The Chronicle would like to amend certain erroneous facts in an article titled “Professors teach via Internet” published Oct. 25, as per an e-mail from Robert Baruch Bush, University professor of law:

“First and most important, there is a caption under the photo that accompanies the story that is utterly inaccurate regarding the classes I taught, one of which is portrayed in the photo. Your caption on the photo is: ‘Students hear a lecture from a University Law School professor in Australia. The conference format allows some students to be inattentive and not participate in the class.’ This photo—which was actually staged after my return to Hofstra for purposes of this article—shows students looking at each other while discussing a question that I have asked, which often occurred during the Skype classes I taught. This photo portrays student discussion and engagement, not inattention. Nor was there any inattention in the classes I actually taught via Skype. Rather, as the text of the article makes clear, the students found the Skype lectures ‘effective’ and engaging.

Second, as edited and published the article does not make clear that student criticisms of the classes taught from Australia were directed at those classes that were NOT taught via Skype—because glitches with the Internet connection forced us on those occasions to fall back on much less effective voice-only technology (telephone conference).”

Also, Helen Latimer is the director for networks and telecommunications at Hofstra, not Skype, as the article stated.

The Chronicle would like to amend certain erroneous facts in an article titled “Levy heads suburban studies,” regarding University professor Larry Levy published Oct. 18, as per an e-mail from Levy:

“I wasn’t a senior correspondent for the Times. I was a campus correspondent in my senior year.

I was the European Correspondent for Boutique Fashion Magazine, which is based in America, not vice versa as you noted.

I never worked for the real estate section at Newsday (that was as a stringer for the Times). The line near the end about the political internships needs some clarification. It may come as a surprise to the people at the J school.

What I’m trying to set up is an internship at the 2008 national political conventions. It’s a one-time thing with the journalism and political science departments. I don’t want to give people the impression that I’m involved in creating general internships, which I’m not.”