The Woods

By Stephanie Dolan
Columnist

When it comes to victims, there are plenty of fish in the sea for a bully. Those with a proclivity for emotional torture typically make a beeline for those of different races or sexual orientations.
The lone black child in a sea of white faces, the “overly artistic” teenage boy or the girl labeled a “tomboy” are all usually easy prey for intimidating; the same who have no doubt plagued institutions of lower and higher learning since the opening of the first schoolhouse.
But back in those days there was a precursor to the longsuffering ethnic and lifestyle victims of these persecuting despots: the fat kids.
I mean no disrespect in my use of the F word.  I, myself, am nothing if not fat, fluffy, fleshy, fruitful and flabby.
I am also well aware of the toll constant harassment can take on a person’s spirit, sense of well-being and general outlook on life.
Going to school every day, believing that the only thing you can count on is that you will be menaced by your trusty local bully does tend to take the perpetual wind out of one’s sails.
Being bullied can lead to impaired self-esteem, depression, poor academic performance, trouble with anger management, violent tendencies and – in some unfortunate cases – suicide.
What can you do if you’re being bullied?  Don’t take it lying down.  If a bully believes you’re going to take his behavior, then he’ll certainly continue dishing it out.
Even if you don’t think you have a scathing retort to deliver, maintain eye contact.
In the end, a bully is a coward, and would much rather deliver insults to someone who has their shoulders bent and their eyes on the floor to someone with their spine straight and their head held high.
File a harassment report if necessary.  No one deserves to get away with this kind of behavior.  If someone bullies you then that someone will certainly bully someone else… and someone else after that… again and again and again.
Remember that the person bullying you is ultimately unhappy with themselves.  A happy person doesn’t intentionally inflict pain on others.
So, while this is no excuse for bad behavior, please remember that your being bullied is not your fault and has nothing to do with you or your worthiness as a human being.
It’s 2011, a completely new year.  But bullying is worse than it’s ever been.
I can only speak from personal experience, but – as much as I was harassed by bullies when I was a kid – those same kids today seem much meaner, more aggressive and more eager to do harm.
As a society, this is a problem that should have seen a solution long ago, but I believe that there is also an underlying thought pattern running through our DNA that almost expects bullying to be a twisted “rite of passage” for most people.
You’re either the bully or being bullied.

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By Emma Campbell
Staff Writer

According to a government website, Volunteering in America, 2008 saw a total of 8.24 million young adults donate their time to volunteer work. This was an increase of about 441,000 people from 2007.
Volunteer work is becoming an increasingly important activity to young adults between ages 16 to 24.  College students should be well versed on the benefits of volunteering and community service considering most of them get lectured by counselors and teachers that, “it looks great on your college application.”
High school students are told that volunteering helps them better themselves for selection committees at their top choices for college. Some honors programs in high school even require a certain amount of community service hours to be logged before graduation.
At the very least it gets students involved in projects that they most likely otherwise wouldn’t have participated in.
But according to non-for-profit website Help Guide, studies show that volunteer work or community service gives more than just a warm, fuzzy feeling inside.
Volunteering can also greatly increase social and relationship skills, increase connectivity with other people, combat depression, and increase self-confidence.
The interest among young people in volunteering coincides with their reported increase in the belief that it is essential, or very important, to help other people in need.
The Higher Education Research Institute studies the attitudes of first-year college students each year and reported that in 2008, 69.7 percent of students held this belief. This is the highest rate documented since 1970.
For those that have the drive to help others and get involved, but are unsure where to start, websites such as Volunteer Indiana, which is the state’s Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives (http://www.in.gov/ofbci/volunteer/) and Volunteer Match (http://www.volunteermatch.org/) are great places to start.
To see what more than six million Hoosiers are doing to improve their communites, you may also go online to http://www.goodworksindiana.blogspot.com.

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By Danya Long
Editor-in-Chief

As the search for a president continues at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, the search firm of Witt/Kieffer has compiled the information from their on-campus interviews with students, faculty, and staff and has put together a packet of information that will be given to qualified candidates.
A group of semi-finalists for the position is anticipated to be selected by mid-January from the applications that are received. If all goes as planned, a selection of finalists would be chosen by early February and on-campus interviews with the candidates would follows by the end of February.
The SMWC presidential search committee and Witt/Kieffer are hoping to have a president for SMWC chosen soon after the interviews at the end of February.
The search firm and committee asks that if anyone has an ideas about specific candidates for the position of president to contact Dennis Barden, at 630-990-1370, or Kate Will, at 603-748-4399, of Witt/Kieffer.

