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New faculty members begin teaching at ECU

Fourteen new faculty members have begun teaching this semester at East Central University. Another four faculty members are beginning their first full year after coming to ECU last spring, and two staff positions have been filled.New faculty members include:Wade AlexanderWade Alexander, instructor of health, physical education and recreation, also is assistant men's basketball coach. He taught part time last year in ECU's health, physical education and recreation department and was an assistant basketball coach. He was an assistant coach in men's basketball at Texas A&M University-Kingsville in 2004-05 and at Bacone College from 2002 to 2004.He received a bachelor's degree in health, physical education and recreation/exercise science in 2001 and a master's degree in secondary education with emphasis in sports administration in 2003, both from ECU.

System muddles registration

Ohio University's online class-scheduling system failed to recognize completed prerequisite requirements for almost 5,000 students slated to register for classes yesterday, blocking seniors and others with priority registration from getting into some courses.

A computer program that inputs every student's completed coursework into the online system failed to do so two weeks ago, but the problem was not detected until today, the first day of registration, said associate registrar Patrick Beatty. This blocked students from registering for classes with prerequisites: for example, a student with 100-level Spanish credit would not be allowed into 200-level Spanish because the computer system would not recognize the completed prerequisite.

OU computer technicians were running the computer program again last night and expected registration to function normally when scheduling at 7 a.m.

Bulletin Board for 11/4/06

Pioneer Area Quilt Guild will meet Monday at St. Paul's United Methodist Church, 1904 N. Pecan, Ponca City. Guild member Sandee Henderson will share her American Indian ribbonwork. She has more than 25 years experience with ribbonwork. Mary Butler will teach the "Mile-A-Minute Quilt" during Stitch and Assist at 10:30 a.m. and again at 11:00 a.m. Registration and social will be held at 11:30 a.m. Hostesses for the November meeting are Maxine Griggs, Barbara Bowling, Norma Fitts, Donna Schultz and Dot Cowan. At the conclusion of the business meeting, members and guests are invited to share their finished quilt projects during Show and Share. Members are reminded to turn in money and tickets for the 2006 donation quilt Irresistible Irises. Guests are welcome. For information, call Sue Roy at (580) 362-3860.

July 23rd, 2008 02:30 PM

Practical Django Projects

Chromodromic writes "Apress's newest Django offering, Practical Django Projects by James Bennett, weighs in lightly at 224 pages of actual tutorial content, but trust me, they're dense pages. Filled with pragmatic examples which directly address the kinds of development issues you will encounter when first starting out with Django, this book makes an important addition to the aspiring Django developer's reference shelf. In particular, the book's emphasis on demonstrating best practices while building complete projects does an excellent job of accelerating an understanding of Django's most powerful features — in a realistic, pragmatic setting — and which a developer will be able to leverage in very short order." Read below for the rest of Greg's review.