They exist on a RAID enabled server, but even in catastrophic failure, they will not be restored. It should also be noted that between quarters, the server disks are wiped clean as a matter of course. There is no continuity between quarters. All student data should be stored using the Zip Drives. It is intended that the PCs will eventually include mount points for the same home directory as serves the Unix accounts, but that is still an unfinished project.
Printing is for instructional use only.
Printers are not copiers. Undergraduate students have 20MB of hard disk storage. MG is to only run on local machines. It won't work well, and you will really bog down an already saturated network. It is a large package that also should not be used across the network.