Word: peering
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After the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed lawsuits against 11 Harvard students last month, most users have wisely shied away from i2hub, the once-popular peer-to-peer firesharing program. And those who illegally download material are just plain dumb, according to everyone who doesn’t like large fines and prisons...
...dollar for every time somebody came in to just look, I wouldn't need to sell alcohol to pay the rent," says the manager of the Cow Bar, Peter Larsen, as a group of brightly clad Tibetan women peer into his premises. The Cow Bar (housed in a former barn) and other establishments have become a subject of great local curiosity. "People just can't believe that we're using this animal's den to serve martinis...
...those who feel personally affected by this incident, there are resources on campus that you can access. Contact is a confidential peer counseling service that specializes in issues of sex, sexuality, sexual orientation, gender, and relationships. University Health Services mental services and the Bureau of Study Counsel offer professional support. If people see or experience any other situations of harassment or violence due to hate or other reasons, HUPD can be reached at 495-1212. We would like to compliment HUPD for the great job they did in this case and in others that we have heard about this year...
...have no such demands of the University, so I did not actively participate in an alternative gift. I was not identified or screened or rated as a potential Associates-level donor, so I am not subject to that series of arguments. I am merely a target for the formidable peer pressure apparatus of the participation drive...
Perhaps the College seeks a similar mandate, some kind of vague demonstration of the student body’s confidence. And maybe they’re right. Maybe their desire for support really does warrant a non-stop apparatus of peer pressure, incentives, and class division year after year. Maybe it does warrant turning friends into pitchmen, dangling influence, and telling me that another student’s symbolic donation means more than mine. And so maybe, when I graduate, I will not crumple the letters from the Alumni Association that will begin arriving Friday, June...