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Professor Manson? mtvU hopes celebs will bring in viewers.


If you see a guy at the next faculty meeting with snow-white skin, blood-red lipstick, shaved eyebrows, and a weird contact lens contact lens, thin plastic lens worn between the eye and eyelid that may be used instead of eyeglasses. Actors, models, and others wear them for appearance, and athletes use them for safety and convenience. , don't be alarmed. That's just how Professor Manson dresses--Marilyn Manson, that is. The rocker is one of the celebrities who have signed on to teach a class on Stand In, a program slated for the fall lineup of MTV's mtvU college cable channel. Manson will use his airtime to discuss music and marketing. Rap star Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, who led a highly successful voter registration Voter registration is the requirement in some democracies for citizens to check in with some central registry before being allowed to vote in elections. An effort to get people to register is known as a voter registration drive. Centralized/compulsory vs.  effort this year among inner city youth, will teach civics civics, branch of learning that treats of the relationship between citizens and their society and state, originally called civil government. With the large immigration into the United States in the latter half of the 19th cent.  and politics. Other guest teachers include the Rev. Jesse Jackson Noun 1. Jesse Jackson - United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)
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, author Frank McCourt, and presidential candidate John Kerry. Formerly known as the College Television Network, mtvU was relaunched in January.
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Date:Oct 1, 2004
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