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Tuesday, October 31, 2000
Israelis Fire on Arafat's Office in Retaliation
The Associated Press
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JERUSALEM - In one of the most
intense Israeli assaults in a month of
fighting, attack helicopters unleashed
missile attacks Monday night on offices
of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s
Fatah movement, strikes meant to retal
iate for the killings of two Israelis.
Campus Calendar
Today
5 p.m. - The Lab! Theatre presents:
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Admission is free.
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Wednesday, November 1, 2000
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Israel fired warnings to clear the four
offices in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
before firing missiles, Israel television
said. The missiles set off fires, but there
were no immediate reports of injuries.
The two killings were the first Israeli
deaths in and around Jerusalem since
the violence began last month.
At least 45 Palestinians were wound
Healthy Students Behaviors on the 2nd
floor of Student Health Service.
Call 962-9355 for more information.
Wednesday
11:40 ajn. - WALK THIS WAY!
Join the National Pan Hellenic Council
members in their walk to die polls.
NPHC welcomes all students to join in
their walk. Meet in the Pit - the walk will
start at 11:50 a.m and go through campus,
ending at Morehead Planetarium.
Join the walk and show the strength
ed Monday.
“I don’t know what the Israelis are
trying to achieve through this language,”
Palestinian spokesman Saeb Erekat told
army radio. “Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Barak said that violence will not
be rewarded or achieve anything. The
prime minister needs to listen to him
self.”
of the student community through vot
ing. Every vote counts!
7 p.m. - The UNC men’s basket
ball team will hold JV tryouts in the
Smith Center.
Thursday
7 p.m. -UEISO-A: The North
Carolina Graduate Employee and
Adjunct Faculty Union will be having
a general body meeting in 301
Greenlaw Hall. All those interested are
invited to attend.
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Tuesday, October 31,2000
Volume 108, Issue 104
RO. Box 3257, Chape) Hill, NC 27515
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News
Registration Glitches Fixed
By Tyler Maland
Staff Writer
As underclassmen prepare to sign
up for spring classes, University officials
say problems that have plagued regis
tration in previous weeks will not reap
pear.
For the second consecutive weekend,
students battled with denied computer
access and busy signals as personal
identification number confusion and
crashing servers delivered new frustra
tions to student registration.
The heavy congestion and higher traf
fic within the Student Central service is
due to the new mandate that all students
of the same class can register on the same
Saturday. The old system required half of
each class to register Saturday and the
other half to register Sunday.
And although the new rule is sup
posed to help students get their needed
classes, software glitches and assign
ment errors with PINs created more
headaches than benefits.
Noah Lewis, a junior from Batavia, El.,
said, “Personally, I don’t know why they
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combined (registration) from two days to
one day, but I think it was a terrible idea.”
Student Central failed to accommo
date registering seniors two weekends
ago and registering juniors this past
weekend, as the system crashed both
Saturdays.
Because of all the confusion, members
of the Registrar’s Office met with repre
sentatives of Administrative Information
Services on Monday to acknowledge and
mediate recent problems.
Along with the meeting, Donna
Redmon, associate registrar, sent a mass
e-mail to aU juniors Monday evening to
apologize for the registration confusion
and explain future action that will alle
viate the hassle.
Joel Dunn, director of systems and
communications for AIS, is in charge of
the technical standpoint of registration
problems.
“The first weekend, we found a par
ticular problem in one of the software
programs,” Dunn said. “This problem
has been fixed. The second weekend, it
was an entirely different problem in an
entirely different piece of software.”
The registration this past weekend
encompassed two separate problems.
The first problem was that the server for
Student Central crashed.
Dunn said the crash was due to the
software used by the University. “This
software was implemented to try and
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make the (registration) system more
robust. For some reason, the load-bal
ancing software failed to forward requests
from the browsers to the Web server.”^
He said AIS has contacted the soft
ware vendor to pinpoint and eliminate
the problem.
However, unlike the senior registra
tion weekend, junior students had trou
ble getting their PIN to access the site’
Nancy Davis, associate vice chancel
lor for University relations, said tire
problem occurred because of a printing
error. “For a certain number of students,
their PIN numbers were printed a sec
ond time, and for some reason, new
numbers were assigned,” she said. “So
in effect, some of the students had two
(PIN) numbers.”
But the kinks within junior registra
tion has some of the student body con
cerned. “You’d think at an institute of
higher learning, the people in charge
could come up with a more proficient
way to register,” said Racheal Ennis,, a
junior from Hickory.
University officials, however, are stiU
confident about the new registration
process. Davis said, “(Sophomore and
freshman registration) will proceed as
scheduled and we don’t anticipate prob
lems with (their registration)."
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.