"In many ways, Tikkun Campus Network is exactly what the campuses need".
Marisa Handler, the national organizer for the Tikkun Campus Network, calls the campus a microcosm of the conflict.
"Late Tuesday night we discovered signs of anomalous network traffic," said Kevin Schmidt, a campus network administrator.
Some Jewish leaders are either privately or publicly dismissive of Rabbi Lerner and the need for a Tikkun Campus Network.
At Hofstra, officials asked Applied Theory to block traffic from the software after noticing that the campus network was slowing considerably.
Rabbi Lerner said he conceived the idea for the campus network this spring after he received numerous anguished telephone calls from Jewish students and their parents.
When Havas completes its acquisition of Snyder Communications, scheduled for this month, the big Snyder agency, Arnold Communications, is to be the lead agency of the Campus network.
Mohamad Bydon, 22, a Dartmouth graduate who started the first Arab-American student group at Dartmouth last year, welcomed the idea of the new campus network.
And because students store much of their data on the campus network, his work was ready for him wherever he logged on.
Professor Odlyzko said he was overjoyed to find out that his local service providers had set up connections with the University of Minnesota's campus network to speed the movement of data.
At Columbia, where there was already a social media platform called "CUCommunity" (later restyled to "Campus Network"), there was the sense that The Facebook was trying to usurp a preexisting tool.
