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The Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis is a counterpoint to Elsevier et al: Open access; brand-name editor and editorial board (at least for the areas with which I'm familiar). It's been around since 1993 and gets some support from Kent State. An existence proof that a good publication can be run by a loose group of volunteers and kept free.

Actually, this could produce all the optics for a holodeck. Build a room with computed holographic displays in every wall, hook it up to the type of supercomputer that the NSA would be envious of, and you've got a holodeck. Walk around in it, see whatever the computer wants you to, indistinguishable from reality aside from a slightly lower color definition due to the need to use rapidly-changing laser wavelengths. The only part it wouldn't get you is the physical interaction. And, naturally, it would be very expensive. Consider it the twenty-years-from-now evolution of the CAVE system, only with the ability for multible people to occupy it, no eyestrain and no headwear.

This is just the very first. For a basis of comparison, the first ever LCD display looked like this: http://www.personal.kent.edu/~mgu/pictures/rca_lcd.JPG - and it took 40 years to go from that to your modern computer screen. So think of this hologram as the equivilent of the display in that photo, and imagine the same improvements.

The best teacher I ever had was my American History teacher at the second high school i went to. the crazy thing about it is that I already took and aced American History but because of problems with my old school none of my credits transferred and I had to start from scratch. What made him a great teacher was that he believed in what he taught. He was the only teacher I had that would take an entire class period to tell us personal stories related to the subject. Such as he was one of the main students behind the Kent State Massacre (was actually portrayed in a movie about it) he talked about how they said they were going to napalm a dog. He used to talk about how he would retire ever 5 years or so and take his pension or whatever it was and go exploring the world. Stories about the Amazon and about temples in Tibet. Even a few of when he was young backpacking through Europe and getting woke up to the sound of a hay baler when he was sleeping in someones barn. The guy had passion anytime we watched a movie or documentary on WWII he would start screaming at the TV with his fists clenched "kill those Nazi bastards" was a regular thing you could hear out of his classroom. Like I said I already took an aced the class before but that didn't stop him from teaching me new things and pointing out the very important pasts of history the things that caused all the other stuff to happen. Oh an on top of that he would smoke a joint in the parking lot with a few of the seniors. Oh and I just found this his interview about the Kent State Massacre http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/4may70/oralhistory/arthrell.html

Also, can you access this description?

Yes, and note Figure 2.1.12, Searching in Gnutella:

Client A wants data and floods the network with a query for that data.

Hosts C and D respond that they have this data.

Client A then sends data requests to both hosts C and D to download part of the data from each of the hosts.

As I described, your client will connect to as many sources as possible to get you the best download speed. The reason for this is that most internet connections have much slower upload speeds than download speeds. If you can download at 300k/sec but the person you are downloading from can upload at only 60k/sec, you want to find more than one person to download from. Gnutella clients do this automatically.

(Using “client” and “host” to designate nodes that request and serve a file, respectively; understanding that all nodes act both as clients and hosts as the situation demands. Once a client finishes downloading the data, it typically continues to host it on the network, unless it is configured not to do so.)

It has been a feature of the Gnutella network for a long, long time. I was using it probably 10 years ago and it connected to multiple hosts.

If the page you linked to says otherwise, please quote it. I can’t access it.

"The second major P2P network that came into life was Gnutella. Following the demise of Napster, the Gnutella creators obviously aimed to create a de-centralized network that couldn't be shut down by simply turning off a server.

Gnutella basically worked by directly connecting users to other users and hence omitting any central server altogether. Whenever you started a Gnutella client, you would connect to a certain number of users, which were also connected to a certain number of users and so on... resulting in one huge network. If you initiated a search, you asked everyone you were connected to "hey do you have this file?" Those users would then check if they did and also pass the questions along to everyone they were connected to."

Also, can you access this description?

