"W w -wr -W "W -W T 14mr- MICH.ELLANY Confessions. of a short college bowler INTERVIEW Greg Marks Info, tech head says computer use will soon be pervasive' on campus Greg Marks has served as the University's deputy vice-provost for information technology since the position was established in 1984. Before being named to the post, Marks worked at the Institute for Social Research and was involved with its computing activities. Marks is respected in academic circles for his knowledge of the information technology field. He was interviewed by Daily staffer Steve Blonder. Daily: As we are in the midst of a technological age and an age in which computers will soon be the norm, what is the greatest challenge facing the University? Marks: I think the greatest challenge is really adapting to the changes; adapting to the potentialities of problems that are created by the new technology. The technology that helps you work with information is just central to the future and is going to become more and more pervasive. I think on the research side, there's also going to be a lot of change. This is a research university. Faculty members will continually get grants in their own interests and motivations. More and more research will be done using simulations on the computer - creating a real environment on the computer rather than going out and doing experiments in laboratories. Nobody builds wind tunnels and puts planes in them to a significant degree anymore but rather this is being done on computers. The process of coping with that change is largely resource allocation. While to some degree it's a question of finding the money for the computers, to a much larger degree it's finding the slice of time on the part of faculty members so that they can devote some attention to changes in the way they do things and teach their courses. D: To what degree should the University become computerized?, M: I think that more and more use of information technology is going to happen at the University. It's going to be pervasive. There's kind of a classic test of when something is an essential part of an institution. When you take it away, the institution can't run any more. If in an engineering college you told them they had no computers to do anything, then you might as well shut the engineering college down. Gradually you will see that running throughout the University. I don't think we can imagine all of the kinds of things taking place with information technology ten years from now. I do know and I feel that people right now already have enough really good ideas of what they would like to do with the technology to keep all of the available resources busy for the next ten years. Our imagination and our understanding of what we could do that is worthwhile is already so far ahead of our ability to actually put it in place that we've got a lot to do. D: In addition to the spread in information technology, what other kinds of changes do you foresee over the next several years? See INTERVIEW, Page 9 I USED TO DREAM of be coming a placekicker for the Michigan Wolverines. I'm a little over 5'6". It was clear to me that I was never going to make it as quar - terback, or a lineman, and I'm much too slow to make it as a wide receiver or safety. But placekicking always seemed like a possibility. I imagined that if I went into the backyard and practiced for three or four hours every day, that I'd be able to walk onto the practice field and endear myself to Bo with my. ability to drill that sucker home from seventy yards back. I'm a senior now, and I doubt that I've ever given Mike Gillette a moment's worry. I do still have four years of eligibility left, but I still haven't practiced much. So the Rose Bowl, in which I've kicked hundreds of crucial dream field goals, is a fading aspiration. Be - sides, I've re-focused myself. I'm out to letter in College Bowl, "the Varsity sport of the mind." Over the past couple weekends, around 160 students have locked horns in various rooms of the Michigan Union. Armed with buz - zers, speed, and years of infor - OFF THE WALL Dudes of the Universe unite!! -Graduate Library Brothers, we're going to have to learn to RESPECT our sisters in thought, words and deeds. -GraduateLibrary "God is dead." -Nietzsche "Nietzsche is dead." -God --Mason Hall BOB IS A WAGON! (replies) I thought Chuck was a wagon! I thought your tail was a waggin! Reagan is a braggin'. All I know is that while I'm reading these "jokes" I'm a gaggin'. Jill is a wench! What kind of wench? a box end wench? or a socket wench? or an open end wench? 9/16, 3/8, or 3/4? maybe a monkey wench She's a pipe wench or an adjustable wench -Graduate Library Say you Say me Say another pronoun, Lionel -GraduateLibrary mation processing, they have battled to be the first to answer academic (and sometimes, not-so- academic) trivia questions. I played the high-school equivalent of College Bowl, and my team won the Class-D Championship, and beat the Class-B Champs, but we lost in the finals. I've competed in UAC's intra-scholastic tournament every year since then, hoping to erase that painful, "I coulda been a contendah"-type memory. I'm not a fantastic college bow - ler. I'm good. I can pull my weight as a quarter of an evenly-talented four-player team. And my teams, up until this year, have finished in the middle of the pack. But this year, by happenstance, I ended up on a team with, among others, Chuck Forrest, the law student who won the $100,000 Jeopardy Tournament of Chain - pions. As a good player, I scored in the high forties (out of one-hundred possible points) on the pre- tournament seeding quiz. Chuck scored eighty-two. Our team's com - bined score was ninety-five. That means my teammates, Don Rubin, Steve Irish, and I together knew thirteen questions that Chuck didn't. Don and Steve are good players, too. But Chuck's really good. Really, really good. How good is he? Under extreme pressure, when given the Russian element name "Kurchatovium," he can tell you that it's element number 104. You could tell me it's also Rutherfordium and Unnilquad - ium, and I'd be stumped, and I had two years of Russian. How good is he? When told that a word meaning "chemical change caused by heat" was made up from the Greek roots for "fire" and "a loosening" Chuck, momentarily stumped, and getting no help from his teammates, made up a word. Fortunately, the word had been made up before, in precisely the same way Chuck made it up. "Py - rolysis" nabbed us some pretty hefty bonus points. Now there may be some whiz- See LOGIE, Page 9 FILM a wo3 : s x 4 The family, clockwise from top left: Michael Tucker, Julie Kavner, Dianne Wiest, Joy Newman, Renee Lippin, Josh Mostel, Leah Carrey, Seth Green, and 14 Radio Days': Woody Allen at his most nost By Kurt Serbus merely a loosely-tied string of made sure the ride was fun, no nostalgic anecdotes. Some are matter how intensely personal his WOODY ALLEN'S NEW FILM touching, some are funny, most are material got. This year's model, Radio Days was released last week, not. 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As for me, I'll strings of gags, Radio Days is tuned to the audience; he always take Manhattan. U Mia Farrow's effort is convincing. .-. - - - - - ~ .. . .. - .W ~ ~~fh r ~t~ LIL~ LI UII/ , ,Y 0 PRINT FROM THE PAST DAILY HLE PHOTO "Oh boy, college is even more fun than I thought it would be!" Summer orientation, 1965, featured chess matches. THE DAILY ALMANAC 20 years ago - February 7, 1967: "Seventy-six years of Editorial Freedom," said the masthead, but Daily editors were wondering if the slogan was really true. The Board in Control of Student Publications voted unani - mously to undertake an inves- tigation of The Daily's policies and practices. Calls for the probe were issued in response to a "crisis" brought on by severai controversial Daily articles, including one disclosing University of California- Berkeley Chancellor Roger Heyns' possible interest in becoming pres- ident at the University of Michigan. An editorial criticizing aspects of the University's $55 million fund drive was also seen as possibly "harmful to the University and some individuals." PAGE'8*$ ~ .... WEEKE ND/FEBRUARY-6, 1987 rrs nci-,v'k lDV KT ,I O