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So why not meet 50-75 new friends before your roommate settles in? At Fresh Fest we give you a crash-course on learning how to survive at BU. You will hear about all the activities the campus offers, meet new people and make a difference by participating in a community service project. During free time you’ll be able to kick back and hang out with your new friends. Joining you will be a group of student facilitators - upperclassmen who have been through it all and have lived to tell about it. They represent a wide variety of majors, have lived in almost every dorm, come from all over the country and can tell you about every activity on campus. More importantly, they are all leaders on campus and will be there for you with advice and support. Our goal is to ensure that you begin your life at BU with a great head start. By the time class starts, you will have met 50-75 other students. You will be familiar with the campus and will constantly see friendly faces throughout your first weeks on campus. You will also learn more about our Hillel. You can get information about social, educational, athletic, religious and social justice events sponsored by Hillel on campus. You can register by filling out our online form at www.bu.edu/hillel/freshfest, and making an online payment of $118.00 by Monday, August 28. Please feel free to contact us by calling (617) 353.7200 or e-mailing hillel@bu.edu if you have any questions about the Fresh Fest program. You can also learn more by checking out our website at www.bu.edu/hillel. We are updating it with additional features and news all the time. Have a great summer… we can’t wait to meet you!! Sincerely, Jacob Ethan Jacob Gurvis Class of 2020 Student Coordinator, Fresh Fest 2017 jgurvis@bu.edu Ethan Sobel Assistant Director Boston University Hillel esobel@bu.edu Florence and Chafetz Hillel House 213 Bay Sta te Road | Boston, MA 02215 617-353-7200 | hillel@bu.edu | www.bu.edu/hillel Q & A What is Fresh Fest? Fresh Fest is a pre-orientation program for all incoming students offered by Hillel and coordinated by facilitators. Facilitators are hand-picked upper-class students that staff the Fresh Fest activities and guide the incoming students as peer mentors. Fresh Fest involves activities around the BU campus, BU Hillel and around the city of Boston. It’s a roadmap of the four years ahead! Why participate in Fresh Fest? This program is a great way for incoming students to meet upperclassman and other incoming students before the academic year begins. Incoming students also get better acquainted with the Boston University campus and college life, get involved in community service projects and more! As an added bonus, Fresh Fest helps you make 50- 75 new friends before your roommate even settles in! Who is Fresh Fest for? Everyone! It doesn’t matter if you are an inc oming first-year student or a transfer student. Hillel will offer fun activities for everyone regardless of your Jewish background or interests. All of the food will be provided by Hillel and is under kashrut supervision. So even the most observant students can enjoy Fresh Fest without worrying. Remember, though, all Boston University incoming students are welcome, regardless of their religion. How do I sign up? Fill out our online form at www.bu.edu/hillel/freshfest and make an online payment of $118.00 via PayPal. Registration open through August 28. What are you waiting for? It’s a great program for you and your incoming friend can do it together. Jump start your college career and be a wiz on all things campus life! Registration will remain open until Monday, August 28, or if we hit our registration cap. Spots fill quickly. Register TODAY. Additional Questions? Do you have any additional questions about Fresh Fest? Call Hillel’s Assistant Director, Ethan Sobe l, at 617-353-7662, or e-mail esobel@bu.edu. Florence and Chafetz Hillel House 213 Bay State Road | Boston, MA 02215 617-353-7200 | hillel@bu.edu | www.bu.edu/hillel When Does My Student Move In? Fresh Fest participants will be able to move into their actual dorm room on Saturday, September 2nd from 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. For those observing Shabbat, move-in continues for new students on Sunday, September 3 from 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Early move-in can be arranged with the office of Residential Life starting as early as Wednesday, August 30. The University’s matriculation event takes place on Sunday, September 3 for all incoming first-year students. The evening of September 3, freshmen have mandatory residence hall meetings. Hillel’s Fresh Fest begins at 9 am on Monday, September 4. Students can check in at 213 Bay State Road. What if my student is participating in FYSOP? Great! FYSOP ends on Friday, September 1. Your student will have plenty of time to relax, settl e into their room and prepare themselves for Fresh Fest. Additionally, classes do not start until Tuesday, September 5. Where Can My Family Stay? If you need to make a local reservation with a hotel, options on campus are extremely limited due to high demand. We would recommend that you consider booking your room with the following hotels we have worked with in the past: Boston Hotel Buckminster Hyatt Regency Boston (617) 236-7050 (617) 912-1234 645 Beacon St 1 Ave de Lafayette Boston, MA 02215 Boston, MA 