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The Residential Life Department at Oklahoma State University is just now
seriously looking at the best way to wire all dorm rooms for network
connections. Students already have the ability to use a modem from their rooms,
but universal network connectivity is the newest mandate. We're trying to put
together a plan to best cover our needs in the next 6 years. Should we operate
on an assumption of "If you wire it, they will come"? I would assume the answer
to that question would impact on whether we try to wire everything at once or
piecemeal or on request.
I am actually a member of the staff of the computer center, but my afternoons
have been "sold" to Res Life. I have been asked to find out what other campuses
might have already wired their dorms, what proportion of their students are
actually using the network, what proportion of those students are Internet
users, etc. I am sure a great deal of valuable insight is available through
these channels! Other issues we have an interest in are the best way to make
the network interface cards available to the students, how to charge for
connectivity, how are folks handling the legwork of driver installation and
initial hook-up, etc.
As a side issue, I have been asked to check the collective pulse on just how
_necessary_ it is to have fax machines in every student's room.
If RESNET is a list to which one may subscribe, I am hereby requesting a
subscription.
Thanks for any assistance you can give!
Laura Cooper
Computer Support Specialist
Computing and Information Systems
113 Math Sciences
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078
405-744-6301 voice (405-744-8511 afternoons)
405-744-7861 fax
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