As part of that commitment, she says students have the responsibility to uphold their rights and the rights of others. One change involving rights is the ban on smoking in the residence halls. Our residence halls use shared air space and so smoking, even in one's own room, impedes on the health of other students. As a result, this fall the Health Center is offering several programs that can help students quit smoking. As each residence hall is wired, students residing in that facility will be able to use the sevice.
Students owning computers can connect to the campus data network.
They can then access from their rooms all data bases and other instructional materials on college servers, the library catalog, the Internet and World Wide Web and e-mail. Students having cable-ready television sets will have Cablevision's Family Cable service consisting of 61 channels. One cable TV port is being installed in each room and one data port is being added for each student in the room.