02111 How Long Should My Family Stay? Typically, families bring their students to the Boston area on either Friday, Saturday or Sunday morning (depending on your method of transportation and distance from the Boston area). Sunday is matriculation for the University, and all first-years are encouraged to attend. Also, Sunday September 3, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. is Hillel’s Welcome Bagel Brunch, where parents and students of all class years attend to usher in the new sc hool year. Monday is your free day – and chance to join us at Fresh Fest. The majority of the families of Fresh Fest participants leave on Monday. VERY FEW PARENTS stay for the entire first week. Hillel encourages you to have a conversation with your student about how long your family will be staying. Each student and family is different. Want to talk over the decision? That’s why we are here. Call Ethan Sobel at (617) 353.7662. Is Fresh Fest “Too Jewish”? A number of parents, guardians and incoming students ask us if Fresh Fest is “too Jewish”. We always tell them that while Fresh Fest is accommodating to all Jewish students (as we are observant of dietary laws as a Jewish organization), and we do have some Jewish educational components (such as a tzedek program), Fresh Fest’s first priority is to be a social program where students can get to know Hillel and other students on campus. Hillel welcomes all Boston University incoming st udents to participate regardless of their religion. Florence and Chafetz Hillel House 213 Bay State Road | Boston, MA 02215 617-353-7200 | hillel@bu.edu | www.bu.edu/hillel Tips for Parents Locating Hillel & Parking We are situated at 213 Bay State Road, Boston, MA, 02215. By car, we are a short drive from Route93 via Storrow Drive, I-90 and I-95. Via public transportation, we are right across from the B-Green Line at the BU East stop. We recommend using Google Maps for the quickest and easiest route to get to use at BU Hillel. Parking is available outside of our building in metered spots. Additionally, you can pay to use the University lots on Commonwealth Ave. For information on what lots to use and costs, please call BU Parking and Transportation Services at 617-353-2160. Helpful Locations College Shopping Needs: Bed Bath & Beyond (617)536.1090 401 Park Dr Boston, MA 02215 Markets (With Kosher Options): The Butcherie (617)731-9888 428 Harvard St, Brookline, MA 024 46 Shaw’s Supermarket (617) 783-5878 1065 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 Boston-Area Favorite Restaurants: (Not Necessarily Kosher) Kupel’s Bakery (617)566-9528 421 Harvard St, Brookline, MA 02446 Zaftigs (617)975-0075 355 Harvard St, Brookline, MA 02446 Bertucci’s (617) 236-1030 533 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 Rubin’s (617)731-8787 500 Harvard St, Brookline, MA 02446 Florence and Chafetz Hillel House 213 Bay State Road | Boston, MA 02215 617-353-7200 | hillel@bu.edu | www.bu.edu/hillel 2017 Fresh Fest Schedule Monday September 4 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Breakfast, Registration and Meeting the Hillel Team | Boston University Hillel, 1st floor Students get an introduction to Hillel’s professional staff team and student leaders after swiping their meal cards for delicious breakfast. 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Meet, Greet and Break the Ice! | BU Beach Start off your school year with fun and friends! We will inspire new students to get acquainted with campus and each other. This session will feature interactive and awesome ways to avoid the awkwardness and break the ice. 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Build a Bear for Boston’s Children Hospital | Boston University Hillel, 4th floor Students will stuff animals to send to Boston Children’s Hospital. Participants will have a relaxed atmosphere to tap into the world of and be empowered by community service and social justice. 12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Lunch | Boston University Hillel, 3rd floor dining hall Students swipe their meal cards and have the chance to schmooze and bond with each other while learning about Jewish clubs on campus over a delicious lunch. 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Ducking Around Boston! | Meet outside Boston University Hillel The Boston Duck Tour is an exciting ride on land and The Charles River (the car transforms into a boat!) alongside a narrated sightseeing tour of Boston. Students will have the opportunity to bon d over this exciting experience, connect with their new home learn about the abundant resources Boston has to offer them off-campus! Hillel Welcome Back Events Welcome Bagel Brunch | Sunday, September 3 | 10 am-12 pm | BU Hillel | Students and parents are welcome! Welcome BBQ | Wednesday, September 6 | 5 pm - 7pm | BU Beach Friday Night Lights | Friday, September 8 | 6 pm – 9 | BU Hillel Florence and Chafetz Hillel House 213 Bay State Road | Boston, MA 02215 617-353-7200 | hillel@bu.edu | www.bu.edu/hillel ----1aRNv4h5;SpwdBR Dear Student, Pursuant to the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education (FCE) Student Grievance Procedure, the Grievance Form is for use in filing a grievance when a satisfactory resolution is not achieved through a formal appeal. 