The Rocket

Issue date: 9/21/07 Section: News

Media Credit: Ashton Ruby John Grossman, Alison Nuckols and Brian Caldwell admire the four new screens that provide information during the day in the lobby of Eisenberg Classroom Building. [Click to enlarge]

On the first floor of the Eisenberg Classroom Building there is a new addition of four technologically advanced screens.

Bruce. W. Russell, dean of the College of Business, Information, and Social Sciences, intends for the display to become a place to inform students of upcoming events and student and faculty accomplishments.

The four screens will display, in the near future, material from all the departments in the College of Business, Information, and Social Sciences. Further along, plans include to show material from other departments in the university, and also for the display to serve as a general information center and, possibly, as an emergency information center.

"Right now we are trying to keep this easy and convenient," Russell said. "In the future I'm hoping to give the video production classes, with the permission of the student, the opportunity to display any appropriate material created in class."

Russell has enlisted the aid of the Public Relations Student Society of America to serve as the original content providers. The PRSSA is responsible for contacting each department and collecting the information that they wish to be displayed.

"We are creating a way to gather information from students and faculty in our College. We intend to provide information on club meetings, internships, students and faculty of the month," Bridget Kelly, 21, a senior public relations and marketing double major, said.

According to Danielle Scotti, a 21-year-old senior public relations major, the general consensus is that most students are unaware of when student organization meetings are being held.

PRSSA will be sending a letter to faculty members informing them to have students submit the information.

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