SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION AND THE ARTS

Volume 26. March 2005

Deans' Suite

ANNOUNCEMENTS

IMPORTANT FINANCIAL AID INFORMATION

If you read Dean Patrick's column on the left, you're beginning to get a sense of the exciting new things going on. One significant change that returning students should be aware of is a University-wide reduction in each School's financial aid budget. IF you currently receive a scholarship from the COM/ARTS School and hope to next year as well, you need to check out THIS NEW FINANCIAL AID INFORMATION WEBPAGE >
Each year, ALL RETURNING students must re-apply for their school-based aid. The Financial Aid Committee will do its best to assist you in meeting your financial needs. Financial Aid awards should be made by the end of May, so get your applications in quickly. You often hear: "Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today." Truer words have never been spoken!

GRADUATION INFORMATION

Calling all May Grad Applicants: "When Will I get my diploma?" "Do I wear cap to commissioning?" "What exactly is commissioning?" "Can I graduate if I don't have 39 hours?" All these answers and more at:
May Grad Info Session
Tuesday, March 29 at 12:30 pm (right after Chapel)
COM 101 LUNCH PROVIDED
Please RSVP to Suzanne (757 226 - 4215).
What is best for me? If you are a first year student, i.e., will graduate in May 06 or later, and wondering which culminating experience option is best for you: Come let's have lunch and talk about the comprehensive examination and the portfolio/thesis options. We'll bring samples, give you some pointers, and answer questions.

Wednesday, March 23 at 12 noon - 1:00 pm
LUNCH PROVIDED Please RSVP to Suzanne (x4215).

STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Echoes of Innocence, a feature length film written, directed and produced by Nathan Todd Sims (Regent Graduate), will be shown on Tuesday, March 22 at 7:00pm in Screening Room A. Echoes of Innocence follows Sarah Jenkins, a girl who has a passion for Joan of Arc, but comes across as misunderstood and falls into a deception that has been perpetrated on her.
COGS invites you to the first meeting of REGENT’S LEADING LADIES… Come and hear Pam Miller, 700 Club Producer and Director of “Living the Life” speak about “Can You Really Have It All?” Sunday March 20th at 5:30PM in the Focus Group/Prayer Room (Room 322) For more information contact Elizabeth Hurtado or Lauran Holton.

Earlier this week, Atlanta resident Brian Nichols shot to death four people and took Ashley Smith hostage in her home. After several hours, Ashley persuaded Brian to let her go and he surrendered peaceably to police. The single mom’s Spirit-led calmness and faith was critical to the outcome.
Ashley read aloud to Brian passages from Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life. He asked her to re-read a passage on servant hood.
Do you know God’s direction, purpose, and meaning for your life? Too often, as creative and scholarly people, we can become so busy with our own agendas that we lose sight of where the Lord is trying to lead us. When that happens, we can lose track of God’s loving purposes for our life.

God’s Purposes at COM/ARTS
At the School of Communication & the Arts, we are planning some exciting new programs and outreach activities in the coming months. We expect to see COM/ARTS move out of our comfort zones and begin to impact the world, even as we equip others through our educational programs. We will resist the error of building new programs and activities for our own ambitions, then asking God to bless us. Instead, we must apply our faith to keep up in faith with what the Lord wants to do here. There is a difference.
He wants to work through our students to transform lives, now and in the future. We have to be ready to follow where He is leading us.
Further, God equips and provides for those that He calls. We simply have to arrive in faith and seize the moments that He gives us.
Shalom,
Michael Patrick
Dean
Chair, Journalism

CAMPUS MINISTRY

Special Performance
Please join us for a special pre-Easter performance at noon, Wednesday, March 23rd. You will be blessed by the music and multi-media performance by fellow students. Be surprised by what the Lord wants to do with your life even while you are here at Regent!
Attend School Chapel on Tuesday's at noon for worship and a message to encourage and challenge our hearts!

UPCOMING EVENTS...

DEPARTMENT NEWS

March 19 & 20, Virginia Beach Bash
March 20 at 5:30 PM in Focus Group Room, Regent's Leading Ladies
March 22 at 7:00 PM in Screening Room A, premier of Echoes of Innocence
March 31 and April 1, 2, and 3 One-Act Play Festival

INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Summer internship opportunities for CTV students in CA, NY, GA, and NC! In the last few weeks, your Alumni and Career Services Coordinator, Lisa Hagen, has been in contact with Icon Productions, Henderson Productions, New Line Cinema, and FOX Studios, among several other great production companies. They are all offering internship opportunities, so take a look here! > (PDF document)

Scene from the shooting
of Traffic Jam

Journalism

- Fiction and Novel Writing will be offered this summer as a three credit course. This course is a study and examination of short story and novel development; and emphasis will be on learning the elements, fundamentals and structures of effective fiction writing. Contact Bruce Swaffield for more information.

- For entertainment, style, religion, and world news be sure to visit The Standard Report.

Theatre

- The 14th Annual One-Act Play Festival will include On Air by Elizabeth Beachy and Romeo and Rosaline by Kahle McCann, and will be debuting on March 31 at 8:00 pm. Be sure to pick up your tickets ahead of time at the online Box Office.

- This weekend come to the Virginia Beach Bash and learn stage combat with Greek sword and shield, black powder firearms, European quarterstaff and more!

Cinema-Television

- Two great scripts were overnighted to INSP this week.
Your colleagues Angela Andrews and Kevin Crawford have written two very dramatic stories; one will be selected for the summer film.
Crew positions are still open. Please see Professor Doug Miller ASAP.

- Reelgood.tv is building toward our launch date - April 16!
The station will debut with LIVE coverage of this year's OTIS Awards. Leading up to that event, a campaign series of :60 sec. spots is being created and will begin to air - "The Mystery of OTIS Dynamite!"
First webisode scheduled to be on reelgood.tv very soon. Watch for it and see if you can unravel the mystery.

- NARO and OTIS Film Festival submissions forms are now available at the Production Office. The deadline for both is April 1st so be sure to get them in!