COMPUTERS Dorms moving from parties to computers The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 12, 1985 - Page 5 Budget mekdnrma goes on WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress' deadlines for action on separate budget melodrama is heading for legislation that would increase the another climax this week as government's borrowing authority legislators clamber to rescue Uncle and continue the flow of money to Sam from the dual fiscal perils of un- government offices through a stopgap precedented default and government measure. agencies closing their doors for lack of money. Both measures have become After taking off yesterday in obser- tangled in the partisan feud over rival vance of Veterans Day, Congress is budget plans passed by the House and returning to work today to confront Senate. By EVE BECKER In past years, University residence halls have primarily been associated with such activities as eating, sleeping, and partying. Computing, as a rule, rarely popped into a person's mind - until now, perhaps. Backed by a recent regental decision to assess a mandatory com- puter fee from all students, the University has gone ahead with plans to increase the number of workstations in residence halls. WHILE SOME halls have had a few terminals available for student use, a lone Decwriter or Ontel terminal has never really qualified as "computing for the masses." According to Jeff Ogden, associate director of the Computing Center, the University expects to install 150 Apple Macintosh computers in residence halls by January. The terminals will be distributed between all halls except Betsy Bar- bour and Helen Newberry. All the Macintoshs will be linked to MTS, the University's central computer system, Ogden said. The Computing Center has discussed having a computer program in the residence halls for several years, said Ogden. "It's been an ongoing discussion to try to find space," he said. When the University committed itself to installing 1,500 computers campus wide in two and a half years, "the whole (residence hall) project became more real." BUT THE plan to put the workstations in the halls goes beyond just turning the computers on and let- ting the students in, said Marvin Par- nes, assistant director of housing. "We're trying to expose all studen- ts, from liberal arts to engineering, to how computers can help them," Par- nes said. "We're looking further down the line." In order to help gauge student con- cerns over the project, the housing ,division and the Computing Center distributed several thousand surveys to students in residence halls asking them what kind of programs and training they'd like to see made available. OGDEN SAID the purpose of the survey was to "get a little better idea of the background students have." Project coordinator for the Com- puting Center, Ellen Hoffman, added, "We're really trying to get student in- put, but it's not that easy. There's no central place we can go to get that feedback." Since the beginning of the fall term, Mosher-Jordan has set up a pilot computer program to experiment with different teaching methods for the residence hall program. Computers have been brought into resident staff's rooms and training sessions were set up to familiarize staff and students with the computers. The computer room for Mosher- Jordan has been in construction for two weeks and should house ap- proximately ten computers by January. ONCE THE stations are set up, training will begin in other residence halls. Hoffman said terminals haven't been installed in other halls yet because they're still experimenting with educational programs in Mosher- Jordan. "We don't want to make em- pty promises," she said by having the computers without any established programs. Susan Harris, building director for Mosher-Jordan said that although the lack of a computer room makes work "awkward and inefficient," the program has been received well by Mosher-Jordan residents. "More people will be interested on- ce we have the settings here," she said, adding that they will extend their workshops to include subjects like resume writing on the computer. Though residence halls appear to be the first beneficiaries of the University commitment to improving computer resources, officials claim this is only part of the program. "The residence hall program is only part of what is going on," Hof- fman said. And as a result of the program, more terminals should become available at other campus computing centers, she said. 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