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...course itself includes hands-on instruction in both analog and digital electronics. Analog systems use electronic oscillators, filters, tapes, and other means to create and manipulate sounds. Digital electronics, in contrast, use computers to create, reproduce, and modify sounds. Harvard's array of digital equipment in Paine Hall includes a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer, a Mirage synthesizer, and an Apple Macintosh computer, as well as a rack of digital effects, mixers, and tape decks. Through an electronic interface called MIDI, the computer can be used to sequence the various synthesizers and to modify sonic waveforms. One interesting feature of the Mirage...
...analog room serves as a home for the infamous Serge Synthesizer. Created by Tcherepnin's brother, Serge, this complex unit--consisting of about a dozen small boxes interconnected by a web of wires--is the nerve center of a facility including mixers and tape decks. Though students with no experience can play digital synthesizers most easily, Tcherepnin says he stresses the importance of using the analog electronics to understand the fundamentals of creating sounds. "Disorientation is very important," says Tcherepnin. "You must learn to ride a horse instead of letting it ride you." Although Harvard's equipment...
...defense claimed that the Government had violated the First Amendment rights of the defendants by sending informers into their religious meetings and secretly tape-recording their conversations. The defense also managed to establish that the defendants -- a nun, two priests, a minister and seven lay workers -- were hardly criminal types. Whatever the verdict, the trial apparently has strengthened rather than discouraged the sanctuary movement. Partly because of the publicity surrounding the case, 16 U.S. cities and the state of New Mexico have proclaimed their territories sanctuaries for anyone fleeing political repression or armed conflict in any Central American nation...
...Landmark the prescription is, indeed, toughness. While other dyslectic programs, such as the highly regarded ones at Southern Illinois University and the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, employ learning crutches (e.g., tape- assisted reading or tutors during tests), Landmark's 82 students take the work straight as it comes, with lots of it. From 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., five days a week, some students in a special precollege group drill at tasks as elementary as multiplication tables and beginners' reading. Each precollege student also takes a daily one-hour private tutorial...
...saying that his professor's immutable stance in this instance sparked him to organize what was probably the first sit-in demonstration at Harvard. Students camped out in front of the professor's door to expose his closed-mindedness and to demand that he at least listen to a tape of Day's speech so that he might objectively determine if his previously-held notions were indeed justified...