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From: darknite@camelot.bradley.edu (John S. Novak III)
Subject: Re: How to identify a senior
Organization: Bradley University
Date: 28 Sep 92 02:55:49 GMT

sine nomine writes:

>seniors are aware that most of what's printed in the catalog about
>prereqs and advising can be fairly easily gotten around, and they know
>their degree requirements almost by heart.

Heh.
And seniors know how to get the most (or least) out of those
requirements.  For instances, there's about three ways to get
credit for probability and statistics, between the engineering
and math departments, and God only knows how many ways to get
credit for written logic between the english and philosophy
departments, here at Bradley..

--
"A memoryless system is defined as a system which has no memory."
           -Dr. In Soo Ahn, 09-04-91
John S. Novak, III		darknite@camelot.bradley.edu
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From: michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown)
Subject: Re: Computer Operators
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:00:41 GMT

In article <6696@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> ccohen+@pitt.edu (Caleb N Cohen) writes:
>
>  Anyone who has worked as a computer operator, consultant, etc will have
>loads of stories to tell.  I write this as I am working... 
>
>  Here at Pitt, the operators (2 or 3) are required, as part of their job, 
>to file output.  We take it off the printers and put it into bags (yes
>
Printing stuff?  I could talk on that.

At one school I was at, they had the big printers hooked to the mini in
a separate room.  It was the USER's responsiblity to get their own printout
and make sure the printer was back on-line.

At a community college I was at, when you printed, it went to the print queue.
Then you went up and sign-in for your printout, then asked the lab assist. to
please print your file (files did not automatically print out from the queue!!).
They took it off the printer and gave it to you.  I remember once when I 
started to take it off myself (I was use to that from the first school) they
got very upset! 

At the current school we have a big printer on our vax, also as laserprinter
for PC wordperfect printing.  Printout;s on the big printer where only printed
out every 15 mins.  For the laser, you went up with your disk (which had to
be 3.5in) fill out a card and give them to the lab assist.  He then printed it
out and returned it.  You where limited to 1 reseme and 1 paper <20 pages per
day.  For awhile the laser was in the dispatch window which meant the sysadms
did the printing.  Then they moved the laser out in the lab so that the lab
assistant (who helped the users) was now responsible for laser printouts.
What a pain.  I remember one idiot who wanted a laser printout of his 1-2-3
file.  We only do Wordperfect.  Another person wanted his resume printed on
his own bond paper.  No problem.  He also wanted to make sure the watermark 
was oriented properly with the print. ???  weird.  He claimed companies checked
for that kind of thing.  Right!!

I'm thankful I don't work in that lab.  Especially since they moved the big
printer out of the sysadm area and into the lab itself.  That thing's loud!!



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<< Michael R. Brown    CS Graduate Student-Florida Atlantic Univ >>
<< Internet: michaelb@sol.cse.fau.edu                            >>
<< BitNet: m_brown@fauvax                                        >>
From: kenr@orleans.storage.tandem.com (Ken Rose)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: dorm traditions
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:10:25 GMT
Organization: Tandem Computers Inc, Cupertino CA

In article <1992Sep28.163956.4259@news.iastate.edu>, bgunzy@iastate.edu (Robert A Gunzenhauser) writes:
> Are there any good dorm floor traditions at other colleges/universities?  We
> have one we started about a year and a half ago.  During dead week, the week
> before finals, some unlucky Wolf House member is put in a chair, saran-wrapped
> or duct taped to it, have shampoo and shaving cream applied liberally over
> his body, and then carried to the female dorm next door, so he can ride the
> elevators.  I know, because it happened to me....
> 
> Bob Gunzenhauser
> Ag Systems Technology
> Iowa State University
> bgunzy@iastate.edu
> 

I think dorm traditions tend to be short-lived because of the
lack of continuity -- people live there for a year or two then
move on, as opposed to places where traditions are expressly
preserved (co-op housing, the greek system, etc).

That said, when I was at UCLA a number of years ago a group of
guy formed a informal group called "The Midnight Hoop & Shower
Club".  There was a basketball court adjacent to the dorm
(Rieber hall), so they would play at midnight after studying/partying,
and then take showers in the girls bathroom (on a coed floor).
Lot of fun for them, and there were a couple of women that
made it a habit to start their showers at 11:55 or so and be
"surprised" when the guys came in.


