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The University of Pennsylvania's Online Computing Magazine

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[Printout | About | Archives | Search ] April 1995 - Volume 11:6 ON THE COVER: Is the importance of a university's physical campus fading? Will global electronic access to scholars dilute institutional affiliation? Will it be possible to get a Penn degree without ever laying eyes on this statue of founder Benjamin Franklin in front of College Hall? Provost Stanley Chodorow contemplates these and other possible effects of the electronic revolution. F E A T U R E S The virtual University Harnessing a revolution for the classroom. By Stanley Chodorow Technoliteracy A student's view. By Jordana Horn Information at your fingertips The Wharton Research Data System. By Kendall Whitehouse and Paul J. Ratnaraj ResNet Student survey results. By Daniel A. Updegrove and George P. McKenna Alumni PennNet Service ISC offers a way to stay in touch. By Alfred C. D'Souza Data Warehouse Inforrmation under one roof. By Tad Davis and Dan Shapiro Beyond PennNet Alternatives for off-campus net access. By Daniel A. Updegrove Latin American news Keeping up to date on the Internet. By Joseph C. Holub ISC supported products The current list of supported hardware and software. By Don Montabana D E P A R T M E N T S Announcements Q&A Random bits ISC: Keeping in Touch