All that longwinded crap about personal anecdotes aside, the US actually has less social mobility than many European nations (source). Yes, you're more likely to be able to go from rags to riches in many places in Europe than in the US. The reasons are obvious once you think about it: Universal healthcare and no-cost education are great equalizers - allowing everyone the opportunity to succeed.

I will undoubtedly be downmodded for this, because it goes against one of the founding myths of America: that it is the land of unparalleled opportunity, usually described in personal anecdotes as the parent's.

Back when Windows NT was being developed, I heard that device drivers had to communicate with hardware through the hardware abstraction layer (HAL), and this made Windows NT very stable. Then I heard that they decided to allow hardware drivers to connect directly to hardware because sometimes going through HAL had a performance hit. I can't find much information on the history, but these lecture notes seem to confirm that drivers can now bypass HAL. Is this why bad drivers can still crash Windows?

Microsoft at least provides tools to verify that drivers work properly.

Flamebait? Democrats have a long history of brutal repression of free speech: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention#Protests_and_police_response. The person who declared the state of emergency at Kent State was a democrat as well: http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/4may70/8.html. Bull Connor was a democrat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Connor. I'm now inclined to suspect that the police officer who stepped towards the kid early instigated the scene, but don't cut Kerry too much slack. He voted for the patriot act: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=1&vote=00313.

Given that 192, 27, 118 and 228, 233, 222 easily can be drawn as Complete bipartite graph K3,3 (an example of such a graph can be found at http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilde:Complete_bipart ite_graph_K3,3.svg), it follows from K. Kuratowski theorem (Look at Theorem 3 of http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/GraphTheory /MyGraphTheory/planarity.htm) that the graph is non-planar, that is that it cannot be drawn without intersecting lines.

OK. So don't donate to Kent State's athletic scholarship program. Put a note on your website and blog encouraging others not to do so. Write to Tim Hall, Associate Athletic Director for Development at Kent State and tell him what you did. Starve the beast.

If you're in Ohio, write to your state legislator and complain about the "arrogant state employees at Kent State" who think they have the right to muzzle their students.

If you're at Kent State, step one is to register to vote, and get as many other students as you can to register. You know what to do after that.

His email address is lkennedy@kent.edu.

It's on Kent State's website.

Please be civil. Honey, vinegar, and all that.

His phone number is actually on the website too, but if you want that, put out the effort yourself. I don't advice calling. Sending a letter is probably the best way to be heard... So to speak.

I see these types in those rubber band glider competitions on how long a plane can stay aloft.

http://www.kent.edu/tech/SchoolNews/2003/glider.cf m

Universities are well known for harboring dissidents and terrorists.

It's all that edumakashun. We should get rid of that, too.

Or roll your own from a Project Gutenberg (or any other) text file. If you have a Mac, there are various text to speech programs available--for example, books2burn is designed for this.

So long as you don't mind listening to one of the funky Apple system voices for hours on end...!

# The first time a unit is actually ordered and purposefully told to attack a rioting/rebellious crowd.

You might have something with this. US Servicemembers are men (and women) of honor. However, It'd have to escalate quite a bit before lethal force would be required.

Jezus. Does nobody remember Kent State? When the national guard fired into a crowd of student protesters? Hello? How about Abu Graib prison?

Some US service members are people of honor. I think it's gross exaggeration to imply that all, or even most, of them are. A good percentage of the men I served with in the Army were right bastards, and your own comments ("I'd find it rather funny watching the crowd on their asses in super-slime engulfed in CS gas") make me wonder what your definition of "honor" is. Gassing unarmed civilians, and laughing about it, isn't quite how I'd define "honorable".

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Why would anyone want to edit video on a camcorder? The camcorder should concentrate on being a camcorder and leave the editing up to laptops.

Like it or not, in-camera editing is an important, standard capability, without which videographers would oftentimes find themselves at a loss. It may not be the ideal way to edit film and video, but the results can be superb.