____________________________________________________________________
Ken Rose    (kenr@storage.tandem.com)
The Usual Disclaimer:  Any opinions expressed above are mine alone, not
those of my employer (who is kind enough to allow me Usenet access).
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 22:11:05 EDT
From: <HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Tuition Increases (WAS Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
 <1992Sep30.114038.59299@cc.usu.edu> <92274.154747HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu>
 <1adfg4INNepe@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <92278.045305MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
 <92278.112527HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu> <92278.214322DCM115@psuvm.psu.edu>

In article <92278.214322DCM115@psuvm.psu.edu>, Doug Morack
<DCM115@psuvm.psu.edu> says:
>
>    The $35 fee is for administraitive purposes - i.e. for your registration,
>adding or dropping a class, and other purposes of that nature.  If you are
>going to complain about something, at least know what you are talking about so
>that you don't make a fool of yourself.
>
>-Doug

I see we have a future beaurocratic administrator here.  Doug, go check your
incoming mail list.  I had the courtesy to respond to you via email rather
than flame you on the net.

*  Hans C. Masing        |  "When you go in for a job interview, I  *
*  HCM100@PSUVM.psu.edu  |   think a good thing to ask is if they   *
*  Penn State MIS Dept.  |   ever press charges." - Jack Handey     *
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From: lat1553@venus.tamu.edu (TEDESCO, LAUREEN ANN)
Subject: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 03:26:00 GMT

Less interestingly, perhaps, there's my alma mater, the University
of Southwestern Louisiana, known variously as University of
Slow Learners (this is applied by people from other schools) and
U Stand in Line (a name used by people who have reason to know).
From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Stupid Cafeteria Stunts
Date: 1 Oct 92 20:51:25 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <TROCH.92Oct1110602@gandalf.Rutgers.EDU> troch@gandalf.Rutgers.EDU (Rod Troch) writes:
>>>>>> "Carl" == Carl Turner <turner@webb.psych.ufl.edu> writes:
>	Carl> Tulane we have but one dining hall but it's name is so
>	Carl> astoundingly
>	Carl> appropriate, I dare any school out there to top it...
>
>If this is the dining hall I was in (with only one there, I am
>sure it was) I think the fact that it is CARPETED should say
>much about the fact that it has such a weird name, it is the
>only carpeted dining facility I have ever been in.

I can't believe that no one has already answered this one.  The CU
Boulder dining hall in the student building was names the "Alferd E. 
Packer Memorial <mumble><mumble>".  Mr. Packer was an occasional
hunting guide and gold prospector in southern Colorado in the late
1800's.

Mr. Packer once guided a trip into the Rockies and got caught in a
snow storm.  The storm was bad enough that he didn't return until the
spring, and his clients didn't return at all.  When some folks
returned to the campsite the bones of his clients were found, and
interesting marks were found on then.  "Butchering" marks in the
estimation of the discoverers.

There was a trial, and at the trial Mr. Packer was (as I recall from
my reading) guilty.  Part of the order seemed to indicate that the
judge wasn't all that pissed about the fact of the cannibalism, but
that Mr. Packer ate the only other democrats in the county (this part
may well be UL).

The original graves were exhumed a couple of years ago, and the report
I recall hearing supported the original conviction.

So, the student dining facilities in the SUB at CU Boulder are named
after Colorado's only confirmed cannibal.

-- 
Russ Kepler, posting from home
Will hack unix for food 		(.sig stolen from dt - sorry, dt)
From: jsct+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joshua Eli Schachter)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:09:09 GMT
	<1992Oct1.145538.25110@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
	<semt17m00Uzx061plq@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Here at Carnegie Mellon University, almost all of the buildings are not
particularly tall. Therefore, from most points on campus, this large
gothic structure owned by the University of Pittsburgh is highly visible.

It seems to be an office/classroom building, and is oficially titled
"The Tower of Learning." The pitt students call it this I guess but our
CMU official name is...

"The Tower of Ignorance".... it does fit because of the insanely gothic
look of the thing. It has been posited that Ghostbusters was filmed at
the top.
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From: michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown)
Subject: Re: Computer Lab Operator Geeks
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 01:50:09 GMT

In article <37240@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> jma@reef.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) writes:
>Did michaelb@cse.fau.edu really type:
>}  I've worked in retail I'm use to being helpful to customers (which is what 
>}  students are).
>
>No no no... students are peons to the University!  Customers are the
>corporations and the government that pay big money for such things as
>SDI programs and such!  (UF-CIS is nicknamed 'baby-killers from outter
>space.')  Undergrads are peon-wanna-bes.  Grads are peons!
>
Funny, I thought it was the President of UF that said in a newspaper column
that STUDENTS were the CLIENTS (ie customers) of the Universities.  :)
I guess that attitude has yet to filter down.

