Petitioners Rescue Poteat
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. · · ' 1990 WfU Puhllcallons Board, All Roghts Reserved · · LD LDAND A&E Page 8 "COVERS mE CAMPUS UKE THE MAGNOLIAS." THuRsDAY, }ANUARY 18, 1996 .. U.· . mverstty Petitioners rescue Poteat lab Bv MArrnEw CoLEMAN but they are currently forced to Computer Center to find out what CoNTRIBliiiNG Rl;pQRTER work in one large area divided by was going on," she said. partitions. Also, one staff member After learning about the issue, ~losed by After student protest the Com works in a hallway. Belcher and senior Kim Magee, a puter Center reversed its decision "We desperately need some Poteat resident adviser also con to close Poteat House's computer place to put our staff, and Poteat cerned about the closing, posted a lab, which will remain open at least seemed to be the best place be petition to keep the lab open. Three blizz_ard for this semester. cause it's very close to Reynolda days later, they went to see Ken Bv DAN JoHNSON Last fall, the Computer .Center Hall," Dominick said. Zick, the vice president for student ComRIBUTINCi REPORrnR developed a need for more office The decision to close the lab was life and instructional resources. space after hiring additional per made with no student input, and "Basically my concern was that As students and teachers packed sonnel in accordance with the Plan computer users were notified of I wanted to voice the opinions of andplanned for the spring semester, for the Class of 2000. Jay the closing by a message that ap the residents of Poteat," Belcher Old Man Winter blanketed the East Dominick, the director ofinforma peared when they logged on. said. Coast with one of its strongest storms tion services, said he saw the Poteat Senior Laura Belcher, the chair Magee presented the petition on record Jan. 6-7 and a lighter fol lab as an ideal location for extra woman of Poteat hall government, with more than 120 signatures to low-up one week later. offices. said she was surprised that such a Zick. "The petition demonstrated a According to .the Winston-Salem Dominick said computer pro decision was made without con pretty uniform expression of re Journal, almost twelve inches of snow grammers need a private space in sulting students. "When I got word solve, and one that I thoroughly fell in WinstoncSalem on Jan. 6 and 7. which to work and to concentrate, of it, I got angry and .called the See Labs Page 3 The snowfall was the third largest on record in the Triad. On the night of Jan. 12, a second snowfall added 3 inches of fresh powder to the already Students tnust pay additional frozen ground~. The Univ\!rsity was .forced to close its doors Jan; 8 due to the poor road conditions in Winston-Salem. fee to keep software package The majority ·of students did not return to campus until Sunday and Bv BRIAN J. UzwlAK The university purchased the software early in the ~ere not delayed in their return, but EDITOR IN CHIEF summer and installed it on the 280 ffiM ThinkPads resident advisers and sororities were purchased mostly by freshmen. One hundred of those forced to alter their plans. Students will have to pay an additional fee to keep are ir, the computer pilot program. Residence Life and Housin~egan some of the software on their IBM ThinkPads. Dominick said that in Augusta Microsoft represen it's mid-year training on time but The university, through an institutional-use agree tative informed him that because the university held many resident advisers were unable ment, would hold the license to at least one software the licenses these students would not be able to keep to return to school by Jan 10. package on the computers provided through the Plan the software. "Approximately 25 percent ofRAs for the Class of 2000. Dominick is a member of the university team which were unable to make it back in time ' In order to keep that software when ti1ey graduate, is negotiating a five-year deal with Microsoft for the forthe start of training," said Gay students would have to pay a fee beyond the $3,000 Windows 95 operating system and Office. Dunton, the assistant director ofRLH. tuition hike: · The university and Microsoft agreed to negotiate a Some students who were fortunate Jay Dominick, the director of information systems, solution that would allow students to keep the soft enough·to be on campus during the said, "The license has to make a physical transferral ware for which they had paid. storm were able· to enjoy playing in ... we didn't know that until August, so when we were The students, though, have been in limbo since Greg lla)'e< the snow'. developing our cost models we didn't build in that we receiving their machines in August- they have the Senior Jennifer Gentry said she and Strategy Session · would have to buy it twice." software, but still have not been given the license .. several friends went on a search for The administration became aware of this problem Dominick said he expected yesterday to complete a the best sledding and then enjoyed Coach Dave Odom goes di~cusses strategy with the team during a after it purchased a 500-user institutional license for deal with Microsoft that would allow these students to sliding down the hills on garbage timeout in Monday's game against the University of Richmond the Microsoft Office suite of applications. · keep the software. bags. Spiders. · Office includes a wonl processor, a spreadsheet and The deal was expected to give these students three See Blizzard Page ~- other applications and will probably constitute the options: '---------.