Yahoo! says 'yahoo' to IU

By Jayne Spencer

Indiana University Bloomington ranks in the top ten among the nation's "most wired campuses" in survey results published in the May issue of Yahoo! Internet Life, released this week.

IUB comes in eighth in a top 25 list of schools that use computers and the Internet to their best advantage.

"The dream school in a perfectly wired world," wrote Life's Dina Gan, would have a computer for everyone, "getting online" would be a required first-year course and professors would provide a list of bookmarks for courses so they could be linked to them from class home pages. Tests would be taken online and scores would come back instantly. Miss a lecture? There, there. Students could check E-mail for notes.

And how did America's schools stack up to this futuristic fantasy?

E-mail, unlimited access to the Web and online library catalogs seemed to be the two items students could count on presently.

"America's 100 Most Wired Colleges" were culled from an initial pool of 4,000 campuses. Such categories as use of the Internet for academics, social uses, and hardware and wiring were reviewed.

IUB ranked eighth behind Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern, Boston's Emerson College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., Dartmouth College, University of Oregon and New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Others named in the top 25 included Carnegie Mellon, Princeton, Case Western Reserve and California Institute of Technology.

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