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Yesterday’s statement from the Harvard administration calling for stricter and more consistent punishment of students who illegally occupy University buildings sends a clear signal that President Lawrence H. Summers intends to enforce the University’s rules. In contrast to his predecessor, Neil L. Rudenstine, Summers says that students disrupting University employees will ordinarily face suspension. The new policy clarifies the University’s stance toward protests like last spring’s living wage sit-in and makes clear the potential risks to students taking such actions...
...With a new president in place, I think it makes sense for him to signal how he views the possibility of a similar disruption, and this statement does so,” he said...
...another University official said the statement and interpretation were intended to signal that occupations of the type that occurred last spring should be met with more severe disciplinary actions...
...stations already available in Britain range from all-film music to classic rock to One Word, a station that features audio books. Advertisers are keen to embrace digital radio because its increased market segmentation will let them target specific audiences. Text and pictures can be transmitted with the audio signal as well, which should provide additional advertising and e-commerce revenues to digital stations. Several platforms can distribute the signal. Home and car radios use a terrestrial system called Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB). But signals can also be received from cable and satellite television operators, as well as over...
...ideas from Britain. An on-air campaign to explain digital radio begins in March, and there are plans to auction a few hundred inexpensive radios over the Internet in April. Most German automakers, lured by the promise that 100% of the autobahn system will be covered by a digital signal by 2004, have begun ordering units from manufacturers, which should also boost the market...