I didn’t have a typical American high school experience — well, it wasn’t even an American high school. I went to a French school just outside of Washington, D.C., but it might as well have been a world away from Dartmouth. Growing up, my classmates and I speculated what American high schools were really like. The football stars and cheerleaders weren’t really the creme de la creme, were they? And everything we saw in “She’s All That,” “Bring It On” and “Clueless” couldn’t be true, could it?
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When Ellen Waite-Franzen took over as the College’s vice president of information technology in 2007, the glory of BlitzMail was already fading fast. The growing number of complaints that Blitz was too much of an antique to function effectively led Waite-Franzen to bring before the Computing Council the suggestion to research, innovate and replace our outdated version of Blitz. After discussing renovations that would significantly aid students and staff, the Computing Council set up the Taskforce on E-mail and Collaboration Technologies, composed of students, faculty, computing staff and a representative from DHMC (where they have also been looking for an alternative to Blitz).
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