Based on the description of events at wikipedia, I'm not as inclined to think it was such an accident. The students who were killed or wounded were too far away to pose as a physical threat to the troopers who shot them, so self defense goes out the window. Additionally, I quote: " ....the Guardsmen suddenly turned on the crowd and fired a 13-second fusillade of between 61 and 67 shots......Only one of the four students killed was participating in the protest... This most certainly does not describe an accident stemming from a missunderstanding. 13 seconds are a long time, 60 some-odd shots are a lot of bullets. The Guardsmen were sent onto campus by the government. They performed their duties with what seems like deliberate purpose. I can't speculate on the exact orders they were given, but I found it odd that no mention was made of disciplinary actions taken against Guardsmen who violated any orders to *not* shoot the students. Other sources reveal that there had been one hearing and an additional trial where the Guardsmen were cleared of responsibility for the shooting. So on the surface, it seems due process was observed and a legal resolution was carried out. Think what you will, but this seems no better than the sham trials China puts it's political disidents through to give the sembalence of justice.

This sounds strange and racist to me. Do you mean I can't point out that a bunch of my fellow human beings were killed by the brutal Chinese government because they are Chinese, or even more strangely, because they are somehow owned by the Chinese government?

Yes, it is very strange that you should think that. No government owns their citizens, Certainly not the Chinese. I don't recall saying only the Chinese have skeletons in their closets. Every nation, every government has done things they are not proud of. One could just as well talk about the "brutal" US invasion of the sovereign country of Vietnam, or the "unjust" oppression of the Afgans in the 80's by the Soviets army. Were these events racially motivated? hardly. They were responses to percieved geo-political instability. To avoid loosing focus on the subject, I think we need to understand the actions of the Chinese Government as responding to percieved domestic instability. Beijing was in a state of emergency. Martial Law was declared. Thousands of people died, but it wasn't random, wanton killing. The soldiers who carried out the attacks in Tiananmen Square were not psychotic bloodthirsty berserkers. They were diciplined military personel charged with a task and carrying out their orders to the extent which were necessary. (In this sense, they weren't too different from the Guardsmen at Kent state.) I know it doesn't make it excusable, but it compels us to accept the fact a deliberate series of events occured which lead to certain deliberate decisions and the events which percipitated. The question is: How were those decision made and why? Not in the context of an American who is used to living with the legacy of a North American New World socio-historic heritage but in the context of a group of leaders saddled with the baggage of China's modern 20th century history.

First, I think you are confused about the topic. You keep trying to convince people that China's human rights record is somehow similar to the US's. In debating against you, I use the good practice of actually bringing up concrete examples rather than making airy abstract reasoning.

Which topic am I confusing? You're partially right here. I do believe that by virtue

Bullshit. The Kent State students were not exercising their right to peacefully protest, many of them had engaged in violent acts such as arson, looting and throwing rocks. The National Guard troops were poorly trained, poorly led and overreacted. See THE MAY 4 SHOOTINGS AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: THE SEARCH FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY. 100 students dead at the hands of the National Guard? That's pure fabrication.

As opposed to the US government and related bodies who arrested nearly 4,000 students for exercising their constitutional right to protest against the vietnam war?

Most of them were arrested for criminal acts related to the protests, not for protesting the war. Millions of Americans peacefully protested the war and were neither shot nor arrested.

Where do you get your "facts"? From your cell's political officer?

Please don't welcome them, last time we had to get Optimus Prime and the other Autobots to stop the robot after Megatron reprogrammed it.

Enter the Nightbird
The Decepticons steal an experimental female ninja robot named Nightbird, and use her to steal the Autobots' computer chip containing
information on the world's energy sources. She succeeds in stealing the chip from the Ark, but is confronted and trapped by the Autobots. The
Decepticons come to her aid, but she is ambushed by the jealous Starscream. The Decepticons chase after the fleeing Starscream, leaving Nightbird and the chip with the Autobots.

Historical Record of these events: click here.

