Basically what happens over the course of the seven weeks is they (the students) create, write and hone a five-minute act that's based on their personal lives. We feel the funniest stuff comes from people's experiences.

The Pell grant is already too low for most needy students who go to four-year colleges.

We also have students who are doing placement with Southlake who can't continue until the strike is over.

We not only look at individual students, we also look at daily objectives.

They decided [about four years ago] to try to find a single security provider to provide their security needs on a global basis. As their company grew and security became even more important to protecting their assets, they decided they needed a single security provider.

We're trying to kill a fly with a sledgehammer.