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Edwards also stressed knowledgeable advising as a vital piece of encouraging students to take time overseas. This year, the OIP will try to enlist those students who have studied abroad to act as peer counselors those considering their options...
...Peer-to-peer networks have been the subject of controversy since Napster appeared on the scene several years ago. Record companies are fighting to protect their intellectual properties - the source of artists' livelihoods - while at the same time, the technology for downloading music is advancing faster and faster. The conflict reached a peak recently when the Recording Industry Association of America's lawsuit targets included a 12-year-old girl who had downloaded several songs from the KaZaA media network. What do you think? How can the industry protect its copyrighted material, while still adapting to changing technology...
...home, but there will come a point when the hilarity of that situation will in itself discredit the RIAA. It is a losing battle and unless the record industry plans on spending hundreds of millions of dollars employing hundreds of techs to keep one step ahead of the growing peer-to-peer alliance, they may as well just eat the cost they claim to be incurring now. I for one would say it is not the brightest idea to "challenge" our technically talented youth. I am quite sure they are up for this fight. Jeff Brodzeller Milwaukee...
Nelson, who served under Kleinfelder for the past three seasons, brings dual experience with Kleinfelder’s system as a student and a peer. Including her undergraduate years, Nelson boasts seven years of tutelage under Kleinfelder...
...that they have 20,000 contacts, with the number expanding 500 to 1,000 a month. "It was all grown organically," says Gordon proudly, as if she were surveying a vast hemp farm. "We spent a great deal of money and up-front time handpicking these people based on peer-to-peer recruitment. It's a very different methodology from the way that most people gather bodies. We kind of modeled it after an MLM [multilevel marketing plan]--like an Herbalife or a Mary Kay or an Avon." The Look-Look kids--they're known as "field correspondents"--wander...