--------:--'-.;......;....._;..-....;..,__ .. _-.;.;.··-· .-_-·_- .;.;..'----;.......;;'-__, · 'most~used''P~~kiige on the machines. · See Sot"tware·Page·3-- · · Winding road: Plan 2000 changes course during its development BY DANIEL DEAVER AND JENNIFER FOWLER next century. And it was virtually nonexistent character of the university. computers on campus was estimated at needs or opportunities in another survey at the EDITORIALS EorroR AND AsSISTANT NEWs EDITOR in the original discussion in 1993 about the The PPC, made up of I 0 faculty members, $350,000. retreat. · character of the university that led to the Plan three administrators and two students, began But response to the paper at an all-faculty Doubling the microcomputers was ranked · Itmay have started as a rather ambitious for the Class of 2000. its work in January 1993. A questionnaire retreat in October 1993 exposed other areas 18th out of 27 suggestions. suggestion in response to a faculty question The problem faced by the Program Plan sent to the faculty in February, hearings held of greater concern, including the controver The next stage in the process was the for naire about the future of the university. ning Committee at that in April and a visit to the sial "Teacher-Scholar Ideal" to be included in mation and release of an interim report. The ·, "(The university) needs to develop a true time: How to maintain University ofNotre Dame the university's statement of vision. most emphasized recommendation of the re ~am pus-wide computer network. This means the character of the uni and Dartmouth College When asked to revise the statement of port was the addition of 40 new faculty mem linking everyone and everywhere together versity in a financially helped the committee vision and rank a series of 23 stratements in bers by the year 2005 and allowing faculty students, staff and faculty, dorm rooms, of bleak near future. identify areas of improve order of their importance, 80 faculty mem more time with students, according to a March fices, library, labs, classrooms, etc.," one fac "Wake Forest Uni ment for academic plan bers chose "teacher scholar" as second most 17, 1994 article in the Old Gold and Black. ulty member wrote in February 1993. versity, financially solid ning. These appeared in important. The phrase "rigorous academic Recommendation 28 dealt with computer 1 "The university should eventually require yet constrained by lim the working paper, re environment" ranked highest, and "Informa ization, and included a suggestion that the all students to buy a computer." ited resources in a world leased to faculty Sept. 15 tion Technology and Scientific Instrumenta university consider requiring all freshmen And in less than eight months, they will. of rapidly expanding of that year. tion" ranked 12th in the faculty's ranking of members of the class of 2000 to purchase a . The computer proposal, as it came to be options, must know its One section of the importance. personal computer. known, grew from an innocuous conception niche and focus its en working paper contained The problems in finding a balance in the "We need to ensure that computers play an to be debated in every Classroom in Tribble, ergies toward sustaining and enhancing ex 27 "Needs and Opportunities," one of which responsibilities of professors between research important role in education at Wake Forest, praised in Reynolda Hall, questioned in fac cellence," wrote the PPC in its 1993 "Work was a need to invest in more up-to-date com and teaching seemed to reflect other issues so that the faculty are as efficient as possible ulty meetings and written about in newspa ing Paper." puter networks and technology. Most sugges that the faculty felt were most urgent. Lower in their teacher-scholarroles and that students pers around the nation. The tough choices about where money tions in this section were to expand the ing the teaching load, doubling faculty leaves, leave Wake Forest with the necessary skills to But it is only one of the 36 resolutions in the could be saved and spent led to serious dis university's network and make better use of maintaining small classes and identifying be successful in the highly technological document that will lead the university into the cussion, and serious disagreement, about the it.