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...Tron Guy” was a subject of academic debate over the weekend at the first-ever “ROFLCon,” a convention held at MIT devoted to exploring Internet popular culture. Organized by Tim R. Hwang ’08, the conference featured panel discussions with Internet celebrities such as Homestar Runner, Brad Neely of Super Deluxe, and Drew Curtis of Fark.com. Included among the almost 100 guest speakers at the event was Christian Lander of the blog “Stuff White People Like.” Lander said he is not worried about...
...Faust address was a celebratory address remarking on [David] Rockefeller and his $100 million donation to the University,” said Lam N. Ho, a Harvard Law School student who attended the event and spoke at a panel Saturday. “That was basically the entirety of the speech that evening...
...turn causes a major change in weather patterns. The effects of climate change are real. The most dramatic effects include stronger storms that destroy coastal cities such as New Orleans, rapidly receding glaciers, spring arriving earlier, and invasive species moving into new, warmer areas. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, “The world will have to end its growth of carbon emissions within seven years and become mostly free of carbon-emitting technologies in about four decades to avoid killing as many as a quarter of the planet’s species from global warming...
Participants will attend panel workshops and listen to distinguished speakers from politics, business, and academia. Past speakers have included Former President of South Korea Kim Dae-jung and Columbia Economics professor Jeffrey D. Sachs...
...example, were named after slave owners, most notably Calhoun College, which is named for John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina senator and ardent defender of Southern rights.And that year, Brown President Ruth J. Simmons—the first black president of an Ivy League university—commissioned a panel of students, faculty, and administrators to investigate Brown’s ties to slavery. In 2006, the University issued a Report on Slavery and Justice. According to James T. Campbell, a history professor who chaired the group examining Brown’s past, two important events converged that may have...