Computer 'Bugs' Delay Fall Grades

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 semester 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 are “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 The Observer/L.A. Scott She said that some grades were said that several grades were Many students flocked to the Registrar's Office Tuesday to change class schedules. In addition, some turned in on the 29th, while students were affected by computer errors which altered GPA’s. others arrived even later. see GRADES / page 8 ND graduate Wetherbee Kremlin attempts to halt fighting pilots Columbia mission MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin in outrageous attacks has and the current troubles were Wednesday told the thousands made the situation unbear sparked by its demand in By PETER LOFTUS commissioned by the Navy of soldiers it sent to the Cauca able,” and the soldiers now February 1988 to be annexed News W riter 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 Azerbaijanis and Ar weapons in accordance with 160,000 people. Notre Dame has its first to the carrier John F. menians fighting each other in military rules and Soviet law. Iran’s spiritual leader, Aya graduate in space, as Jim Kennedy from 1977 to 1980, hills around the disputed terri Four burned bodies were tollah Ali Khamenei, said Wetherbee pilots the according to Phil Mintz, tory of Nagorno-Karabakh. found in Baku, the capital of Wednesday that Islamic fervor Columbia shuttle, launched writer for Newsday in Long Thousands of Armenian Azerbaijan, the official news was behind events in Soviet last week. Island. refugees poured from the agency Tass said Wednesday. Azerbaijan, and warned Wetherbee, 37, received his Wetherbee was selected by southern republic of Azerbai Eighteen Armenian residents Moscow not to deal harshly bachelor degree in the National Aeronautics jan, many beaten or chased were injured in Azerbaijan the with the Shiite Moslem upsurge, aerospace engineering in and Space Administration from their homes by angry past 24 hours. Tehran radio reported. 1974. (NASA) as an astronaut mobs. Some blamed the attacks The violence erupted Saturday The broadcast, monitored in The ten-day mission in candidate in 1984. He com on Azerbaijanis who earlier fled with anti-Armenian riots in Cyprus, quoted Khamenei as cludes rescuing the Long Du pleted the one-year training ethnic violence in Armenia. Baku. Fighting rapidly spread saying “ anyone who thinks or ration Exposure Facility, a and evaluation program in The death toll rose to 58, to Nagorno-Karabakh and pretends that the motives be large, 12-sided trunk con 1985, qualifying him for as mostly Armenians, and the nearby areas of Azerbaijan, hind these movements are eth taining 56 experiments that signment as a pilot on future number of injured to 169 in five with the belligerents using heli nic or nationalistic is making a has been suspended in space space shuttle flight crews. days of civil warfare, an Inte copters, armored vehicles, ma big mistake. These sentiments for more than five years. A native of New York rior Ministry official said. chine guns and other arms are Islamic, and Soviet leaders Also, the five-member crew state, Wetherbee now lives in The evening TV news show seized from government arse should face this fact with real has the task of deploying Houston with his wife and “Vremya” ran a statement nals or offered by compatriots. ism.” SYNCOM, a communications two children, according to from the KGB and the interior It was the worst fighting be The Kremlin has empowered satellite. Scott. and defense ministries, which tween mainly Moslem Azerbai local officials to ban demon The launch had originally Accompanying Wetherbee control troops in the area, that janis and mostly Christian Ar strations and strikes, impose been scheduled for on the mission is the Lae tare said: menians since their decades-old curfews, censor the media, con December 18, but was medal awarded by Notre “ Risking their lives, they have feud over Nagorno-Karabakh fiscate weapons, disband unof postponed three times Dame to Albert Zahm, a so far refrained from using erupted in violence two years ficial organizations and detain before Columbia finally took professor of mathematics a arms against criminals to pre ago. The enclave, populated people for up to 30 days. Inte- off last week. century ago at Notre Dame vent bloodshed. mainly by Armenians, has been After graduating from “ However, a sharp increase ruled by Azerbaijan since 1923 see SOVIET / page 8 Notre Dame, Wetherbee was see SHUTTLE / page 8 The End of the Road A section of Dorr Road will be closed until April beginning Monday. Dorr Road to close next week until April due to construction E : ...... By MONICA YANT to begin in May. either the University Club or the Mam Gate News Writer The closing will not affect ac Center for Continuing Educa ROADCLOSED Dorr Rd. cess to the bus shelter, the tion drives. Dorr Road between Notre Morris Inn, the Center for Con The Notre Dame Post Office B1 a Dame Avenue and Old Juniper tinuing Education, Main Gate, parking lot and drive-through ,C1 Road, opposite the Suite Mu or the University Club. will remain open during the Visitor seum of Art, will be closed to Dorr will remain open be first stage of construction, but Lot through traffic from Monday, tween the Snite Museum and will be closed later, as the pro 7 \ January 22 until early April, Juniper Road. ject progresses. Morris Inn Stadium said Dennis Moore, associate Access to Notre Dame park D1 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 C1/D1 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 N DETOUR KZ22 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 / Laura Stanton classroom building is scheduled D l. Lot Bl can be entered from parking. page 2 The Observer Thursday, January 18, 1990 I n s id e C o l u m n W e a t h e r Elephants turn Forecast for noon, Thursday, January 18. Lines show high temperatures. Orange Bowl 40 Yesterday’s high: 54 Yesterday’s low: 50 into circus Nation’s high: 86 (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 RRobynobyn Simmon:Simmons cooler today Highs in the out of New Year s . 1 lower 40s. Mostly clear (a.k.a. College Bowl) Assistant and colder tonight. Lows Day 1990, and I'll Accent Editor from the lower to middle leave the sports talk 20s. Mostly sunny and to the experts. colder Friday. Highs from What sticks in my mind about the Orange FRONTS: the lower to middle 30s. Bowl — pardon me, the Federal Express Orange Bowl — is “A Twist of Orange,” one WARM STATIONARY of the most ridiculous halftime shows I’ve ©1990 Accu-Weather, Inc. ever seen. Pressure I suppose elaborate halftime shows are to (h) ( D Egg g a E 3 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 A ssociated Press GraphicsNet football, but elephants doing headstands on a football field is a bit much. I wasn’t in Miami for the Orange Bowl, so W o r l d I watched it on TV. NBC devoted a few minutes to the Notre Dame and Colorado marching bands, most of which was inter Four opposition activists were arrested for rupted by commercials and sports commen Chad and the Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

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