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Jaros Oregon Daily Emerald The University has tumbled from No. 9 to No. 51 on Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine’s list of the “100 most wired” colleges and universities. When the magazine began putting out the list three years ago, the University ranked sixth, higher than any other Pa cific-10 school. In 1998, it slipped to No. 9, but still out ranked the rest of the division, which were unable to crack the top 10. “We didn’t feel too bad about it,” said Hervey Allen, a micro computer support specialist with the University Computing Cen ter. “We ended up right in the same neighborhood as our con temporaries.” At No. 51 this year, the Uni versity falls behind five PAC-10 schools, including Oregon State University, ranked 42, and Washington State University, which climbed into seventh place. The magazine surveyed 571 colleges and universities for the 1999 survey. The most wired school in the country is Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, according to the survey. Allen said the University of California-Berkeley, ranked 41, as well as Yale and Stanford at 38 and 31 respectively, are doing comparable computer work and are similar in size to the Univer sity. “Our assumption is that the criteria changed and it favors a different type of mix of comput ing environment,” Allen said. The magazine did change its survey methodology this year, which explains why the results r differ so widely from last year. Dartmouth, who was No. 1 last year, dropped to 26. The editor who compiled the rankings, Robert Bernstein, was quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s April 30 is sue that this year’s survey em phasized ubiquity and accessi bility. He explained those terms as “students being able to jack in from anywhere on campus, and making things available to 1. Case Western Reserve University 2. MIT 3. Wake Forest University PAC-10 schools’ rankings 7 Washington State 11. UCLA 31. Stanford 41. Cal-Berkeley 42. Oregon State 51. University of Oregon 90. University of Washington 92. USC SOURCE; YAHOO! INTERNET UFE MAGA ZINE'S 1999 LIST Of THE 100 MOST WIRED COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. as many students on campus as possible.” Allen said that changing the evaluation criteria is a problem because it is no longer a fair eval uation from year to year. Bern stein told the Chronicle of High er Education that the survey must change every year so that it doesn’t become obsolete. Allen and the computing cen ter staff looked at the list to see what happened to other schools in hopes it would provide a broader picture of the Universi ty's ranking. “If you look at the survey you’ll notice that we rank above people like Penn State, Cal Tech, Washington, Cornell and Wis consin, who is No. 100, and they are considered one of the most computing savvy schools in the country.” Most of the schools in the top 10 this year are smaller schools, Allen said. “My guess is that they have money,” he said. “And so what ever the criteria is in terms of their survey it kind of looks like it may be money per person, but it’s hard to say really.” Allen said that the strength of the University’s computing sys tem is reacting to what people want, and connection speed. “We have one of the absolute ly fastest connections to the outside world in the entire United States. It’s as good as it gets for universities for that,” Allen said. He said the University has very high speed connection ac tivity and tries to make net working available‘to as many people in as many places as possible. The weakness of the Universi ty’s computing system falls on not enough modem access for off campus users. Allen said he thinks there’s just not enough money for the size of a modem pool die University needs to get everybody connected. “We have 330 odd modems,” Allen said. “We figure we need between about 700 and a thou sand to do it right, and we’re talk ing a pretty big chunk of change to do that.” The big issue with adding more modems, is that the Univer sity doesn't have enough incom ing phone lines. 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