Personal computing emerged in the 1980s as something Hollywood couldn't ignore, with films like "Tron, " about a hacker who gets trapped in a computer game, and 1983's "WarGames, " about a nerdy high school student who nearly causes a nuclear apocalypse after breaking into a military-operated computer network.

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Meanwhile, at Rhode Island College, a conservative social work student was told he would have to lobby the government for progressive causes in which he did not believe if he wished to graduate.

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Earlier today a 17 year old named Priyanka Jain launched a student run nonprofit called iCAREweCARE, which is dedicated to helping high school and college students identify causes they care about, find local organizations that address those problems, and then write about their experiences, or connect with their friends over them.

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