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Caught in the net
Students look for ways to utilize campus technology
Amy Protas
e Battalion
"^he age of the computer has
finally arrived. In the past,
computers were mostly
sed by businesses and comput-
|||y r nerds spending hours playing
^ ames. Now, getting on-line and
ccessing the world is a wide-
b (7rak|P read P ract ice.
Finding an exact definition of
uiness ntj [, e Internet is close to impossible.
Sean Geoghegan, the Academ-
tions Computing Center help desk
eras til sector, said the best way to find
utis to get on any small net-
rork and branch out.
“People come in and say they
ed Hesl vant ^ get on internet,” Ge-
critiqui '^a 11 said - “ If the y want to
4 'bat, they can just stand on a
omputer. It’s a conglomeration
if networks.”
The scope of the Internet
stretches across 83 countries and
indudes 20 million people and
over 2.2 million computers.
The Internet may be the fu
ture of education. Professors at
are already utilizing the In
ternet for their teaching . Stu
dents can access their syllabuses,
dass notes, exams and grades
through the World Wide Web.
The amount of information
the Internet provides draws in
many users.
Gena Garrett, a junior indus-
"People automatically
have a fear of change.
The human element won't
be lost, though. We need
to use this wonderful
technology."
— Michael D. Edwards
CIS employee
trial distribution major, said she
can access professors through the
Internet.
“I like it because my professor
puts his notes on the World Wide
Web,” Garrett said. “I no longer
have to go to Notes and Quotes
and buy them.”
Michael D. Edwards, a Com
puting and Information Services
employee, said this move toward
education through computers
tends to scare traditionalists.
“People automatically have a
fear of change,” Edwards said.
“The human element won’t be
lost, though. We need to use this
wonderful technology to en
hance education. There will still
be human teaching; the
computers will just be a
supplement.”
The information on the In
ternet is not limited to tradi
tional education. Anyone
“surfing the net” can find
facts on everything from jug
gling to 42 essays about the
significance of the white
lodge and black lodge on
Twin Peaks.
Greg Small, a senior in
dustrial distribution major,
said he heard his friends
talking about the Internet
and had to find out for himself
what all the hype was about.
“I love the Internet, because it
has so much outdoors information
on it,” Small said. “If I want a loca
tion of a climb or a biking trail, I
can find it on the Internet.”
As some users have found, the
appeal of the Internet can be
come a problem if consumes too
much time.
“People can even get addicted
to the Internet,” Geoghegan said.
“I love tasteless jokes and it
takes a long time for me to read
them. That’s time I have to spend
dedicated to the computer.”
Electronic mail is the most
widely-used function. People can
send mail to one another through
the Internet.
Lynn Brunnet, a senior com
puter engineering major, said she
uses E-Mail constantly.
“E-mail comes in handy espe
cially with my boyfriend co-oping
in Austin,” Brunnet said. “It’s a
cheap and easy way to talk to
friends and family all over the
country and world.”
Sean McDonnell, a junior me
chanical engineering major, said
he started using the Internet
when he was working as an in
tern in San Antonio. He said
everyone should have some work
ing knowledge of the Internet.
“The Internet is about to ex
plode,” McDonnell said. “I think
it’s going to be the future of com
merce and education. Everybody
is going to have to know how to
use the Internet.”
There are five general comput
ing help desks offered by the CIS
in the computer labs around cam
pus. The Networking Help Desk is
in 133 Blocker.
■
The Internet is a massiue
network, spanning 83
countries and linking 20
million people and more
than 2.2 million
computers.
Fact courtesy of CIS
pi,
Higher learning
Brad Thompson, a rock
performer, is playing at The
Tap.
Saturday
MSC Film Society is presenting Batman Forever in Rudder
Auditorium Friday and Saturday at 7:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
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Thursday
jfondue Monks, a rock band, is
playing at 3rd Floor Cantina.
Willie Jaye, a rock performer, is
opening.
Peeping Tom, a cover band
{with a few original songs, is
playing at The Tap.
Carolyn Wonderland &
Imperial Monkeys, a rock band
jbm, is playing at The Dixie
Theatre. Breedloveis opening.
Friday
Blue Midnight, a blues band, is
performing at Sweet Eugene's
House of Java.
Confederate Railroad, a
country band, is playing at
Denim & Diamonds.
Dixie Chicks , a country and
western band from Dallas, is
playing at 3rd Floor Cantina.
Since the trio was formed seven
years ago, it has progressed
from playing on the streets to
playing at the 1993 Tennessee
Presidential Inauguration Ball
I for President Clinton. Stop the
Truck, a country band, is
opening.
