Leola Johnson, a communications professor with graying dreadlocks, remarked upon the spot's mixture of "class envy and class hatred."

"Throughout evolutionary history, a big surprise would get everyone's brain thinking," said Clifford Nass, a communications professor at Stanford.

So what does a communications professor do when he has a cause?

His communications professor had returned quizzes.

But Mr. Smith, who is now a communications professor at the University of Arkansas, has not retreated.

Fred Talbott, a communications professor at Owen, hopes that stand-up comedy will help his students master the first two skills.

Mr. Jhally, a communications professor at the University of Massachusetts, doesn't mean that.

Their cluster was taught by a communications professor, whose son attended the school, and a graduate student from Eastern Connecticut State University.

Among the communities are documentarians, librarians, makers of Open Courseware, visual art educators, and communications professors.