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Voyeurism begins at home with dorm room web cams By Christine Tatum

CollegePressWriter CHICAGO (CPX) - The views in this dorm room are anything but interesting. Just ask the guy who lives here. He'll be the first to tell you there's not a whole lot to look at unless you're really into watching someone sit and type and sit and type some more. Oh, yeah, and maybe strum a guitar every now and then with new friends. Welcome to WebDorm.com , an Internet site where the most mundane aspects of student life are entertainment. Brought to the world by a start-up company based in Boston called College Web Inc., the site allows

University of Vermont, The State University of New York at Albany and Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute. A "Great Lakes" version debuted Feb. 8 with students from Albion College and Bradley, Eastern Michigan, Illinois State and Oakland universities. Two weeks Visitors can look through the dorm cam. later, students from a viewers to peek into the rooms of few schools in Florida - the college students scattered across universities of Central Florida, the country. Florida and Miami and Florida The project launched Feb. 1, State University - popped up. featuring eight students who Company reps say they purportedly attend Bentley and eventually want everyone to see Trinity colleges, Brandeis the private lives of students in the and Cornell universities, the West as well.

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"It doesn't interest me in the slightest," said Kerin Black, 21, a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London. "My life is too busy to watch what other people do at home." Or don't do. During the site's first week online, daytime viewers were hard pressed to find any of the students - who have assumed aliases and are generally referred to as "Web Dormers" in their rooms. To give voyeurs something to look at, the students trained their cameras' lenses on piles of clothes, messy desks, and, in one case, a white wall. Believe it or not, that's the beauty of it all, said Allison Mahoney, marketing manager for College Web. People who want to

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