Both incidents were great tragedies, but I think you're belittling Kent State. Four students were killed, one paralyzed, and eight more injured by the deliberate firing of national guard troops. From Tiananmen Square, according to Amnesty International, they have accounted for, "155 dead and 65 wounded", which is a far cry from the thousands you cite (although still an order of magnitude greater than Kent).

I don't think it's inappropriate to compare these incidents. On one hand, the victims of Kent State eventually did receive some small reparation while the Chinese government has yet to make amends to it's victims. However, both incidents were caused by social upheaval clashing with conservative policies.

The USA has also had it's share of killing student protesters, most notably the Kent State massacre .

I suggest you cast out the mote from your own eye before pointing out the mote in your brother's.

Say you wanted to add an 8 bit field - bits 0-7, to another, bits 8-15, and store the result in a 9 bit field, 16-24.

Search as follows (CC Field is Carry):-

Bits: C 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Bits: C 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
Find: X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X # All rows
Writ: 0 0 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X # Clear output
Find: X X X X X X X X X 0 X X X X X X X 1 # 0+1=1
Writ: 0 1 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X # write 1
Find: X X X X X X X X X 1 X X X X X X X 0 # 1+0=1
Writ: 0 1 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X # write 1
Find: X X X X X X X X X 1 X X X X X X X 1 # 1+1=0 carry 1
Writ: 1 0 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X # write 0 carry 1

So there is a fixed processing time for parallel operations on all the data.

We still had to use two input lines to represent the Ternary value, but, remember, no address lines needed.

Content Addressable memory chips are also used for lookaside Cache memory in CPUs today.

Cheers, Andy!

Yeah, it's pretty hard to imagine a regime so brutal it would have troops open fire on defenseless student protestors

Yeah, it's pretty hard to imagine a regime so brutal it would have troops open fire on defenseless student protestors

Something a little like this.

I did take a sci-fi grad course in college, but I would not recommend contacting that prof. However, in working through that course, I learned that Kent State not only published a scholarly journal in sci-fi, but had a few professors on staff that specialized in it. This was many years ago, but the journal is still going.

You're right, the US prefers to shoot its peaceful protesters.

It also renders the 'About Opera' page in Swedish Chef. screenshot

The placement of an apostrophe has been a pet peeve of mine for quite a while with the most egregious offense lately being the title of the movie "Bridget Jones's Diary". Or maybe that just the british way of doing things...

Don't assume that something that counters your experience or learning is automatically incorrect. That just might be a sign of elitism and intellectual laziness. The title of the movie refers to a diary that belongs to the character "Bridget Jones". Whether the possessive form of her name should be written Jones' or Jones's seems to be a matter open to debate. I am not an English major, so I don't pretend to have a definitive answer; it seems to depend on whom you ask....

Give these links a try.

PATRIOT Act legislation applies not only to public libraries, but also to school libraries (elementary through graduate school--public, private and parochial) and what librarians call special libraries--historical societies, corporate libraries, etc. Whether a library receives government funds or not (many of them don't, and the ones that do still mostly have to scrimp and hustle), they're still required to comply with the new legislation.

For some increasingly-outdated PATRIOT-ACT-related links, try this links page I put up in late July (I'm a library school student).

The G4 Cube Apple made was a good start in that direction, as was the iMac.

With a central "convection column" we could put the processor low in the box (it would need a stand like the G4 Cube to allow airflow underneath) and position components around the column, we might be able to do it.

Of course, if you just want to leave out fans, and don't want to explore liquid cooling, you could use Peltier effect (Ars Technica has some details) coolers with heat sinks and the "convection column" or a heat distribution "tree" that spread heat out along sinks until it could be expelled along the case sides...

It's possible, it would just take more effort than many are interested in.

Of course, you could always pipe Central Air into your case...

On the point of realplayer format; it was the only format that the adverts were available in.

You must not have looked very hard. The most rudimentary search returns my commercials page featuring ads in QuickTime format. It's been on the web since 1996.