Chris Duarte, a Texas rock
performer from Austin, is
I playing at The Dixie Theatre.
Gravy, a blues rock band from
Alabama, is opening.
Robert Earl Keen, a country
performer, is playing at Wolf
Pen Creek Amphitheater. Sarah
Hickman is opening.
Luck of the Draw, a country
band, is playing at The Texas
Hall of Fame.
Bobby Schilling, a classic rock
performer, is at Fitzwilly's.
Big Apple Trio, a jazz band, is
performing at Sweet Eugene's
House of Java.
Fuerza Latina, HYPE, Yayo
Castillo y Rumors, Xelencia
and the Bade Folkorico from
San Antonio will be celebrating
the first annual Diez Y Seis on
the streets of downtown Bryan
all day. The festival will also
have food and craft booths.
House of Dreams, a cover
band from San Antonio, is
playing at The Tap.
Texas Fever, a country band, is
playing at The Texas Hall of
Fame.
Wooden-Ride, a classic rock
cover band, is playing at
Fitzwilly's.
Pizza patrons can earn honorary degrees as
they achieve a worldly drinking education
From playmate to playwright ...
Phoebe Legere (above), a rock performer, is playing at The
Dixie Theatre Saturday night. Legere has a four-and-a-half
octave range and is a cabaret pianist, a playwright and
she has written an opera. Legere also posed for an eight-
page layout for Playboy in 1988.
Josh Alan Band is opening.
By Jan Higginbotham
The Battalion
T here are experts in every field — politics, re
ligion, sports, science and beer. Beer? It’s not
the most likely field to spend time studying
for expertise. But College Station residents have
the unique opportunity to become certified experts
in global beer drinking.
Double Dave’s Pizza Works offers the Global
Beer Experts Tour for individuals interested in be
coming beer experts.
The process is simple — Double Dave’s employ
ees give customers a card, and each time cus
tomers drink one of the restaurant’s 69 available
beers from 11 countries their cards are stamped.
After drinking 60 beers, customers be
come official beer experts.
Elizabeth Graves, a senior po
litical science major, is 15
beers into the tour, having
started three weeks ago.
“I just wanted to see
what the beers from other
countries taste like,”
Graves said. “Plus, you get
a free t-shirt.”
Beer experts are hon
ored by Double Dave’s
with a t-shirt and plaque.
The names of experts
are placed on plaques in
restaurants where they finish
the tour.
After becoming an expert,
beer drinkers ca^i go on to become
beer masters after completing the
tour a second time. When drinkers finish
the tour a third time, they earn a doctorate in
global beer drinking.
Gary Younger, manager of Double Dave’s on Uni
versity Drive, said it is not uncommon to see repeat
performers on the beer tour.
“There is one guy that has finished the tour five
times,” Younger said. “He’s trying to convince us
now that we should start giving people tenure for
finishing the tour several times.”
Graves said she plans to finish the tour at least
three times before May.
Jay Thornton, manager of Double Dave’s on
George Bush Drive, said he sees a lot of regulars in
the restaurant who finish the tour numerous times.
“I’ve seen several people finish at least twice,”
Thornton said. “We also have one guy who has
earned his doctorate twice.”
The beer tour has become a challenge for many
Double Dave’s patrons.
Thornton said he has seen people determined to
finish the tour.
“Once people hear about the tour and get start
ed on it,” he said, “they’re usually very determined
to finish it.”
Groups of beer drinkers often attempt to finish
the tour together, Thornton said.
“We had five roommates come in one
day, and together they drank all 60
beers,” he said. “They had their ad
dress put on the plaque.”
But fame is not usually a mo
tivation. Many of those individu
als who complete the tour pre-
_ fer to remain anonymous.
Bl H “The Three Amigos” made
HI H their mark on the University
B f Drive Double Dave’s, Younger
W |*sf said.
V Ijjl “We had three guys come in
and start the tour at opening
Sr time,” he said. “They finished all
f 60 beers in one day. They had us
put ‘The Three Amigos’ on the
plaque. They were pretty drunk and
even got a sick, so we had a delivery dri
ver take them home.”
After The Three Amigos’ global beer tour,
Younger said Double Dave’s decided to limit beer
drinkers to four beers per day. Customers often do
not realize that the imported beers are much
stronger than American beer.
Younger said the beer tour is an experience
everyone should try.
“It’s like a social event,” Younger said. “You get
a couple of people together and sit around and
drink beer. It gives you a unique beer experience.”