It’s no secret that the most competitive colleges tussle over attracting the brightest students. Now it appears that their conflicts extend into ownership of virtual land.
Janet Temos, director of the Educational Technologies Center at Princeton University, told a universitywide council on Monday that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had complained that Princeton’s campus in Second Life was encroaching on MIT’s campus, according to an article in Princeton’s student newspaper, The Daily Princetonian.
The article says that as a result, Princeton shifted its virtual campus farther away from MIT’s.
“They have us blocked off,” Ms. Temos was quoted as saying. “You can go to Cornell, though. They’re quite nice to us.”
Princeton recently unveiled its Second Life campus, which includes eight islands and 3D reconstructions of many buildings from the institution’s real campus, including Nassau Hall, the campus’s oldest building and home to administrative offices. —-Andrea L. Foster
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