The Michigan Daily - Monday, January 25, 1993 - Page 3
ResComp
replaces.
outdated
computers
by James Cho
Rose Bowl serves
as locale to woo
possible students
by Catherine Stellin cost several thousand dollars.
More than 7,000 University stu-
dents returned from winter break to
find the doors to their residence hall
computer centers (ResComp)
locked.
The doors were closed because
outdated computers were being re-
placed with newer models from the
Information Technology Division
(ITD), said Mary Simoni, a com-
puter systems supervisor for ITD
and the ResComp program.
Eight ResComp centers - East
Quad, Martha Cook, South Quad,
West Quad/Cambridge, Alice
Lloyd, Mary Markley, Stockwell,
Bursley - received new computers
with hard drives to replace
computers which require start-up
disks.
Mosher-Jordan will be the next
to receive new computers.
ITD donated a total of 83
Macintosh Ilsis and 43 Macintosh
SEs to ResComp, said Todd
Hollmann, a ResComp
administrator.
ResComp plans to make further
improvements to its facilities.
In Fall of 1993, students will
have access to a new ResComp cen-
ter on the top floor of South Quad.
Still in the planning stage, this site
will "integrate technology and
library resources," Simoni said.
The site will include a library,
computers and academic advising
programs. Simoni added the new
system will deliver articles, video,
audio and graphics directly to the
computer screen to every desktop
computer equipped with an Apple
Talk connection.
MICHELLE GUY/Daiy
LSA first-year student Dan Cooper prepares to enjoy the new computers at East Quadrangle computing center.
The University football team al-
ready brought home one victory
from the Rose Bowl. Now the
University Office of Undergraduate
Admissions hopes to score another.
While the Wolverines were con-
centrating on the game against the
Washington Huskies, the admissions
office had a different goal in mind
- recruiting high school students
from Southern California.
"The Rose Bowl, I think, is more
than just going out for a football
game," said Bob Forman, executive
director of the Alumni Association.
"It's a good time to meet with
prospective students, alumna, and
alumnae, and is an excellent
resource tool for recruitment."
The day before the game, the
admissions office hosted a reception
at the Century Plaza Hotel to allow
prospective students the opportunity
to talk to University students,
faculty, and alumni.
Because members of the
University community make the trip
to Pasadena with the team each year,
the Alumni Association and admis-
sions office said the Rose Bowl is an
obvious center for recruitment.
Southern California is also heav-
ily populated with the type of stu-
dent the University is hoping to
attract.
"The Rose Bowl is a great place
to recruit because California is a
place of wide ethnic diversity and
bright students," Forman said. "It's a
time to let those students know about
the (University)."
Recruitment Office Director
Marilyn McKinney said it is too
early to judge the success of the re-
ception, which is estimated to have
"When you talk about worth for
the University to spend the money to
attract a couple of students, it's hard
to decide," said LSA senior Peter
Brown, who spoke at the reception.
"But these are the students who
are deciding between (the
University) and the Ivy Leagues.
Being able to talk with faculty made
them realize that, at Michigan,
'It gave me a good
impression of the
University. It's a
leading school in the
nation.'
- Brent Chalem
Calif. high school senior
they're not just a number. And we
were able to answer their questions
because we have already experi-
enced what they are just now going
through," Brown said.
Brent Chalem, a high school se-
nior from Westlake Village, Calif., is
waiting to hear from Brown and
Stanford but said the reception rein-
forced his positive image of Ann
Arbor.
"I think it was a good idea to n-
vite students and give them a feel for
the faculty," he said. "It gave me a
good impression of the University.
It's a leading school in the nation."
Chalem said the show of school
spirit impressed him the most. "I re-
ally like the sports, the spirit, the
academics.... The pep rally before
the game and seeing the people go
crazy when the band came out. That
gave me a really good feeling."
However, Betsey Barbour/Helen
Newberry, Couzens, Fletcher,
Oxford, Baits I, Baits II, and
Family Housing will not receive
new computers due to the limited
number available.
The ResComp program was de-
veloped to create learning facilities
for students through a joint venture
with ITD and the Housing Division
in 1984. The goal of ResComp is
"to provide convenient access of
computers to students and to
increase the number of computers
on campus," Simoni said.
