Bryn Mawr students and student organizations are eligible to post web pages on Bryn Mawr's student web server, Bartik. The following outlines the rules and regulations for web pages, and provides information on the creation and posting of student and student organization pages.

• Individual Student Web Pages
• Student Organization Web Pages

Note: By having an account, you acknowledge your responsibility for the contents of the Policy, and agree to abide by the rules set forth therein. You may be asked to sign a Web Policy Statement agreeing to the Policy below upon applying for an account.

Bartik's Namesake
Bartik Policy
Things to Think About
Obtaining An Account
Posting the Page
Home Page URL
Creating a Home Page
Related Links

Bryn Mawr's student web server was named after Jean Jennings Bartik, one of the first female programmers. Chosen along with five other young female 'computers' (the term applied to people calculating data), she worked on the ENIAC, also known as the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer.
The ENIAC, unveiled on February 14, 1946, was a huge steel monster built in an engineering building at UPenn which measured 100 feet long, 10 feet high, and contained 17,480 vacuum tubes. Created by a physicist, John Mauchly, and a grad student, Presper Eckert, it was the first electronic computer, created to calculate trajectories, a task normally assigned to female computers, who would spend 30 to 40 hours performing the calculations by hand.
The programmers had neither an operating system nor a programming language to work with. "The Eniac was a son of a b---- to program." said Ms. Bartik, now 71. Finally permitted to work on the machine after having been refused as security risks, only having learned the machine by wiring diagrams they had been given, they set about learning how to program the machine. Handed instructions, they set about setting the dozens of dials and plugging in the appropriate cables for each problem. The test problem handed to Jean Bartik and Betty Holberton to program at the unveiling on February 14th involved the trajectory of a 155-millimeter shell. The ENIAC worked perfectly, and calculated the trajectory in less time than it would take the bullet to land. Had it not been for the female programmers implementing the ideas of the engineers, we would not be at the level of computing we enjoy today.

All students and organizations with web pages are assumed to have read the following policy regulations, and must sign (or have designated group representatives sign) a statement upon requesting an account, acknowledging that they have read and agree to abide by the rules set forth below. Ignorance of the following guidelines is not an excuse for lack of compliance.

• The official Bryn Mawr College logo (a white circle containing the words "Bryn Mawr College" and "Dilexi Veritatem" with three owls on a yellow shield, seen at http://www.brynmawr.edu ) may not be used on any student or student organization's web page.
  

• The content of all web pages must be consistent with current Bryn Mawr College policy, as well as all federal and state laws. (For example, you are legally liable for images posted which have not been created by you and are neither attributed to the author nor posted with his or her permission.) Bryn Mawr respects the right of freedom of expression, and will not censor individual home pages. However, content that violates BMC regulations, is prohibited by state or federal law, or is otherwise deemed inappropriate is not permitted and will result in the immediate removal of all offending files from the web server. Bryn Mawr College reserves the right to remove any web page in part or in full if violations to this policy are found, or if the page presents a liability to the efficient operation of the Bryn Mawr College student web server or BMC system resources. The student or organization may revise the offending files if they wish them to be reposted.
  

• You alone are responsible for your web page, including all maintenance. We are not responsible for keeping your links current, correcting grammatical errors, changing filenames, permissions, or altering any portion of your web page in any manner.
  

• Files created or modified on Bartik are backed up on a nightly basis, beginning 12/11/1998. The backup tapes will be rotated every three months; files lost within the last three months can be retrieved upon request (email bartik@brynmawr.edu. Please see the related section in "Things to Think About." for more information on this topic.
  

• Personal pages can neither contain commercial materials nor be used for personal or financial gain.
  

• Web page accounts are only provided to currently enrolled students and valid Bryn Mawr or Bi-college student organizations (including students in the Junior Year Abroad program). Graduates (alumnae) of Bryn Mawr College, students on leave, and all others currently not enrolled at Bryn Mawr College will have their personal pages removed one month after the date of graduation or termination from the college.
  

• Bi-college student organizations are permitted to post web pages on Bryn Mawr's student web server, provided that their page is not also posted on Haverford's server; in all other respects, Bi-Co and Bryn Mawr organizations are treated identically.
  

• Because of resource constraints, the space allotted to each student or student organization is limited to 5 MB in thepublic_html directory (files in this directory being viewable on the net) and 1 MB of additional storage in the the account's home directory. Because personal home pages are not not directly related to the College, it is unlikely any account would require additional space; such space will only be granted under very special circumstances.
  

• The bottom of the page must contain a link back to the Bryn Mawr College home page, the date your page was last updated, and a means by which others can reach you. For your own safety, we suggest that you use your email address.
  