Below is the advertisement SMWC is running for the presidential position.

“Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College near Terre Haute, Indiana is the nation’s oldest and most historic Catholic institution for women.  Its founder is, quite literally, a saint – Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, founder also of the college’s sponsoring order, the Sisters of Providence.  After 170 years of offering an outstanding liberal arts education for women, the college now boasts programs of distinction, graduate programs that serve significant needs in the marketplace, and a robust distance education program.  To catalyze its continued development as a singular institution of higher education in the Catholic tradition, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods seeks a president
Located on 1,200 spectacularly beautiful acres shared with the Sisters of Providence, The Woods (as it is popularly called) is truly a peaceful and contemplative environment in which to learn and to grow.  So significant is the sense of spirituality that imbues the institution that it somehow transcends the physical campus to affect the students of the college’s sizable distance learning programs, as well.  Much of the permeation of the environment must be credited to the Sisters of Providence, whose central missions of social and ecological justice, human services, and education are intrinsic to the college with whom their motherhouse shares a campus.
The president will lead this historic institution to a new standard of performance and service for the 21st Century.  Doing so will require a leader of vision who balances the internal and external responsibilities of the office, adding significant value on both counts.  He or she will be active in a Christian faith tradition and will resonate deeply with both Catholic and women’s higher education.  The president will have a broad understanding of the issues facing higher education, combined with the leadership qualities necessary to address those issues.  Of particular import is the ability to lead a process of strategic visioning that results in a widely-embraced plan for the college’s future and the ability to provide leadership for the execution of that plan, including the ability to assist the college in adding resources.  An earned terminal degree is required, as is a significant track record as a relationship builder and as a successful advocate internally and externally.
[SMWC] finds itself in need of compelling and inspirational leadership at a moment of significant opportunity.  Its next president will be in a position to make a personal impact on this historic institution.”

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By Jade Scott
Editor-in-Chief

Zahra Adni, junior at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, was born on July 28, 1990, in Algeria.  The majority of Adni’s family is from the Berber Mountains and the Roman area of Algeria.
In the 1700’s Algeria was colonized by the French and stayed for more than 200 years.  Most of Algeria’s language and educational system is heavily influenced by the French.
Adni’s mother, who is from the Roman area of Algeria, is a French Muslim who has three bachelor’s degrees in French, Arabic, and Biochemistry.  Even though she was born in Algeria she spent most of her younger years as a nanny in Paris for a Jewish family that were close friends of the family.
When Adni was only a toddler they were driven out of Algeria due to the civil unrest and the terrorist organizations that were corrupting the country.
“We were on our way to France to spend the Christmas vacation when the plane we were in got hijacked,” she said.
Her family was not able to go back to Algeria and her mother did not want them living in Paris.  So, the alternative was to come to the United States where they settled in West Lafayette with an uncle that was teaching at Purdue University.
Even though Adni has spent the majority of her life in America, she still adheres to the many traditions, customs, and beliefs of her country and religion.  Most of the citizens of Algeria are Muslim but there is also a large amount of Catholics and Jewish citizens.
Weddings are a major event in the Islamic religion.  They are very detailed oriented and last for about a week.  There are several days where all of the families gather for lunches and dinners are different houses.
They eat a lot of lamb, put parsley, olive oil, garlic, and cilantro in everything they cook, and all of their meat must be all natural.
Since Algeria had been occupied by the French for so long, and the Spanish before that, their language, Algerian, is a mix of Arabic, Spanish, and French.
Adni admits that since she has been in American for so long she is not used to the customs in Algeria.
“I have been back to visit family twice and I always feel like a foreigner,” Adni said.

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By Jade Scott
Editor-in-Chief