"Because there is no computer
literacy course on campus, the
University believes students will
learn at the ResComp centers," she
said.
Students who were able to take
advantage of the new computers
were pleased with the
improvements.
"The (Macintosh) IIsis are so
much better and faster with color
monitors and the latest version of
Microsoft Word. The old (Mac-
intosh) SEs were really slow," said
Katie Miller, first-year LSA student
and Stockwell resident.
LSA first-year student Matthew
Heid, an East Quad resident,
agreed. "They're better than the
other ones - they have better
graphics and better sound," he
said.
But other students expressed
concern about the original cost of
purchasing the new computers.
"It must have cost a lot to up-
grade the computer sites," said
Andi Song, first-year Engineering
student who lives at Mary Markley.
There are 17 ResComp sites on
campus. A total of 206 Macintosh
computers and 20 IBMs are
installed at the ResComp centers.
"ResComp centers have a total
42:1 computer to student ratio,"
Hollmann said.
But with more students bringing
their own computers, ResComp will
expand their services beyond
providing word-processing and
electronic file transfer (e-mail)
services.
"We will provide higher-end
equipment and workstations which
are not readily affordable such as
scanners, laser printers, and other
output peripherals," Hollmann said.
Fighting in Yugoslavia may undo
peace talks and spur fears of war
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) -Croatia
said it ended a surprise offensive that
shattered a year of calm with rebel Serbs,
but fighting raged near the port of Zadar
and there were reports of battles farther
south yesterday.
Fierce fighting was also reported in
eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina, where
Muslim forces are trying to clear
Bosnian Serb troops from a region along
the border with Serbia. Fighting between
Muslims and Croats was reported in
central Bosnia.
The upsurge in fighting and tough
words from leaders of all ethnic factions
in the former Yugoslav federation threat-
ened to undo international peace talks
and heightened fears of a wider war in
the Balkans.
'In Geneva, where leaders of the fac-
tions met to discuss a peace plan for
Bosnia, Yugoslav President Dobrica
Cosic demanded the U.N. Security
Council condemn the Croatian attacks
and insisted Croatia withdraw its soldiers
from areas seized from Serb militants.
Croatian President Franjo Tudjman
said in an interview with Croatian TV
that his troops attacked Friday out of
frustration over Serb refusals to allow re-
construction of a bridge at Maslenica,
northeast of Zadar.
Before Friday, Serbs held one end of
the bridge and Croats the other. The
bridge is on the only land route linking
Zagreb, Croatia's capital, with the
Dalmatia region along the Adriatic coast.
Croatian troops apparently seized the
other end of the bridge and made other,
gains in territory occupied by the rebels.
"This action is now over," Tudjman
said in the TV interview. But he said
Croatian troops would not give up their
gains.
He added that the attack was a warn-
ing to Croatian Serbs to submit to his
government's authority or be defeated
militarily.
Serbs, who account for 12 percent of
Croatia's population, captured one-third
of Croatian territory in a seven-month
war in Yugoslavia. At least 10,000 peo-
ple are thought to have died in the fight-
ing, which was halted by a truce last
January.
Serb forces raided U.N.-guarded
warehouses on Saturday and took heavy
weapons they had surrendered under last
year's U.N-sponsored cease-fire negoti-
ated by special envoy Cyrus Vance.
Bosnian refugees hold up boxes of food donated by the European Community in the Yugoslav
town of Bajina Basta yesterday.
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Student groups
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Q Environmental Action Coali-
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ral Resources, Room 1040, 7
p.m.
Q Indian American Students As-
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Michigan League, Room A, 7
p.m.
Q Newman Catholic Student Fel-
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Student Fellowship, 331 Th-
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Q Shorin-Ryu Karate-Do Club,
practice, beginners welcome,
CCRB, Martial Arts Room,
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Q Society for Creative Anachro-
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group, cardweaving, workshop,
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Building, Room 1311.
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Q U-M Students of Objectivism,
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lecture, Michigan Union, Room
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Room 1400, 3 p.m.
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Rackham, Amphitheater, 4-5
p.m.
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8:45 p.m.
Q Disc, Films and Writings on
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