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A professional film crew equipped with state-of-the-art high-definition cameras was shooting a scene for a short film recently at a Near West Side studio. Amidst the organized chaos, 19-year-old Dan Miskovic helped with lights, props, whatever the crew needed. He was getting hands-on experience as part of the curriculum of a new college that officially won't open for a few weeks -- Flashpoint: the Academy of Media Arts and Sciences. The school will prepare students to work in the relatively high-paying film, video game, recording and animation fields. Running the show is Chicago serial entrepreneur Howard Tullman, with a background in entertainment and technology businesses and, in recent years, in education as he led a turnaround at Kendall College, the Chicago culinary school.
Community Announcements
Submit your community announcement for immediate publication online at savannahnow.com/do/add_event or e-mail your meeting at least two weeks in advance to calendar@savannahnow.com or fax to 525-0796. Contact number must be listed. Community Announcements is printed Friday-Sunday in the Accent section as space allows. For information, call 652-0310. To see more upcoming community meetings, go to savannahnow.com/do. DEADLINES Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre The organization is accepting new play scripts for its 27th annual New Play Competition. SART welcomes submission of full-length plays and musicals that are unpublished and previously unproduced in the theatre. The deadline for submission is Sept. 30, 2007. To submit works, mail to SART, P.O.
Fan-Tastic! Survey Finds Majority of College Students Celebrate Responsibly on Game Day
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- College sporting events are a time for students to show school spirit, bond with friends and have some fun, and according to a new survey, the overwhelming number of college students (aged 21-29) who celebrate on game day do so safely and responsibly. Conducted by Harris Interactive(R) on behalf of Anheuser-Busch and the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC), the 2007 study found that college students (aged 21-29) said their behavior is responsible and safe during home games (94 percent), at tailgating parties (93 percent) and at post-game parties (85 percent). Additionally, among students (aged 21-29) who host tailgating or post-game parties, all report practicing at least one of the responsible party-hosting behaviors, including providing food for guests, supervising guests' behavior to ensure that all guests and property stays safe, arranging transportation for those who have had too much to drink, limiting the number of people attending the party and limiting the party guests to people they know.
William Whipple Jr.
Brigadier General William Whipple Jr., 98, of Princeton, died August 23 in Princeton. A retired Army officer, Rhodes scholar, and public servant, he had been a longtime resident of the Princeton area. Born in 1909, he grew up on a sugar plantation in Cinclare, Louisiana. His father, William Whipple, an MIT engineer brought up in the New York area, had come south to become the factory superintendent of the sugar refinery on the plantation. The second of five children, William Jr. graduated from West Point in 1930, went on to study economics and philosophy at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and several years later did a year of graduate studies in engineering at Princeton University. A fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, he was the chief engineer for the construction of the 1964-65 World's Fair in New York.
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