This image shows the movement of stars around Polaris (the North Star, which remains constant) over a period of about an hour. 100 pictures were taken at regular intervals with long exposure and then combined to get this image. Beautiful shot by Supriya Mishra!
2015年4月30日 星期四
報導法官輕縱 蘋果判賠
報導法官輕縱 蘋果判賠
2015-04-30
〔記者楊國文/台北報導〕計程車司機謝東憲4年前性侵日本女學生後以5萬元交保,蘋果日報在「法官輕縱性侵狼」等報導中,指稱新北地院法官盧軍傑輕信嫌犯「你情我願」的說辭,盧認為名譽、肖像權受損求償。高等法院認為,相關報導與事實相悖、且未合理查證,判蘋果日報、總編輯等人應連帶賠償名譽權損失40萬元,另以盧並非公眾人物,刊其照片已侵害肖像權,判賠30萬元共70萬元,另須登報澄清。
有趣。這位法官不走刑事而用民事求償的方式告誡媒體,雖然不知其政黨所屬,也不知其政治傾向,但是我還是願意為他喝采。
Three Minute Thesis competition (University of Essex )
Our research students really inspired us at the first ever Three Minute Thesis at Essex. In just 180 seconds each of them showed us how their work might change the world or transform our understanding of it. Find out more: www.essex.ac.uk/news/event.aspx?e_id=7644
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Research students share their inspiring research at Three Minute Thesis competition
Students from across our University have been sharing their enthusiasm and commitment to their research areas through our firstThree Minute Thesis Competition.
A total of 18 students were selected to speak at the event with the judging panel including leading academics Professor Jonathan Baker, Professor Chris Cooper, Professor Pamela Cox and Professor Karen Hulme.
The amazing diversity of the research being undertaken at the University was celebrated through the competition with presentations ranging from the representation of women in war-themed Bangladeshi films to tackling Parkinson’s Disease and researching how we walk to perfecting self-drive cars .
The winner of the competition was Jon Chamberlain from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering who explained how marine life research can be transformed by mapping different species through mentions on social media such as Facebook and Twitter.
He said: “It has been a great experience and nice to meet my colleagues at the University and hear about their research and share my work.”
The runner-up was Caroline Carey from the Institute for Social and Economic Research who is researching health and inequalities and how socio-economic experiences can influence health outcomes.
Three Minute Thesis Competition from University of Essex on Vimeo.
She said: “It has been really good fun to get to meet lots of other people from the University and learn about the research they are doing. It has also been a great way to practice my presentation skills.”
The students and staff who packed into LTB 2 voted Cheryl Eno-Ibanga from the School of Biological Sciences the Audience Choice winner for her inspiring talk on her research into the structure of the HPeV1 virus and the potential to prevent diseases caused by it.
She said: “It was nice to take part as now I know how to communicate my project more.”
Professor Cooper said: “We were incredibly impressed by the quality of the presentations and really enjoyed them.”
The researcher selected to take part were:
- Fahmida Akhter from the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
- Wafaa Alfares from the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
- Khattab Ali from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
- Olayinka Awofolu from the School of Health and Human Sciences
- Paul Baror from the School of Law
- Caroline Carney from the Institute for Social and Economic Research
- Jon Chamberlain from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
- Harish Cheruvara from the School of Biological Sciences
- Alex Donov from the Department of Economics
- Kim Duffy from the School of Biological Sciences
- Cheryl Eno-Ibanga from the School of Biological Sciences
- Luis Miguel Goncalves de Faria from the Centre of Computational Finance and Economic Agents
- Ekaterine Iakobishvili from the School of Law
- Nikita Jacob from the Department of Economics
- Janchai King from Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust
- Morteza Shirzad from the School of Law
- David Sykes from the School of Law
- Leila Tavallali from the School of Biological Sciences
Congratulations to Jon Chamberlain for winning our Three Minute Thesis competition, Caroline Carey for coming runner-up and Cheryl Eno-Ibanga for taking the audience choice award. You are inspirational!
2015年4月29日 星期三
百年中一中: 五月一日校慶:「吾臺人初無中學,有則自本校始」
「吾台人初無中學,有則自本校始」
since 1915
since 1915
104年5月1日(五)校慶音樂會海報
104年5月2日(六)校慶演唱會海報
104年5月2日(六)校慶演唱會海報
通通出來囉!