Every single day Zahra Adni, junior at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and young Muslim woman, covers her head with a hijab.  She has several colors and even different patterns.  She has been doing it since she was 13 and she does it by choice.
In the United States every citizen has basic human rights that allow them the freedom of speech, freedom of expression, etc.
But in December 2003 in France, a ban was proposed to outlaw all religious symbols and was backed by Parliament.   This ban came into effect on Sept. 2 and forbidden items include Muslim headscarf, Sikh turbans, Jewish skullcap, and large Christian crucifixes.
“We look at issues of religious liberty from within the bounds of our Constitution – peaceful religious express is simply a given here and no federal, state, or local authority gets away with burdening it for very long,” said Pat McIntyre, professor of theology.  “France does not have the same conceptual framework or the same commitment to multiculturalism that we have.”
According to BBC news, at the time when the ban came into effect it affected more than 12 million children in France and The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life estimates that France has about 3.5 million Muslims, or about six percent of the population.
Most Islamic legal systems require women to be fully covered with only their face and hands visible in public and in front of non-family males.
“It is like making people choose between their religion and their work or school,” said Adni.
Many countries debate whether or not the Islamic women should be required to be fully covered like Iran and Saudi Arabia, while France and Turkey argue that is should be banned from public all together.
“I don’t think that it is fair that a government can tell its people what they are allowed to wear,” said Adni.  “I knew that France had a complete separation of state and church, but when I read about what was going on I felt like they were trying to get rid of all religious symbols.”
On Sept. 14, the French senate approved a law banning any veils that cover the face — including the burqa, the full-body covering worn by some Muslim women — making France the first European country to plan such a measure.
The law passed by a vote of 246 to one, with about 100 abstentions coming essentially from left-leaning politicians and it will go into effect in the spring of 2011.
The ban is designed to maintain France’s tradition of strictly separating state and religion as well as for security reasons and to bring sexual equality.
“The burka represents not a piece of fabric but the political manipulation of a religion that enslaves women and disputes the principle of equality between men and women, one of the founding principles of our republic,” Fadela Amara, French Minister for Urban Regeneration, told BBC News on Aug. 15.
But in 1905 when the law of separation of church and state was passed on Dec. 5, it was based on three basic principles: the neutrality of the state, the freedom of religious exercise, and public powers related to the church. This law is seen as the backbone of the French principle of laïcité, which is a concept of a secular society, denoting the absence of religious involvement in government affairs as well as absence of government involvement in religious affairs.
“In Islam, the women have every right to choose if they want to cover or not,” Adni said.  “I have a friend that lives in Saudi Arabia and she chooses to cover her face even though she doesn’t have to.”
While it does ban the wearing of the burqa is does not ban wearing the hijab or chador (covers the body but not the face), unless worn in school because of the ban in 2004.
“The French are very protective of their cultural heritage, their European sense of themselves, and of their social liberties,” said McIntyre.
The French Constitutional Council said the law did not impose disproportionate punishments or prevent the free exercise of religion in a place of worship, finding therefore that the law conforms to the Constitution.
“I really do not know what I would do if I were to go back to France right now,” said Adni.  “A part of me feels like I would leave it [hijab] on because I don’t think that one country can tell me what I can and cannot wear but at the same time I would take it off because I wouldn’t want problems.”
In an article done by CNN in September, the law imposes a fine of 150 euros ($190) and/or a citizenship course as punishment for wearing a face-covering veil.
The French government said forcing women to wear a niqab or a burqa is a new form of enslavement that the republic cannot accept on its soil.
“Under the leadership of women like Simone de Beauvoir, France produced some of the foundational tenets of feminism and that society has worked very hard to figure out how to be a modern, socially equitable culture,” said McIntyre.
Whether or not the ban is for sexual equality, the growing need for separation of church and state, or for security reason it will be enforced starting in the spring.
“The outcome could lead to total chaos,” Adni said.  “There is going to be an outcry because I feel it would take away their freedom to wear their religious symbols.”

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By Jade Scott
Editor-in-Chief

