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• wr, sTHE "01.70, No.6 Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass. 01342 FEBRUARY 23, 1996 DATA LINES WILL NETSCAPE CONNECT STUDENT CUTBACK ROOMS TOINTERNET DISCUSSED Completion by Spring Projected Computer Center of '97 Phones by Next Fall Congestion Raises Committee is still discussing the rules that Questions About Asha Maliakal will govern the new privilege. "There will In preparation for next year, the ad- be some controls on the phones," said the Use of the Net !Illnistration and business offices are work- Dean of Students Pamela Bonanno. Not toward providing every dorm room, only the faculty residents, but also students Alenka Bartoli !acuity apartment, and office with a data/ will be able to shut off their telephones, The sixteen computers which com- ,ultemet final decision has not leaving calls to be received only by voice line. The prise the student section of the Parker ?een this time, steps are be- mail. made, but at Technology Center formally went on-line "g taken accomplish this feat before The work that is currently underway to a few days before Long Winter Weekend. me spring Along with the main has all come out of Coordinator of Aca- of 1997. photo by Ross Campbell The installation of Netscape and E-mail Purpose project, supplying data demic Technology Richard Bonanno's of this The Parker Technology Center has been highly have dramatically increased student de- unes, a line will also be pro- Technology Committee. A year ago, a fi- private phone congested during peak use hours of mand for use of the computer center. vided has been ber optic backbone was laid underground, 7:00 to 9:30 for all student rooms. It In an effort to solve problems of least, will connecting all buildings into one system. on weekday evenings, Above,students enjoy internet sbtleggested that the telephones, at computer congestion, Netscape could be the '96- During the summer of 1996, the school access and net surfing while others wait for an open n operational before the start of terminal. removed from the computers. Any deci- '7 plans to connect this backbone to every school year. sion of this nature would be made by Co- answer to room on campus. "I think that Deerfield's ordinator of Academic Technology Rich- the we are Over Long Winter Weekend, dorm technology question, whether E ard Bonanno and Administrator of the internet, or rooms were inspected, to decide the most -Mail Available to Student sta_llung about computers, the Computer Network Raymond Rousseau. Lt not to efficient way to install the phone jacks. elephones in students' rooms, is According to Mr. Bonanno,the lim- for it on Each jack will have two inputs, one for a 4eep. it away, but to make a place iting of Netscape "has been discussed, but to cre- telephone line and one for a computer line. Body For Full-Time t)lt.r campus, and at the same time, Use nothing is definite." Netscape might be 3 its best Preliminarily, the project calls for a jack nvely develop the conditions for limited by regulating the time of day when Headmaster Eric for every bed; so even students in doubles or using a e(Jucational use," said Robert Dunphy diskette. students would have access to it, or by lim- will have their own private internet and The widmer. availability of this new service iting its presence within the computer cen- phone line. Over a billion E-mail (Electronic has The Board of Trustees has given the raised questions that have already been ter by removing it from certain comput- Academy permission to proceed with the If everything goes right "it would mail) messages were sent in the United answered by a sheet given to, and signed ers. be our hope that when students return this States alone in 1995. Like the rest of the by, all Planning stage of this process. This stage Deerfield students and faculty be- Before the center went on-line, stu- Inv. would have a telephone and the world, Deerfield has caught on to this state olves designing the network and gath- fall, they fore its inception. It is understood that dents who did not have computers a data connection," said of the art method of communication, and used .er ing information on cost and physical potential for Deerfield Academy does not insure the its resources to type academic continued on page 4 it is now available to both students and assign- Itriplications. The Residential Faculty privacy of its on-line users. System ad- ments. Now these students find faculty in the new Parker Technology Cen- them- ministrators may open a user's files to pro- selves preempted by others who ter. Coordinator of Academic Technology are using tect the system's integrity. Patrons of the the computers to "surf