Letters To The Editor

The recent articles and campus buzz about the online student community at Amherst encourage me. As the College looks at retiring the VAX system and moving to a newer, more maintainable system, issues of community are ones that should be specifically addressed. When I made the transition from student to staff member in the fall of 1994, I encountered an online culture shock. I found that there was very little sense of online community within the faculty and staff compared to the very strong onli