by Mary Konecnik in News
On Thursday, February 14, fire opened on a geology class of 160 students at Northern Illinois University. The gunman shot twenty-one people before killing himself. Five people, plus the gunman, were killed.
According to students in the classroom, the killer burst into the room from a side door, drew a shotgun, and started firing on the first couple of rows.
by Max Edmands in News
On February 2, 2008, the chief executive of Yahoo, Jerry Yang, received a telephone call from Steven Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft. Ballmer's message was curt and unfriendly: Microsoft was about to make public a hostile takeover bid for $44 billion to buy Yahoo.
Greek and themed housing in master plan
by Mary Konecnik in News
At the February 4 meeting of the Clarkson University Student Association, advisor Diane Kozak spoke regarding her recommendations for Greek and themed housing in the upcoming master plan. Kozak reported her research to the members of CUSA as well as numerous guests, mainly from the Greek community.
by Max Edmands in News
On Tuesday, February 5, New York and twenty-four other states held their primaries for this year's presidential election. Because of the large number of primaries all scheduled on the same date, many people called it "Super Tuesday."
Democratic font-runners Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton earned roughly the same number of delegates: Obama won 847 and Clinton won 834.
United Nations Climate Change Conference receives critism for carbon footprints
by Ben Brown-Steiner in News
Last Friday, as part of the Liberal Arts Colloquium Series, Zack Swank, a Clarkson Senior, gave a presentation on his experience at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia. He gave his first hand account as a representative for SustainUS, a nonprofit organization speaking for the youth of the United States regarding a sustainable future.
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2/2/08 11:45 a.m.
Motor Vehicle Accident-Leaving the Scene
Woodstock Village parking lot
Safety & Security assisted PPD in a Property damage complaint involving damage to his motor-vehicle by another that had left the scene. Case Open.
2/3/08 3:50 a.m.
Criminal Mischief
Woodstock Village
Person(s) unknown, sometime around the hour of 3:25 a.
by Aaron Fetterman in News
Software maintenance can take up to 85% of the budget for a software product. Understandably, then, it has been a large focus for research: there are methods to refactor code, find repeated sections, do program slicing and aspect analysis, and automatically migrate the language, technology, or platform.
by Katelynn Wilton in News
Thousands of games lay on the shelves of rental stores, but when local game designer Jason Rohrer looks at them, he sees a montage of the same thing: games designed around the glitter and glamor of three dimensions. His work is about making game design into an art.
