Thursday, April , 23, 1997 • Vol. XXXI No. 131 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE D~E AND SAINT MARY'S Club funding for 1998-99 falls short of expectations By ANNE MARIE MATTINGLY mately 5000 of 7600 undergraduates Part of the monetary shortage may be A"isram News Editor participate. He also mentioned that there due to a large addition to the Office of the is "really no avenue for additional fund­ President's budget, which received In the Student Senate's 1998-99 bud­ ing" other than an emergency fund the $39,200 this year compared to last year's get. approved at its meeting yesterday, CCC maintains for unexpected expenses. allocation of $25,450. student clubs and organizations received "Clubs and organizations have recog­ Student body vice president Andrea only 47 percent of the funds they nized substantial increases in funding Solak explained that the increased bud­ Division Requested Recommended requested, resulting in uneven budget over the last two years. This trend is very get will be used to extend SafeRide to Academic $34,120 $17,985 (53%) cuts or increases, according to senate encouraging as clubs continue to receive include Thursday nights and to pay a dis­ documents. more adequate financial support," patcher to ensure that the program will Athletic $74,222 $30,350 (41%) Clubs requested $251,270 in total Harding noted in an April 22, 1998, letter always be available. funds. but the Club Coordination Council to the Student Senate. Other goals of the Cesaro-Selak admin­ Ethnic $125,285 $40,050 (32%) received only $198,000, to be distributed But an anonymous source claimed istration that won them extra funds are at its discretion; though more than last Harding was dissatisfied with the funding the continuation of Project Warmth, the year's $152,000 budget, most clubs the CCC received, and speculated that he expansion of the Nike shoe drive, and the Social Service $80,180 $56,800 (71 %) expressed disappointment that the $10 probably wanted and expected thou­ Irish elves program, in which a dorm Special Interest $81,805 $41,800 (51%) increase in the student activity fee did sands more. adopts a previously homeless family for not necessarily positively affect their "They can't be happy that they had to Chrismas, according to Selak. Contingency $25,000 $11,015 (44%) budgets. cut their [requested] budget by $50,000," The duo also wants to create diversity "It's difficult to say to a group, 'Well, commented the source. panels, a night of reflection at the Grotto, you can't have that event because we Habitat for Humanity, Experiential an end-of-year mass for 1998-99, and set Total Requested: $420,612 ~ don't have enough money,"' said Ryan Learning Programs (this includes semi­ up a phone line students can use to ask r~, Harding. Club Coordinator, whose job is nars like the fall trip to Appalachia), and questions about majors and study-abroad Total Available: $198,000 to request funding for the more than 200 the Women's Resource Center were programs. campus groups. "We're disappointed that among the vicitms of the cuts in proposed "I believe in strength in numbers," Balance: -$222 612 we can't meet more of the club need." budgets. The NAACP received 25 percent Selak said, explaining her belief that Tlw $198.000 received by the CCC is of its requested budget, and La Alianza channeling money through student gov­ resource to coordinate with other student thn minimum amount of money that was allotted only a 13 percent of its need. ernment will result in a:nlore efficient organizations," she said. could bl' allocatPd to student groups, "It hurts to see the ethnic groups use of funds, accomj)lishing more with Some CCC members remained uncer­ according to a University mandate. cheated out of the money they need and the same numbev-uf dollars. tain that the large investment in the Harding said rlubs are a very large deserve," commented April Davis, ethnic "We want to be a resource for the part of campus life. noting that approxi- representative of the CCC. entire UniVersity ... we want to serve as a see BUDGETS/ page 3 • TECHNOUJGY BEAT r The world is spending $8 00 billion- to fix more than 3 billion computer chips; as the deadline nears, even the experts aren't sure what will happen By HEATHER COCKS Ediror-in-Chief On Dec. 31. 1999. as the sec­ onds tick away toward mid­ IN THE YEAR night. the world will be waiting anxiously to begin the journey •All Macintosh systems into the next millennium. are immune to Y2K On Jan. 1. 