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David A. Schaer, a former Brandeis University student who accused the school of unfairly disciplining him for alleged date rape in 1996, lost his appeal in a decision by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts yesterday.
Schaer claimed Brandeis had breached its "contract" with him when the school didn't follow the disciplinary process as laid out in the student handbook. But the court determined that Brandeis had followed procedure in the areas in which Schaer objected.
The school suspended Schaer for several months and then put him on disciplinary probation for the remainder of his time at Brandeis. A woman undergraduate accused him of raping her while they were spending time together in her room, but Schaer claimed the intercourse was consensual.
Last week, when scientists at Brandeis University announced that one of their machines had finally designed and built a simple, toylike robot, the news immediately invited scary comparisons with such Hollywood rogue robots as The Terminator and 2001: A Space Odyssey's psychopathic HAL. Some futurists, like Sun Microsystem's...
But the sheer non-fiction of the scene in the lab of Drs. Jordan B. Pollack and Hod Lipson at Brandeis gives one a metaphysical chill. Their primitive little creature, offspring of their robot, has one ability only: It crawls. Dr. Lipson tells the New York Times that the robot...