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Bass to launch virtual flier board

Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter
Published Friday, December 5, 2008

It is an early Christmas present for Bass Library — a $4,000, 47” screen for displaying student group fliers.

Yale’s Office of Student Affairs will install the LCD monitor — a virtual poster board — sometime next week in the Bass Library’s Thain Family Café. The $4,000 screen will display a virtual bulletin board like the one on the YaleStation Web site, as well as dining menus, University Transit shuttle locations and Yale College Council surveys. Edgar Letriz, associate dean of student affairs, said electronic signage screens have many advantages over traditional poster...

#1 By question 2:04p.m. on December 5, 2008

How does the screen tailor to our individual interests? It sounds like an awesome idea, but I'm curious how that happens.

#2 By gerald 2:13p.m. on December 5, 2008

a gratuitous waste of money.

#3 By CVL 9:19p.m. on December 6, 2008

Considering that MIT has had a system like this for years except with dozens of screens, I'm sure that its will be a good in the long run. Its about time Yale gets creative.

#4 By (Anonymous) 2:47a.m. on December 7, 2008

Sounds like a huge waste of money to me, but I guess we'll see...

#5 By Alcibiades 11:07a.m. on December 7, 2008

Why don't I just pick up a copy of the Yale Tangent?

#6 By PC'10 8:40a.m. on December 8, 2008

Sounds incredible. This is such a boon to student organizations seeking more publicity.

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