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The Battalion
Friday, May 6, 1994
New computer facilities remedy congestion
By Melissa Jacobs
The Battalion
Texas A&M University is doing everything it
can to stay ahead in the computer age, University
officials said.
James G. Baker, Computing and Information
Services project director of customer help and
training, saia A&M, which has about 400 com
puters now available to students, has a rich com
puting environment.
“Computing is going to be the predominant
feature of tomorrow’s workplace,” he said. “We
have gone from terminals to microcomputers to
networks, which allow students to print any
where on campus.”
In addition to the on-going process of mod
ernizing and updating computer labs, the CIS has
plans for new facilities.
The West Campus Library Facility, which
opens in September, will mainly serve the Col
lege of Agriculture and the College of Business.
“Half of the equipment will be there in Sep
tember and the other half in December, since the
College of Business has delayed its move to west
campus until December,” Baker said. “Therefore,
full utilization of the facility will not be until De
cember.”
There will be about 150 seats in the new facil
ity. The facility will have a retractable wall behind
which will be a training room. When no training
classes are being conducted, the area will be open
for all users. It also will have a full time help desk.
“We will largely duplicate the exotic graphics
lab that is now in the Teague Building,” he said.
There will also be 10 machines with multi-
media facilities.
Another new facility will be located near the
Evans Library and will have a bridge connecting
to the library.
“In two to three years this will be a premier
microcomputer lab on campus,” Baker said.
Architects are now working on the project and
the money is there, Baker said.
“We also have the money to update the com
puters in tire new facility as needed, whereas we
now only replace about one-third of our com
puters a year, and have to keep using the outdated
ones,” he stud.
The Teague Building, which has a lab facility
with a graphics lab and help desk, will purchase
new machinery in the summer.
A&M currently uses Internet, a global comput
er network.
“We can do a lot of powerful things with In
ternet,” he said. “It is our role to support it. It is
the information highway.”
A&M also uses gopher, a networking system
created at die University of Minnesota and named
after the school’s mascot.
“It can access libraries around the world, has
electronic books, and connects to the Library of
Congress,” he said. “You can access the Vatican
and even see all the paintings that hang there.”
Users can hook into other university’s go
phers, allowing the user to find out what is going
on there and what athletic events are coming up.
The different departments on campus here also
have gophers.
“They list faculty members, exam schedules,
and other things,” Baker said. “We encourage
people to put things up and to keep the calendars
updated.”
Despite all the new facilities, there is no plan
to increase the student computer use fee.
Nancy Weise, computer operator at the acade
mic computing center, said the computer center
stays busy.
“It’s busiest when assignments are due, but it
is always busy,” she said.
The academic computing center has over 140
computers.
“There really are not enough computers to ac
commodate students,” she said. “When all the
terminals are full, we still have students standing
around waiting.”
Robert Abt, a salesman for Microage, a local
computer dealer, said they get a lot of business
from A&M students.
“I think the University computer labs have a
positive effect on our business, ’ he said. “Stu
dents do stuff on campus and there aren’t always
enough computers. Rather than wait around,
they get personal computers and modems so they
can hook up to us.”
Abt said he is seeing a difference in computer
sales recently.
“I definitely think there has been an increase
in the number of students buying personal com
puters in the last few years,” he said.
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to utilize New Street.
From June 9 through June 24,
Parking Areas 2 and 3 will be
closed.
On June 21, Asbury will reopen
and Houston will close up to Hogg
Street, with plans to reopen in early
July.
“Getting people adjusted to the
change is the biggest problem,”
Holbrook said. “We ve posted signs
but people don’t take notice. They
think since they’ve always parked
there they can continue to do so.”
He said he received a call from a
student’s mother who was upset
about the changes.
“She wanted to know why we
started the construction now, but
PITS didn’t start the construction,”
Holbrook said. “We’re just trying
to accommodate the situation and
find spaces for everyone.”
Holbrook said the changes
shouldn’t cause problems when stu
dents move out at the end of the se
mester.
“If everything works as planned
it shouldn’t be a problem,” he said.
“At that time there will also be
parking in Parking Areas 2 and 3
which are nearby.”
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which affects live oaks. The disease
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tem of the tree and by the live bee
tle. Methods, such as trenching and
chemical injection, often solves the
problem before it spreads to other
trees.
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of Texas and also at the National
Forest Service concerning this prob
lem,” Miles said.
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wild range and brush fires.
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firefighting efforts.
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and providing their expertise in
emergencies, tne Texas Forest Ser
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