1987-1988 Academic Catalog

16 College Center Providing dining facilities, classrooms, offices, and the computer center, the College Center serves as a focus for student activity on campus. Dining facilities include the cafeteria, a spacious area which serves 21 "all-you-can-eat" meals a week to the more than 1500 students who live on campus, and the President's Dining Room, a small, formal dining room. This unique room, reputed to one of the finest of its kind in the state and used extensively by the president, may also be reserved by students who wish to enjoy a formal dining occasion. Computer Center Located on the north side of the College Center and at the heart of the academic section of campus, the academic computer center is designed to serve the entire academic community. Students and faculty are encouraged to use the center for research, writing, and coursework. To promote easy access and extensive use, the center remains open from 8 AM to 11 PM Monday through Saturday. Student lab assistants offer help to users during most of this time. The resources of the computer center include two laboratories, one for minicomputer use and the other for microcomputer use. The minicomputer area contains a Digital Equipment Corporation VAX 111750 with 6 megabytes of main memory and 570 megabytes of disk storage. Eighteen terminals enable users to utilize a variety of software, including compilers (BASIC, FORTRAN, and COBOL), a statistical package (MINITAB), and computer-assisted instruction packages on a variety of subjects. The microcomputer area features fifteen IBM and ten Apple personal computers which share access to one of five printers. Microcomputer software includes MULTIMATE word processing, Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets, and dBase II data base systems. Offices for the departments of admissions and financial aid, and the academic department of language and literature, are located on the first floor of this building.