• Your web page will reflect on both you and Bryn Mawr College. Whatever is placed on the World Wide Web is accessible to anyone with Internet access. Although Bryn Mawr College is not responsible for any information on these pages, others accessing your page will probably associate it with Bryn Mawr College.
  

• Be creative! Your web page might be viewed by anyone from strangers to friends, family, or future employers, and will be an expression of both you and your achievements.
  

• Be cautious with any personal information you place on the pages. Providing your email address is probably best for soliciting feedback; providing a mailing address or telephone number might be unwise.
  

• Respect the privacy of others. Information regarding others on your web page should only be published with the individual's consent. Be careful with what you put on your web page, and be especially careful of copyright laws.
  

• Be respectful of those attempting to utilize and enjoy your web pages: keep your links current.
  

• Since personal pages are unofficial, (i.e., not official college business) they are the student's responsibility. Those who wish to create a personal web page should be prepared to experiment and utilize internet documentation or other resources for problem solving, learning HTML or other languages, and so on.
  

• It is advisable to keep an extra copy of your web page somewhere other than on the server, in case the original is accidentally deleted. Personal backups are always a good idea. However, in case of deletion, a user may email bartik@brynmawr.edu to request that the file be retrieved. Please include the filename, and most importantly, your account name and the date you last modifed the file. As is written in the policy, tape backups of created or modified files are made nightly. It is strongly recommended that you request that your file be retrieved as soon as you realize that it has been deleted, since tapes are periodically rotated.
  

A valid Bryn Mawr College (or Haverford College, for Bi-Co organizations) student ID is required to receive a web page account. Bring your ID to the Ops' Desk in Guild (Bryn Mawr's computer center) and fill out a Web Account Application, affirming that you have read this document.
Account Applications will be processed within two weeks. Upon the creation of your account, you will be notified via email that an account has been created for you and your password may then be picked up at the Ops Desk in Guild. If you have filled out an application for a Bartik account but your account has not yet been created, you may wish to email bartik@brynmawr.edu, notifying the Webmaster of your request, which will expedite the process.
Bartik accounts are accessible via FTP (or Fetch, on Macs) or through a direct telnet session from an on-campus IP/machine. Bartik webmasters are not responsible for teaching users UNIX (the operating system used when telneting into Bartik or Ada directly), text editors, or FTP and Fetch.
For directions on how to use FTP or Fetch, please reference the online documentation at:

When users FTP or Fetch into their accounts, they should be in their home directory:/usr/home/students/username for individual student pages, with username replaced by your account name (identical to your email username), or /usr/home/orgs/organization_name for student organization accounts, with organization_name replaced by the organization's account name.

Any files placed into the home directory are stored on Bartik, but are not viewable on the Internet. Any files that you wish to be accessible via the Internet should then be placed into the public_html directory (folder) within the home directory (Ex: /usr/home/students/jsmith/public_html) Remember, your /usr/home/students or /usr/home/orgs directory quota is one megabyte, and your public_html directory quota is five megabytes.

The URL (or internet address) for a web page is:

with zsmith replaced by your or your organization's username.

The www.student portion of the server's address is used to provide easier, more homogeneous access to the servernt web server. However, note that the student web server can also be accessed by replacing www.student with bartik. For example, this main page is accessible through either of the following addresses:

A link to your home page will be added to Bartik's list of posted pages upon the creation of your account. To guarantee that your page will be accessible, however, you will need to do the following:

Necessary Steps and Information

To guarantee that a user accessing your page will get the appropriate home page when accessing your address, name the main file of your home page index.html. (Old Users: The previous standard, default.html, will still work, but index.html has precedence, and the use of the old default.html should be phased out by changing it to index.html.)When a user tries to access your page (in the form of http://www.student.brynmawr.edu/~username), your index.html file is automatically displayed, and should therefore be your main page, containing links to other pages/files you may have.
All pages must have the extension .html: .htm will work as well for index.htm and default.htm, but should otherwise have the four-letter html extension.
Do not use either the forward slash (/) or space character in the names of your files, because they will be inaccessible. For example, neither sister/pictures.html nor sister pics.html are legitimate filenames.

Writing The Page

Any page will have to be started from scratch: there is no provided template for making a web page. You can either write the code directly or use an HTML editor (such as Adobe PageMill). Although there are no official HTML classes available, informal classes may occasionally be offered by gracious volunteers.

HTML Sites

A keyed version of PageMill, an HTML editor some use for web page creation, can be found on some Guild Macs. However, there are sites on the net teaching HTML which can be found using various search engines like Yahoo, Alta Vista, Magellan, or Excite, among others.
One is the highly popular "A Beginner's Guide to HTML", found at:

You may also be able to find some information on the Haverford College server.

Bryn Mawr College Home Page
Haverford College Student Server
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Last modified July 18, 2001.