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...School (HLS) gathered in Boylston Hall to hear Green, joined by Jason D. Oxman, vice president of communications at the Consumer Electronics Association, and legal scholar Wendy M. Seltzer ’96. The panelists sparred over issues including copyright law, digital rights management, and the oversight of student file-sharing practices. The event was co-sponsored by the Digital Freedom Campaign, a national consumer rights organization, and Harvard College Free Culture, a student group focused on technology and intellectual freedom. Both Oxman and Seltzer, a visiting fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, countered Green by arguing...
This decision marks a significant departure from Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II's statement on Tuesday that student groups would have to file receipts from their events before the University reimburses any spending...
...more blatant display of religious prejudice, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) refused to engrave a symbol of Sgt. and Mrs. Stewart’s religious faith on his tombstone, prompting Mrs. Stewart to file suit against the VA. Under threat of a looming court date, the VA finally relented last April and approved the Wiccan Pentacle as an official “emblem of belief.” Sadly, this victory came far too late, after almost a decade of petitioning by the next of kin of fallen Wiccan soldiers...
...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 proposal, which was withdrawn in July after vocal opposition from universities and across the country.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 at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, wrote...
...meeting, McLoughlin said the UC will now have to file student group receipts before the University reimburses any spending. In the past, the council received this money up front based on cost estimates, rather than reimbursements...