August 11, 2000

The Wired Campus: Enough Is Enough

By GREGORY A. JACKSON

My son starts college this fall. On our grand tour, admissions officers and student guides spent substantial time showing off their institution's computer capabilities. Each asserted that his or her college provided better information technology than the competition, and that the comparison should matter to us.

Those administrators and students were making a mistake -- the same one that Yahoo! Internet Life makes when it publishes its "most-wired colleges" rankings. The rankings

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