A web site provides detailed information and guidance to students who need help setting up their computers for connections to GatorNet. ResCon Ned Mulcahy '01 says most of the students who have called him have had questions about the networking requirements. He says most students are delighted with their newly wired rooms. The computer labs get really filled at crunch times, and with a computer in your room you don't have to trudge across campus to get something done. For students who don't have their own computers, there are more than 200 public computers available in 16 campus locations, including the Pelletier Library.
Students can save their work both on network accounts and floppy disks.
Lindsay Knodel '00 says that even students without computers are pleased about the changes in the residence halls because it should help alleviate congestion in the computer labs at mid-terms and finals. Centrex Phone System. Although students have had phones in their rooms for the past eight years, the new phone system offers enhanced features. Blattner says many students' families have phone systems with these features at home, and so students have come to expect the same features at Allegheny. Danielle Stephens '00 agrees.