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Mar 31

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How to Print From Your Laptop. Anywhere.

Last Friday over breakfast, I printed my response paper from my laptop in Proctor, and then picked it up in the Monroe computer lab on my way to class upstairs. The assignment was quite literally “hot off the press” when I gave it to my teacher.

Printing from your laptop to any public printer on campus is as easy as logging onto go/papercut.

You can also use “webprinting” if you need to print something from a walk-up computer.

Webprinting is so easy it’s almost certainly self-explanatory. So, of course I have prepared a step-by-step guide with pictures just to prove how self-explanatory it is/would have been!

How to Print over the internet

Log onto go/papercut:

1) Enter your username and password.
2) Choose [Web print] from the left-hand column
3) Choose [Submit a Job] on the right-hand side of the screen

3) Select a printer. Choose [Print Options and Account Selection] on the bottom-right.
4) Click [Upload Document] on the bottom-right.
5) Click [Browse..]. Choose your document. Click [Upload & Complete] on the bottom-right.

It is now as if you have printed your document from a computer in a computer lab. Your document is now ready to be released from a print release station.

Mar 23

Re: Housing debacle

In this article from the most recent edition of The Campus (“Housing Debacle Sparks Student Anger”), Kathryn DeSutter reports on Res Life’s super-block assignment process, which has apparently been particularly controvertial this year. The Palmer and Mods assignments have gotten the most heat. The article in The Campus concentrates on Palmer. I, however, am more concerned about the latter–Res Life placing “quieter groups” in the mods.

The old Mods may have been better for the college. I for one would rather have more parties happen:

  1. in one place big and open enough that public safety can monitor and break it up if necessary (unlike 100 small gatherings behind closed doors)
  2. in one place big and open enough that students from different parts of campus can find it and feel comfortable without having an “in” (unlike for 100 small gatherings, where people already know each other)
  3. as far away from Otter Creek as possible
  4. as far away from town and potential noise complaints as possible

Potluck on the other hand sounds fine to me. A house on campus dedicated to dinners open to all might do a lot to bridge community.

Excluding? It’s not sub-free. It’s not even vegetarian.

Sep 22

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Openness on Facebook

My editorial focus is on technology. And being at Middlebury, my first post clearly must somehow reference Facebook. No, I won’t be ranting about “New Facebook” (at least not today), but instead, I’ll be reporting my findings on a recent LGBT study I conducted using the highly advanced statistical tool known as the Facebook profile search button.

First, I searched for the number of straight, Middlebury student Facebook profiles with gender and gender-interest publicly viewable on the whole Middlebury College network: 1,000+ profiles all together.

Then I searched for the number of such queer profiles: less than 10 all together.

Now I know that I’m taking a risk, as sometimes sharing statistical findings gets people on the defensive. But, I’m only sharing them because they really intrigued me, and I thought they might intrigue you as well.

My first thought is that perhaps people are unfamiliar with Facebook’s extensive privacy settings. Then I wondered if perhaps there’s a perception that listing your sexuality on Facebook is in some way “militant” (for some people).

Thoughts?

I’ve also observed that not listing one’s sexuality on Facebook usually makes people assume a certain way. But, are such assumptions a cause (ie, of increased straight outness on Facebook), or an effect of the outness imbalance? And is there any relevance to–Microeconomic students will recognize this–the “all information is revealed” (unstable equilibria) principle?