A Special Dorm Update

Okay, so you already know that every Dartmouth student is required to have a computer, and that almost every dorm room is hooked up to Kiewit. Here's an update on other modern conveniences now

found in every dorm. Students' stereos have long received Dartmouth's own AM and FM stations. Now their televisions get an on-campus, closed-circuit television station called

DTV! (The exclamation point, inexplicably, is part of the name.) Large-screen TVs are found in lounges. Some students have asked the College to consider installing cable television in every dorm room. Cable already comes to the lounges.

Also in the lounges: microwave ovens.

When students tire of the dozens of computer games to be had for free over the public computer system, they can still play video games and pinball in the basement of the about-to-be-expanded Gollis Student Center.

On the other hand, there are increasing incentives not to leave one's room. Phone lines come to every dorm room. On-campus calls are free. Pizza and Chinese food can be delivered morning, noon, and night. The restaurant Everything But Anchovies lets students sign up for breakfast in bed for a term at a time. Newspapers come to the door, and laundry leaves by the same route. Students can access a state-of the-art system, developed in cooperation with the federal government, to search the library's on-line card catalogue, dictionaries, and encyclopedias.

Classes, though, are still held in classrooms. For the time being.