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COVER STORY

Double Discovery

The Double Discovery Center, the agency founded 35 years ago by Columbia students to help low-income middle and senior high school students from the community prepare for college, was facing a problem.

Technology helped solve it.

DDC could not find lab space on campus to teach its students basic computing skills, the kind students need to succeed in today's college environment.

"Our solution was to turn traditional classrooms into lab space by using wireless Ethernet," said John Grogan '99, the College's director of information technology, working with the help of AcIS's academic technologies and network systems group. "The plan is to convert two to four classrooms in Hamilton into instant lab space by giving DDC Apple laptops for their students."

How To Become alumnus@columbia.edu

E-mail forwarding, a free service that provides the convenience of a single lifetime e-mail address as well as a Columbia identification, is now available to all College alumni. Each alumnus or alumna who enrolls in e-mail forwarding will receive a Columbia e-mail address (usually the alum's initials followed by a number) with the "@columbia.edu" suffix. E-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to a regular e-mail provider, for example at work or an America Online account.

You'll have a permanent e-mail identity, with a Columbia name, no matter how often you change jobs or e-mail providers, and you can easily update online where your e-mail should be forwarded in the event of such a change. Meanwhile, friends and family can continue to reach you at the Columbia address uninterrupted.

Getting a Columbia e-mail forwarding address is simple. Alumni should already have received a card from the University with a unique user name, PIN number and instructions for registering. If you did not receive a card, or have misplaced it, you may log onto the University's e-mail forwarding page to sign up for this free service.

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