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Gabriela Malespin | Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Notre Dame’s Office of Information Technology (OIT), in conjunction with student government, released their Fall 2014 PrintND Report that highlights some of the key data on student printing in light of the printing quota controversy presented last semester. According to the report, 90 percent of undergraduates print fewer than 1,000 pages per semester and 90 percent of graduate students print
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, November 4, 2014
To the imaginative writers of Knott Hall: I read your Observer article on Saturday and was honestly heartbroken over your sorrows. How could we live in such a cruel word where honest men and women could not poop with the peace of mind that they would always be able to look up and see somewhat
Letter to the Editor | Friday, October 31, 2014
We are writing to you amidst perhaps the darkest of all times to have dawned upon Marion Burk Knott Hall this academic year. To understand our current hardships, we must first take you all the way back to spring semester of 2014. There was once a time when the honorable men of Knott Hall had
Jessica Merdes | Thursday, October 16, 2014
The Student Senate met Wednesday evening to discuss concerns about the new printing quota system and the communication of safety alerts to students. Representatives from the Office of Information Technologies (OIT) presented at the meeting to explain the reasons behind the quota changes. Bob Guthrie, an employee in the OIT department, said the printing department has run a
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Let’s face it: Notre Dame students have a tendency to complain, especially over any new policy that the University enacts. While usually exaggerated, the uproar about Notre Dame’s most recent change to the print quota has clearly become an issue that is affecting students’ ability to succeed academically. At the beginning of this semester, the
Emily McConville | Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Notre Dame’s Office of Information Technologies (OIT) overhauled the University’s printing system during the summer, implementing changes that include consolidating campus printers to two queues and changing students’ printing allotments to a point-based system. Vice president for information technology Ron Kraemer, who also serves as chief information and digital officer, said the purpose of the changes