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News, updated 2009 November 20:

• Homework 7, the Paper Titles and Summaries (100-250 words long,
  typed or computer printed) are due in class as a paper copy during
  the first five minutes of class on Monday, November 23.
  
  The Research Papers (over 1200 words long, with at least 8 references, typed or computer printed) are due in class as a paper copy during the first five minutes of class on the last day of instruction, Wednesday, December 9, and NOT on the day of the Final Exam.
  
  For detailed instructions about both the Paper Titles and Summaries (due 11/23) and the Research Papers (due 12/09), see the Writing Guide for Research Papers, on pages 9-14 of the Class Notes, and also on my PSci 21 web page (http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~fringwal/psci21.html), which is not part of Blackboard.
  
  For how to write the papers, see The Elements of Style, by Strunk & White.
  
  Please note: plagiarism will be checked for, and if found will earn a grade of F for the entire PSci 21 course.
  
  
  
• There will be NO PSci 21 labs on Monday, November 23, or Tuesday, November 24.
  
  
  
• There will be NO PSci 21 classes on November 25 or 27, because of the Thanksgiving holiday.
  
  
  
• PSci 21 labs on Monday (November 30) and Tuesday (December 1):
  Meet in the regular lab classrooms (McLane 258 and 264)
  at the regular lab times (5:30 and 7:30 p.m.)
  and do: The Lab Final Quiz,
  covering all PSci 21 labs except Lab 12 and Lab 13.
  
  
  
• Homework 8, the Cosmic Calendar on Three Number Lines (on page A21 of the Class Notes) is due in class as a paper copy during the first five minutes of class on
  Friday, December 4.
  
  
  
• Read, by Wednesday, December 2:
  • Chapter 7 and 12 of Astronomy (6th ed.), by Dinah Moche',
    
  • Pages 195-209 of the Class Notes.