[62] in Resnet-Forum
Re: Highly Residential Schools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tearle)
Fri Nov 19 09:21:29 1993
From: Mark Tearle <mtearle@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
To: Mike.W.Miller.40@nd.edu
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 21:42:30 +0800 (WST)
Cc: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9311172211.AA29382@MIT.EDU> from "Mike!" at Nov 17, 93 05:11:41 pm
>
> One more message before I stop bombarding the list... :-)
>
> I'm curious if there are other schools which have very high percentages of
> on-campus students and have networked their residence halls. Notre Dame
> has about 85% of it's undergrad students living on-campus in a situation
> where -- particularly in the absense of fraternities and sororities -- the
> residence halls form the core of the student experience and existence.
>
> 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.
>
Here at the University of Western Australia we have about 10% of our
university student population living in residence halls just off campus.
I live in the largest of the six (Currie Hall), where we like four of the
other five have no net access in the hall but just a 5 min walk away
on campus. We currently have about 20% of people who live at our
college on email compared to about 10% on campus.. This is quite a good
figure as we have had freely available net access to undergrads for
about 18 months now which hasn't been overtly publicised.
I see that once we get some form of net access at our residence hall
this figure will definitely increase.
Even with the limited amount of net access that we have I see that
things are beginning to change. At our residence hall we have a high
proportion of foreign and exchange students .. I know of three instances
where relationships between our locals and exchange students are
continuing via email once they depart for home. I also know that a high
proportion of our foreign students are corresponding with friends going to
universities back home.
I see that people will want a connection and they will use it and it
definitely will change our residence hall.
Sorry for being a bit off subject but determining the social effects of
email is always a bit vague.
Yours
Mark Tearle
Currie Hall, University of Western Australia
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