O’ Canada!

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Polite Is the New Offensive

“I don’t want to live in a country where no one ever says anything that offends anyone. That’s why we have Canada.”

—Bill Maher, comic & TV host
Thanks to alert WORDster Phil Meyer

• Editorial Comment: Damn the civil discourse—full %^&*(!*&^%!!!! ahead.

• Burma: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs from Agnes Callamard from the international Article 19 organization, which promotes free expression worldwide? Click here.

• Recommended Reading: “Men in Black,” by Maureen Dowd, The New York Times

• Relocation: The JCOM faculty are now baffled by stacks of boxes as we complete our move from the venerable old Animal Science Building to swanky new offices in the new Ag Building on the USU Quad.

• HELP WANTED: New Faculty for Fall 2012! The JCOM Department at Utah State is taking applications for a multimedia instructor, teaching our new required multimedia class and assisting with the Aggie TV newscast classes. For full position description, click here.

• JCOM Teaching Excellence: The Journalism & Communication Department is one of three finalists for USU’s 2012 department teaching excellence award. Junior Emily Landeen produced this video of student feedback on the department. Click on image of Utah Statesman editor Catherine Bennett (right).


News from our award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café
• BREAKING NEWS: USU freshman goes on Leno Show with ‘Special Talent’
• Latest Aggie TV News from USU and Cache Valley (April 4)
• ‘Wolf Wars’ big question: How many wolves will society tolerate?, by Jimena Herrero
• Summer session at USU, when the air is warm and learnin’ is easy, by Kristi Ottley
• Soil conditioning plant approved by Richmond planning commission, by Chris Lee
• 1st District Drug Court: Second chance to get clean and sober, by Tara Alvey
• Recycled milkjugs, tinfoil, candy wrappers make fashion statement, by Kristi Ottley
• Ski season’s not over yet—Try a hike up and ski down Green Canyon, by Evan Thacker, Aggie BluePrint
• Hard News Café Weekly News Roundup (April 2)
• Corey Cozzens sweeps top 3 awards at Spice on Ice competition, by Steve Kent
• Cherry Peak ski area permit upheld by Board of Adjustments, by Josh Ruggles
• The Brady Jardine Story, on KUTV2’ Talkin’ Sports, by ATV Sports’ Bailey McMurdie
• SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE EXTENDED to APRIL 9: JCOM Scholarships for 2012-13.

PeezPIX by Ted Pease
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Spring’s coming....HA!





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