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Chad Hymas shows you the joys of freedom and being able to drive as a quadriplegic. Something doctors told him he would never do. How would you feel if you were never able to drive and have...

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Freedom, with the right limitations

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Azmi Sharom

The Star

Publication Date : 17-09-2014

In the past few weeks there has been a lot of discussion, indeed in some cases one might say uproar, over the use of the Sedition Act.

I have no wish to talk about the Act itself because it has been done to death in recent times. Furthermore, I am currently rather intimately involved with the Act as I was charged under it earlier this month.

Instead, I would like to go back to the fundamental issue here, which is freedom of expression. Clearly the Sedition Act curbs freedom of expression. Is this a bad thing? Well, not necessarily.

You see, despite what some quarters might believe, no one in his right mind would want absolute freedom of expression. That would be ludicrous.

However, before we begin to discuss what sort of restrictions on expression there should be, let us first examine our attitudes towards this particular freedom itself.

Naturally I cant speak for anyone else, so this is a purely personal take. I think that the ideal is absolute freedom.

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Freedom on wheels

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Travelling in the NCR (National Capital Region) is getting easier than ever before. First people had the option of renting luxury cars, now the comfort gets to the common mans level with the coming of a new project through which people can take a car on rent for a day or maybe even for an hour. Under the scheme, people drive the car themselves and pay.

Called MiCar, it encourages people to drive a car even when they do not own one or are new to the city. Officegoers can also avail this service by sharing and keeping their travelling cost to a bare minimum.

Speaking to the media, Suyagya Aggarwal, co-founder and director, MiCar, said, During my education in the U.S. I had experienced this concept and understood its utility and wanted to replicate this international concept in a highly populated country like India. As per our market survey, there is a vast untapped market. This is the simplest way of having a car without the hassles of owning one. To avail the services one will have to become a member and all that is required to be a member is a one-time documentation.

The cars are available in three segments Compact, Sedan and SUV. In the compact section, MiCar offers Volkswagen Polo, in the sedan section Volkswagen Veneto and in the SUV are Nissans Terrano. At present the company has a fleet of 50 cars which will be increased as per the demand. Once you become a member the company will provide you with a MiKey card which can unlock any MiCar you wish to drive and inside you will find the car keys. The company has five pickup points from where one can pick the car. The points are Dwarka, Malviya Nagar, Sultanpur, Noida and Gurgaon.

If you are too busy to go and pick the car then call and someone will drop the car at your door step at a nominal charge but you have to drive the car yourself. The process of booking is simple. There is dedicated mobile application for making the booking. The facility comes with flexibility. For instance, you have rented the car for four hours and want to extend it, all you have to do is send an SMS and continue with the trip. However, if you want to avail the facility on a monthly basis, you can enrol and get a car of your choice. Fill the fuel tank yourself and return it after paying only the hiring charges. In case of accidents also you are well taken care of, not only the car is insured also the driver is relatively safe but you have to pay a nominal amount.

To sum it up, its a viable and convenient transport solution that is environment-friendly and technologically advanced for the customer who wants to rent a self-driven car on an hourly basis.

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Azmi tells public to keep fighting for freedom

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He calls for patience, saying academic freedom isn't something that can be achieved overnight.

KUALA LUMPUR: Azmi Sharom has called for patience in the fight for academic freedom but said the public must not stop pushing for it.

Trying to achieve standards in democratic practice, I see it as a process, the Universiti of Malaya law lecturer said in an interview with FMT.

Its a process where we have to be patient, and we have to keep pushing every single step of the way.

Azmi today filed an application with the High Court to challenge the constitutionality of the Sedition Act, under which he has been charged because of comments he made in relation to the ongoing Selangor political crisis.

He referred to a 2011 case in which another law lecturer, Abdul Aziz Bari, had his service with the International Islamic University suspended for a similar offence. Police investigated Aziz under the Sedition Act, prompting numerous student demonstrations calling for academic freedom and university autonomy.