the Net." Richard Bonanno and Administrator of the service may not use it for financial endeav- Jaimye Bartak '97 said, "I have a ReceivesVarsity Status Computer Network Raymond Rousseau ors or solicitation. Crew hard time getting a computer because have set up office in the technology cen- Currently, all E-mail access requires George Pence people are on them using E-mail or the ter and orchestrate the opening of accounts a diskette. To open an account, one must Internet." for the E-mail service. Within the next simply go to : The Physical Education Committee, the Parker Technology Cen- According to Deerfield's Computer few years, telephone and data access will ter met in the fall of 1995, has recom- with a dollar and sign a form. The dol- Use Policy, the Academy's "computing be found in every room on campus, and lar ,ttlended to Headmaster Eric Widmer that is for the diskette, which will be given resources are to be used for educational students will be able to use E-mail with- i eerfield's crew team be given varsity sta- to the applicant after a brief filing period. and institutional purposes. Priority out having to go to the Computer Center for the 's: The team's move from recreational continued on page 4 continued on page 4 acti vity to varsity sport marks a dramatic change in the policy of the athletic office, !nd the "pot of gold" at the end of the rain- Michael Cary Accepts Position as uN, for Deerfield's crew members. status has K.. The road to varsity sport 7en a rocky one for the team. In the Headmaster of Lawrenceville School ,rIngP of 1993, a plan to make crew and Mr. Cary ilulleyball varsity sports was proposed to Chad Laurans noted that "at both schools the and it was then that he became interested e Physical Education Committee. Vol- word tradition is a word you hear students in teaching at a boarding school. Several months of "head-hunting" use—they are proud of 'eYball was recommended by the commit- their history and continued on page 4 tee to Mr. Widmer, but crew failed to ac- for Lawrenceville School, and several the past." lnire the faculty's endorsement. Accord- weeks of long interviews, culminated last For Mr. to Athletic Director James Lindsay the Friday, February 16 at 11:00 a.m. when Cary, the story „nYsical Education Committee felt that Michael Cary, Chair of the Philosophy begins a full .there were a number of factors, both in photo by Ross Campbell Department at Deerfield, was selected as twenty-two years the new head terrns of financial resources and person- Ms. Harbison and Mr. Harvey are master of the Lawrenceville ago, two years School. before he even continued on page 6 getting prepared for Spring Crew. At Sunday night's sit-down dinner, came to Deer- Mr. Cary marked his upcoming departure field, when he by saying to the students and faculty of first interviewed DID You KNOW? Deerfield,"I could not be going to serve a for a position at The Deerfield dining hall is now on the Internet so that web surfers can easily great school, were I not coming from a Lawrenceville. o_rder cakes, cookies and other bakery items or confirm weekly menus. The web site great school." He thanked his fellow col- Despite being tor the dining hall is: http://www.crocker.com/-dadh2 leagues and students, asserting that "it is told that there a great privilege to go to Lawrenceville, were no positions , The new Scroll editors were selected February 12. Co-Editors-in-Chief are but I will never forget where I am coming available, Mr. Campbell. ve-Lyn Hinckley and Samantha Sacks and Head Layout Editor is Ross from." Mr. Cary has spent seventeen of Cary still spoke 'ee article on page 5 for details. the last twenty years at Deerfield Acad- with then current emy. Head Master swim team raised $1750 in its second annual Usually titled "headmaster," the Bruce McClellan s The Deerfield Academy girls Mr. Cary will leave Deerfield next photo by Ross Campbell .,wirn-a-thon donation for the Franklin Community Action Commission(FCAC). word is divided at Lawrenceville to be for over an hour, 1 as a year to become the head master of he FCAC "head master:' contributing to Mr. Cary's Lawrenceville. outh program excitement about leading the school. "I :s a prevention/ am very excited about going, in large part intervention because at Lawrenceville the word Head- Program that master is divided to imply first teacher, or INSIDE THE SCROLL Provides moral first among equals. I will be very much s_illoport and rec- involved in the daily life of the school." Editorials Mrs. Ginns Profile 4 reational pro Headmaster Eric Widmer com- - Fashion Crossfire: A Cappella Fest 5 !rams for about mented last Sunday,"As we celebrate the Boots or Shoes? '°0 youths ages election of Mr.