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I'm glad to see [The Technique's] April 10 issue that Georgia Tech's Greek houses are connected to campus network and that Tech is the first school in southeast to do so. However, as a resident of family housing, I couldn't help but thinking that the residential networking for family housing (Healy, Callaway and Burge Apartments) was greatly neglected and the residents were treated unfairly.
Most residents of family housing are graduate students whose researching/teaching activities require just as much, if not more network usage than undergraduate students living in dorms. However until now the only means of connection available in family housing is still modem.
There have been numerous suggestions voiced by us residents (there was even a petition going last year) concerning this issue, and I remember seeing one article in The Technique about it as well. However, all these seemed to have little effect on Housing. According to my CM, Housing is not even considering the networking of family housing even though there is available equipment in some apartments.
The activation of networks in Greek houses showed us that such a project can be done on houses similar to family housing apartments (relatively old and scattered). And Greek houses are not even Georgia Tech's properties! Such an irony serves as an evidence for the incompetency of the Housing Department, and I feel that only more publicity can lead to constructive moves by the Housing.