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...Expressing the fear that voting down so self-evidently reasonable a proposition would be embarrassing, my colleagues voted massively (74-27) to “table” the motion—that is, to end discussion of it and to avoid a vote. They did so because the motion had arisen in the context of what many of my more silent colleagues regard as the widespread censorship of dissent about Israel-Palestine on campus and in the nearby bookstores that are an essential part of the intellectual life of the University. Moreover, as I showed on this page last...
...powered phones will arrive, Google says, in the second half of the year, possibly around the same time as the new iPhone. At a recent Google developers' conference, the company showed off, for the first time, a generic cell phone running the operating system. Touch sensitive, with an onboard, motion-sensing accelerometer that can also place a user precisely on a Google satellite map, the device resembles nothing so much as an iPhone. Android, explains Andy Rubin, Google's director of mobile platforms, is an open platform for developers à la Facebook; the code is theirs to modify. He says...
...hard work has not inspired similar dedication from the Faculty. This year’s Faculty meetings have been bogged down in unproductive debate and plagued by miserable attendance. Several meetings were dominated by a discussion sparked by a proposal that accused the faculty of censorship. The motion, sponsored by anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82, only talked about free speech to cover his agenda of criticizing pro-Israel bias at the University. Whether or not Matory’s points were valid, his motion was a waste of the Faculty’s time...
...moment of reckoning, the bohemian nirvana, the ultimate thrill. IT is sought by several means: by sex, by bullfighting, by jazz—when the man with the trumpet finds what he’s looking for and brings his audience with him. IT is found in motion, in the “night-cars” which whisk across the Continent both in Kerouac’s novel and in Howl. IT is no more obscure than absolution, and no more mythical than the sacraments and symbols of any religion. What is new about the San Francisco approach...
...KELLY trial begins. Motion to have jury selection at Miley Cyrus concert denied...