November 19, 1985 (vol. 96, iss. 54) • Page Image 5
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…Page 5 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 19, 1985 COMPUTERS Greek police shoot boy, violent rioting results Computer conference lets students enter their views ATHENS, Greece (AP…
… government, students around campus have banded together to express their views. But, instead of rallies and public forums, these students are using computers to communicate. Though computer conferencing has…
… been around for a few years, Univer- sity students have usually shied away from participating in the conferences simply because their computer time was allotted for course work. SINCE SEPTEMBER, however…
…, the University has offered every student $50 worth of computing time per term on the University computer system, MTS. Dubbed request ac- counts, they have allowed the establishment of an MTS computer…
… about a con- ference by, of, and for students," said James Heaton one of the conference organizers. WHEN THE University obtained another computer for MTS and decided to let students have the "free…
…" computer time, the concept of a student conference took shape. MEET: STUDENTS currently has Once you get in (MEET:STUDENTS), it's really worth it. You can't stop - you get addicted. -James Heaton…
… spectrum of com- munication...about 10 percent (of the users) are not computer science and engineering people," Anderson said. A lot of the problem, Bernstein said, is due to the fact that many people are…
… afraid of computers. "The stigma that computers are just for math and computer science students is crap," Bernstein said. "(Computers) can be used to build bonds between people." ANOTHER PROBLEM with…
… getting non-science majors involved, is that to obtain a request account, a student has to trek up to the North Campus Computing Center. "It's hard to get students up to Nor- th Campus," said Jimi Lee…