According to a study done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, those born between the years 1957 and 1979 held on average 10.8 jobs.
Now, the study shows that those born after 1979 will hold as many jobs as 15 in their lifetime.
“Since I graduated college in the ’90’s I have worked at five different newspapers, worked as a farmer, worked in a coffee shop, became a college professor, and now I am back to farming,” said Elaine Yaw, former professor of journalism at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College.
In the study done by the Bureau there is more than one reason why people change jobs several times throughout their lifetime.
The top five reasons would be that they don’t feel comfortable where they work, their co-workers wouldn’t miss them if they left, they do not get the support they need to get their job done, there is no opportunity for advancement, and money.
“I was jumping from newspaper to newspaper to be able to work for a bigger newspaper each time because I needed to make more money,” said Yaw.
The increase in the number of jobs has already started to affect college students.
Jena Thralls, junior at SMWC, has already had five jobs in the past six years.  Since she started working when she was 15 she has worked for Sodexho at SMWC, Subway, an independently owned tanning salon, Menards, and now WTHI.
“I left Sodexho because I hated having to work weekends and I would always have to work really late,” Thralls said.  “My job at the tanning salon was my longest job, three years, and I really loved that job because I was able to be very independent with setting my own hours and I was able to get my homework done while I worked.”
Thralls had to leave her job at the tanning salon because she needed more hours and more money.
Since the salon was not going to provide her with more hours and money she had to resort to working at Menards, a job that she wasn’t thrilled about.
On her website, “Career and Employment Guide for Job Seekers and Employees,” prepared by Robin Jacobs from Portland Community College, most successful careers are a result of several years of working for the same company or employer to build up experience and seniority.
“It’s usually easier to move up the salary and promotional ladder at one company than to move and start at the bottom of the ladder at a new place of employment,” said Jacobs in the guide. “And employers are less apt to hire someone who moves frequently from company to company, so it can become increasingly difficult to find a job.”
With the generation of employees born after 1979 destined to hold around 15 different jobs, their ability to build a successful career is not as likely to happen as those that have fewer jobs in their lifetime.
“Now I am worrying about the changes I have made in my lifetime when it comes to my career because I do not make as much money as I did at my previous job even though I am working towards what I want to do in life,” Yaw said.  “I am not making a lot of savings for my retirement or even getting insurance and benefits.”
There are many reasons for changing jobs, from increase of pay, problems with co-workers or boss’, or even new jobs that are being created as technology grows.
“On one side, we have boundless opportunity.  On the other side, we have no choice but to change, because everything keeps changing with us.  Presently, the top ten in-demand jobs include nine technology jobs and nursing,” said Troy Brownfield, assistant professor of journalism.  “The projection is that in 10 years, the top ten will be nursing and nine technology jobs that no one has heard of yet because they’ve yet to be invented.”

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As the semester comes to an end, I have decided to pass down the position of Editor-in-Chief of The Woods newspaper to my predecessor, sophomore Jade Scott. While it has been a long and stressful journey at times, it has been a great experience for me.
Jade and I have been working side-by-side this semester as co-editors. We have had a lot of fun together, and I have passed all of my information and helpful tips on to her. She has done an amazing job thus far, and I have complete confidence in her abilities to lead the staff in another successful semester.
It is customary for an editor to carry out an entire semester in charge; however, I feel like I have almost overstayed my welcome and my staff may revolt if they have to put up with my quirky ways any longer. (Just kidding. I hope none of them want to kill me yet!) I have been the Editor-in-Chief of The Woods newspaper for a year and a half now, starting my run last fall. In my time I have seen a lot of improvement on the newspaper.
We have gone through some rough times, but no matter what we always produced a quality newspaper that we hope served its purpose to the campus community.
I have seen a change of leadership in our faculty advisor. For those of you who are new to campus, Elaine Yaw was our previous advisor. Her replacement came this year in the form of Assistant Professor of Journalism, Lori Henson. Having worked with both women, I have learned very much from their vast amount of experience. I feel that they have successfully prepared me to go into the real world and work my way through the ranks. (Although I must admit I am incredibly nervous about taking the plunge!)
Some changes this year have included a new format of our newspaper into a more “newsy” style. We, as a staff, felt this would help our readers follow the newspaper. Another change is the new website. We have attempted to keep an updated website for our readers not on campus or for more convenience.
Through all of this, the staff have been very accepting of the changes and have embraced them with open arms. It has created new opportunities for some of them and will help them build their portfolios. Our staff has also increased in size and experience, which helps with the publication of the bi-weekly newspaper.
Jade is a very qualified candidate for this position and has a lot of opportunity to grow as a young woman and a journalist. I hope you will all welcome her and give her feedback on the things you enjoy and the things that maybe need some work. As a sophomore, she will be with this newspaper for awhile and I know she will do great things with it and for it. I have total confidence in her.
It is a sad time for me because journalism is what I love to do. However, being an editor is incredibly hard and stressful work. No one but a few members of our staff see just how much effort goes into putting together a newspaper. A lot of people take it for granted, and I know this because I was one of those people two years ago. I got my eyes opened big time when I took on the position but I haven’t regretted a single moment of it.
I will still be contributing to the newspaper, so you haven’t gotten completely rid of me just yet. However, I do graduate in May so then I suppose you will…unless Lori and Jade want me to come back that badly! (I don’t see that happening, just between you and me.)
So for now, I bid you adieu as the Editor-in-Chief of The Woods newspaper and pass the torch to the very talented Jade Scott.

