Students look on as Professor Jay Mechling, leads an experimental class on violence in America taught "real time" at UC Davis and Hosei University in Tokyo. The class was such a success fall quarter that the campus hopes to expand the distance-education program to more countries, reports Dennis Dutschke, assistant vice provost for international programs. During the course, as seen in this photo, video cameras and dual televisions were set up in each classroom so the students and Mechling, an American studies professor, could converse. The students at Hosei were a mix of Japanese and international visitors, all of whom spoke some English. Plans call for a Hosei University instructor to teach a similar real-time, dual-continent class with UC Davis this spring. Dutschke, whose office is supporting UC Davis' extra technical costs for the Hosei exchange this academic year and next, says the campus is pursuing federal funding to expand this type of distance education with China and other Asian countries.