The Dartmouth, America's oldest college newspaper, is now the newest Ivy League newspaper to publish an on-line edition on the World Wide Web.
As part of a continuing effort to move into the electronic publishing age, the editors of The Dartmouth announced last week they have created a weekly on-line edition of the College's daily newspaper.
The Universal Resource Locator for The Dartmouth On-Line is: http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/thed.
The Dartmouth On-Line, which incorporates highlights of each week's arts coverage, cartoons, features, news, opinions and sports, is updated every Sunday evening.
"A lot of other newspapers are going on-line, and we felt The Dartmouth shouldn't be left out," President of The Dartmouth Justin Steinman '96 said. "Now that The Dartmouth has a home page on the World Wide Web, alums and interested parties from around the world can check out our home page and see what is going on at the College."
"Who knows where the future of journalism is?" Steinman continued. "There could be a day when The D is totally on-line and the printed medium is gone. This is the first step in going there."
The Dartmouth, a student-owned and -operated newspaper independent of the College, took longer to establish a home page because "we have a relatively small staff and it wasn't high on our list of priorities," said Managing Editor Scott Anthony '96, who spearheaded the effort.
"We wanted to make sure we did it carefully -- and I think our page looks nicer than a lot of other home pages," he said.
On-Line Editor James Muiter '98, who is in charge of the design and upkeep of the Web site, said an advantage of the page is "it presents information in an easy to use format ... It will give the College added exposure to prospective students, students at other colleges and alumni."
"There will be people going through the Web who will see the page and say, 'Gee, I'd like to subscribe to The D,' " Anthony said.
Steinman said the page will be published weekly because "The D makes a significant amount of revenue from subscriptions."
"Since everyone at Dartmouth owns a computer, we might have lost a lot of subscriptions" if the newspaper was published daily on the World Wide Web, he added.