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By Annie Jones
Columnist
Protestors danced and sang in the streets of Columbus, Ga., Nov. 19-21 at what was once called the School of the Americas, where the U.S. government is accused of teaching “terrorism tactics.”
This year, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College’s Peace and Justice committee sent five students: junior Jordan Bedella, junior Brittany Coy, sophomore Colleen Daum, senior Danielle Sommers, and me to visit and observe the SOA Watch along with Sisters of Providence including Sister Jenny Howard and Campus Minister Malia Hoffman.
“I wanted to learn about it as much as I could. We held a prayer service for all those murdered by the hands of SOA soldiers,” said Howard when asked about her first time attending an SOA protest.

This year was Howard’s tenth attending the SOA Watch.
The SOA Watch has been going on outside the main gates of Fort Benning since 1990, but for more than 64 years the SOA has trained more than 60,000 Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques such as sniper training, interrogation tactics, commando psychological warfare, and military intelligence.
It all began in 1946 when the SOA was first established in Panama and called the U.S. Army Caribbean Training Center. The training center was established to help “professionalize” Latin American and Caribbean militaries at the time.
In 1963, President Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress led to the training center’s name to be changed to the School of the Americas. Twenty years later, in 1984, the school was forced to move from Panama to Fort Benning, Georgia because of the terms of agreement in the Panama Canal Treaties.
Many student groups, like Peace and Justice at SMWC, now participate in the three-day long Watch, side-by-side with countless faith communities, veterans groups, and national and local labor unions.
The Watch is now a large movement with more than 10,000 people that is rooted in helping the people that are the most affected by the SOA, the poor and oppressed.
We first arrived late Friday night in Phoenix City, Ala., at our hotel where we would be staying for the next two nights. The five of us girls were excited about the watch that laid ahead on Saturday.
When we arrived to the SOA Watch it seemed quiet and somewhat reserved but as we got closer the presence of the Watch grew.
As we walked towards the barricaded street that was housing the Watch it became noticeable that it led to the main gate of Fort Benning.
Soon after this realization we became swarmed with people who were handing out flyers, preaching for the cause, and looking for donations.
As we kept walking farther in the streets they became more congested. There were little souvenir shops and equal trade vendors scattered all along the sides of the road. There were also booths from different student groups, faith communities including the Sisters of Providence, and veterans groups scattered throughout the crowd.
The farther we went into the street, the more we began to discover. At the end of the street, just before the gates of Fort Benning, there was a stage set up. This stage housed speakers from all over the world who stood up in front of Fort Benning and the crowd to tell their horror stories.
The stage also housed performances from Kuumba Lynx, a hip-hop group from Chicago that works with the youth throughout the city, and Rebel Diaz, a group of three that “report from the trenches” and make music from their experiences.
Sunday, however, was as if we had returned to a different watch. The majority of the shops and booths had been shut down and there was a mass of people and groups that where all lined up for the march on Fort Benning. There was a man on stage, announcing guidelines that were to be followed for the march.
“I didn’t think it was going to be that touchy of a subject, but then they began to call out names and they started telling the stories of the survivors and what the SOA had done,” said Bedella.  “It changed everything for me.”
The march onto Fort Benning was a profound moment. All I could see was an ocean of people who were singing and holding crosses with names of people whose death had been traced back to the SOA. The sea of people were together for one reason and one reason only. Justice.
As the march began the mass of people in line and on stage began to sing.
As I looked up at the fence of Fort Benning I could see that it was covered with photos of the people who had been lost. Their names and ages were written across each cross that scattered across the fence.
On our way out of the march there was a scene of the six original monks who had been killed by SOA trainees on Nov. 16, 1989.
After that it was over and the crowds began to disperse, the vendors started to pack up, and the cops were moving in.
The line that separates the protestors from the military base is not to be crossed. Those brave enough to cross that line are automatically arrested.
“Being arrested is something that people plan,” said Howard.  “I don’t think that anyone wants to be arrested, but it is all done to make people aware about what’s going on.”
There were a total of 24 people arrested for crossing that line onto Fort Benning that weekend.
On Sunday, a local judge found 23 out of the 24 people who were arrested by the city guilty on charges including unlawful assembly, failure to disperse, and parading without a permit. The total of bonds and fines exceeded $75,000.
In 1998 more than 2,000 people crossed the gates of Fort Benning during the SOA Watch. With 8,000 supporters present at the watch it was one of the largest civil disobedience actions in the United States since the Vietnam War.
There were no prosecutions that followed.
More than 300 people have been tried as a result of nearly 200 SOA Watches throughout the country.
Human rights defenders have collectively spent more than 90 years in prison and more than 50 probation sentences ranging from six to 36 months. Most defendants have received fines that ranged from $500 to $3,000.
“I was not worried about my safety at the protest,” said Howard.  “It is non-violent and there are no weapons, no drugs, and no alcohol. The greater violence is being done to those who suffer at the hands of the SOA.”
For more information on the SOA Watch or how to participate in their upcoming events, visit www.soaw.org or call 202-234-3440.

