Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 21, 1986 IN BRIEF- COMPUTERS New p hones will aid computing By CAROLINE MULLER Computer users could benefit the mnost from the University's decision to install its own telephone system throughout all of its three campus, branches. Besides providing a low-cost, long, distance service, the $31.8 million project will furnish all University buildings with the option to access iirectly into the central computer network - UMnet - without tying up telephone lines. THE RESULT will mean more users, as more students will be able to use computers from residence hall rooms, or faculty from ad- ministrative offices, said Christine Wendt, co-ordinator of the Users Ser- vices for Merit Computer Network. "It could mean computing all over campus will have to be expanded," she said.- In response to the break-up of AT&T, the University regents ap- proved a contract with Centel Business Systems in the summer of 1984, to equip and install a University- owned and operated telecom- munications system, replacing the current CENTREX system which is leased from Michigan Bell and AT&T. The primary motive behind the regents' move was to save the costs of long distance service, as economists predicted that rates would skyrocket, particularly with AT&T, said Stuart Robinovitz, data network specialist at the University's Telecommunications Systems office. THE new system, called SL100, will of- fer the special feature of Least Cost Routing, and will employ a computer to determine at the time of a call which long distance telephone com- pany to use, based on cost and ef- ficiency, said Renee Frost, Coor- dinator for information exchange at Telecommunications Systems. "We tried to create the best, most flexible system that would try to allow for growth in the future," Frost said. The data capability will be installed in the form of a dual modular jack, which will provide two outlets - one for a telephone, the other for a com- puter. The duo jack will be installed wherever there is currently a telephone outlet. IN TERMS of student rooms, the duo jack will allow computer owners the option of installing their equipment into the SL100 telecommunications system, at a very low cost. Robinovitz estimated a fee of a few dollars per month would be charged to students who wanted to take advantage of the option. Although the data capability ac- counts for one-third of the $31.8 million, the actual installation of the wire, which is in progress now, affor- ds the University an extremely low- cost way of expanding the computer service, Robinovitz said. According to the October edition of a monthly pamphlet published by the Telecommunications Systems office of the University, the cost of the new system will be recovered in nine years or less. After nine years, the University should save more than $500,000 per month. The University paid for the contract by selling off bonds. John Van Roekel, director of CAEN, the University's Computer Aided Engineering Network, at- tributes the low cost of the data system to the simultaneous telephone rewiring. "WE're really just piggy-backing on the new telephone system," he said. Although he said there wouldn't be any change in the engineering classrooms, as most already have their own direct link into the network, Van Roekel said the faculty and ad- ministrative offices would be im- proved. "We have a lot of computers, but we want more," Van Roekel said, and cited an example of Dartmouth College, where every room on the campus has the wiring for computer access, both large-scale and for Macintoshes. "I DON'T think it's premature (on this campus) at all," he said. "It's a goal to have better computer access for U of M students. There are ar- tificial limits to computer use, like people not wanting to walk across campus to use them. Let our limits be economics, not that we don't have the wiring in the walls," he said. The new computer wiring will provide a speed of 19,200 bits per second initially, Robinovitz said, but he added that the rate could even be faster. Previously, computer owners with their own $200-500 modem system allowed for only a maximum speed of 2,400 bits per second. Making the high-speed wiring available is "reasonably new" among U.S. universities and businesses, said Robinovitz, who added that the 1980s are being called "The Decade of the Private Phone System" among colleges and businesses. The SL100 system is already finished and being used at the new University Hospital and A. Alfred Taubman Health Care Center. The data wiring is currently working in the Business Administration building and Lorch Hall, Robinovitz said. The main part of the campus is still under construction, with half of the area ex- pected to switch over on March 1, the other half by May 10. AVAILA " BLE NOW TML PASCAL The first native code Pascal compiler for the Macintosh! 