November 3, 1999 College Of Education Agreement with Athens City Schools Study Suggests Growth of Internet is Good for Newspapers Computer Ethics Author to Speak at Conference Nov. 6

• Native American Awareness Week continues. This week is designed to educate the community about the history and traditions of Native American cultures. Watch for fliers posted around campus for the week's events.
  
  
• MFA Art Exhibition: The work of Mary Penn and Nikki Blair will be on display at the Ohio University Art Gallery in Seigfred Hall through November 6.
  
  
• Literary critic and essayist Nancy K. Miller will read from her work at 8 p.m. in the Music Building Recital Hall. Miller is a distinguished professor of English at the City University of New York. Her books include "Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death," "Getting Personal," and "Subject to Change."
  
  
• "Angels In America" will be performed at 8 p.m. in Baker Theater through November 6. Part of the School of Theater's 1999-2000 season.
  
  
• For more, please visit the online Calendar of Events.
  

• Training for Web-based Teaching Tool Now Available
  
  
• Marching 110 to Play at Sunday's Cleveland Browns Game
  
  
• Please Recycle Any Unused Old Directories
  
  
• Microsoft Products Available to Ohio University Students, Departments, and Employees
  
  
• How to Get Your Bobcat Football Tickets
  
  
• Transportation from Athens to Columbus available

Game Expert Says 'Millionaire' Grabs Viewers with Easy, Interactive Quiz Question: What does the highly-rated "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" television program have in common with the famed quiz shows of the 1950s? Answer: Though both boast record prime-time audiences and big prizes, "Millionaire" which returns to ABC during sweeps week this month owes more to today's easy, interactive quiz shows than its early-television predecessors, according to Anne Cooper-Chen, a professor of journalism and author of "Games in the Global Village," which examines quiz shows around the world. "Today's audiences don't want to be passive," she says. Modern game shows such as "Millionaire" engage viewers with simple, multiple-choice contests. Cooper-Chen argues that networks have "dumbed down" the challenges to appeal to a mass audience that doesn't want to be stumped by obscure trivia. "This is a totally new era," she says. "They're interactive like the Wheel of Fortune or Price is Right where you and the audience get to guess and feel just as smart as the contestants." Quiz programs which will soon include remakes of "Twenty One," the "$64,000 Question" and "Family Feud" as stations scramble to jump on the game show bandwagon not only make viewers feel clever, but also are quick and easy for networks to produce. For more information, please read the full text of this news release.