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By Emma Campbell
Staff Writer

Interim President, Dottie King opened the year’s first town hall meeting on Nov. 1 by recounting for faculty and staff the board of trustees’ meeting the weekend before.
King said that as far as the budget went, as discussed by the Board of Trustees, there were three specific goals. The first was to create a truly balanced budget. The second, to keep tuition level, or to minimize any increase that needed to be made.  The third was to keep faculty and staff a part of the budgeting process.
The cabinet members also met with the board of trustees and discussed the academic identity of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. They asked the questions: What do you believe is SMWC’s academic identity? What is it in reality? What should it be and how can it become better?
King then introduced SMWC’s Vice President for Advancement Chad Linzy. Linzy reviewed the campaign budget with faculty and staff. He also announced a goal for the Annual Woods of over $1 million.  The fund is then used for student scholarships among other uses.
King returned to introduce Gordon Afdahl, vice president for finance and administration, who discussed SMWC’s budget and the impact of the recent fire in Guerin Hall that occurred on Aug. 31.
King returned to close the meeting and to speak briefly of SMWC’s 170th anniversary which was celebrated this year. In honor of this celebration, SMWC purchased banners to be hung on the avenue to serve as a reminder of how long SMWC has been a leader in educating women.
Town hall meetings are open to all SMWC faculty, staff, and students.

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By Jade Scott
Editor-in-Chief

Zahra Adni, junior at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, does not bother with television shows when they are being aired.  Instead Adni works on homework right through the airing of the show and later gets on her laptop and goes to hulu.com to watch the shows she missed.
What industry experts call “differentiated viewing” is more common today, meaning the viewer does not have to watch a show when it is being aired.
This trend of viewing television has increased with technology and now 25 percent of television viewers watch all of their shows online according to a new study by Retrevo, a review company.
Today there are three options for television viewing that varies on different age groups; online, recorded, and real-time television.
Adni hardly watches any form of television other than online.  Her favorite online site is Hulu but she also uses Netflix and YouTube.
This differentiated form of television involves Internet based sites that flow full-length episodes.  This option is dominated by the age group late 20’s and younger, according to Troy Brownfield, assistant professor of journalism, who teaches courses in media.
“I think that I watch my shows, especially Glee, on Hulu at least once a night if not more,” said Adni,
Online viewing is easy and convenient for those that do have a busy schedule and cannot sit down to watch TV when specific shows are being aired.

Hulu is a free, online video service that offers a selection of hit shows, clips, and movies that can be streamed to any computer, TV, and mobile phone with Internet availability.
Another advantage to Internet based sites would be the lack or minimized amount of commercials that regular television has.
“We are young, we are the youth of America, and we are impatient,” said Adni.  “Everyone hates commercials but we are too impatient to make it through most of them.”
Brownfield is an example of a television viewer that watches recorded television.
“When you get to the point where you have to worry about getting your children to bed you don’t have the luxury of sitting down and watching a show while it is airing,” Brownfield said.  “Instead, my wife and I record our shows and sit down to watch them after the boys are in bed.”
The invention of TiVo in 1999, by Jim Barton and Mike Ramsay, changed the way that the television viewer experienced their shows.
TiVo, also can be described as a DVR, enables the ability to record programming for viewing at a later time.  With this, viewers are no longer chained to specific scheduling times.
According to Brownfield the age group that is using this form of differentiated viewing the most would be those in their early 30’s to mid-40 because of the demands in their lives like family and work.
In a study called the Nielson Three Screen Report, a regular analysis of video viewing and related consumer behavior in the U.S., it was reported that the

average viewer with a DVR watches approximately seven hours of time-shifted television in a month.
Kim DisPennett, administrative assistant Academic Affairs, watches television shows when they are airing by sitting down in her living room and watching them on her TV.
“As we age we are settling down more and going out less at night,” DisPennett said.
This option requires the viewer to be able to take the time to sit down when the show is being aired and Brownfield says that this is dominated by the age group of 40 and older.
“As technology continues to advance, and the options that are available for television continue to grow, it is possible that real-time television viewing will continue to decrease,” Brownfield said.

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