I am not sure how many other campuses are like this, but our campus (Southern Illinois University - Carbondale) makes use of Juniper VPN in order to allow students, faculty, and staff to log onto wireless. Basically the access points are open to all, but you need to use VPN software in order to be able to access the rest of the campus network, and ultimately the internet. For Linux users like me, it was a little bit of a pain to set up, since it makes use of a Java client to automagically set everything up. Luckily I use 32-bit Linux. 64-bit users from what I hear are generally out of luck. Also out of luck are students who want to use their Android device on our network, since a Juniper client hasn't been set up/made available/customized? specifically for our campus yet.

This is funny, because I've had no issues with campus-wide printing service for Linux.

Actually from what I've seen, it's the rigor of the academic program that tends to drive away female students (i.e. they're not capable in either math/logic, or programming, or both). And I'm saying this as a female computer science undergraduate observing my fellow peers. I'm not in it for the money; I'm in this field because (a) I like computer science and (b) I'm good at it.

Being driven away from a field purely because of the fact that it's "too geeky" is too generic of an excuse to explain this disparity. For all we know, this disparity occurs for the same reason that nursing has a similar but opposite gender mismatch (as mentioned by countless commentors above me). I am sure personal background and skills have a lot of say in this (both parents were in engineering programs).

I have known way too many girls who display this superiority complex yet have absolutely no idea what they are doing.