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Western Carolinian March 21,1996 News ~ Technology Update: Computer Classrooms to be Completed Sooner Than Reported by Tony Taylor Associate Editor Two of the 18 proposed electronic classrooms begin operation during the fall semester of 1996—not spring semester 1997— as reported in the February 22 issue of the Western Carolinian. "They will be finished by July 1996," said Robert Anders, director of the Computer Center. "We ordered the equipment yesterday," Anders said in a March 19 interview. Anders also said that student resident halls should have campus network connections for the 1996 fall semester. The $100,000 classrooms will be located in Stillwell and Forsyth. Each classroom will feature two different kinds of computers. Anders said the Stillwell classroom will be located in G57. It will feature a projection system with an instructional computer, a VCR, and a cable television connection. There will be 30 Macintsoh Performa 6214 computers equipped with CD-ROM drives, 8 megabytes of memory, 1-gigabyte hard drives, and 15-inch monitors. According to Anders, the Forsyth classroom will be housed in Forsyth 116. It will have a similar projection system and instructional unit. Forsyth's computers will be 125- MHz DEC Pentium computers with CD-ROM drives and 15-inch monitors. The Forsyth computers will use the Windows operating system, either Windows 95 or Windows 3.11, Anders said. "Our goal is to network all computer classrooms and labs to the campus network," Anders said. He explained that the new classrooms will be connected to various file servers on campus but will not have their own servers in the classroom. Students will not be allowed to use the classrooms outside of class time, Anders said. If instructors want to schedule student use of labs outside of class time, the instructor must be present. "We anticipate the classrooms to be fully booked," Anders said. "We plan on upgrading the general education labs so that more students can use the labs." "The hookups in the dorms will be a lot better next year," said Debbie Justice, academic computing consultant. "There will be some students who take advantage of this service. Not a large number initially, but a good number of students will take advantage of that." Anders said students would need to purchase network adapters at a cost of "less than $50" to link computers they personally own to dorm network ports. He said there are plans to provide network connections for commuters, probably in the renovated WCU Welcomes Phi Sigma Pi University Center. Both classrooms will have access to the campus network and the Internet. Anders will be in charge of scheduling. However, if there is a conflict with scheduling, it will be resolved by the vice chancellor of academic affairs. Classes that require more computing time will not necessarily be given extra time in the labs. "If there is no conflict in which the class time is scheduled, then the faculty member can have the class time," Anders said. "Then the vice chancellor of academic affairs will have to break the conflict and handle it there, but there is no structural priority for the classrooms." "We know that there is a big demand from all faculty to use the classrooms. We have plans to build 18 labs. Until we get them all built, we realize that there will be a conflict over scheduling," Anders said. The time frame for completion of the labs is budget-driven. This means that they will be purchased as soon as funds become available. "We will be going in with a budget request to continue to build these things, and we will do it as fast as funding allows," Anders said. "As far as I know, the chancellor plans on building two more classrooms next year. "We are planning for two computer classrooms in each academic building," Anders said. He said lack of funds made a gradual approach necessary. He said Western could not spend as much as Ball State University, where $3.5 million is spent each by Danielle Lawson Staff Reporter WCU welcomed a new fraternity to its campus on Sunday, February 25, as 75 charter members of Phi Sigma Pi were inducted. Phi Sigma Pi seeks to promote scholarship, leadership and fellowship, the three founding principles of the fraternity. Founded in 1916, Phi Sigma Pi has 60 chapters nationwide. The 75 charter members of the Gamma Zeta chapter, who met the fraternity scholarship criteria of a 3.0 GPA, were initiated by a representative from the Phi Sigma Pi National Headquarters and Kim Gertch, the Initiate Advisor for Clemson. After the initiation, the members elected officers for 1996. The officers for the 1996 year are: Kevin Rogers (President), Alejandro Alcala (Vice President), Shannon West (Secretary), Cristal Griffin (Corresponding Secretary), Elizabeth Stapleton (Treasurer), Melissa Nelson (Historian), Kevin Phileman (Historian) and Jim Danitschek (Parliamentarian). Phi Sigma Pi was founded in 1916 at the State Teachers College in Warrensburg, Missouri (now known as Central Missouri State University). The founding members had high ideals regarding education and scholarship. "We plan to make Phi Sigma Pi an active organization at WCU and a major contributor to the Western Carolina community," said Kevin Rogers, President of the Gamma Zeta chapter of Phi Sigma Pi. The initiation committee will hold an informational meeting in April, open to all qualified students. For more information, call 227-4263. The University Writing Center ASK-A-TUTOR 3687 on campus Monday-Thursday 4 p.m.-8 p.m. The hotline is open to all students needing quick writing advice. year to purchase computers. All of the computers in each classroom will be hooked up to the campus network. They will be equipped with generic software: Netscape and Microsoft Office (Word, Access, Excel and PowerPoint). Additional unique software will be loaded to the servers in the department that is requesting the software. Justice said individual departments or colleges would have to provide the software needed to support their curricula. "It seems as if every class has to have special software. To be able to have them load it on every machine would be impossible because there isn't enough disk space," Anders said. "These are going to be generic classrooms, just like our laboratories on campus will be generic laboratories. The specialty will come from the departmental servers that will have the special databases and software available that the students can access from either a laboratory, classroom or dorm." Five Computer Center employees have been busy interviewing faculty members to determine how to put all the software required by faculty in various locations. This will help faculty members manage their time better. "We want to keep these facilities open as much as we can, but yet, we want to be reasonable and stretch our money just as far as we can stretch it for other technology," Anders said. . , , Anders said the survey was not finisne i He said its results would be used for future planning. League of Women Students Making a Difference by Jessica Devaney Staff Reporter Members of the League of Women Students are participating in a volunteer community service project Ihey are joining up with the REACH organization, which is involved in helping battered and abused women. The League has adopted a room in REA°CH TU,bSidiZedh°USeSbuiltbv KbACH They are stripping, painting and decorating the room in order to ™ake« more livable and comfortable Dunng the last weekend in March, they wllbegm the decorating of the newly renovated house. y s„nn. R°bucrtHuds°nha.s donated paint X^^P^erandAssocia^ Cou try Fionas donated aplant,also, a"d they are still looking for someone to r\ Dirvl donate comforters and curtains, ur. Hale of the philosophy department is lending a hand in the actual decorating the room. For information on possib donations, contact faculty advisor Susa Rountree in the CAP Center. The League of Women Students-s also sponsering a picnic on March ■ Tickets will be sold at $3 for studer,tan $5 for faculty and non-students, un Friday, March 22. The picnic.s ^ catered by the Riverhouse of U» and will offer a complete vegetanan of lasagna, salad, and dessert. The picnic is being held, ram e shine, at the on-campus picnic ar track. For tickets or more intorrnm,t contact co-president JoAnna Huo 227-6453 or Rose Pritchett at U The League of Women tuden. meets once every two weeKs - McKee.

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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.
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  - Western Carolina University
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  - Date original: 1996-03-21
  - Date digitized: 2019-12-02
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  - Dimension: 22.5" x 14"
  - Pages: 20 pages
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  - Jackson County (N.C.)
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  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

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