Thursday, March 5, 2009

Summary of March 05

This was the first show of the season. The guest, Dave Kennedy, talked about
- The Office of Student Citizenship
- His career path from being a Philosophy and English major, to Law School, starting his own law firm, being a high school mathematics teacher, to coming to MIT.
- His experience being a DJ on a late night show
- He works as a mediator for pretty much all student related departments at MIT and advises the COD (Committee on Discipline)
- He talked about his yin-yang tatoos on his forearms
- MIT's protocol for handling copyright issues with illegal downloading
- Offense 1: Takedown notice from IST
- Offense 2: Letter from Dave's office
- Offense 3: COD
- Issues with hacking
- Illegal is illegal
- MIT tries to be consistent wherever it can
- Hacking related cases are reviewed on a case by case basis, i.e there is no single blanket consequence or rule
- MIT budget cuts
- His office is in W20-5 and his email is ledave at mit dot edu

The songs played (all selected by Dave Kennedy)
-Bring The Noise by Public Enemy
-Encore, by Danger Mouse
-Left Hand Right Hand by The Murder City Devils
-Baby, I'm an Anarchist! by Against Me!
-Lazybones by Soul Coughing
-Sun God by Squirrel Bait
-The Last Song by Lync
-Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend by The Mr. T Experience
-Celebrated Summer by Husker Du
-Shade and the Black Hat by Jeremy Enigk

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