突然讓我思考這樣的問題:為什麼我們多/都將錢捐給大學,而不是中學。
我請教太太,何以致之?
太太說,所謂好學校的高中生,幾乎是只知道讀書,友情較不容易發展。她們班上是學校的唯一理工班(甲組),現在可能2/3在美國。只待大家快退休了,才有人組同學會。中一中校友沈金標(東海建築校友)組中一中 facebook組群,我跟他說,"考慮捐數萬,(甚至於更多);又如果圖書館願收,可再捐千本書。"
我到苗栗訪問老友洪醫師,順便請他轉告中一中校友Mr. Tea,百年中一中,大家應捐錢。他說應該先在苗栗組校友會。
他問我校慶那一天,我竟然不知道,所以上網查些資料。
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中一中百年校慶 百日倒數開跑
2015-01-21
〔記者蔡淑媛/台中報導〕台中一中即將邁入一百歲,百年校慶百日倒數活動昨天開跑,由高一、高二上千名學生在中庭排出「中一中100」字樣,將進行一連串活動,為五月一日百年校慶熱身,精彩可期。
中一中昨天期末考,下午學生立刻為百年校慶開始熱身,在學校中庭排出「中一中100」字樣,宣告百週年校慶進入倒數一百天。學務主任吳曉暢表示,藉由積極動員舉辦百年校慶活動,匯聚各界人士、校友和師生參與,承先啟後。
中一中特別舉辦校慶標語及標誌徵選活動,選出「菁英典範,百年風華」做為百年里程碑,並以一中吉祥物「龍」結合一百設計成標誌,符合一中形象,見證百年風華的龍族精神。
台中一中在西元一九一五年成立,當時為日本時期,為了喚醒台灣人民意識及文化覺醒,由霧峰林獻堂及林烈堂等「創校五先賢」向台灣總督府請願成立,為專門讓台灣人就讀的中學,在台灣歷史上格外具有重要意義。
895至1919年之間,較著名的教育事件是「台中中學校」的成立。1914年(大正3年), 台灣士紳林獻堂等人鑑於國內一般教育僅至「公學校」及「國語學校」的國語部,又都以學習日 語為主。因此結合台灣士紳,希望創辦一所專供台灣人就讀的中等學校。
在林獻堂 的倡導下,除了霧峰林家出資最多以外,台灣各地富賈如辜榮顯(鹿港辜家)、林熊徵 (板橋林家)、顏雲年(基隆顏家)、陳中和(高雄陳家)等人都慷慨捐資。當建校的經費籌措已足, 總督府卻不願讓台灣人創立自己的中等學校,遲遲不核准設校的申請案。
最後的妥協方案,則是由林獻堂等人將建校的資金捐贈給總督府,由總督府於1915年創辦公立的「台中中學校」。
「台中中學校」是日治時期第一所專收台灣人的中等學校(高級中學),即今日「台中一中」的前身。 日治時代,台灣總督府在台灣主要城市設立中學,日本人多就讀「一中」,台灣人則就讀「二中」; 唯獨「台中一中」例外,以台灣學生為主,日本子弟則就讀「台中二中」。
1919年(大正8年)1月4日,總督府首次發布《台灣教育令》,開始較有系統的建立台灣 各級(初級、中級、高級及職業學校)教育系統,但還是採雙軌制,日本籍學生的教育依據日本內地法令, 而台灣人就讀的學校,教育內容仍比日本同級學校程度低,修業年限較短。
這一年,日本首次指派文官背景的田健次郎就任台灣總督。田健總督為因應第一次世界大戰結束後, 世界各地興起的「民族自決」的思潮,統治採取較開明的作風,逐步取消台日教育的隔離 及差別對待。田健治郎任內,致力於公學校的增設,以普及初級教育。
1922年(大正11年),台灣總督府頒布《改正台灣教育令》,實施「台日共學制」, 初級教育仍維持台日隔離教育(公學校、小學校),中等學校以上則採台日共學制。
這樣的措施看來立意雖佳,強調教育平等,台灣人也可報考原本只收日本學生的中等學校,然而由於 中學入學考試都以日文作答,台灣人就讀的「公學校」,教材較日本人的「小學校」程度低, 因此入學考試往往無法與日籍學生競爭。雖然台灣學生在初級學校占了絕大多數,但中等學校及高等學校的 學生卻以日本籍學生占多數。只有以招收台灣人為主的「總督府醫學校」及「師範學校」才有較多的 台籍學生(註3)。
1922年,《改正台灣教育令》實施後,雖然台灣島內的中等學校及高等學校日漸增多, 但由於台籍學生處於升學競爭不利的情況,錄取的學生以日本人為主。因此,不少台灣人只好選擇前往 日本國內升學,形成赴日本升學讀書的管道反而比在台灣參加升學考試還容易的特殊現象。
標題 | 百年中一中 校友來藝起百動 | |
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發佈日期 | 2014/10/28 | |
發佈人員 | 校長室秘書 | |
點閱次數 | 762 | |
內容 | 台中一中明年創校百年,校方規畫42場藝文表演、展演活動,邀請師生、校友「藝起百動」,希望透過用藝術穿越百年歷史。 鼓勵學生響應藝文季,同步「藝文集章」,學校景點變成特製圖章,活動地點和景點結合,學生參加滿10場活動,集滿10個學校景點圖章,即可換取中一中百年校慶Q版咖啡隨行杯。 台中一中明年5月邁入創校百年,校長陳木柱說,「藝起百動:藝文季」即日起開始,明年元旦舉辦園遊會作為壓軸,前後2個多月將安排研習、舞蹈及戲劇等展演活動,共42場次。 學務處主任吳曉暢表示,特地安排「夢想舞台」,讓中一中音樂性、藝術性質的社團可以透過申請的機會表演,表演時間每週二下午5點至6點。 陳木柱說,中一中最讓校友津津樂道有2個地方、2個碑,分別是光中庭、校史館;創校紀念碑、毋負今日碑。 | |
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2015年4月28日 星期二
WikiLeaks; Harvard Rules: 《哈佛,誰說了算》
The Harvard CrimsonWhen the website WikiLeaks published a database of emails that were hacked last fall from Sony Pictures Entertainment, communications involving Michael M. Lynton ’82, the company’s chief executive officer and a Harvard Overseer, were made public, offering a rare glimpse into his relationship with top administrators at Harvard.
應該先了解哈佛大學的管理階層
Harvard Rules: Lawrence Summers and the Battle for the World's Most Powerful University Paperback – November 22, 2005