>}  A friend of mine went thru a training session they had here
>}  for lab assistants (I missed it), and said the attitude of many of them was
>}  that the 'students were the enemy'.
>
>You mean they aren't?  Seriously - most of the questions I heard as a
>lab ass was "How do I do..." instead of "This is how I tried to solve
>the homework - will you show me where I went wrong."  This is why most
>of us ex-lab asses know that students are the enemy.
>
Well, remember the old standby "RTFM". :)

I get the same percentage of such questions.  Personally I prefer to deal
with the second case.  

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<< Michael R. Brown    CS Graduate Student-Florida Atlantic Univ >>
<< Internet: michaelb@sol.cse.fau.edu                            >>
<< BitNet: m_brown@fauvax                                        >>
From: finifter@remus.rutgers.edu (Tracy E. Finifter)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Computer Lab Operator Geeks
Date: 3 Oct 92 02:30:33 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

>Okay, Okay.  I know what you're all thinking.  But here at Penn State I
>think that they force all the once normal, friendly folks who work at
>the computer labs to undergo ferocity training or something.  Sure, there
>are a few gems in the manure pile, but come on!  I don't like being
>grumbled at at 8:05 when I ask if the lab is open yet (the sign says
>8:00) and the operator says GET OUT!  THIS IS MY TIME! And I had a project
>due in a few hours, too.

>Anyway, the point is:  What are the horror stories from other universities
>about the computer system/operators/assorted miscellany?

>ObOxymoron:  Computer Center Help Desk


Hey, I happen to be one of those computer aids (at Rutgers, we're called
"consultants", glamorization at its best) and so are many people on here.  And
I'll let you know that I'm NEVER, EVER surly with a student unless that person
really is trying to get on my case (I'm sure you know the type)

I do, however, feel it's a waste of my time when I have to teach Intoduction
to Computers  people how to even use the computer when they should be learning
that in class to begin with.  Some of the questions I have to answer really
boggle the mind such as (and mind you, our Intro to Computers class uses
Macs): what's that little picture up there that looks like a disk?  Oh, it
is MY disk?  Do I have to know that for the exam?  After four hours of
answering things like that, tell me you wouldn't get just slightly frustrated.
From: 2429oconnorw@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: New logos (was Re: Iowa State University Towers)
Date: 5 Oct 1992 22:47:55 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 2429oconnorw@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsd.csd.mu.edu

In article <1992Oct5.143431.7970@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
>In article <1992Oct5.130412.23933@athena.cs.uga.edu>, wells@athena (Scott Wells) writes:
>>came here in 1988 and had since given U.Ga. a
>>new logo (which we paid gobs for
>
>A few years ago, the U of A decided it needed a new logo, reportedly
>because the old one was too "associated with sports".  (Gee -- ya don't
>suppose that's because most people saw it on football helmets and
>basketball jerseys?)
>
>Anyway, they hire this guy to come out from New Jersey, and design for
>us a nice new academic-looking `A', and charge us $30,000 for it.
>('course, it was actually 2-for-1, since he also did the `U').
>
>
>Now their considering a $25/semester tuition increase for "computer fees".
>Apparently there was a campus-wide student vote on it last week, but of
>course it's not the least bit binding on the university...
>

Gee, that's sounds like Marquette.  We are the Warriors and our old mascot
was an Indian chief.  Well in the interests of being policitally correct,
the school got rid of it and installed a blue Grover-like thing as our mascot.
That was gotten rid of because no one liked it. (Rumor has it that no one
wanted to wear it for fear of being lynched by the students.)  So the
athletic dept. had a contest to chose the new mascot.  What won was a
Conan-like-warrior swinging around a BIG club.  Needless to say that did
not fly with Admin who did not like the image it would protray.  So, we
are now paying an ad company (run by an alumni) to pick our mascot.  And
in the middle of all of this, if you look at our logo, it still has the
Indian head that it has had for the last who knows how long.  Makes you
wonder.
 
Bill O'Connor               | In the course of human events, there is
Marquette University        | always one person who will screw things
Milwaukee, WI               | up.
2429OCONNORW@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU |
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From: pratta@rpi.edu (Anthony Edward Prattico)
Subject: Re: silly frosh and computers
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 00:30:46 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.222008.13095@muddcs.claremont.edu> omitchel@jarthur.claremont.edu (Ocie *crow* Mitchell) writes:

>   This reminds me of another way to tell frosh.  They're the only ones with
>   blank backgrounds on their workstation screens.
>
 
Um, well, not really. Here at RPI last years frosh were the first to really use
the new workstations, and were the first to have different backgrounds. Those 
of us who predate the system and don't have much use for any of its software
tend to have the default blue background. The only thing that I use on these
that I don't have access to anywhere else is the newsreader. 