Azmi said the current movement against the Sedition Act and for academic freedom actually began with Azizs case.

The act should have been gone back then, he said.

But it was not a lost cause, he added. Its difficult to sustain a protest for three years, but it is clear that what happened to Aziz and what is happening to me now has raised awareness about the Sedition Act not only amongst students but also the general public.

He said the greater public awareness was crucial in the fight to get the Sedition Act repealed and, by extension, in achieving academic freedom.

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Tensions high at CU-Boulder discussion on academic freedom

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Nearly a year after controversy began over a class taught by tenured sociology professor Patti Adler, tensions ran high at a campus discussion on academic freedom.

Roughly 40 faculty members, students, staff and community members met Wednesday afternoon to talk about academic freedom, or "the freedom to inquire, discover, publish and teach truth as the faculty member sees it, subject to no control or authority save the control and authority of the rational methods by which truth is established," according to the laws of CU's Board of Regents.

The panel was the first in a series of discussions about campus social climate issues, which was planned last spring following concerns about Adler's class "Deviance in U.S. Society."

Central to that controversy was a lecture in which undergraduate teaching assistants portrayed various types of prostitutes in front of a large student audience.

Adler claimed that she was pushed toward retirement after administrators deemed the lecture a risk to the university. She was suspended from teaching the class, but later reinstated for the spring semester. She has since retired.

After hearing that the Office of Discrimination and Harassment looked into Adler's prostitution lecture, faculty members worried they could be investigated for materials presented or discussed in class, which many felt was a violation of academic freedom.

Campus officials have maintained that concerns were not about the content of the lecture, but the manner in which it was presented. Administrators claimed that students were coerced into participating in the prostitution lecture.

'Cross that line'

Though Adler was not mentioned by name at Wednesday's discussion, several audience members and panelists referenced her situation.

Much of the conversation centered on the balance between student safety and academic freedom, which protects the rights of the faculty to teach and research difficult topics, such as religion, sexuality, politics and others.

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SIBARIUM: Pinkers false logic

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In a recent article for The New Republic (no doubt inspired by that publications nascent affections for controversial and unsubstantiated indictments of elite education), Harvard professor Steven Pinker rightly lambasts the Ivies for perpetuating admissions standards that fall short of pure meritocratic ideals. Students who brave the murky bottleneck of selective admissions teams have access to both an astonishing library system and a professoriate with erudition in an astonishing range of topics, including many celebrity teachers and academic rock stars. I agree wholeheartedly with Pinker that to fill the halls of Ivy League schools with anyone less than the best is an unconscionable waste of tremendous resources.

But I cannot abide by Pinkers appallingly backwards recommendation that we cultivate meritocracy by relying on the narrow-minded, soulless caprice of standardized testing. His disregard for holistic admissions demonstrates more than jaded cynicism; it is an endorsement of the exact kind of incoherent, unpragmatic and unmeritocratic pedagogical philosophy that Yale and its peer institutions would do well to shy away from.

Calling standardized testing a magic measuring stick, Pinker attempts to downplay the well-documented correlation between socioeconomic status (SES) and SAT scores. With maddening obfuscation, he summons the most conservative estimates he can find, which puts SES-SAT correlation at only 0.25 on a 1 to 1 scale. That of course neglects an infinitely more transparent statistic, published earlier this year in The Washington Post: families earning more than $200,000 a year average a combined score of 1,714, while students from families earning under $20,000 a year average a combined score of 1,326. Pinker then attempts to explain away such discrepancies by suggesting that smarter parents have smarter kids who get higher SAT scores.

Think about that for a moment. Pinker wants to make SATs the number one criterion for admissions on the view that merit is reducible to eugenics. Lets make the dubious assumption that talent is an entirely hereditary trait. And the far less controversial assumption that recipients of an Ivy League degree have an extraordinary advantage in the job market, and that acceptance to Ivy League schools is to be basedexclusively on SATs. Under these conditions, Ivy League schools would be complicit in perpetuating a system of socioeconomic inequality essentially predicated on hereditary caste. Far from being a meritocracy, this is positively dystopian.

