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...Every group sending out so many emails lowers the probability that each email will be read and runs the risk of alienating potential event attendees. Additionally, this type of publicizing often depends on students planning their schedules weeks or days in advance. Many students take things day-by-day and will go to events whenever they have time; because list-serves aren’t personalized to ad hoc schedules, emails can be completely ineffective when students delete them days before the event happens. Often, students only find out about interesting events the morning after they happen...
Students do share some blame for the inundation of emails. From the start of freshman year, whether because of our broad curiosity or plain indecisiveness, many of us have signed up on every group and event list that could ever even remotely interest us. But we wouldn’t have to do this if we had a more intelligent, refined online events calendar. Right now, students don’t use the current online events calendar, HarvardEvents, because it’s just too overwhelming—it’s one big mass of uncategorized daily events...
...alone in this view—an improved events calendar was a central plank of the Bowman-Hysen campaign. This semester the UC is working with HarvardEvents creator, CS 50 Lecturer David J. Malan ’99, to categorize all the events. They are also considering requiring every group that gets UC funding to put their events on the calendar...
Miami is hardly the only place in the U.S. where registered sex offenders can't find shelter. In Georgia, a group living in tents in the woods near Atlanta was recently ordered out of even that refuge. But the Miami shantytown, with as many as 70 residents, is the largest of its kind, thanks to a frenzied wave of local laws passed in Florida after the grisly 2005 rape and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford by a convicted sex offender. The state had already been the first to enact residency rules for convicted predators, barring them...
...some point he embraced Islam and became the local leader of a Muslim sect known as the Ummah. In court documents, federal authorities describe the Ummah as a "nationwide radical fundamentalist Sunni group consisting mainly of African Americans" who converted from Christianity while serving prison sentences. The Ummah's national leader is Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, a militant civil rights-era figure once known as H. Rap Brown. In 2001, al-Amin was convicted of fatally shooting two Georgia police officers; he remains in a federal prison...