anyone want to be the official community maintainer? otherwise I'll delete the group
I haven't been to Ohlone in years and my LJ presence is minimal.

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http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/jref-news/432-michael-shermer-to-appear-at-ohlone-college.html

Michael Shermer to Appear at Ohlone College
Friday, March 6, 2009 at 7:00pm
General Admission $10
Smith Center Box Office
http://www.tinyurl.com/shermeratohlone
Presented by The Ohlone College Psychology Club
Michael Shermer is a genuine ghostbuster, a relentless crusader against superstition, and pseudoscience. In this lecture, he discusses his investigation of paranormal claims and other unexplained phenomena and what makes us believe in them.

(more at the link)

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OCEANIA: local San Jose/South Bay student film @ CINEQUEST 2008!
Hey guys, we REALLY need some local support! Please check our film out at the Cinequest Film Festival March 6th and March 8th. More info below:



Two teenagers deal with their shattered family-life in a small California coastal town.

We started filming when we were in high school (I was 17). Many of the people involved went to Piedmont Hills High School in San Jose, and some actors are from SF, Mill Valley, Palo Alto, etc. It was truly a local effort, and...

It was a rather large volunteer effort. The final budget was around $3,500 or so. Shooting took place on and off for a whole year and editing took me about nine more months. This will be our first and possibly last major screening...



We will be having two screenings:

OPENING NIGHT: 03/06/08 Thursday 7:00 PM
San Jose Repertory Theatre
101 Paseo De San Antonio
San Jose, CA 95113

CLOSING NIGHT: 03/08/08 Saturday 7:30 PM
Camera 12 Cinema San Jose
288 S 2nd St
San Jose, CA 95113

For more info go directly to the Cinequest 2008 site:
http://www.cinequest.org/event_view.php?eid=425

Also, please feel free to bring friends! It would mean a lot to us to get more locals out to see the film!

Join the event @ FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7808269626
Visit http://www.hdehal.com for more info, pictures, and a trailer!

Thanks!

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I'm pondering taking two or three online and one meatspace class at Chabot this year, in preparation to transfer to CSUH when possible, perhaps next fall or spring. I haven't been in college for awhile, all the classes are in subjects that should be pretty easy for me, and I really can't take fulltime on campus. For a variety of reasons, I need to be home or flexible more, and if I can't take the classes online, I can't possibly take more than six units. (Only the meatspace class is required for my major, the rest are "for fun," useful background information. One is very much an "easy A" for my GPA, but would still be a lot of fun.)

Now I have friends telling me that despite their being more flexible, web-based classes are a lot harder, and that by taking a full time schedule with 75% of the classes online, I might be biting off more than I can chew. What do you think? Are they that much harder? Anyone here have experience with web-based classes at Chabot?

(crossposted: csuh, ohlonecollege, ,lj user="chabotcollege">, eastbay)

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Darfur Lecture/Discussion Monday
On Monday, Peabody Award winning filmmaker Paul Freedman will speak about the genocide that is taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan. He has spent the past 3 years researching it, has been there, and just completed a documentary on it. He'll be showing parts of the documentary at the talk.

The event will take place at the Ohlone College Smith Center. He'll speak both at noon and at 7 pm. Admission is free.

What's going on there dwarfs things like 9/11, Katrina, and the 2004 tsunami combined - yet very little is being reported (and if you think significant things are being done - you're in for an awakening). This lecture is kind of a unique opportunity to get an understanding of the background and what really is happening.



For some more interesting background and detail, check out the advance i wrote on Newbor.com.

Barry

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Gak.

"Cal State Hayward is now Cal State East Bay."

I figured no one sane would ever approve of such a dorky name change.

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Does either Ohlone College or CSUH have wireless networks for students on campus yet?

(edit: Wireless networking or WLAN at Ohlone College is based on the 802.11 WiFi standard and includes three separate protocols that focus on encoding (a, b, g). 802.11b was the first widely accepted wireless networking standard, followed, by 802.11a and 802.11g)

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Ohlone bond won't cover all projects

By Barry ShatzmanCORRESPONDENT

FREMONT -- Ohlone College has $50 million to upgrade its main campus, but to get everything the school wants, it may need $25 million more.

A list of projects proposed by Stegeman and Kaster, the company hired to plan the upgrade, would cost $75 million. That's $25 million more than the college has available from Measure A, a $150 million bond narrowly approved by voters in 2002 to construct a new campus in Newark and improve the main campus in the hills above Mission San Jose. The Newark campus is expected to cost about $100 million.

(more at the link)

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