Computer 'Bugs' Delay Fall Grades
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VOL. XXIII NO. 70 THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1990 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S · Computer 'bugs' delay fall grades By KELLEY TUTHILL "It wasn't until the first week Assistant News Editor of January that we could work on all of them (the grades)." Many Notre Dame students In addition, grades from two did not receive their fall courses were not turned in smnester grades before they re until early this week, and turned to school mainly be grades from overseas were cause of computer problems at also late, she said. the Office of the Registrar. Another problem, explained Notre Dame recently Spaulding, was that the grades switched from an International were run through computer Business Machine (IBM) system systems twice. First the Regis to a Hewlett-Packard system, trar's office ran the grade list according to Lora Spaulding, through the new Hewlett associate registrar. As with Packard system. Then the any new computer program, grades were run through the there arc "bugs" that must be IBM program so the Regis detected, she said. trar's office could check the One problem that caused de new program against the old, lays at the Registrar was that said Spaulding. the last day to turn in grades When the Registrar checked was December 28, later than the grades run through the usual, according to Spaulding. Hewlett-Packard, Spaulding She said that some grades were said that several grades were The Observer/l.A. Scott turrwd in on the 29th, while Many students flocked to the Registrar's Office Tuesday to change class schedules. In addition, some others arrived even later. see GRADES I page 8 students were affected by computer errors which altered GPA's. ND graduate Wetherbee Kremlin attempts to halt fighting ····· . pilots Columbia mission MOSCOW lAP)- The Kremlin in outrageous attacks has and the current troubles were Wednesday told the thousands made the situation unbear sparked by its demand in commissioned by the Navy of soldiers it sent to the Cauca able,'" and the soldiers now February 1988 to be annexed and designated a naval avia sus to shoot if need be to halt were permitted to use their by Armenia. It has about tor in 1976. He was assigned bands of Azf~rbaijanis and Ar weapons in accordance with 160,000 people. to the carrier John F. menians fighting each other in military rules and Soviet law. Iran's spiritual leader, Aya Kennedy from 1977 to 1980, hills around the disputed terri Four burned bodies were tollah Ali Khamenei, said according to Phil Mintz, tory of Nagorno-Karabakh. found in Baku, the capital of Wednesday that Islamic fervor writer for Newsday in Long Thousands of Armenian Azerbaijan, the official news was behind events in Soviet Island. refugees poured from the agency Tass said Wednesday. Azerbaijan, and warned Wetherbee was selected by southern republic of Azerbai Eighteen Armenian residents Moscow not to deal harshly the National Aeronautics jan. many beaten or chased were injured in Azerbaijan the with the Shiite Moslem upsurge, and Space Administration from their homes by angry past 24 hours. Tehran radio reported. (NASA} as an astronaut mobs. Some blamed the attacks The violence erupted Saturday The broadcast, monitored in candidate in 1984. He com· on Azerbaijanis who earlier fled with anti-Armenian riots in Cyprus, quoted Khamenei as pleted the one-year training ethnic violence in Armenia. Baku. Fighting rapidly spread saying "anyone who thinks or and evaluation program in The death toll rose to 58, to N agorno-Kar abakh and pretends that the motives be 1985, qualifying him for as mostly Armenians, and the nearby areas of Azerbaijan, hind these movements are eth signment as a pilot on future number of injured to 169 in five with the belligerents using heli nic or nationalistic is making a space shuttle flight crews. days of civil warfare, an Inte copters, armored vehicles, ma big mistake. These sentiments A native of New York rior Ministry official said. chine guns and other arms are Islamic, and Soviet leaders state, Wetherbee now lives in The evening TV news show seized from government arse should face this fact with real Hous~on with his wife and "Vremya" ran a statement nals or offered by compatriots. ism." two children, according to from the KGB and the interior It was the worst fighting be The Kremlin has empowered Scott. and defense ministries, which tween mainly Moslem Azerbai local officials to ban demon Accompanying Wetherbee control troops in the area, that janis and mostly Christian Ar strations and strikes, impose on the mission is the Laetare said: menians since their decades-old curfews, censor the media, con medal awarded by Notre "Risking their lives, they have feud over Nagorno-Karabakh fiscate