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When requesting that scores be sent, use GRE reporting code 3143 to assure that the Ed.D. office receives your scores. Cordially, Peter F. Troiano, Ph.D. Ed.D. Program Direct or, Higher Education Strand ----w7InYuue;BNWjzC Victoria Stodden Department of Statistics Columbia University 1255 Amsterdam Ave, 10th fl. New York, NY 10027 October 15, 2010 Committee on the Impact of Copyright Policy on Innovation in the Digital Era National Academies 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 Dear Committee members, Thank you for the opportunity to address this committee at the National Academy of Science. You are uniquely positioned to contend with the barriers to innovation that arise through the impact of copyright law on scientific integrity. In my remarks I hope to convince you of the urgent need for the Committee to redress these barriers directly by recommending open licensing for scientific works, in particular code and data. Copyright law works counter to scientific progress, with enormous impact on innovation both inside and outside the scientific enterprise. It is widely recognized that scientific discovery is undergoing a deep and pervasive transformation. Over the past two decades, comput ation has become indispensable to scientific research, and will eventually emerge as central to the scientific method. Our stock of scientific knowledge is now accumulating in digital form. For example, our DNA is encoded as genome sequence data, scans of brain activity exist in image datasets, and records of our climate are stored in myriad time series datasets. Equally as importantly, our reasoning about these data are recorded in software; in the scripts and code that analyze the digitally recorded world. With the parallel development of the Internet as a pervasive digital communication mechanism, an unprecedented opportunity for access to society’s scientific understanding is at hand. In this digitized world copyright law acts counter to scientific integrity and stands as a barrier to access and innovation. Let me explain. Scientific research today has changed, in such a way that bring it in direct conflict with copyright law. In a modern scientific research experi ment, data are typically gathered and stored electronically as a database on a computer, perhaps a laptop or server. The data are typically scrutinized by the researchers for mistakes, labeling inconsistencies, or other errors, and then corrections are made. After the data have been cleaned and prepared, statistical modeling decisions are made and analysis is carried out. This entire process is geared to produce new scientific results. These are written up in a paper which typically follows the style established in the pre-digital age - usually containing only a short methods section. Compressing all the digital manipulation undertaken in the course of the research into this traditional format is simply impossible, thereby rendering the scientific findings essentially non-reproducible from the paper alone. Now imagine a scientist developing an algorithm for the analysis of a novel type of data, perhaps generated by a new medical scanning device. The algorithm might permit a more confident identification of meaningful patterns in the scans than previous methods, perhaps allowing for improved identification of disease. In this case the researcher likely implemented the idea in code and tested it on some of the new data from the medical device. A typical publication of this type of work might give the mathematics explaining the approach, a description of the algorithm, and the figures and results from testing the algorithm. Again, the publication itself simply cannot communicate sufficient detail to permit others in the field to reproduce the results. I cannot express strongly enough how typical these stories are of the scientific enterprise in the digital age, across disciplines ranging from astronomy to physics to the social sciences to bioinformatics. In response to the inadequacy of today's scientific publication mechanisms to facilitate the verification of published computational results, there is a growing movement across the computational s cience community to restore scientific integrity by re-establishing reproducibility as a cornerstone of scientific research. In short: the full release of the code and data that generated the published findings, such that the results can be reproduced. Funding agencies are working to facilitate code and data release: the National Science Foundation (NSF) now requires data release plans to be submitted with research grant applications, and a recent NSF Task Force on Grand Challenge Communities and Virtual Organizations Report recommen1ded reproducibility as a fundamental component of computational research. A roundtable gathered prominent computational scientists and other stakeholders at Yale Law School last November to address issues of data and code sharing. Journals are beginning to incorporate the publication of data and code alongside their traditional paper publications, and domainspecific websites and repositories are cropping up to house scientific code and data. Thi s poses copyright issues. Scientific code and some aspects of data are subject to copyright by default, and this is a core barrier to innovation as code and data increasingly appear online. The scientific community as a whole has a long established ethos of sharing, and traditionally rejects property rights in scientific