So by Pinkers own logic, the claim that SATs are a valid way to divine the suitability of a student for an elite education, without ethnic bias, undeserved advantages to the wealthy, or pointless gaming of the system is self-defeating. Despite his inveighing against Gladwell-esque theories of socioeconomic determinism, he ends up with a repugnantly Darwinian vision of college admissions at odds with our most basic sense of compassion. Were this vision to become a reality, we would be faced with a moral imperative to dismantle Pinkers so-called meritocracy. Fortunately, it will never come to that.

For one thing, Pinker and myself probably agree that talent is not necessarily hereditary (and this is one reason SAT scores should play some role in assessing applicant candidacy). But more fundamentally, I think Pinker misunderstands how close we already are to a kind of just meritocracy already.

There are metrics of intellectual and leadership capabilities that are nonnumerical and unambiguous. These include starting a company in high school, conducting original scientific research, coordinating a political campaign or writing and publishing a textbook. Someone who scores 50 points lower on the SAT because they were composing masterful symphonies should not be penalized for their supposed lack of measurable talent. And the reality is these achievements matter far more to society than a 2400 SAT. Maybe this is why Yalies dont brag about their test scores they just arent significant in light of their peers prodigious accomplishments, which actually have the potential to do good in the world.

Achievement cannot be codified so easily by an objective, depersonalized formula, even one that purports to account for grades, essays and other non-standardized metrics. In any case, the ability to maintain respectable grades and scores while spending eight hours a day practicing music or working a job to support ones family suggests far greater intellect and discipline than what perfect test scores can indicate. Before Pinker lambasts Ivy League students, perhaps he should actually talk to a few of them: about science, about law, about Nietzsche. I think hed worry less if he did.

Aaron Sibarium is a freshmanin Timothy Dwight College. Contacthim at aaron.sibarium@yale.edu.

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PRESERVING the heritage of the country and to alleviate poverty in the Philippines, one community at a time, is mission of the Green Initiative.

Excitement got into me when I was invited to come along to IbaZambales, one of the communities Green Initiative is supporting.

In 1991, when the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo happened, Gina Lopez, Geny Lopez daughter, and Foundation co-chair relocated about 50 families there.

Together with the Abs-Cbn Foundation team, we're set to try along the Stand Up Paddle Board (SUP) in order for us to test and see on how could this be of great use to the community.

I always love trying new adventures! I've been hearing a lot of great things about the Eco-Village in Iba Zambales and so with no hesitation the journey begun!

We left Manila at around 6:30 a.m. Upon our arrival at Iba, Zambales, two rivers welcomed us Tambak River and Bancal River where we would be doing our Stand Up Paddle Board (SUP) adventure!

We entered the Mango Grove in Bancal River where the Eco-Village is, organic vegetables welcomed us for lunch! Your vegan writer is very joyful while eating then. Coupled with a unique prayer with actions thanking God for everything he has done for us led by Larry Pangan, the Eco-Village in charge and a former priest, I was truly fascinated! Such a great place to be in, the warm welcome, the food, the scenery---the fresh air, trees and just a few steps away a sight to behold is Bancal River.

You could book your stay at Eco-Village for just P500 per night! It's a great way to spend quality time with your family and friends, away from the hustle and bustle of the busy life. You could contact Larry Pangan at 0915-575-1999.

Jose "Tono" Antonio Legarda, our Stand Up Paddle Board Coach, decided to start the briefing at 2 p.m. We are all eager to try SUP since it allows you to enjoy the wonders of nature plus it's a full body workout as well! We unloaded all the equipment (boards, paddles, leashes) from the vehicle. After unloading the equipment, he started the briefing that focused on the following topics - setting up the equipment properly, explaining the use of the equipment, equipment maintenance, safety guidelines.

After this initial part of the briefing, we all moved and carried the equipment near the edge of the river. At this point, he started the second part of the briefing on "Paddling Technique."

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