More Microsoft Word, more WiFi at Tisch this semester

8/29/08 5:31 PM

Remember the frustration of arriving at the library to find that all four computers equipped with Microsoft Word were in use? This summer, administrators poured the tonic. Each desktop computer in the Tisch Library’s reference area now has Microsoft Office, meaning students can use applications like Word and Excel. The library also tripled the number of WiFi access points on its premises, a move meant to alleviate last semester’s frequent blips in wireless access, Tisch Library Director Jo-Ann Michalak told us during an interview earlier this week. In the past, Tisch had approximately eight to ten access points, an amount that she said did not provide adequate service during high-use times. Now the library has 35. Tisch also revamped and centralized its Web site this...

Welcome to TuftsDaily.com's first-ever news blog...

8/28/08 2:03 PM

Today, the Tufts Daily is proud to welcome you to The Hill, our first-ever campus news blog. We'll be using this space to enrich our news coverage with updates, analysis, commentary, and interactive features -- all written and researched by the Daily's staff. This will be a blog about everything Tufts and everything college; here, we'll offer extended coverage of student government and administration actions, encourage commentary about campus issues and inform you about the tidbits of information that didn't make it into the Daily's print edition. As with any new venture, our first foray into blogging is still a work in progress. We'll be looking to improve our design, add new features and improve our overall usability as we move forward. In the meantime, we hope you'll check back...