by Richard Bradley (Author)
It is the richest, most influential, most powerful university in the world, but at the beginning of 2001, Harvard was in crisis. Students complained that a Harvard education had grown mediocre. Professors charged that the university cared more about money than about learning. Harvard may have possessed a $19 billion endowment, but had it lost its soul?
The members of Harvard's governing board knew that they had to act. And so they made a bold pick for Harvard's twenty-seventh president: former Treasury Secretary and intellectual prodigy economist Lawrence Summers.
Although famously brilliant, Summers was a high-stakes gamble. In the 1990s he had crafted American policies to stabilize the global economy, quietly becoming one of the world's most powerful men. But while many admired Summers, his critics called him elitist, imperialist, and arrogant beyond measure.
Today Larry Summers sits atop a university in a state of upheaval, unsure of what it stands for and where it is going. At stake is not just the future of Harvard University but also the way in which Harvard students see the world -- and the manner in which they lead it. Written despite the university's official opposition, Harvard Rules uncovers what really goes on behind Harvard's storied walls -- the politics, sex, ambition, infighting, and intrigue that run rampant within the world's most important university.
It is the richest, most influential, most powerful university in the world, but at the beginning of 2001, Harvard was in crisis. Students complained that a Harvard education had grown mediocre. Professors charged that the university cared more about money than about learning. Harvard may have possessed a $19 billion endowment, but had it lost its soul?
The members of Harvard's governing board knew that they had to act. And so they made a bold pick for Harvard's twenty-seventh president: former Treasury Secretary and intellectual prodigy economist Lawrence Summers.
Although famously brilliant, Summers was a high-stakes gamble. In the 1990s he had crafted American policies to stabilize the global economy, quietly becoming one of the world's most powerful men. But while many admired Summers, his critics called him elitist, imperialist, and arrogant beyond measure.
Today Larry Summers sits atop a university in a state of upheaval, unsure of what it stands for and where it is going. At stake is not just the future of Harvard University but also the way in which Harvard students see the world -- and the manner in which they lead it. Written despite the university's official opposition, Harvard Rules uncovers what really goes on behind Harvard's storied walls -- the politics, sex, ambition, infighting, and intrigue that run rampant within the world's most important university.
