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...similar incident occurred last year, when freshmen’s suite numbers—in addition to dorm telephone numbers—appeared early on the student directory for three full days before the administration caught the glitch...
...record industry's public enemy No. 1 has become its new best friend. Shawn Fanning, the teenage techie turned Internet icon who at 18 began designing Napster in his Northeastern college dorm room--firing the opening salvo in what would become a revolution in the music industry--has launched a company to, of all things, protect intellectual property. Snocap aims to solve the very problem that file-sharing service Napster helped create, by identifying copyrighted music and preventing it from being swapped unless the user pays. And get this: 27% of Snocap's employees are Napster veterans; chief operating officer...
...cheer camp, jealousy and the stress of competition start to hurt the Henderson team's scores from the National Cheerleaders Association instructors. So late one night, the 14 girls hold a "Come to Jesus" meeting in their S.M.U. dorm room to air grievances and try to put their problems behind them. Krystin, caught in the cross fire of parental sniping, is sage enough at 13 to know that teamwork matters above all--more than the moves and certainly more than the makeup. "It's not just about one person," she says on the last day of camp. "You want...
...only was I grappling with the thought of my twenty-two year old brother as a married man—it was only last year that he had slept on my dorm room floor for his final Harvard-Yale game as a college student—I also realized I had never come across such leisurely living. Even the garbage men only grudgingly made their way onto the street at eleven, and everyone seemed to content themselves with shopping at the specialty markets, smoking, savoring gelato, and infesting the smart-car traffic with their designer mopeds...
...major themes is presenting incoming students with social opportunities in a tiered approach,” Assistant Dean of the College and Chair of the Committee Paul J. McLoughlin II said. “[The first-years] will get to know their entryway first, their dorm second, their yard third, their entire class by Wednesday of the week, and then begin interacting with all upperclassmen at our campus party on Friday night...