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...LATTER HALF of April 1972 took Harvard by storm-- literally Less than a day after the Corporation voted to retain its stock in the Gulf Corporation and abstained on a shareholder resolution calling on that company to detail its operations in Angola, some two dozen Black students seized Massachusetts Hall. President Bok's workplace for under a year. The dawn raid touched off a peaceful occupation that was to last a week--and the repercussions of which reflected in Harvard's approach to crisis management and crisis forestallment, remain with us today...
...house student residents of Mass Hall and Matthews North in nearby hotels. The students had complained of nocturnal noise from the drums, music, and speeches inside Mass Hall A PALC spokesman announces that the occupiers have begun an indefinite hunger strike to protest the Corporation's decision to retain its Gulf stock...
Freshmen, and sophomores who faced the requirement last year, have expressed reactions to the QRR ranging from indifference to genuine anger. But they agree almost unanimously that the exercise does little to ensure that computophobes will retain any facility at the keyboard or ever return to the terminal room. The exams demand only temporary mental photocopying and a brief encounter with the machine itself--not an experience likely to yield affection for the Polymorphic Programming Language. If Harvard thinks it's important to expose students to the wonders of the computer, the school should force everyone to take a half...
Although for this reason many colleges retain steady relationships with Southwestern. Harvard is one of a few universities that has placed an absolute ban on all of the company's recruitment activities on campus. Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, says that because of the potential risk involved with the company and recruiters' flagrant violation of College policies. Southwestern will not be allowed back on campus. Epps criticizes the pushy actions of recruiters who convince students to sign contracts prematurely without telling the students what they'll actually be doing. "It looks like you can get stranded out there...
...answer to the first question, then-Can a machine think?-is yes and no. A computer can certainly do some of the above. It can (or will soon be able to) transmit and receive messages, "read" typescript, recognize voices, shapes and patterns, retain facts, send reminders, "talk" or mimic speech, adjust, correct, strategize, make decisions, translate languages. And; of course, it can calculate, that being its specialty. Yet there are hundreds of kinds of thinking that computers cannot come close to. And for those merely intent on regarding the relationship of man to machine as a head-to-artificial-head...