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...very taken with the idea of consumers creating content for the Internet. With the advent of blogs, tagging, personal profiles, garage band music and amateur web videos, instant notoriety is just an "upload" click away. The sheer volume of user content is staggering. Wikipedia's user-created entries have surpassed the 5 million mark. In 2006 YouTube announced that it had served over 100 million video clips per day. With such vast libraries of lip-synched videos and episodes of LonelyGirl15, the numbers seem to indicate that this phenomenon has gone mainstream...
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...Alcohol Edu’s worst offense is its selective omission of facts. When the program claims that eating food won’t lower your blood-alcohol content, they neglect to mention that it certainly will keep your BAC from rising. The same is true of throwing up. The program should tell everything, without the misleading subterfuge...
...created by five international students in 1994, the Woodbridge Society is enjoying its most successful year to-date with membership numbers now swelling into the hundreds. No longer simply a refuge for foreign students, the society has become a dynamic interface between the domestic and international student populations. Previously content to introduce the unfamiliar Harvard experience to internationals, Woodbridge now proudly presents the international experience to Harvard, and the fruits of its growth are apparent. Yet all this new growth sprouts from a deeply rooted source: a culture of inclusion and openness as could be fostered only by a truly...
...often using research assistance or a month of paid summer time). Compelling and effective courses will be in demand for secondary fields and electives as well as general education—and three years from now we should see a higher proportion of undergraduate courses with lively and unspecialized content, taught using creative instructional methods. Especially as we develop new and revised offerings for general education, we must not rush. If faculty are in a hurry to get their courses certified, and if students demand instant and infinitely flexible menus of offerings, established courses will just be relabeled, providing little...