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As President  Donald Trump  delivered a speech about criminal justice to a room full of political allies at the historically black college Benedict College, in Columbia, S.C., most students were  reportedly  asked to stay in their dorms. The President delivered the speech Friday afternoon to a room that only included a handful of students. Benedict College Spokeswoman Kymm Hunter  reportedly  told the White House press pool that only seven students attended the speech, and CNN  reports  that Columbia’s Mayor Stephen Benjamin said the White House chose who else attended. “This should have been an opportunity for at least scores of students to attend this event,” Benjamin reportedly said to CNN. Hunter  said  in a statement to The State that asking students to remain in their dorms was part of a safety plan the school made in conjunction with the Secret Service and that classes were canceled. “The campus was closed and streets ...

Who was Alan Turing? Alan Turing was an English mathematician and pioneer of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. During WW2, he was instrumental in breaking the German Enigma code, leading to Allied victory over Nazi Germany. What happened in Alan Turing’s early years? Alan Turing was born on 23 June 1912 in Maida Vale, London. His intelligence was clear from his school days. At the age of 9, his headmistress from St Michael's Primary School in Hastings reported: ‘I have had clever boys and hard-working boys, but Alan is a genius’. Turing moved to Hazelhurst Preparatory School in 1922 where he became interested in chess, spending hours working out complex chess problems on his own. At the age of 13, he attended Sherborne School in Dorset. Although his maths teacher Mr Randolph declared him a ‘genius’, this counted little in a school that placed its emphasis on humanities and classics. Teachers would often get annoyed with him for his high marks i...