Congratulations on the Slashdot listing. But this article ought to also list the dozens of classic commercials sites that have been around for years now!

The trend towards Massively Parallel Computers, such as the STARAN developed in the 50s/60s at Goodyear Aerospace Corporation by Ken Batcher were discarded for the most part. Pipelined machines were easier to design, cheaper to build, and easier to program (i.e. could use existing languages).

It would seem that a Massively Parallel Processor would be ideal for this applications, especially a STARAN with it's large Content Addressable Memory. Or do I, as a former STARAN user & developer of similar machines, just see this as a nail since I have the hammer in my posession?

While I have no idea why the texas police chose to preface those stats with *that* definition, it appears that that was not the definition used in finding those stats.

The page doesn't reference the study, but some searching strongly suggests that the study is the one referenced here. Two other potentially useful studies are here and here

The real irony with yesterday's story about the Dallas Morning News opposing 'deep linking' the technological retards at the dallas morning news had invested heavily in a startup company whose only product "...instructs your Web browser to go directly to a page within a Web site, eliminating the need to go through several links."

Geez. Even when every other critic in the world had pronounced the CueCat a stupid idea and a failed business effort, the Dallas Morning News kept supporting it. Now they've turned a 180 and want to force people to click through as many pages as possible. What gives?

I can understand how a mega-goliath like AOL-TimeWarner might be at opposing ends of an issue. Sort of like how Sony makes CDRW drives and also finances the RIAA in battling piracy. But the Dallas Morning News people who are running their website (and presumeably the CueCat debachle) probably all sit in the same building.

The real irony here is that the technological retards at the dallas morning news had invested heavily in a startup company whose only product "...instructs your Web browser to go directly to a page within a Web site, eliminating the need to go through several links."


Geez. Even when every other critic in the world had pronounced the CueCat a stupid idea and a failed business effort, the Dallas Morning News kept supporting it. Now they've turned a 180 and want to force people to click through as many pages as possible. What gives?

Here's an insightful look at the Dallas Morning News tech-leadership--

[From http://MediaNews.com]

Dallas Morning News president: People just love that CueCat!
"Our market research shows consumers love this product and can't wait to use it at home," says Robert W. Mong Jr., president and general manager of The Dallas Morning News. "I find that very reassuring." He should; his paper's parent has invested $40 million in the company making the device.
From RENEE HOPKINS: "You may have noticed that the Dallas Morning News' :CueCat artice carries no byline, only the cryptic 'from staff reports.' That tells me that my former DMN coworkers didn't want anyone's name associated with this biased puff piece. If the DMN staffers had been allowed to actually report on the OTHER side of the story -- that the :CueCat has so far received negative reviews for being a fairly useless and hard-to-use piece of technology -- the story would have been bylined."

Waking up bleary from Saturday night and stumbling to my computer before the first cup of coffee had taken hold, I pulled up Slashdot.

"No," I said, "they wouldn't actually publish an article mentioning 'crystals' that 'behave as both a solid and a liquid' without mentioning 'liquid crystals' and the distinction between the two. I must have slipped a day -- it must be April 1 and they've taken advantage of my debilitated state to pull an April Fools joke. I mean -- this sounds just like something out of a 1958 Popular Mechanics article on the future in light of the revolutionary new material known as liquid crystals . That's it... the scumbags at the American Chemical Society News Service went and pulled an ancient issue of some popular rag from the archives of a venerable University, typed it in and presented it as a current article just to show how little things have actually changed in display technology over that time."

But, no -- it is March 31 after all, Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay, who is not Glenn Brown, was born in 1960 and mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

funny... in a not-so-funny, painfully-ironic way... how americans love to shake our finger a the chinese, yet we have had our own 1989-style tienemen square...

may 4th 1970 - kent state university

this summer i hear the drumming... four dead in o-hi-o...

on a side note:

my school has essentially blocked all of the popular p2p clients. even limewire.

in the back of my head, i always knew that having a subscription to a national dialup isp was a good idea.

on a side note:

my school has essentially blocked all of the popular p2p clients. even limewire.

in the back of my head, i always knew that having a subscription to a national dialup isp was a good idea.

