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...Google reported evidence of efforts to hack into the accounts of many users associated with human rights groups. Citing the fact that the attacks were traced to Chinese sources, Google announced that it would no longer honor its agreement with the Chinese government to filter sites from its search engine and was even prepared to leave its offices in China...
That Google would even consider pulling out of a burgeoning and potentially very lucrative market out of moral concerns is impressive in many respects. Although Google’s 30.1 percent share of the Chinese search engine market is relatively paltry compared to the 63.9 percent share held by China’s homegrown Baidu, withdrawing from the country altogether represents a very serious business decision for the company...
...signature likens the process to applying for a credit card. It eliminates the introspective experience, since students need not think about who they are or which colleges match their needs best. When universities simplify the application down to checking a box, students will naturally invest less in the college search process. The types of social opportunities, academic resources, or extracurricular activities at a particular institution become less relevant to an applicant, increasing the likelihood that they will apply to colleges where they simply will not thrive. Similarly, a signature alone does not provide colleges with the kind of information they...
These changes are laudable. If they go through, students would have the ability to selectively search for whatever events—from “Celebrity Speaker” to “Cultural Dance Party”—they want to attend whenever their individual schedules will permit. However, they are not enough. The University should actively work with the UC—which has already taken some initiative—to take additional steps to make the improved events calendar more interactive and personalized...
...It’s also internship search season for us. You’ve mentored interns for years. What should we be wearing to interviews...