Students can have campus TV voice through RSA
Have you ever caught yourself flipping through the channels and wondering why your favorite station isn’t there? Through the Resident Student Association, you can change that. Students can offer their input on which channels should be offered on University TV in the residence halls and at West Campus.
Even with this coincidence of the newly brought on television station being removed later by the university’s television provider, Versus, a sports channel on University TV, was introduced last year through the same process. However, Versus was dropped by DirecTV in late August and is no longer shown. There is petition from Versus asking DirecTV to bring it back which can be found here/.
Justin Stubbs, vice president of RSA, encourages those students who want to change the way they watch television on campus.
“If a student would like to have a voice in what goes on the University TV, they should contact their hall council who would come to RSA to see it through,” Stubbs said. “They could also just come straight to (the members of RSA).
RSA has its committee meetings every Tuesday at 5:15 p.m. in Chappell Hall. The meetings are another avenue students can use to get their voices heard – topics pertaining to television or not.
Some students feel that if the changes benefit the majority of the community, those changes should be completed.
“If there is a channel no one likes, (RSA) should get rid of it,” Lengel said.
There are some changes on the horizon that University Housing is hoping to implement in the future. Cindy McClanahan, housing marketing coordinator, hopes to have University TV evolve in a way that it can further benefit the students. “We are hoping to start student movie competitions to show home-grown movies (from the students),” McClanahan said. “It’s still in the very early stages. No firm date yet.”
University TV’s movie channel, PawFlix, is another channel RSA has been getting feedback on and is hoping for continued satisfaction from the students. PawFlix plays movies ranging from old classics to newly-released blockbusters. Some of the new movies aren’t even on DVD yet, but are shown on PawFlix. University Housing has a deal with a company called Residence Life Cinema that provides the new releases earlier than they are available to the general public.
“Resident Life Cinema is able to get us movies about four weeks after its shown in theaters, where there is usually about 12 weeks after its shown before it comes out on DVD,” Stubbs said.
For those interested in sending in a request for a movie to be shown on PawFlix, send an e-mail to rsa@gcsu.edu. The schedule for which movies will be shown this month can be seen here
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on Oct 30 2009. Filed under News.
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