Friend, if you want to judge another nation by it's atrocities, you'd damn well better be sure that your own nation has a clean slate...

four students killed, one paralyzed, eight wounded
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Kudos to Jamie for investigating this further; the following was my original submission on this topic:

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The mind boggles. Police have apparently raided a student's dorm room due to his participation in a heavy metal music inspired gaming clan, "Bled For Days." The article goes to some length not to mention the exact game, including ominous references to a "war-like" "game of chess" where "it's not like we were going to kill you or anything". The game in question, of course, is the seminal Humans vs. Bugs vs. Yellow Psychic Aliens wargame, Starcraft. The presence of a web page listing in-game rivalries was apparently taken for death threats. For all the talk of "children" being unable to differentiate fake violence from the real thing, it seems to me that "adults" were the ones breaking into someone else's home, carrying loaded weapons, confiscating expensive goods while availing themselves of the opportunity to search for anything more valuable(i.e. drugs).

As hilariously pitiful as this seems, there's a real problem here. The tragedy is that, sooner or later, the credibility of authorities trying to fight real computer crime will be so stretched that even when society desperately requires their intervention, the police will find themselves unable to get even the slightest shreds of voluntary cooperation. A bizarre and ultimately truly dangerous attitude, the apathetic chuckle, has spawned over recent years by Zero Tolerance(and apparently, Intelligence, Accountability, or Political Responsibility) policies; the exact policies that have lead to first graders being suspended for pointing chicken at eachother and being expelled for kissing a girl on the cheek. People are willing to quickly accept these ridiculous and flagrantly neglectful abuse of power because "it's funny to laugh at...but I can't do something about it, isn't that someone else's job?"

This threatens the core legitimacy of what really are genuinely critical services; the police, the school, and the administrators all become jokes, not to be taken seriously. The immediate reaction my friends had to this incident at Kent State was, "The last time police at Kent State didn't understand what the students were up to, somebody won a Pulitzer Prize". Since the most damaging effect of any computer security violation is the long term degradation of trust in a given service, the ignorance these busts show eventually makes it harder to actually control and address genuine security issues, such as DDoS attacks. Instead of simply laughing and moving on, what can we, as a community do to prevent these kind of occurances in the future? Would something as simple as a confidential "reality check" group of experts, made available to law enforcement as consultants, be helpful? Would a set of guidelines, peer reviewed by the community, be useful? Instead of cursing the darkness, how can we praise the light?

The divisive effect of the Vietnam War on American society was especially evident on campuses throughout the country. At Kent, the day after the announcement to send U.S. troops into Cambodia marked the start of a weekend of anti-war protests that began on campus and spilled into the city of Kent's downtown. Broken windows and other damage to a number of downtown businesses prompted fear, rumors, and eventually a call by the city's mayor to the governor for assistance.

The National Guard arrived Saturday night. That day some students assisted with the downtown cleanup. That night some other students set fire to the campus headquarters of the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC). Sunday morning the governor came to Kent and in the city's firehouse held a press conference saying the University would remain open. After a Sunday of relative calm, an anti-war rally at noon on Monday brought 2,000 to 3,000 people to the University Commons area. When the Guard gave the order to disperse, some in the crowd responded with verbal epithets and stones. The Guard answered with tear gas, but when the spring winds altered its effect, the Guard attempted to enforce the Ohio Riot Act with raised bayonets, forcing demonstrators to retreat. The Guard then changed formation. As the Guard approached the crest of Blanket Hill, some Guardsmen turned toward the Taylor Hall parking lot and between 61 and 67 shots were fired. Four students were killed and nine wounded. That afternoon, University President Robert I. White ordered the University closed.

