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Vol. CLIV, Issue 6
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Class of 2013 the first to switch to Gmail

Josh Goodman April 9, 2009
Ever want to instant message in your Whitman e-mail or use it for online documents? You may not be able to, but the class of 2013 will. Next year's incoming first-years will use Gmail for their Whitman email using a special login page, gmail.whitman.edu, and their Whitman IDs and passwords. Gmail, launched in 2004, is a free e-mail service from Google offering users 7.14 gigabytes of storage, as well as audio and video chat features. Whitman's current Unix-based system, in place for over 10 years, offers 25 megabytes. That's one three-hundredth of the capacity for Gmail. “Gmail is much more user friendly," said Whitman Developer of Emerging Technology Kyle Singer. “[It] offers services that are not sustainable on a campus-based system—seven gigabytes of storage, for example." The reason for the switch is simply that Gmail offers a good product for Whitman students. “WCTS has been evaluating various alternatives for quite some time, but had not seen a good solution up to now," said Singer. “We recently determined that Gmail would serve our students well."
Jed Schwendiman, associate to the President and chair of the conservation committee facilitates the Mar. 5 GoPrint forum. Credit: Klein

Printing forum fails to get student involvement

Josh Goodman March 12, 2009
For all the hype over the new printing quotas, fewer than a dozen students showed up to last Thursday's forum on the issue, the first of two. Those in attendance, though, had a platform to share their views. “The purpose of this event is to solicit information and opinions," said forum moderator and Campus Sustainability Coordinator senior Karlis Rokpelnis. The event also featured an update on GoPrint from Associate to the President and chair of the Conservation Committee Jed Schwendiman and WCTS Middleware Analyst Mike Osterman. In effect since January, GoPrint is a new printing management system that requires students to release their printing jobs in order to reduce waste. As they release their print jobs, printing fees are deducted from students' $60 printing credit.

New printing system successful, follow up discussion held today

Cindy Chen March 5, 2009

As a follow up to the new printing quota system, an all-campus forum was held at noon today, Thursday, Mar. 5 in the Reid ballroom to discuss the GoPrint system.   "The campus community will be able...

Questions about us: Google is not God

Gary Wang February 26, 2009

Technology is supposed to save us. Save us from disease (vaccines), from loneliness (Facebook) and from ourselves (car airbags).   Pills can prevent exhaustion, congestion and even birth. Virtual reality...

Whitman may see smart classrooms in the future

Derek Thurber December 13, 2008

Class is about to start as a Whitman student walks in on the first day. The classroom looks new and fancy and when he sits down at his desk instead of finding some old wooden writing surface there...

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