Georgetown offers course on Jay-Z
Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. is offering a new course to students about the life and legacy of hip-hop artist Jay-Z.
The course, called “Sociology of Hip-Hop: Jay-Z,” is taught by professor Michael Eric Dyson.
He has taught a class of similar scope about Tupac at the University of Pennsylvania.
“I wanted to probe all of these dimensions of Jay-Z as one of the most gifted and talented musicians of our time," Dyson told The Vancouver Sun.
Occupation of Ottawa begins
About 500 protesters gathered in Confederation Park Oct. 15 for Occupy Ottawa’s first general assembly.
The protest remained in Confederation Park for the entire day, after the group decided to occupy the location indefinitely.
Ben Powless, one of Occupy Ottawa’s facilitators, said democratically deciding where they’d be and what they’d be doing was “inspiring.”
RIM should fear client exodus after outage, professor says
After a worldwide message server outage at Research in Motion (RIM) affected 70 million BlackBerry users around the world Oct. 12, RIM should be worried about losing successful corporations as clients, said Ian Lee, a professor at Carleton’s Sprott School of Business.
“Blackberry used to be known for its reliability and security and now that their servers have gone down it leaves many businesses unfunctionable,” Lee said. “The public is now starting to become skeptical of the promises the BlackBerry corporation once made.”
Wet weather causes construction delays
Despite a fall 2011 deadline, the University of Ottawa’s Vanier Tower will now open next spring after delays related to ground quality and wet weather.
iPads instead of books
Starting Oct. 20, Concordia University is going to be lending out 25 iPads to students after the success of their pre-launch period.