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Tribal rivalries have beset the nation since it won independence from Britain in 1967. Bombs explode in Durban JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Five bombs exploded in Durban in a period of minutes yesterday night, damaging a power pylon in an ap- parent guerrilla attempt to black out part of the Indian Ocean port, police said. No one was injured and the pylon remained in service, said police spokesman Capt. Winston Heunis. Another police report said officers shot and killed a black man yester- day when a crowd stoned a patrol in KwaNdebele, a black tribal area nor- theast of Johannesburg and Pretoria. More than 1,000 people have been killed in 16 months of violence against apartheid, the race laws through which the government reserves privilege for South Africa's 5 million whites and denies rights to the 24 million blacks. The army said yesterday it had discovered two or more land mines on a farm that abuts South Africa's border with black-ruled Botswana. A white man and his daughter-in-law were killed when their vehicle struck a mine on the farm two weeks ago. Off icials credit seatbelts with 19% decrease in deaths. LANSING, Mich. - Michigan's mandatory seatbelt law was credited yesterday with contributing to a 19 percent decline in traffic deaths last month when compared with December 1984. Provisional State Police figures indicate that there were 83 deaths in December among vehicle occupants with seat belts available, compared with 102 deaths a year earlier. For the six months since the seatbelt law took effect, there were 495 such deaths. That compares with 557 fatalities reported during January through June of 1984. "We are very happy about the news contained in the Michigan State Police report," said Dr. Robert D. Burton, chairman of the Michigan Coalition for Safety Belt Use. "On the six-month anniversary of the safety-belt law, nothing could make us happier than to hear that safety belts are, indeed, saving lives." U.S. says Russia not serious about Afghanistan .withdrawal WASHINGTON - The administration has concluded that Moscow is not serious about negotiating a timed withdrawal from Afghanistan, despite signals from the Soviets during the Geneva summit, U.S. officials said yesterday. The administration's conclusion paves the way for a new request to Congress for continued covert U.S. military aid for the Afghan rebel groups, based in Pakistan. Secretary of State George Shultz reported after the November summit in Geneva that the Soviet leadership had made some "interesting" remarks about withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan. In light of the Soviet comments at Geneva, the United States last month offered to become a "guarantor" to a settlement in Afghanistan that would include a Soviet military withdrawal and the safe return of all refugees. Libya trains suicide squads TRIPOLI, Libya - The official news agency said yesterday that Libyan leader Col. Moammar Khadafy has ordered the training of suicide squads to conduct guerrilla operations. In a brief dispatch, Libya's JANA news agency said Khadafy accepted demands from the Libyan peoples' congresses "for military training and formation of suicide squads as volunteers to conduct guerrilla operations in response to the American provocations and the hostile stance toward the Arab nation." JANA did not say where or when Khadafy made the statement. It also did not say where the suicide squads might be used. President Reagan has said he has "irrefutable" proof of Libyan in- volvement in the Dec. 27 terrorist attacks at the Rome and Vienna airpor- ts in which 19 people, including five Americans, died. About 120 people were injured. He has ordered all U.S. citizens out of Libya and all U.S. companies to stop doing business in Libya. Khadafy has accused the United States of assembling warships in the. Mediterranean for a possible attack on Libya and warned that an attack' would be answered by attacks inside America. "If America commits aggression against us, then we will commit aggression against it, inside America itself," JANA quoted Khadafy as saying earlier this month. "In the event of an attack, we can reach any place, not with aircraft I carriers nor with the bombers, but with suicide squads," JANA quoted him as telling reporters at that time. 7 I 1 7 HOURS: Mon.-Thurs. 10-6:30 Fri. 10-9 Sat. 10-5 Sun. closed Discount Computer Software and Supplies 322 S. STATE ST. (inside the Jewelry Exchange) 663-4788 U' delays collection of tax (Continued from Page 1) Grossbart contends that the University is not really paying teaching assistants so they should not be taxed. "They're no more paying for our tuition than a Hudson's employer is paying for his workers' clothes when he gives him a 10 percent discount... we still don't believe they have the legal authority to withhold taxes. 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