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...proctors, concentration advisers and peer advisers. With multiple levels of redundancy, students could pick which person they want to get advice from based on their advisers’ specialties and commitments. With this possibility in mind, we are particularly interested in the committee’s proposal to add a peer advising system, particularly for freshmen. However, we fear that recruiting advisers and making sure they pay attention to advisees on top of each student’s heavy workload will be difficult. The Faculty should pay attention to this potential bottleneck. A small stipend for peer advisers...
...album due next month, is enhanced with narration for the visually impaired. As Wonder performs the song onscreen, raspy rapper Busta Rhymes describes the visuals: "Stevie's playing a pearl-white drum set ..." he tells listeners. Calling the project a "breakthrough," Wonder says he's enlisting other artists to add descriptive narration to their videos as well. Before it catches on, we'd like to warn the visually impaired: Christina Aguilera sounds a lot better when you don't know what she's wearing...
...million photos open to the public (you can set your privacy levels when you join), Flickr lets you browse images related to everything from "architecture" to "zoo." But the real fun is in Flickr's feisty online community: more than 650,000 people are already members, and everyone can add his own comments and tags to public pics, as well as start his own special-interest photo group (pictures of bonsai trees, anybody?). Sign-up is free and comes with 10 megabytes of photo-uploads per month; for $59.95 per year (or a special price of $41.77 until the site...
...Yale rose up again in April, when graduate students set up a strike for teaching unions. This is like the March on Versailles for bread—a loud demand for better treatment, but, as we saw with the end of the strike in late April, an unsuccessful one. Add two and two together, and it’s the second rise of the Third Estate...
...million photos open to the public (you can set your privacy levels when you join), Flickr lets you browse images related to everything from "architecture" to "zoo." But the real fun is in Flickr's feisty online community: more than 650,000 people are already members, and everyone can add their own comments and tags to public pics, as well as start their own special-interest photo group (pictures of bonsai trees, anybody?). Sign-up is free and comes with 10 MB of photo uploads per month; for $59.95 per year (or a special price of $41.77 until the site...