John Williams! And Berklee's not the only school with a program for video game music composition—NYU, Yale, and the New England Conservatory have similar courses.
Evanston and Northwestern aren’t the only couple with relationship issues: Neighbors near University of California at Berekely recently sued the school’s fraternity row over “noise and behavior.” Thankfully, the movement has hit a wall, with one judge declining to pass an order to desist because, after all, why should he “immediately force the organizations to do something the law already requires.” [Chronicle of Higher Education]
We were at Tuesday night’s Great Room zoning meeting—but were you? Despite over 1,000 members in the “Save the Great Room” Facebook group, only 10 to 15 students showed up in defense of the student eatery. “The energy of the administrators for this issue really exceeded the energy of students,” said ASG External Relations Director Jilian Lopez. Students have one more chance to make a show of support Feb. 9 at the rescheduled meeting. [The Daily]
From Star Wars’ booming melodies to Harry Potter’s chimes, cinemusic is slowly becoming a thing of the past—at least according Berklee College of Music, which now offers several courses and a summer program for students who wish to compose video game themes. Michael Sweet, an associate professor who teaches video-game composition, says he hopes to create “the John Williams for video games in the next generations.” Ah yes, John Williams…right. [Chronicle of Higher Education]
Professors are currently the only ones put under the CTEC microscope, but if ASG senator Ethan Merel has his way, TAs will soon have to take their share of criticism. “There are people complaining that their TAs are bad, and they aren’t learning what they should be learning….And the professors don’t know this until the end of the quarter,” Merel says. Next week, ASG senators will vote on Merel’s bill, which would set up midterm evaluations for first-year TAs. [The Daily]
