Word: georgis
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Leverett "Chief" Howard Georgi '68 is on a crusade...
...this House master's arsenal: an Olympus Camedia C-2020-Z digital camera, a Linux web server and a database of information about each of his Leverittes. Students who bump into Georgi at a monkey-bread open house or the '80s dance often end up in pictures--digital photos posted within 15 minutes after events on the House website, which averages about 250 visitors per day. The some 450 Leverittes also regularly find Georgi popping up in their inboxes. "I know I send too many e-mails," he grins...
...wired campus, Georgi is battling to make the 70-year-old notion of "House community" digitally savvy. Telephone calls and snail mail no longer suffice to marshal Net generation undergraduates into the community. "I suppose that all of these House things used to be done with posters and sign-up lists in the dining hall, but I can't imagine running the House without e-mail and the House webpage," Georgi muses. "And I'm trying to train the administration that it is useful to send the House [electronic] files instead of piles of papers...
...Among the Harvard digerati, Georgi is the cutting edge: he actively seeks to make the newest technology part of the House experience. To Lowell House computer science concentrator Paul A. Gusmorino '02--who bemoans his own House's technological dark age but lists Leverett as one of Harvard's most Net savvy communities--the Internet revolution has already transformed other aspects of student life, even if the residential experience hasn't quite caught up. "Today, student groups define themselves by their e-mail lists," he says...
...problem remains: if students plan their day-to-day activities via the Internet, and their House community doesn't communicate with them via such technology, then Houses won't be a large part of their daily lives. So Georgi's crusade begins where physical House interactions end: how to use technology to extend and reinforce the face-to-face ties formed within the brick-and-mortar Houses...