As Director of the Career Development Center, I hope I can speak usefully to some of the concerns and suggestions Hailey Hawkins voiced so thoughtfully in "Student advising needs change, accountability." I'm neither a member of the faculty nor an academic advisor, yet I and my staff are deeply and daily committed to delivering career advising to students, a hunger for which is emphasized in the article, yet not named as such.
In January 2006, internet supergiant Google launched Google.cn, a Chinese-based version of the world's most used search engine and web applications. While the company agreed to allow China's strict rules regarding censorship, the folks at Google felt "that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results," as posted in their official blog earlier this month.