History, sorrow and healing remain a part of Kent State University. The University Library has dedicated a Memorial Room containing books, papers, studies, and other materials relating to the events. In addition, the University has established an academic program designed to help students and others employ peaceful conflict resolution to resolve disputes. On May 4, 1990, the University community dedicated a permanent memorial. Each year, the May 4 Task Force student organization holds a candlelight vigil and commemoration program to enable the University, the Kent community, and others to privately and publicly express their feelings. In observance of the 25th anniversary in 1995, a series of commemorative programs and events were held throughout the Spring Semester at Kent, highlighted by two-day scholarly symposium titled "Legacies of Protest" which examined political and civil unrest.

The University will continue to remember the four students who died -- Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder -- through scholarships in their names and in the words inscribed on the May 4 Memorial: "Inquire. Learn. Reflect." The Memorial site is next to Taylor Hall, on a hill overlooking the Commons, near the site of the shootings. Pamphlets are available at the site.

To learn more about annual commemorative activities on compus, such as the candlelight walk and vigil, please contact the May 4 Task Force student organization at (330) 672-3096.

For general information about the events of May 4, 1970, contact the May 4 Task Force, the Kent Alumni Association at (330) 672-KENT, or the Office of University News and Information at (330) 672-2727. You may also e-mail margaret@ksunews.kent.edu for more information.

The divisive effect of the Vietnam War on American society was especially evident on campuses throughout the country. At Kent, the day after the announcement to send U.S. troops into Cambodia marked the start of a weekend of anti-war protests that began on campus and spilled into the city of Kent's downtown. Broken windows and other damage to a number of downtown businesses prompted fear, rumors, and eventually a call by the city's mayor to the governor for assistance.

The National Guard arrived Saturday night. That day some students assisted with the downtown cleanup. That night some other students set fire to the campus headquarters of the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC). Sunday morning the governor came to Kent and in the city's firehouse held a press conference saying the University would remain open. After a Sunday of relative calm, an anti-war rally at noon on Monday brought 2,000 to 3,000 people to the University Commons area. When the Guard gave the order to disperse, some in the crowd responded with verbal epithets and stones. The Guard answered with tear gas, but when the spring winds altered its effect, the Guard attempted to enforce the Ohio Riot Act with raised bayonets, forcing demonstrators to retreat. The Guard then changed formation. As the Guard approached the crest of Blanket Hill, some Guardsmen turned toward the Taylor Hall parking lot and between 61 and 67 shots were fired. Four students were killed and nine wounded. That afternoon, University President Robert I. White ordered the University closed.

History, sorrow and healing remain a part of Kent State University. The University Library has dedicated a Memorial Room containing books, papers, studies, and other materials relating to the events. In addition, the University has established an academic program designed to help students and others employ peaceful conflict resolution to resolve disputes. On May 4, 1990, the University community dedicated a permanent memorial. Each year, the May 4 Task Force student organization holds a candlelight vigil and commemoration program to enable the University, the Kent community, and others to privately and publicly express their feelings. In observance of the 25th anniversary in 1995, a series of commemorative programs and events were held throughout the Spring Semester at Kent, highlighted by two-day scholarly symposium titled "Legacies of Protest" which examined political and civil unrest.

The University will continue to remember the four students who died -- Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder -- through scholarships in their names and in the words inscribed on the May 4 Memorial: "Inquire. Learn. Reflect." The Memorial site is next to Taylor Hall, on a hill overlooking the Commons, near the site of the shootings. Pamphlets are available at the site.

To learn more about annual commemorative activities on compus, such as the candlelight walk and vigil, please contact the May 4 Task Force student organization at (330) 672-3096.

For general information about the events of May 4, 1970, contact the May 4 Task Force, the Kent Alumni Association at (330) 672-KENT, or the Office of University News and Information at (330) 672-2727. You may also e-mail margaret@ksunews.kent.edu for more information.

