Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton will be at Hillside Cafe on Lower Campus today at 4 p.m. The College Democrats of Boston College are hosting the event, which will include refreshments and a question-and-answer period. Students who plan on attending are encouraged to arrive well ahead of time, as a large turnout is expected. Clinton's appearance at BC is a part of the Clinton campaign's "Our Voice, Our Future" campus tour, an effort to attract young voters on college campuses. Other legs of the tour feature prominent politicians and Hillary Clinton supporters in the effort to obtain the sought after college demographic.
UNIVERSITIES Illegal downloading study heavily flawed, MPAA says A 2005 study by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and international firm LEK Consulting found that 44 percent of college students engaged in the illegal downloading of movies. The study had a broad effect and led to crackdowns on college students and their downloading habits. On Tuesday, however, the MPAA admitted that the study was so deeply flawed that it could have exaggerated the results by as much as 300 percent, putting the actual number at around 15 percent of college students. "We take this error very seriously and have taken strong and immediate action to both investigate the root cause of this problem as well as substantiate the accuracy of the latest report," the MPAA said in a statement.
ON CAMPUS Music major goes for his piece of the world record pi James Niles-Joyal, A&S '08, has memorized pi to 10,500 digits, and looks to someday break the current North American record by memorizing and reciting 13,141 digits of pi without error. "I try to stay sharp," Niles-Joyal told reporters, and he follows a strict memorization and training regimen that allows him to do so. If Niles-Joyal wanted to break the world record for pi memorization, he would have to memorize more than the 67,890-digit record set by Chao Lu, a Chinese student in 2005. Niles-Joyal told Boston College Magazine that he likes the term Renaissance man because, "it's about not having limits."
LOCAL $407 million settlement reached in Big Dig lawsuit Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff, the consortium that oversaw the Big Dig, has agreed to pay $407 million in settlement of the state's case against them. Another sum totaling around $51 million will be paid by a number of smaller companies. "The citizens of Massachusetts entrusted Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff to act as their eyes and ears on the Central Artery Project. They grossly failed to meet their obligations and responsibilities to the citizens of Massachusetts and the United States," said U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan.
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