discoveries and contributions. The intent behind these norms is to further scientific progress in three ways: to encourage full disclosure of the knowledge to facilitate both the transfer of scientific innovation and the reproducibility of published findings; to encourage the re-use of research output; and to increase our public stock of scientific knowledge. Copyright as it applies today is a barrier to all these goals. Copyright vests authors with exclusive rights that prevent copy and re-use, and copyright adheres to written articles, figures and tables, software and code, and original selection and arrangement of data – nearly all the output of the modern scientific enterprise. The intellectual property framework scientists are subject to is at odds with their longstanding norms of openness, and this has becomes an acute problem in the digital era. As our stock of scientific knowledge is increasingly in digital form, copyright becomes a key issue blocking innovation in the digital sphere. Scientific knowledge is regarded a public good, but scientific contributions cannot be freely applied, used, re-used, or built upon as intended if they remain subject to copyright restrictions. Discoveries that could spur innovation in areas such as the commercial sphere, among non-scientists, or even by other scientists, remain broadly inaccessible. Scientists tend not to develop their discoveries into commercial products and the open availability of scientific research output would encourage this practice. Without shared data and code, scientific results are unverifiable, opaque, and the rate of innovation slowed. To develop innova tion and foster scientific progress exceptions must be made to copyright to enable the free sharing of the code and data used in scientific publication, thereby aligning the legal framework with the established normative, and innovation producing, structure. Scientists should be able to make their scientific innovations freely and openly available online as a routine part of their work as a scientist, and as part of making their work transparent and reproducible. Scientists are not lawyers and cannot be expected to untangle the myriad open licensing options for their work. I encourage the Committee to recommend open licensing for scientific works to conform with scientific norms and to facilitate the innovation intended to derive from scientific knowledge. Open licensing, by which I mean attaching terms of use to shared scientific code and data that free it for use with attribution as the only restriction, or commits it to the public domain, is a simple solution to the barri ers placed by copyright law on innovation. For example, attaching the Creative Commons attribution license to media, such as figures. I have developed a series of licensing recommendations for scientific output called the Reproducible Research Standard. It is important for scientists, journals, and funding agencies to be aware of and use these licensing options, perhaps as a default, and this Committee has the opportunity to make a difference – in both awareness and in practice guidelines. Such leadership is required to solve this crisis. As public policy becomes increasingly evidence-based, copyright acts a barrier to understanding the reasoning behind scientific results, to independent verification of the science, and to an open discussion of scientific issues. Without open sharing of code and data, it is difficult, even impossible, to resolve scientific debates. Recommending attribution-only open licensing on scientific works would also be a step toward the untangli ng of the confusion regarding ownership at the university level. University ownership stakes vary according to the nature of the research output, the traditions, and the potential for profitability if commercialized. This Committee is positioned to encourage the open release of code and data, grounded in the principle of reproducible research and the enormous potential for future innovation. The Committee should also recommend a broad fair use exception be made at the legislative level for all scientific works, including code and data. Because of the nature of scientific knowledge as a public good, this exception should apply to all uses, commercial and non-commercial. Scientific knowledge shouldn't be subject to the barriers induced by copyright. Thank you for your time and attention. I would be happy to provide references to empirical research and legal analysis on this issue. Victoria Stodden Assistant Professor Department of Statistics Columbia University ford.edu/~vcs vcs@stanford.edu See accompanying APPENDIX for answers to committee questions. ----sMndD2Ii;sJDDoC Hi Aaedrzferf! So glad you signed up for the 30 Day Challeng e! Before we get started, I just need to take care of a little housekeeping, so could you please follow these 2 simple steps to complete the sign up process! STEP 1: CONFIRM EMAIL To confirm your request, please click here. Clicking the link above will confirm your email address and allow you to receive the information you requested. If you do not want to receive any communication, please ignore this message. STEP 2: COMPLETE REGISTRATION: Last, Click Here to Complete Registration That's it! Make sure you watch the Orientation video to get important information about the challenge. What’s Next? 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