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...think what the dean is trying to do isdivert attention from what we're pushing for. He'susing [the community-building project] to silenceus," said Julie Su, chair of the Asian-AmericanLaw Students Association...
...fact, as historian Daniel J. Boorstin recounted in The Discoverers, 500 years earlier a civil servant named Su Sung had built a remarkably accurate astronomical clock for his Emperor. But when a new ruler was crowned in 1094, officials, according to custom, decreed that his predecessor's calendar had been faulty. Su Sung's 30-ft.-tall "heavenly clockwork" was abandoned. By the 17th century, it was a legend known to only a few scholars...
...Su Sung's clock points to a great historical puzzle. Why did China, where so many things were invented, exploit its creativity so poorly? The Chinese discovered paper and movable type, yet the country was virtually illiterate until the 20th century. Gunpowder was also invented in China, yet its cannons were inferior to those made by Europeans. China's bustling cities, despite their vitality, never stimulated the intellectual ferment that in Europe led to innovation...
...Su is optimistic about working with the administration. She says Clark has adopted a different tone this year, one of receptiveness to student input...
...Although things were bad last year, I don't think students would shy away from bringing things to the forefront again," Su says...