Word: accessed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Months after a bill that could have required universities to police student downloaders was dropped on Capitol Hill, universities are already bracing for round two. Last week, Rep. Ric Keller (R-Fla.) and Rep. Howard P. McKeon (R-Calif.) proposed the College Access and Opportunity Act, a measure that would require universities to monitor students’ online activity for illegal file-sharing. The bill echoes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) proposal, which was withdrawn in July after vocal opposition from universities and across the country. Wendy Seltzer ’96, a fellow...
...Sundquist said that without access to the Office of General Counsel, the UC is at a disadvantage in negotiations with the administration because they do not know if the party grant program is violating...
...Universities, as an example, provide a number of public goods, ranging from discoveries to open-source papers and lecture materials which citizens of any country can access if they are connected to the Internet. Even most critics of the universities concede that the social value of universities is immense; education provides essential skills for a stable—and hopefully prospering—society...
...Professor Reich was kind to volunteer and divide non-profits into those that are socially valuable and the rest. Alas, the fact that non-governmental organizations address issues such as climate change, access to health or government transparency—issues that every thriving society needs to treat seriously—does not seem to guide his rulings...
...gambling that access will substitute for talent on the teams, which are made up of NFL has-beens and college players who never made it. Why would anyone want to know so much about people they don't care about? TV execs stopped asking that question around the second episode of Survivor...