Journalism Class - Wednesday, September 7

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((OOC - This is a lecture and Q/A session. It'll be open daily and Spider will always have something to say... if he's actually there. For student reference at the end of a class session - ie when I get home at night, the entire thing will be considated as coherently as I can manage and placed behind an lj-cut.))

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The renovations done in the classroom set aside for Journalism lecture and discussion are obvious, beginning with the giant, floor to ceiling video screens which are, for the moment, mercifully dark. There are fairly comfortable chairs scattered across the room, two or three to a table, with the maximum capacity looking to be about thirty. There are plugs set in the floor beneath each table for laptops... and other than the minimal furnishings and the professor's desk at one end of the room, there is no other furniture.

The professor looks as if he spent the night sleeping behind the desk, sprawled back in his chair, feet propped on a laptop set atop the desk and a two-faced cat with a cigarette in one mouth leaning on his feet. There is a trashcan beside him overflowing with cans and an open pizza box with half a congealed pizza in it beside him.

There is a note taped to his foot reading, “Someone wake me at 1100”.

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William is sitting quietly somewhere in the middle of the room, watching the other students, and Spider when he's talking, and occasionally writing something down on the little notepad that he carries around with him. There are observations about his classmates, as well as a few notes on Spider's newsfeed system, which is unlike anything on the Discworld. Then again, so is the computer he's becoming accustomed to using, but he still prefers to write.

He watches George get thrown out, and frowns thoughtfully, then writes down the gist of what Spider said about persuading people with words.