Sex firewall prompts name change
Philadelphia’s Beaver College is to rename itself Arcadia University next July after discovering that internet systems designed to screen out sexually explicit material were blocking access to Beaver's website. Some 20,000 students, parents, staff and alumni were consulted on the name change.
Harvard honours Singapore leader
Harvard University is to recognise Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore and the country’s prime minister from 1959-90, with a fellowship in his name.
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