Subject:  Blue World "madness" - a luxury?? (Lundquist).
Date:     Wed, 27 Sep 2000 110227 -0500
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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Date: 26 Sep 00 18:09:03 PDT
From: Marjorie Lundquist 
To: guru@emfguru.com

Roy, today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Sept. 26, 2000, pages 1M & 2M)
carried a story reporting that the University of Wisconsin-Madison has set up
"a new high-speed wireless network on campus for students who want to whip out
a laptop and surf the Net or check e-mail on the fly."

These cordless connections provide users with two-way Internet access via
wireless transmitters.  [The same sort of system is being set up at airports,
hotels, convention centers and other public places around the country.]

Other universities in the USA also have "wireless Internet zones" on their
campuses, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Drexel, Wake
Forest and Carnegie Mellon.

At UW-Madison, the school's Division of Information Technology is behind the
concept of wireless Internet zones.  The final goal is to have such a zone
within five minutes of any place on campus.  [Plans are being made to "unwire"
several department buildings next month.]

Each "wireless zone" consists of a sphere 50-80 feet in diameter around one or
a cluster of transmitters.  Data transfer is fast: 11 megabits/sec.  Users
must have a wireless Ethernet card costing from $90-$170.

Companies are competing to bring this capability to other public places.  Two
such companies are Aerzone Corp., a subsidiary of San Francisco-based SoftNet
Systems, and MobileStar Network Corp. of Richardson, TX.

This concludes my summary of the newspaper story.  I provide it to call
attention to the fact that public places are becoming ever more hazardous (in
terms of exposure to low-intensity RF/MW radiation) and that these places now
include major universities.  At UW-Madison, the library and the Student Union
are two places where these transmitters have been clustered.    This would
make it very difficult for a conscientious student to minimize exposure:  can
you imagine attending a university, but never setting foot in its library or
student union?

Is this kind of thing occurring on university campuses in other countries
besides the USA?  Maybe we need to be listing the universities where this is
occurring, as a service to the public!

Members of the public had better take prompt action, if they want their
children to be able to attend good universities without experiencing the kind
of exposure that could lead to premature aging, especially of the brain. 
Considering that safe access to the Internet is already available at most of
these institutions via wired computer connections, these "wireless Internet
zones" are a luxury, not a necessity, for members of the academic community.
-- Marjorie
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Marjorie Lundquist, Ph.D., C.I.H.
Bioelectromagnetic Hygienist
P. O. Box 11831
Milwaukee, WI  53211-0831  USA
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