Archive for ‘February, 2006’

Letter to the Editor: Newspaper readers can handle seeing cartoons

I’d managed to overlook The Daily Free Press’s editorial on The Harvard Salient’s decision to republish the now-famous Danish cartoons (“Revisiting the cartoons,” Feb. 16, p.6). But it deserves a reply, even if it is belated. Part of what makes a marketplace of ideas so valuable is that two different people or publications can arrive at different decisions on the appropriateness of publishing media like the Danish cartoons, and both can nonetheless be respected for their decisions.

Editor’s Note: Plagiarism in The Daily Free Press

Four stories by a single staff writer were all recently discovered to contain a significant amount of plagiarized material. The stories “Nanotech draws support,” (12/6/05), “FDA debates weight-loss drug” (1/27/06), “Cambridge leading Mass. cities in race for public wireless access” (2/9/06), “Politicians manipulate web info” (2/15/06) used, without attribution, material from sources such as the Associated Press, Forbes, The Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune and the UK Register.

Study: Music preferences reflect personality traits

Everybody has them — those hidden gems in their iTunes libraries only played through the privacy of headphones or when nobody else is listening. They know every lyric, but in the company of others, they swear they have never heard the song. According to two recent scientific studies, it turns out these guilty pleasures may reveal a lot more about a person than their inner cheesiness.

School of Management team takes third in Business Beanpot

Boston University placed third – behind Northeastern University and Bentley College and among business schools from around Boston -in the 10th annual B-School Beanpot Case Analysis Competition at the School of Management Saturday. The teams’ task or goal was to create strategies to improve a failing dot-com website and include them in a memo to a fictional board of directors, a panel of judges which included high-ranking executives from Ernst and Young, General Electric, New Balance and other corporations.

Healey proposes Massachusetts disaster contingency plan

Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey proposed an overhaul of the state’s ability to communicate in an emergency and discussed strategies for quick recovery efforts at a media roundtable at the Marriott Hotel in Cambridge on Friday morning. Hosted by the Avaya Corporation, which supports the proposed sharing of privately owned telecommunications equipment, the roundtable sought to draw the private and public sectors of the communication industry closer together to build a better communication system.