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Re: Highly Residential Schools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy Smith)
Wed Nov 17 20:26:32 1993
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 93 19:59:08 -0500
From: roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
To: Mike.W.Miller.40@nd.edu, resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
> I'd like to know if any other schools have similarly high on-campus
> residence rates, and if so, has any thought been given to how adding
> computing-on-demand to the mix could fundamentally change the student
> experience.
NYU School of Medicine has about 600 or so medical students, the
vast majority of whom live in one of 3 on-campus residence halls. We now
have funding to put 10-base-T in every dorm room of one of the buildings
(the one where the majority of the resident med students live). Part of the
decision was due to the fact that we simply don't have enough room to set up
sufficient "public micro lab" type facilities to serve all the clients we
want to serve with all the services we want to provide. Part of the money
we spend to wire the dorms will come back to us in reduced expenditures on
public facilities we won't have to provide. But that wasn't your question,
was it?
To address your point, somewhat, the particular dorm we are wiring
now is physically contigious with the med center proper. What that means is
that students can go an entire semester of sleeping, eating, going to
classes, labs, clinical rotations, etc, visiting the cash machine (and as of
a couple of weeks ago, even renting video tapes) without ever having to go
outside and seeing the sun. Some students feel that putting computers in
their rooms will only make this depressing situation worse.