weapons, disband unof Dame to Albert Zahm, a so far refrained from using erupted in violence two years ficial organizations and detain professor of mathematics a arms against criminals to pre ago. The enclave, populated people for up to 30 days. Inte- century ago at Notre Dame. vent bloodshed. mainly by Armenians, has been "However. a sharp increase ruled by Azerbaijan since 19n see SOVIET I page 8 see SHUnt.E I page 8 Dorr Road to close next week until April due to construction By MONICA YANT to begin in May. either the University Club or the News Writer The closing will not affect ac Center for Continuing Educa cess to the bus shelter, the tion drives. Dorr Road between Notre Morris lnn, the Center for Con The Notre Dame Post Office Dame Avenue and Old Juniper tinuing Education, Main Gate, parking lot and drive-through Road, opposite the Snite Mu or the University Club. will remain open during the seum of Art, will be closed to Dorr will remain open be first stage of construction, but through traffic from Monday, tween the Snite Museum and will be closed later, as the pro January 22 until early April, Juniper Road. ject pro~resses. said Dennis Moore, associate Access to Notre Dame park director of Public Relations and ing lots Bl, Cl, and D1 will be A small parking lot located Information. from Notre Dame Avenue and behind the University Club, The road will be closed for Old Juniper Road. Traffic from which is a portion of Bl, will the construction of under Juniper Road should enter now be reserved solely for fac ground utilities to the site of these lots by traveling west on ulty and staff, said Phil John the new Edward J. DeBartolo Dorr to Old Juniper, then south son, assistant director of Notre Classroom Building south of to the specific lot. Dame Security. The lot was Dorr, according to Donald Traffic from Notre Dame Av formerly divided by a median Dedrick, director of physical enue should use the University which separated faculty and plant. Construction of the Club drive to enter lost Cl and staff parking from student The Observer I Laura Stanton classroom building is scheduled D1. Lot B1 can be enteyed from parking. page 2 The Observer Thursday, January 18, 1990 INSIDE COLUMN WEATHER Elephants turn Forecast for noon, Thursday, January 18. Lines show high temperatures. Orange Bowl 50 Yesterday's high: 54 Yesterday's low: 50 Nation's high: 86 into circus (McAllen, Texas) Nation's low: 17 The Orange Bowl (International Falls, has come and gone, Minn.) and despite our vic tory over Colorado, Miami garnered the national champi onship. There were a Forecast: lot of memorable Partial clearing and moments that came Robyn Simmons cooler today Highs in the out of New Year's (a.k.a. College Bowl) Assistant lower 40s. Mostly clear and colder tonight. Lows Day 1990, and I'll ...:A....:.c~c~e::.:.n.!!t....:E=.:d:::.:i!.::to::.:.r ___ from the lower to middle leave the sports talk 20s. Mostly sunny and to the experts. FRONTS: colder Friday. Highs from What sticks in my mind about the Orange the lower to middle 30s. Bowl - pardon me, the Federal Express Orange Bowl- is "A Twist of Orange," one ••••• COLD• • WARM STATIONARY of the most ridiculous halftime shows I've ©1990 Accu-Weather, Inc. ever seen. Pressure I suppose elaborate halftime shows are to ®© be expected now, and perhaps I haven't HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY watched enough bowl games to become immune to the glitz of prime-time college Via Assoc1ated Press Graph1csNet football, but elephants doing headstands on a football field is a bit much. I wasn't in Miami for the Orange Bowl, so WORLD I watched it on TV. NBC devoted a few minutes to the Notre Dame and Colorado marching bands. most of which was inter rupted by eommcrcials and sports commen Four opposition activists were arrested for Chad and the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. are ne tators. The network did a great job, how "aggression, offenses and lack of respect" said President gotiating for the release of three U.S. technicians de ever, of covering "A Twist of Orange," Daniel Ortega. An opposition candidate said police used tained nearly two weeks ago for destroying a mainte featuring Chubby Checker, dancing tear gas Tuesday night to break up the demonstration nance manual. Irving Thrash, Marvin Gambill and Ernest elephants, and Paul Williams in a leather that occurred in Granada, Nicaragua. Luis Sanchez San Ruse, all from the Atlanta area, were detained Jan. 5 jacket. (Boy, was he a hot-looking speci cho, a spokesman for the United National Opposition after they completed a year of training Chadians to ser men.) coalition, accused police of attacking a small rally of vice a Lockheed C-130 transport plane, company offieials The medley of songs ranged from the ex about 1,000 UNO demonstrators, but conceded they had said.