Anthony
From: dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Bucher)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Date: 30 Sep 1992 19:31:53 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: tsunami.berkeley.edu

UCSB (from whose hallowed halls I have recently fled) = U Can Study Buzzed

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From: fybush@unixland.natick.ma.us (Scott Fybush)
Subject: Re: parking tickets
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 00:56:09 GMT

On a related topic, Brandeis University (from which I graduated
in May) sent me a $5 room damage bill just after graduation.  The
bill said there was a missing window screen.  There wasn't (one
screen admittedly WAS damaged slightly), and since I already had 
my diploma, I figured there was no reason to pay the bill right
away.  Y'see...I was curious to find out just how much trouble
Brandeis would go to to collect.

Today I received a notice that the bill had been written off.
Let's see how much it cost them to get there.  I've received
four statements from Brandeis since graduation.  Each one cost
29 cents for postage.  In addition, let's say the accounting and
record-keeping that went into each one was worth 50 cents.
So Brandeis was trying to spend well over three dollars to 
collect five!  And that's not counting the accounting costs
it would have taken to process my check and send me a receipt
if I had paid.

I had heard that they would be automatically writing off "small"
room-damage bills.  Apparently they didn't think hard enough 
about what constitutes "small."

I should have been a university administrator.  Naaaahhhhh....
From: eigenstr@cs.rose-hulman.edu (Todd R. Eigenschink)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Date: 1 Oct 92 01:59:56 GMT
	<BvEr8F.7E5@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

In article <BvEr8F.7E5@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> jonwllms@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (John Williams) writes:

   Imagine my supprise at finding out that my previous College (Virginia
   Intermont) was also a UNIX text editor....

Or mine...Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology was not just RHIT, but
RHIOT...as in riot.  I don't know who came up with it, but obivously
he didn't go here!  :-)

--
Todd Eigenschink (eigenstr@CS.Rose-Hulman.Edu)
Psychopathic Peon System Administrator
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN

"I know I said this, but I'm not sure I know what it means."  -- FJS
From: s884764@otto (Grant Waldram [Atom Smash])
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: parking tickets
Date: 7 Oct 92 02:35:14 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: otto.bf.rmit.oz.au

rod@smokestack.ncsu.edu (Roger Rod) writes:
>Kevin Furrow <KWF102@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>|> My roommate once got a $10.00 parking ticket.  So, he went to a local bank,
>|> got 1,000 pennies (all in those 50 cent rolls) and took the pennies to the
>|> police station.  They took it, said thanks, that's all.  Maybe he should have
>|> tried the $100 bill trick.

>Our DOT has a clause which states that they can refuse to accept coins as
>payment :(

Hell, here in oz the only thing that could stop you doing that is the fact
that certain denominations of coins are not considered legal tender for more
than a certain amount. There is _NO WAY_ that an authority like that could
refuse payment if it was legal tender. They can either refuse cash (ie: take
cheques only) , or accept it, but not be picky about it.

That reminds me, I've got a parking fine to pay :(  Time to pull out the
coins :-)

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From: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Renaming Hallowed Institutions
Date: 30 Sep 92 11:40:38 MDT
Organization: Omega:  The Final Solution

In article <1992Sep30.153549.11396@news.unomaha.edu>,
sdavis@cwis.unomaha.edu (Scott Davis) writes:
> In an earlier post, G Fowler mentioned that two BYU cafeterias were
> given more appropriate names by the student body -- the Cannon Center
> was known as the Cancer Center, Morris Center as Morbid Center.
> 
> Here, UNO doesn't stand for University of Nebraska at Omaha, but rather
> University of No Opportunity.
> 
> Any others? 

     Here we have a collection of eight dorms called the Student
Living Center.  They were originally built by the LDS Church for
member students, and were later sold to USU.  Of course, everyone
calls them the Morm Dorms now.

     I did hear of an alternate name for them, dating from the time
before University ownership.  Like many other Christian churches, the
LDS does not believe in premarital sex.  So the Morm Dorms used to be
called Virgin Village.  No longer applies universally, apparently, and
there is some doubt if it applied then.
-- 
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