Word: access
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...second incentive is a sense of competition with Stanford. That university, having been carried to greatness by its warm weather and proximity to Silicon Valley, has been Harvard's electronic bugbear, threatening to draw away students with promises of high technology and easy access to venture capital. Stanford has promoted technology (and especially the commercialization thereof) as its specific forte, and the recent appointment of computer scientist and provost John L. Hennessy as its next president was widely seen as an effort to capitalize on this reputation...
...without leadership from the Houses to apply the technology, Steen's work can only go so far. He has helped provide Harvard students with access to a "bleeding edge" computer infrastructure that is increasingly out of sync with the not-so-digital management of the Houses...
...central College administration and Houses have been able--or willing--to deal with.For example, Steen says, upcoming network improvements will largely serve to increase the entertainment potential of each student's desktop computer--thereby circumventing a decade-old argument between students, College administrators and House masters about installing cable access into dorm rooms...
...October 1998 Quincy House announces a trial period for universal keycard access. In the coming months, Cabot, Winthrop, Dunster and Lowell House follow suit...
...Harvard and Radcliffe officials announce that Radcliffe will be absorbed under the University's umbrella as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 120 years after it gave women access to a Harvard education. Under the proposed agreement, Radcliffe would be placed on an equal administrative footing with the University's nine faculties. Linda S. Wilson, Radcliffe's seventh and final president, announced that she would step down from her post in June. Radcliffe-affiliated student groups express concern over their future and Harvard's commitment to female undergraduates...