Page 4 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 The Guilfordian News 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." September 14, 2001 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."

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