The staff spent about 45 hours correcting and fixing the problem. Our goal was to make it as usable as possible in the midst of problems. In the past year, Asbury has experienced two other email problems. According to Dotter-weich, this problem was unrelated to the current email troubles and related instead to the installation of the new firewall. About one year ago, Asbury experienced a similar email crash, but, unlike this time, everyone lost all messages.
Students can guard their important email by creating a personal folder.
Each of the six committee chairs were asked a variety of questions. Chris Harrell, chair of Issues Awareness, was asked to comment on the recent Information Services Issues Awareness Forum. He gave a brief summary of the IS forum and also commented on the responsiveness of IS to student concerns. This committee's role in relationship to the student body, according to Harrell, is to promote awareness of any issues on campus. In both categories we either need to work on promoting issues we want them to be aware of, or facilitating the hunger that is already there in other students.