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Harvard students are known for their habitual lateness, inspired by the “seven-minute rule” for classes, but attendees of the College’s first free movie night last Thursday weren’t following Harvard-time. Nearly 495 students filled the Brattle Theatre long before 7:45 p.m., the recommended arrival time for “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.”, leaving only the front row empty. The thunderous applause came even before the movie began as Ben Schwartz ’10, vice chair of the College...
With OCW gaining so much popularity, other schools have followed suit. In the fall of 2007, Yale made course materials for seven popular courses available online and will add nearly 30 more within the next three years. Carnegie Mellon has launched its Open Learning...
...Utah OpenCourseWareAlliance, a collaboration of seven universities in Utah offering 145 courses in total, became the first open courseware system publicly funded by the state. In spring of 2007, Stanford University established a task force, Stanford Open Education Initiative, to explore open education options. And the trend is not limited to only these schools: many institutions across the world have followed suit and created similar programs, furthering educational opportunities...
...weeks, Charles Cherry II has tried to get Florida's Republican Party to buy ads promoting Senator John McCain on the seven African American-targeted radio stations and in the two newspapers that make up part of the Cherry family's sprawling Tampa business empire, the largest black-owned media entity in the Sunshine State. The ads would have enabled McCain to make his case to potentially millions of black Floridians, about 13% of whom voted for President Bush in 2004. Instead, Cherry, 52, recalls a Republican official saying, "We're ceding the black vote in Florida to Obama." Last...
...each, and a half-page ad in Cherry's other newspaper, the Daytona Times, for $1,500. The Democratic National Committee and Obama's campaign, Cherry says, bought a 60-second "register to vote" ad to run on WPUL-AM in Daytona Beach five times a day, for seven days, ending on Oct. 5, the eve of Floridians' last day to register to participate in next month's elections. There are no more orders for ads. "The Democrats will spend pennies on black voters, when they spend dollars on the general population," says Cherry, an Obama supporter. Given the stakes...