2000. analysts will wait to see if the world's com­ •Windows or DOS puter systems come along for the ride. systems more than Specifically, they will monitor two years old - 90% the Year 2000 virus, dubbed chance of Y2K Y2K by the nxpnrts. Though all its potential df'ects remain a PC TEST mystery. one thing is certain: It 1 . Enter DOS mode could mean the difference between moving ahead to a 2. Change date to 12/31/99 nnw century or getting stuck in 3. Change time to 11 :58 pm thn old one. 4. Shut down machine "It's massive. it's mind-bog­ 5. Wait until midnight passes gling. to think of all the things 6. Reboot- date must read that could go wrong," said Willie Kennndy, the Year 2000 2000 or must be adjusted engagement manager for Key for compliance Corp., which owns Key Bank. anywhere near the year 2000." happen, but how big it will be, cause 80 percent of date-relat­ "Systems have doubled. tripled, know the name of all the hard­ They are, and they are run­ how long it will last," said Bill ed technology to fail. even quadrupled in size in the ware and software used by ning straight toward it. Paced Pierce, director of the State of The task at hand is arduous, each d~partment and its per­ last 30 years [since Y2K's cre­ at best. Computer experts face ation 1. Anything can happen. sonnel. We can't tell for sure." the chore of checking all hard­ From that database the orr ware and software used on a Programmers first planted can create a master list of all system, making sure both can the Y2K seed two decades ago, manufacturers or vendors from either interpret the four-digit long before computers became ( Tf's massive, it's mind-boggling, which Notre Dame acquires its date, or be upgraded to do so. household items. Memory products. Each will get a letter Notre Dame students should space was too costly to waste; .l. to think of all the things that asking if the product is year- weather the year 2000 storm to conserve precious 2000 compliant, Harris said. megabytes, programmers used could go wrong.' with little difficulty, at least "We are still in the process of only two digits to delineate the within the confines of campus, collecting the data. Our top pri­ WILLIE KENNEDY according to Velma Harris, year. orities are the applications or So when the date rolls over to Year 2000 compliance expert leader of the Office of systems that are mission-criti­ 1/1/2000. the computer sees Information Technology's Year cal," she said, adding that the only the last two digits of the 2000 Management Team. team expects to meet its target­ century, "00," and draws its "We look like we are in good ed completion date of Dee. 31, by popularity of computers, Indiana's Y2K office. "My con­ shape," she said. "A lot of our 1998. own conclusions. technology pervaded society cern is that there's something Welcome to 1900 AD. technology. like computers in Neither the campus clusters with such quickness that Y2K out there no one's told us "Typing in '19' each time Grace Hall, are already compli­ nor ResNet will be affected by was deeply embedded before about." ant. seemed bothersome because it Y2K. Harris said. programmers realized the ram­ Left unchecked, Y2K can "We're putting together a was assumed," Kennedy said. Key Corp.'s Kennedy warned ifications. either corrupt a system's data database so that each depart­ "No one thought those pro­ against heavy reliance on ven- "The question is no longer or shut it down altogether, ment can enter its specifics on grams would still be running whether or not anything will something Kennedy said may there," she said. "We want to see YEAR 2000/ page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Thursday, April 23, 1998 • INSIDE COLUMN Dow-n the (~-,~~,/Outside the Dome '-""\.- /-.,:£"''"\\ \J ·· Compiled from U.Wire reports Hall ... Clinton accepts invitation to address MIT seniors You wait in angst Christine Kraly CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Harvard Corporation member Hanna over the whims and News Copy Editor President Clinton will be the fea­ Gray in 1995 and The Aga Kahn '5S wishes of upperclass­ tured speaker at MIT's graduation in 1994. men and those with ceremonies this June, one day after Clinton's acceptance of MIT's invi­ bntter numbers. This stress-inducing, tension­ former Irish President Mary tation brings his eomnHmeemcnt causing procedure isn't applying to college, or Hobinson addresses Harvard's speech total to three this spring. The even DAHTing for the upcoming semester. seniors. President, who spoke at Princeton No. this painstaking headache is the lengthy MIT officials said the White House University last year, is also planning process of room picks- the ultimate test of had initially contacted the Institute to speak at the U.S.