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Thursday, September 12, 2002
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/dartmouth.html Unplugged U. Josh McHugh DARTMOUTH College is the definition of old school. Founded in 1769, it sits in the center of Hanover, New Hampshire, a hamlet two and a half hours northwest of Boston in the Upper Connecticut River Valley. On the east side of the seven-acre town green stands Dartmouth Hall, a three-story colonial-style building; commissioned in 1784, it has twice been destroyed by fire and rebuilt.... Amid all this time-honored heritage, Kimo Johnson approaches a wood and iron bench beneath the bell tower and sits down. Johnson, who recently earned a master's in electro-acoustic music and is pursuing a PhD in computer science, pulls an iBook from his backpack and opens it on his lap. He waits for the final chimes of "Alma Mater," then starts tapping some keys. Three hundred feet above him, the Baker Library bells change their tune. It's the theme from Star Wars.Johnson happens to be ringing the bells from this bench, but he could be pretty much anywhere on campus....
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