MIS Holds User Meeting

On February 25^th, the MIS department of YU held an open meeting for all users of the computer systems. The meeting was billed as not having an agenda, and attendees were encouraged to bring up topics they wished to discuss. An email was sent to all Main Campus students and faculty inviting them to the meeting.

The meeting had a very low turnout; about five users showed up. MIS was represented by George Sullivan, Assistant Director of MIS, Paul Scrudato, Assistant Manager of Academic Computing, Dominick DeRosa, Manager of Networking and Research for MIS, and Joe McGoldrick.

The first topic that was discussed was the year-long delay in responding to the Computer Science Club's proposal for having an officially-sponsored student-run UNIX server in YU, connected to the YU network. Sullivan reported that the Network Planning Committee, housed at Albert Einstein, still did not trust undergraduate students to run the system, and were looking into housing the server outside of YU.

The major topic of discussion was the poor state of functionality in the computer labs. Scrudato explained how the current system for fixing the computers works, but acknowledged that the system was not perfect. He strongly encouraged all users who discover non-working computers to report the problems to labhelp@ymail.yu.edu. He also mentioned that they were looking into ways to obliterate the problems caused by the public file storage system, known as the L drive. He noted that his general policy is to delete programs or setup programs that he finds on the L drive, but keep all documents or things that look like people's work.

All problems, concerns, and questions regarding the University computer facilities should be addressed to labhelp@ymail.yu.edu.