Most of the complaints that I hear from students about blogs is the permenance of the medium. Students worry about accountability when their words are made public and "permanent" on the Web.
How popular will blogging become among teens? | Kairosnews
Samantha Blackmon // 10/17/2003 11:39:17 AM

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Wednesday, October 15, 2003:

School officials admit they've failed to desegregate

Chicago school officials say that they've failed to desegregate after more than 20 years and spending $2 billion! Their own experts are charging that they are not spending enough money on the most segregated schools.
Samantha Blackmon // 10/15/2003 09:37:14 AM

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Tuesday, October 14, 2003:

Carolyn Heilbrun Dies at 77
Feminist scholar and mystery writer (Amanda Cross) dies at 77 in an apparent suicide.

Carolyn G. Heilbrun, a well-known feminist scholar who retired from Columbia University in 1992, died last week, apparently by suicide.

"She wanted to control her destiny," her son, Robert, told The New York Times, adding that Ms. Heilbrun, who was 77, had not been ill. "She felt her life was a journey that had concluded."

If you have a subscription to the CHE another story can be found here
Samantha Blackmon // 10/14/2003 10:11:09 AM

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