The divisive effect of the Vietnam War on American society was especially evident on campuses throughout the country. At Kent, the day after the announcement to send U.S. troops into Cambodia marked the start of a weekend of anti-war protests that began on campus and spilled into the city of Kent's downtown. Broken windows and other damage to a number of downtown businesses prompted fear, rumors, and eventually a call by the city's mayor to the governor for assistance.

The National Guard arrived Saturday night. That day some students assisted with the downtown cleanup. That night some other students set fire to the campus headquarters of the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC). Sunday morning the governor came to Kent and in the city's firehouse held a press conference saying the University would remain open. After a Sunday of relative calm, an anti-war rally at noon on Monday brought 2,000 to 3,000 people to the University Commons area. When the Guard gave the order to disperse, some in the crowd responded with verbal epithets and stones. The Guard answered with tear gas, but when the spring winds altered its effect, the Guard attempted to enforce the Ohio Riot Act with raised bayonets, forcing demonstrators to retreat. The Guard then changed formation. As the Guard approached the crest of Blanket Hill, some Guardsmen turned toward the Taylor Hall parking lot and between 61 and 67 shots were fired. Four students were killed and nine wounded. That afternoon, University President Robert I. White ordered the University closed.

History, sorrow and healing remain a part of Kent State University. The University Library has dedicated a Memorial Room containing books, papers, studies, and other materials relating to the events. In addition, the University has established an academic program designed to help students and others employ peaceful conflict resolution to resolve disputes. On May 4, 1990, the University community dedicated a permanent memorial. Each year, the May 4 Task Force student organization holds a candlelight vigil and commemoration program to enable the University, the Kent community, and others to privately and publicly express their feelings. In observance of the 25th anniversary in 1995, a series of commemorative programs and events were held throughout the Spring Semester at Kent, highlighted by two-day scholarly symposium titled "Legacies of Protest" which examined political and civil unrest.

The University will continue to remember the four students who died -- Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder -- through scholarships in their names and in the words inscribed on the May 4 Memorial: "Inquire. Learn. Reflect." The Memorial site is next to Taylor Hall, on a hill overlooking the Commons, near the site of the shootings. Pamphlets are available at the site.

To learn more about annual commemorative activities on compus, such as the candlelight walk and vigil, please contact the May 4 Task Force student organization at (330) 672-3096.

For general information about the events of May 4, 1970, contact the May 4 Task Force, the Kent Alumni Association at (330) 672-KENT, or the Office of University News and Information at (330) 672-2727. You may also e-mail margaret@ksunews.kent.edu for more information.

Here is a letter to the editor. This story seems old... hope they get their computers back.
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It is really worrying. Who ever wrote it has almost no concept of research or actually understanding what a person being interviewed is saying. For example : ' "It's a strategic game," Barnes said. "It's not like we were going to kill you or anything (speaking of the game's make-believe enemies). '
The problem with this is that the game actually can be played against real people but his point was that it is a game.
Another line : ' where several Kent State students set up a "war-like" game.'
The article doesn't tell you that it is a game to be bought in the shops but suggests that the students wrote the game themseleves.
Doesn't even get me started on the number of terms surrounded in quotes - if you are quoting someone attribute them otherwise explain the term without quote marks and with a clear sign of where the term came from.
They already have a letter up complaining about the reporting but they haven't responded nor give any sign that they will correct the story. Don't they realise that not only do they have a responsibilty to their community but having posted it on the web they are now also reflecting their school and themselves.
Just the ramblings of someone who spent two years doing mass communication but decided that Comp Sci was more fun.
PS I'm allowed to use quotes, I'm showing sarcasm and disbelief and I'm not even trying to be a journalist anymore :)

Enjoy!

$man microsoft

The CS program at Kent State University uses Nachos in all of its Operating Systems courses. This semester, the instructor focused more on operating systems in general (particularly how *nix OSes function). Nachos was used for two relatively simple programming assignments involving using threads.

My only beef with the class was that the instructor was harsh on grading. The undergrads in the class are averaging C's while the grad students are averaging B's.