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Harvard has been involved in the pilot program by offering advice and the use of buildings. Of the three access points in the Square, two are located in Harvard-owned buildings...
...latest move in a city-wide pilot program, the City of Cambridge has brought free wireless access to the area roughly between Au Bon Pain and the Coop bookstore...
...Last winter, a month-long pilot program organized by The Crimson and the UC delivered dozens of communal copies of The New York Times to Harvard dining halls. The program could be continued at a discounted cost of 40 cents a copy at that time (it is likely lower now). The student governments and dean’s offices at Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Yale currently sponsor free newspaper readership programs at their schools...
...received over 350 emails from students at the end of the pilot program showing overwhelming support for its continuation. The UC and The Crimson sent a letter to then-President Derek C. Bok to persuade the administration to pick up the cost of the program, but Bok declined. The UC voted down legislation that would share the expense of papers with HoCos, which would have cost $1,700 for the duration of the semester—the same amount of money regularly doled out for parties in a given weekend...
...high-tech answer to the problem came two years ago when West Virginia University studied the health effects of an exergaming system called Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)--interactive games that instruct kids to use their feet to tap buttons on a sensor mat. After a pilot program found the games were beneficial, the state vowed to install consoles in all its public schools by next year. (It didn't hurt the study's credibility that it was funded in part by an insurance company, not by the gamemaker.) Since then, other districts have climbed aboard, helped by video-game makers...