He was a forceful advocate for causes he believed in, ... Sometimes he regarded himself as the conscience of the University.

Everybody needs to decide this on their own, what their conscience dictates, what their hearts and minds tell them to do,

He's upset, extremely angry [and] frustrated. It is extremely disconcerting for a student at an urban university to be identified as a shooter in a case in which he has no involvement whatsoever.

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

[At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, David Powicki, Associate Director of Network Services, and Richard Rogers, Faculty Advisor to the Provost for Undergraduate Education, have collaborated to build the university's first Digital Learning Commons. Staffed by librarians, library staff, IT staff and student assistants, it offers 15 group rooms, three electronic classrooms, more than 250 workstations and workspaces and more than 400 ports for network access. Developed to encourage faculty and student collaboration, the Digital Learning Commons is intended to leverage web-based services to improve the integration of information and instructional technologies.] This is where Web technology starts to pay nice dividends, ... With Xythos we now have a safer, richer and more efficient alternative to email for storing and sharing files -- and our faculty, students and staff are becoming more and more comfortable using a web-based system.