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IT&S release the FOB, and
printing restrictions
Scott Smith
STAFFWRITER
Leah Kraus, IT&S Direc
tor of User Services, slammed
a stack of over 650 printed
pages down onto her desk in
front of me.
"This was printed from a
student's room last semester
and never picked up," she said,
pointing to the huge stack of
paper with the title "Price
Line.com Annual Report" em
bossed onto the top sheet.
In a departmental study
conducted from Nov. 16 to
March 12, IT&S found that "13
percent of the student users
printed 46 percent of all stu
dent pages...with two student
users printing more than 3000
pages each," said Director Rob
Whitnell. Server upgrades al
lowed the department to moni
tor users and gave IT&S a ba
sis for their new system quota.
"Each student receives a
printing and copying alloca
tion of 400 pages for each fall
or spring semester and 200
pages for each summer in
which he or she is registered."
"I want to make sure that
everyone knows that the ser
vices (copying/printing) are
still free," said Kraus. "This
quota just ensures that each
student is responsible for his
or her own usage."
In order to better facili
tate these new measures,
IT&S has embraced a new form
of technology using what were
initially referred to as FOB's.
What is a FOB exactly? "A
FOB is actually the little
pocket in your jeans above the
regular pocket, but now it
seems that 'button' may be the
more popular term for these,"
said Kraus.
Instead of using old faith
ful, the smart card, this new
copier/printer system utilizes
the student button. "The
Smart Card copiers we previ
ously had were difficult to
maintain, the hardware piece
that accepted the card on
some machines didn't work," ,
said Kraus. "Since the copy
machines weren't working,
people were printing instead
of copying. This created two
issues: people needing to
print, and taking advantage of
the system, and people need
ing to copy and not being able
to. This new printer/copier
technology allows us to ad
dress both needs."
Originally the FOB's
manufacturer was supposed to
supply the college with one
button for each student, in
cluding CCE students. How
ever, due to back orders, the
company could not meet the
college's original order.
Fortunately, this may
have been to the department's
advantage. Creating a first
come, first-serve atmosphere
All the college in three
fourths the time
Alice Sharp
STAFF WRITER
It's shorter. It's cheaper.
It's ambitious. It's a new three
year degree program that
Guilford will launch next fall.
Designed with the super
motivated in mind, the program
will allow students to fulfill the
requirements needed to get a
bachelor's degree in three years
instead of the usual four or five.
Participants will take a full aca
demic course load for three
years and two sessions of sum
mer school.
"This is not Guilford lite,"
said Randy Doss, Dean of En
rollment. Interested students
need to know exactly where
they want to go, be it graduate
school or into a certain career.
"You can't come in and say,
'I don't know what I want to do,'"
said Kathy Adams, Interim Aca
demic Dean. "You can't try two
o£;three majors in this pro
gram."
Interested students will
declare by the end of their
freshman year if they want the
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gives the faculty and student
workers a smaller work load
at an already over-burdened
time of year.
Although IT&S has had
complaints, some students,
like sophomore Sarah Crane,
are glad they work so hard.
"The IT&S staff really helped
me out last year when a had
some problems with my
computer...four different
people came up to my room to
help me fix it."
"Without the help of the
student workers, it would be
impossible," said Kraus, "I
just want everyone to know
three-year plan. Then, they will
meet regularly with advisors to
help them stay focused on their
specific goals. Changing majors
later on would result in a student
losing all college-based financial
aid.
At first, biology, psychology,
business management, and com
puter information will be the
only available majors. Others
will be added as interest accumu
lates.
Not only does this plan
mean one less year of cafeteria
food and keggers, it's also
cheaper than a traditional four
year degree. For every one class
in summer school a person pays
for, they get a second one free.
Normally, four classes of summer
school will cost $3,200. For stu
dents in the three-year program,
the same amount of classes will
cost around $1,600.
"Over a four-year period a
full-time student in a state uni
versity will pay about $36,000 in
tuition, fees, room and board,"
Doss estimates. "Our program
will cost a three-year student
about $39,000 after financial aid
based on need and achievement
is included."
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how hard they have been work
ing. All the credit needs to go
to them."
And busy they have been.
After adding approximately
250 new computers to Bauman
201 and dealing with routine
problems, the IT&S staff has
trained every first-year stu
dent in a total of 22 sessions,
each lasting one hour and a
half.
"They (IT&S) have helped
me out a lot. Without the
training class, it would have
taken me longer to learn about
the system," said first-year
student Dominic Graham.
Guilford hopes that the
increased intensity and speed,
and the bargain class prices of
this program will attract "ex
ceptionally motivated stu
dents" as Kathy Adams puts it.
"It's a win-win situation," she
said. "Students in the three
year program will enrich our
intellectual community while
Guilford provides them with
the opportunity to achieve
their career goals more quickly
than other schools."
To qualify for the pro
gram a candidate must have at
least a 1300 SAT score and a
3.5 grade point average in high
school, along with some Ad
vanced Placement or Interna
tional Baccalaureate credits.
Though the school is
enthusiastic about the idea,
some students are dubious.
"It's hard enough to finish here
at Guilford in four years," says
sophomore Kate Hardy.
First-year student
Joanna Beer is more optimis
tic. "I think it wouldn't work
for most students, but for cer
tain people, I think it's a good
idea."