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...raised for a Mel King victory in Boston. Momentum at Harvard for King began last February at a Black Students' Association (BSA) conference during Malcolm X weekend. At the conference, a challenge was made to reawaken student social activism, especially in the Black community. Cynthia Silva, chairperson of the Seymour Society, explains that one theme that has been used at Harvard is the responsibility Black students have to the Black community. Students at Harvard have enormous class privileges. Black students at Harvard on the whole have these class privileges because the Black Community pulled together in the 1960s and fought...
Walsh explained that the exhibition is connected with Literature and Arts B-22 "Rembrandt and His Contemporaries," a course taught by Professor Seymour Slive, organizer of the exhibition...
...that students should be "computer literate," and then argue among themselves about what that means. Berkeley Computer Educator Arthur Luehrmann, who coined the term, has defined it as "the ability to do computing and not merely to recognize, identify or be aware of alleged facts about computing." M.I.T. Professor Seymour Papert, author of the influential book Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas, agrees, insisting that all children should be taught to program computers, both for the intellectual exercise and for the experience of mastering a piece of modern technology...
Along with the BSA, members of the Seymour Society and the Peace Alliance have raised funds and circulated King literature...
...Seymour Society, along with other grass-roots organizations, has helped to register close to 4500 people per week throughout the summer, according to Silva. The group has also helped to coordinate fundraisers for King's campaign...