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A loan no longer
WE WANT GORE
Following a trend of liberal arts
colleges eliminating loans for needy
students, Williams College, a presti-
gious liberal arts college in William-
stown, Mass., announced Thursday
that it will replace all loans with
grants. The decision will cost $1.8
million per year for the college of
about 2,000 students.
Williams is the third prominent
liberal arts college to eliminate loans
this year, following announcements
earlier this year by Amherst College
and Davidson College. Princeton Uni-
versity was the first major American
college to replace loans with grants
in 2001.
RESISTANCE TO RIAA
The UniversityofOregonhas chal-
lenged the Recording Industry Asso-
ciation of America in federal district
court, arguing that the association
cannot require colleges to identify
the registered user of an IP address
caught sharingmusic illegally.
The RIAA issues pre-litigation let-
ters to colleges asking them to for-
CRIME NOTES
ward IP addresses caught sharing.
Those users are given the chance to
settle or take the matter the court.
Those users are given the chance to
settle or take the matter the court.
The University of Oregon has
argued that it cannot determine
definitively whether the owner of
an IP address was the one engag-
ing in file-sharing. It argues that
much of the sharing has been
over open wireless networks or
in dorm rooms where multiple
people could have signed onto the
Internet.
OPEN SOURCE MATERIAL
A University of Washington at
Bothell professor assigned students
in her environmental history course
to edit an entry on wikipedia.org as a
final project..
Wikipedia has been widely criti-
cized as a research tool because any-
one can edit entries. Martha Groom,
the professor, told the Chronicle
of Higher Education that was one
reason she assigned the project. "Is
there crap on Wikipedia? Sure there
is," she said. "So let's be part of mak-
ing it better."
Many entries written by Groom's
students were modified or reject-
ed by Wikipedia administrators
because they argued a specific point
of view or because they overlapped
information that was already posted
elsewhere.
RIOT PROTECTION
Students at the University of
Rhode Island have cried foul after
residents of Wiley Hall, a dormi-
tory at the college, were prevented
from leaving the dorm after the
Boston Red Sox won the World
Series early Monday morning.
Some were trying to take to the
streets to join an estimated 700
others in celebration.
Students questioned whether the
Wiley Hall director had the right
to make the decision, reported The
Good 5 Cent Cigar, the campus news-
paper.
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Ann Arbor resident Pat Horton volunteers at a Step It Up
rally station on Saturday to encourage people to sign an
online petition urging Al Gore to run for president.
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
After game,
MSU student
caught in assault
WHERE: East Quad
WHEN: Saturday at about10:45
p.m.
WHAT: A male student from
Michigan State University
was arrested for assaulting a
male University student, the
Department of Public Safety
repoted. Reports indicate
that the MSU student grabbed
the victim. The suspect was
(eleased. There were no inju-
ries reported.
being treated in the Emergency
Room, DPS reported. DPS has
no suspects. Blood Battle
Sick student gets WHAT: The blood drives that
pit University students against
M IPin S. Quad Ohio State students to see who
can donate the mostblood
WHERE: South Quad begin today and last until Nov.
WHEN: Saturdayat about 10:30 16. Today's drives will be from
a.m. noon to 8p.m. at the Pendleton
WHAT: A male student was Room in the Union, 2to 8 p.m.
cited for minor in possession in the Blue Room of Stockwell
after someone contacted the and 3 to 9 p.m. in the East
Department of Public Safety Lounge of Bursley.
because he looked ill, DPS WHO: Blood Battle
said. He was taken to the hos- WHEN: For other times and
pital after DPS arrived on the locations, visit www.givelife.
scene. org
WHERE: Various locations
Gate arms
smashed Talk on video
WHERE: Parking Lot W-8, 510 gainers and
Thompson St. m t i s
WHEN: Tuesday at about 2:30 materialism
p.m.
WHAT: Both of the gate arms WHAT: Bart Simon, a sociol-
from the lot were broken off, ogy professor at Montreal's
DPS reported. DPS has no sus- ConcordiaUniversity, speaks
nects_ on the close ties between
computer gamers and their
computers, as well as the mate-
rialistic implications of the
relationship
WHO: Science, Technology,
Medicine, and Society Pro-
gram
WHEN: Today from 4 to 5:30
p.m.
WHERE: 1014 Tisch Hall
CORRECTIONS
* An article on Friday's
front page (New man on the
ladder) incorrectly said Scott
Boerma was the marching
band director at each school
he's worked at, including
the University. He held the
title Director of Bands and
holds the same at the Uni-
versity.
. The same article misspelled
Lamphere High School.
" Thensame article said he was
at Lamphere High School for
four years and at Novi High
School for six years. He worked
at Lamphere for seven years
and Novi for five years.
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In honor of the upcoming
Olympic games in Beijing,
nearly 3,500 Chinese chil-
dren have been named "Olym-
pics," The Associated Press
reported. In addition, more
than 4,000 children are named
for one of the games' five mas-
cots, whose names translate
into "Beijing welcomes you!"
Michigan hockey forward
and team captain Kevin
Porter leads the nation
in goals scored. He has eight
goals after this weekend's
series against the University of
Nebraska at Omaha.
>>FOR MORE, SEE SPORTSMONDAY
The DepartmentofPublic
Works in Bristol, Conn.
will randomly search
the contents of trash bins to
ensure that recyclable materi-
als are not being thrown away
by citizens, the Bristol Press
reported. Throwing out recy-
clables could lead to fines.
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WHERE: Emergency Room,
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