Wireless modem and multiple monitors

I just bought a mini for my office, which does not support Macs. I was told I could not hook it up to the network, so I did not get the Airport option, though I did get bluetooth for the mouse and keyboard. Now they tell me that, while I can't hook up to the local network, I can connect wirelessly (and only wirelessly) to the university network. Is there a way to do this without having to take the mini in to get an internal wireless modem installed? I don't need the perfect solution because what I am mostly concerned with is being able to email stuff to my Windows PC for printing and backup.
Second, I often use two or more documents at the same time, and my 19" screen is just not enough. I'd like to hook up two 17" screens simultaneously, where each screen shows half of the total desktop and the mouse will move seamless across them. Can this be done with the mini?

Sorry if this upsets you, but you indicate you are at a university? Are you faculty? I have yet to run across a u that totally restricted the use of Macs on their network. In fact that is usually the one place, as a result of academic freedom, that you can have the machine of your choice. This especially true if you are faculty. When I was at Illinois we had one professor with a Mac on the network. In my wife's Economics department at UCF, in a business school, there are two faculty with Macs on the network. While at UF, the IT guys in our department discouraged using a Mac on the network, but it could be done. My point on this is that academic freedom overrides IT guys that have fear of something different. I could understand this if you were in a corporate setting where they heavily restrict what is put on the machines, as the place I am now, but in a university setting, I truly find it hard to believe that they could restrict you like that. If that is truly the case, let me know the university, and I will be sure not to ever apply for a position there since it appears that academic freedom does not exist there.
Btw, I would be curious to find out about other departments on the campus. I am sure there are Macs out there somewhere, there might be a department that is nothing but Macs, unless you are only a business school.

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