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Battalion/Page 4
March 31, 1982
Night people
Computer terminals screen out darkness
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Senior computer
Chris Young works
science major
on a program at
the Remote Computing Center,
nights are common at the RCC.
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Editor’s note: This is the third in
a five-part series about the up
side down lives of those who
work at night.
by Sandra Kay Gary
Battalion Staff
While some students are sit
ting at home in front of a televi
sion "studying,” others are
burning the midnight oil in
front of computer terminals.
One group of students who
spends evenings staring at com
puter screens are those who fre
quent a room in the basement of
the library. Most of these stu
dents, who spend hours pun
ching out computer programs in
the Remote Computing Center,
are taking business and compu
ter science courses.
Students working on compu
ter programs are intense since
they are charged a fee for com
puter time, paper and cards,
said Karen Frazier who works
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After happy hour, a program
through which students can use
the computers with no charge
from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., Frazier
said, people get laid back and
everything gets a lot quiter.
“You get so used to being
here,” she said, “by the time hap
py hour ends, you’re drained.”
But errors in programs and
pressure for grades prompt stu
dents to spend long hours in
front of computer screens.
Frazier estimates the compu
ter terminals are half full from
10 p.m. till midnight. “After
midnight there is never any
more than 25 people in the cen
ter, until the end of the semes
ter, of course,” Frazier said.
A1 Campodonico, a junior
geography major who works in
the RCC Tuesdays and Thur-
days from 10 p.m. until 4 a.m.,
likes working those hours so that
he can get all of his studying
done.
“I only sleep live to six hours
at nights anyhow,” Campodoni
co said.
A one to two hour nap in the
afternoon also helps, he said.
Helene Harding, a senior
chemical engineering major,
said she prefers to work on her
computer programs in the early
morning hours at the RCC.
“I come this late at night be
cause there are few people
here,” Harding said. “I don’t
have to wait in line for my out
puts and I can also turn the
music up on my tape player
without bothering people
around me," she said.
Another group of students
who spend Sunday through
Thursday nights staring at com
puter screens instead of TV
screens are those responsible for
producing the 23,000 Battalions
which are published each regu
lar school day during the fall
and spring semesters and three
days each week during the sum
mer sessions.
A 30-member, paid student
staff, along with help from stu
dents in journalism reporting
and editing classes put out The
Battalion, and much of the work
is done late at night. Most of the
work done preparing stories
that will appear in the paper is
done on computer terminals.
Since news is generated con
tinuously, the production cycle
of the paper never ends. Howev
er, the cycle basically begins ab
out 3 p.m. the day before publi
cation and continues until copies
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Senior journalism major Todd Woodard works at a com
puter terminal in The Battalion office. Late nights in front
of computer screens can send students up the walls.
of The Battalion are delivered to
different locations around cam
pus about noon.
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schedule so vou can work late
night,” said Phyllis Henderson,
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