From Publishers Weekly
In an attempt to place Harvard's current president, Larry Summers, in historical perspective, this intriguing study explores his policies, leadership style and previous career in reference to other presidents as far back as Charles W. Eliot (president from 1869-1909). Bradley, author of the bestselling American Son: A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, writes with tactful reserve about the backroom intrigues and infighting that have characterized Summer's presidency, always showing both sides of the issues-and the book is no less gripping for it. These struggles, involving such luminaries as Cornel West, Skip Gates, Robert Rubin and Alan Dershowitz, are riveting even when handled with kid gloves. But Bradley addresses much more than simply the contentious start to Summer's tenure at Harvard. On the one hand, he offers an insightful look at how the role of the American university president has changed from a moral and intellectual leader independent of political and corporate power to the administrator of an institution largely dependent on corporate and government largesse for its continued existence. On the other, he places Harvard's development and growth in a larger context, exploring its shifting goals, pedagogy and values in reference to other prestigious American universities such as Princeton, Stanford and Yale, as well as to American society in general. On a whole host of issues-including unionization, civil rights, affirmative action and militarism-Bradley uses events at Harvard to illuminate wider social trends and vice versa. Although Harvard alums will naturally gravitate toward this timely volume, it will also appeal to anyone concerned with the evolving relationship between higher education and American society.
有點像小說,不過還不錯。中文本的所謂索引,根本是笑話。我習慣倒讀,弄了老半天,董事會叫the Corporation
哈佛,誰說了算
- 作者: (美)理查德·布瑞德利
- 出版社:北京大學出版社
- 出版日期:2014/12/01
- 語言:簡體中文
- 哈佛是世界上最富有、最強大、最具影響力的大學。然而,在2001年初,哈佛卻危機四伏。美國前財政部部長、才華橫溢的勞倫斯?薩默斯就任哈佛第27任校長后,哈佛非但沒有從危機狀態中擺脫出來,甚至還成了權術、金錢、性和權力的戰場……理查德?布瑞德利不顧哈佛校方的反對,憑借自己的智慧、誠實和卓越新聞工作者的職業素養,披露了哈佛百年老牆之內所上演的真實的一幕幕,讓人們了解到在這所全球最重要的大學里權術、性、野心、內訌、陰謀詭計等泛濫成災……
《哈佛,誰說了算》:討伐名校校長的檄文
