Carnegie Cinematheque: Screening of "Darwin's Nightmare" (Hubert Sauper, Belgium, 2004). This incisive and disturbing documentary uses the fisheries disaster in Africa as a lens to look at human-made environmental and social injustice. This screening is for eduational purposes only.

Alumna Shannon Furman ('03 Journ), an award-winning producer for NFL Films, will be the featured guest in a converation about communications careers, her path to success and tips for those interested in the field. The session, intended mostly for undergraduates, is free and open to the public. A three-time Emmy Award winner, Furman has worked on several NFL-related series ("A Footbal Life," "Hard Knocks," "Sound F/X") and covered several major events, including the Super Bowl (five times) and the NFL Draft.

To Tweet or not to Tweet. That is the question for some Pennsylvania legislators who want to stay in touch with their constituencies. But when does promoting governance edge into promoting re-election? How do state legislators and their pubic relations staff members use the tools of social media in both an effective and ethical way? What are the rules of the road? The Pennsylvania legislature is currently asking this question and developing ethics guidelines for the next generation of political communication in the state. Taking the lead is Erik Arneson, communications and policy director for State Sen. Dominic Pileggi, and watching closely is Brittany Foster, a political communications expert with Triad Strategies in Harrisburg. They will provide an update and discuss the issues.

MARC USA's recruiting consultants, Rob Throckmorton and Molly Daniels ('08), will make their annual pilgrimage to Penn State to discuss MARC USA's internship and career opportunities and show a reel of the agency's best creative work. While on campus, they will be interviewing students for possible future internship and full-time career opportunities during the day on Monday, Oct. 20, and Tuesday, Oct. 21. Interviews will be scheduled through the Office of Internships and Career Placement in the College of Communications. Students should check their CareerAdviser emails for how to submit applications.

John Gastil, professor and head of the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences and Political Science, presents the Communications Colloquium with the session titled, "Public Deliberation in Initiative Elections to Transcend Political Biases: Good and Bad News from the Citizens' Initiative Review in Oregon, Arizona and Colorado."

Carnegie Cinematheque: Screening of "Film Socialisme" (Jean-Luc Godard, France, 2010). A powerful political allegory set aboard a cruise ship, told by bone of the cinema’s most uncompromisingly experimental directors. This screening is for educational purposes only.

Mike Williams, a columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, will be speak with students and visit classes during a three-day campus visit coordinated by the Department of Journalism.

Two days of on-campus activities for members of the Advertising/Public Relations Alumni Board. Sunday includes: new member orientation (2:15-2:45 p.m.), a board meeting (3-5 p.m.) and a student mentoring event (6 p.m.). On Monday, the schedule features breakfast with faculty (7:45 a.m.) and classroom visits.

Lisa Borders, chair of the Coca-Cola Foundation, will present "Women, Water and Well Being: How Coca-Cola is Confronting Global Community Challenges" at 11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 13, in Foster Auditorium of Paterno Library. The session -- presented by the Information & Communication Technologies for Development Consotrium, the Don Davis Program in Ethical Leadership and University Libraries -- is free and open to the public. Borders is the chair of the Coca-Cola Foundation and vice president of Global Community Connections. She was also president of the Grady Health Foundation, the fundraising arm of Grady Health System in Atlanta. Borders has worked in her community primarily focusing on education, family issues, healthcare and housing.

Learn how to properly prepare electronic files of graphic design projects, and what to expect when when printing to different output devices, color (Pantone, CMYK, RGB), resolution, etc. Two production coordinators from Penn State's on-campus printing facility, the Multimedia Printing Center, will provide an overview of the services and capabilities of a typical printing facility, and how they work with clients to achieve their expectations with electronic files, whether they are printed or just kept in an electronic form (PDF, JPEGs, etc.). Free session open to all students coordinated by faculty member Ron Smith.