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...earlier this year), one such list published in early April held that our fine institution came in at a paltry 69th place. That list, Intel’s survey of “The Most Unwired College Campuses,” was meant to assess the degree to which wireless networking technology has taken hold at educational institutions across the country. To be fair, 69th is nothing to scoff at—neither Yale nor Princeton were in the top 100—but Dartmouth was 5th, MIT was 26th, and apparently football isn’t the only game...
...Wireless access at the college has expanded enormously, even during my short two-year tenure—access points (devices that act as a liaison of sorts between the wired network and the airwaves) can be found in the common spaces of all the houses and most big lecture halls, and the common rooms in the Yard are set to be hooked up by next fall. So where do we come up short? Apart from access in outdoor courtyards (which is reasonably impractical given that the Bostonian winter seems to start in October and end two weeks before classes...
...devices are easy to track down, and in fact even under the current no-access point policy are occasionally taken off the network. Furthermore, Harvard policy already permits the installation of wired routers, which carry exactly the same risks if poorly configured. The remaining two possibilities, that student-run wireless equipment might interfere with the College’s own such gear, and that improperly configured access-points might give non-Harvard affiliates (who happened to be walking down a nearby street with an open laptop) free access to our network, can both be avoided by establishing a relatively straightforward...
What’s more, we wouldn’t even have to think too hard to develop such a set of guidelines. MIT has already developed a clear policy statement on what sorts of wireless devices may be connected to their network and under what conditions, and lest you think that this only works for them because they’re such a tech-savvy community, Penn and Princeton have similar guidelines, and even Yale has an ambiguous but not clearly prohibitive policy. And each is tailored to solve specific problems those universities see arising in the future: Princeton...
...contributions made to the unrestricted fund are not designated for more faculty or dorm renovations; budgets for those are set independently from senior giving. In essence, every dollar given to Harvard through the Senior Gift is the same, and whether seniors convince themselves that their dollar is going to wireless internet, gym renovations or financial aid, they have no control over their gifts—the University will devote its unrestricted funds to whatever priorities it deems most important...