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COFHE is an association of the presidents of 31 colleges and universities, including all Ivy League schools, Duke, Amherst, Wellesley, Northwestern and MIT, which houses the organization’s research division. Of the 31 institutions, 28 are participating in versions of the Enrolled Student Survey...
...DIED. MUSHAF ALI MIR, 55, commander of Pakistan's air force, after his Fokker F-27 aircraft crashed while flying from Islamabad to Kohat; in northwestern Pakistan. All 17 passengers were killed, including Mir's wife and two air vice-marshals. The cause of the crash is unknown...
...Northwestern is one of the first schools in the country to take advantage of “multicasting technology,” a process that digitizes cable programming and broadcasts it to students’ computers through the school’s network, according to the University’s television website. Unlike the costly process of running cable wires through all the buildings, the cost to multicast each channel is only around $15,000, according to Morteza Rahimi, Northwestern’s vice president and chief technology officer for information technology, as reported by the Brown Daily Herald...
This low cost allowed Northwestern to digitize twenty cable stations, which were voted on by students and included the Cartoon Network, CNN, ESPN and MTV. The result has been positive; students report being happy with the picture quality and with being able to watch their favorite shows in the comfort of their dorms. According to the Daily Northwestern, its students living in the dorms are getting all twenty stations for only $121.20 a year—or about $12.50 per month of school. With a price tag lower than a dinner at Spice each month, most Harvard students would...
...cost hurdle successfully removed, and the success of Northwestern paving the way, Harvard should bring cable television programming to all its dorm rooms by next fall. As Adam M. Johnson ’02, a member of last year’s working group, told me in an e-mail, the obvious next step “is to come up with a technologically feasible and cost-efficient plan and bring the issue back up with the Committee on House Life.” The CHL should issue a recommendation to help see this process to completion. And with Harvard...