本報記者張慧《 青年參考》( 2015年01月28日18 版)
哈佛大學第27任校長勞倫斯·薩默斯
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《哈佛,誰說了算》可以被看成討伐哈佛前校長勞倫斯·薩默斯的檄文,為讀者展現了人們不知道的哈佛大學,堪比政治小說,引人入勝。作者布萊德利將這本書稱為“關於大學校長權力、影響力和重要性的書”。對於在書名中提出的問題,作者並沒有闢出專門章節作答,而是化整為零地講述了哈佛校園文化的轉變。
堪比政治小說的紀實文學
“美國前財政部長、才華橫溢的勞倫斯·薩默斯就任哈佛第27任校長後,哈佛非但沒有從危機狀態中擺脫出來,而且成了權術、金錢、性和權力的戰場……”這樣的內容簡介,讓非虛構類作品《哈佛,誰說了算》有了政治小說一般的節奏和氣氛。
《哈佛,誰說了算》是一部新聞作品,出自經驗豐富的新聞工作者之手。詳實的細節和流暢的文筆讓這本書堪比政治小說,引人入勝。
作者理查德·布萊德利本科畢業於耶魯大學,在哈佛大學獲得碩士學位。他為了完成這本書,對哈佛的學生、教師、行政管理人員和校友進行了數百次採訪。當時擔任哈佛校長的勞倫斯·薩默斯拒絕了作者的採訪。
對於在書名中提出的問題,作者並沒有闢出專門章節作答,而是化整為零地講述了哈佛校園文化的轉變。
在哈佛最有發言權的曾是教師,“原先的主流價值觀一度是學者們的價值觀,現在卻被哈佛管理層僱用的律師和工商管理碩士們的基本標準取代”。
“隨著集中管理體制的發展,權力越來越集中到校長和那些毫無知名度、只是聽從校長調遣的行政官僚手裡。”而教師們“越來越像僱員了,他們的主人翁意識淡薄,投入感也越來越少。對許多人而言,他們對哈佛的極度忠誠是因為,高等教育領域的頂尖品牌可以帶給他們巨大的利益”。
作者剖析了這種轉變的原因。上世紀60年代前後,美國頂尖學府在學術和聲譽上獲得了廣泛認可,進入急速擴張階段,聘用了大量律師、財務人員、人事經理、退休福利管理專家、房地產管理人員、公共關係顧問和資金募集者。他們通常來自企業和諮詢公司,做事的風格往往折射出商業文化,而不是學術文化。
更深地改變哈佛文化的是隨薩默斯進入哈佛的官僚化氣息。布萊德利用350頁的篇幅,講述了薩默斯上台後如何步步為營,成了在哈佛說了算的人。
哈佛校長應具備美國總統的素質
布萊德利似乎對薩默斯心懷芥蒂。書中的薩默斯野心勃勃、張狂粗俗,讀者難以將他和出身學術世家、在哈佛接受過教育的經濟學家聯繫起來。
按照美國標準,薩默斯是位成功人士。他的伯父和舅舅都是諾貝爾經濟學獎的獲得者,他29歲就成為哈佛大學終身教授。放棄教職進入政界後,他從世界銀行首席經濟學家一直做到克林頓政府的財政部長。2001年,他華麗轉身,成為哈佛大學的第27任校長。
正如布萊德利指出的,在人們看來,大學校長通常是正直博學的人,對政治、道德很有見地,能對眼前所發生的事件發表看法。名校的校長更該如此,他們的正能量理應影響整個校園,甚至跨越校園的圍欄,覆蓋外部的社會。
伍德羅·威爾遜和德懷特·戴維·艾森豪威爾成為美國總統前,分別是普林斯頓大學和哥倫比亞大學的校長。因此,對很多美國人來說,理想的校長應該具有美國總統所需的全部素質。校長們沒有成為總統只是因為為人低調,不想參加競選躋身政界。
然而,書中描繪的薩默斯遠沒有這麼神聖和高尚。他深諳官場之道,精通權術。在布萊德利看來,“哈佛課程的設立既是出於利益的動機,也是為了追求學術霸權,為了進一步在國際教育中烙上哈佛的烙印,為了促進一個思想帝國的成長”。
“對薩默斯來說,哈佛將是他的權力基礎,是個知識的工廠。這個工廠每年將向外輸出成百上千名未來的領導人,他是這個工廠的經營者。”布萊德利在書中寫道。
哈佛歷史上第一位被“彈劾”的校長
2006年6月,也就是這本書完成兩年後,薩默斯辭去了哈佛校長一職。
令薩默斯黯然離去的並不是這本書。2005年1月,薩默斯在學術會議上宣稱,科學領域男多女少是“天性使然”,被斥為性別歧視。哈佛人對這位官僚校長的不滿集中爆發,校園中掀起了要求他辭職的“反薩默斯運動”,一些德高望重的教授公開批評薩默斯,讓這場運動愈演愈烈。
同年3月,哈佛文理學院發起了對薩默斯的不信任投票,開創了哈佛歷史上“彈劾校長”的先例。雖然失去教員信任不會剝奪薩默斯作為校長的合法性,但與民意相悖讓他面上無光。薩默斯沒有就此放棄,他多次道歉,反复澄清,並且承諾拿出500萬美元,招募和支持女性學者。
鬥爭的火苗剛剛削弱,學生日報《哈佛深紅報》就爆出了薩默斯逼迫文理學院院長科爾比辭職的消息,薩默斯在哈佛的聲望再創新低。文理學院的教員計劃發起第二次對校長的不信任投票。
《紐約時報》等全國性媒體的長篇報導,將哈佛校園中校長和教師的對立昭告天下,一向善於觀察政治風向的薩默斯趕在第二次投票前辭職,為自己保留了體面。哈佛大學對薩默斯的“識趣”給予了經濟補償。
離開哈佛的薩默斯並未就此消沉,反而在政壇混得風生水起。2008年的美國總統大選中,薩默斯擔任奧巴馬的經濟顧問。奧巴馬當選後,用白宮國家經濟委員會主任的職位回報了薩默斯。
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