April 20, 2004

News

Spring break a ‘black hole’ for students
Delynn Bodine
Mesa Legend

“Disappearing students and the big black hole of spring break” is how Sarah Capawana, Art Department Chairwoman, describes the phenomenon.
According to some instructors on campus, spring break seems to be taking its toll in the classroom.

Easing state shortage aim of nurse program
Maria Khan
Mesa Legend

Foreign-educated nurses in the Valley may find themselves working as dishwashers and landscapers, but MCC is trying to remedy the problem, said Bertha Sepulveda, MCC nursing program coordinator.

File sharing may benefit music industry
Kathy Gilsinan
Columbia Daily Spectator

(U-WIRE) NEW YORK - As the Recording Industry Association of America continues to cite music piracy as the primary cause of its profit slump, a recent study plays a slightly different tune.
In a study released March 29, Professors Felix Oberholzer-Gee of Harvard and Koleman Strumpf of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill claim that the effect of music piracy on recording industry revenue is "statistically indistinguishable from zero."