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...Logo's immediate result is it establishes a good first impression," says Seymour Papert, 59, the gray-bearded, South African-born M.I.T. mathematician whose theoretical work in the arcane field of artificial intelligence led to Logo. "It convinces the child that he can master the machine. It lets him say, 'I'm the boss.' " Says Dr. Sylvia Weir, a pediatrician who works with the Educational Computing Group at M.I.T: "People have usually considered the stupid thing in the classroom the child. Now the stupid thing, as it were, is the computer. And the child...
...think the idea of tensions is exaggerated," said Stephanie D. James '83, a member of the William J. Seymour Society, a predominately Black Christian student organization. James said the situation at Harvard is "per for the course in America...
Other Black organizations, including the Black Ecumenical Church, the World Council on Churches and Harvard's Black Students' Association, have said they will back the society's fall plans, Seymour Society officials said...
...Seymour Society also hopes to organize a mass rally to protest drug trafficking in the Roxbury community in Boston...
...Seymour Society can help reduce drug activity by putting "our intellectual resources at the disposal of the Black community through the churches," said Rivers...