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ONE HUNDRED AND tenth YEAR, Issue 99
With Roku streaming, some students want to change the channel
“People will tweet ‘Oh what a play!’ And then you’ll say, ‘Wait, what play?” Kirby Wilson The Chronicle Duke’s change to an Internet streaming service for campus televisions has been met with criticism from many students. Late last year, when DirecTv announced it was shutting down its Internet Protocol television platform, Duke was forced to change the way students watch television. After a review of various options, the administration settled on Philo, an Internet streaming technology run through Roku devices. From November to February, every television on campus was transitioned to the new system. In the estimation of many students, the change has been rocky. Or perhaps more accurately, it has been pixely. “It’s awful,” said senior Matt Grossman. “It’s worse in every possible way than what we had before.” Grossman said he has struggled with the new technology all semester. He noted that the lapses in the Internet connection that runs the televisions have made some
Anthony Alvernaz | The Chronicle Students have criticized the new Philo internet streaming service for its delay of live events, such as Duke basketball games.
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Requests for admissions records increase Gautam Hathi Health and Science Editor Students are taking advantage of the ability to look into their admissions files—both at Duke and across the country. After The New York Times reported on a successful attempt by students at Stanford University to obtain admissions records under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act in January, the Duke Office of the University Registrar has received more than 50 requests to review admissions files. Some peer institutions have also seen an increase in records requests, with Stanford seeing more than 2,500 requests in a little more than two months. In response to this increase, Stanford has begun destroying the records of students who have not filed requests. At Duke, the registrar’s office is taking steps to process re-
Izzi Clark | The Chronicle The admissions office has had to balance the need to respond to FERPA requests with work on the upcoming release of admissions decisions for regular decision applicants.
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quests in the order they are received, though University Registrar Bruce Cunningham noted that FERPA allows 45 days to fill each one. “This is a very busy time for both the Office of Admissions and for our office, so these requests are creating a demand on resources at a time when it is difficult to dedicate those resources to this,” Cunningham wrote in an email Wednesday. When students wish to review their files, they send their requests to the registrar’s office, at which point Cunningham requests access to them from the admissions office. He noted that the admissions office has been handing over records “pretty quickly.” Although the registrar’s office has so far only allowed students to review their records in person, Cunningham noted that the office has not decided whether it will give copies of
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