Sunday, February 3, 2008

Wireless on Campus

Colleges and Universities are updating their campuses all over the world by installing blanket wireless internet systems. Here on Ithaca's campus the only places you can access a wireless internet is the pub, the library, and park. In my dorm building (and many other residential buildings) we did not have a lounge all first semester, and still don't. Lounges gives you the option of working on your computer, in your building, in a room other than your bedroom. But we have been stripped of that right all year and wireless would allow students to work anywhere on campus and anywhere in your dorm building where you can bring your computer into a friends room. Also there would be many advantages to have wireless in more academic buildings. In lecture classes where lots of students bring their laptops to class this would be particularly beneficial. I think this a change that Ithaca College should make in the very near future.

1 comment:

ECF said...

This certainly seems to be a very pressing issue on the minds of a lot of IC students right now. Perhaps this is something you'd consider writing about for your proposal argument this semester, as it's a local issue with a clearly-defined audience in which you have a level of personal investment. Something to consider!