The Griffin: volume 55, issue 12 - Feb. 1, 1985

              Lady Griffs Fall to Bona in OT, page 15 Blizzard of '85 in Pictures, page 12 VOLUME LV, NUMBER 12 Serving The College And Community Friday, February 1, 1984 Blizzard Has Its Way — Canisius Shuts Down commented, "We were here Thursday and Friday working on revised bills and the office was open until 8 p.m. every night, so the students still had enough advance notice." pay tuition to be moved back three days. Students were originally given to Jan. 28 to pay their bills, but the storm pushed the due date back to yesterday. Many students, apparently unaware that the deadline had been extended, rushed to pay when classes resumed Monday, causing massive lines at the Bursar's Office in the Health-Science Center. "We had a lot of calls from people and the lines were very long," said Bursar David J. Zablotny. Because of the extension, other deadlines for use of validated campus identification have been extended. A spokesperson in the office of KAC Director Paul Bieron said no definite date for IDs to be mandatory at Kpessler facilities has been set. Adelaide Schroeder, a circulation clerk in the library, said the situation is the same in her department as a new date should be announced shortly. When asked why the deadline wasn't extended the same number of days as the vacation, Zablotny the storm canceled numerous activities on campus, and also forced the deadline for students to 'The Ramp was low priority in our operation," Lowman said, "because students can go to the second floor or the Koessler lot. Monday morning there wos hardly anyone using it (KAC) at all." academic vice president. "If we had just one car break down while trying to park, it would have paralyzed the entire area." Because of the parking shortage, the second level of the Ramp was open for use Monday. It will remain open until the end of the winter sometime in March, Puma said. complaining that they were not consulted about the decision. Senate President Chris Johnson noted that the Faculty Senate also had no knowledge of the decision until after it was made. Photo by BETH HIH.II Snow-clogged sidewalks lined the Canisius campus in the wake of last week's blizzard Jeffrey J. McConnell of the computer science department, who along with Dr. Ronald Curtis was responsible for securing the grant. "We could then use these screens in 100 level courses built around them." Com Sci Dep't Garners AT&T Grant by Tom Maulucci AT & T has granted the computer science program a new Videotex Image Creation System through its "Grand Awards Program." The equipment Canisius will receive is one of 100 such systems the company has donated to colleges around the country. This grant is worth $46,500 and will be used to start a computer graphics course next fall, as well as courses in a variety of other areas. The Videotex System creates low resolution computer images, "similar to those produced on a T.V. set over a cable system," according to Dr. Curtis. The main unit is a stand alone system, or in other words can produce images without the aid of an external computer. However, the departments Vax 11-750 computer will be by Mike Harrington In the wake of the cancellation of classes for the entire week of January 22 due to the Blizzard of '85 college officials announced Tuesday that the Winter Holiday scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, February 18-19 has been cancelled."You just can't routinely slash a semester by a whole week," Neuner added. "We had to act very abruptly and we decided this was the most reasonable plan." Members of the Undergraduate Student Assembly discussed the decision at Tuesday's meeting in the Frisch Conference Room, and approved a motion to file a formal protest with the administration According to Dr. Jerome L. Neuner, assistant to the academic vice president, the decision was a collaboration of opinions of the College's deans and vice presidents. "It was decided that this was the best 'disaster' plan that could be implemented," Neuner said. He explained that the College adheres to a nationally recognized time unit for classes based on credit hours and that the two days ■Will help Canisius stay within these recommendations. Winter Holiday Cancelled body has the equipment needed for this type of storm." Sidewalks along Hughes Ave. were not plowed for the reopening of school because they were the "lowest priority" according to Lowman. "90 percent of the kids will walk on the snow anyway," he said. "We would go to clean up the sidewalks and the city plows just kept pushing the snow back up there." 'There were a lot of abandoned vehicles on Jefferson and Hughes that were just immovable," said Samuel G. Puma, director of public safety. As city crews towed the stranded cars out of their spots they placed them in the lower level of the Sears Ramp, which was also filled with snow that had drifted inside. It was the parking situation which dictated the closing of the College. "We had to be able to get through the back streets," said Dr. Jerome L. Neuner, assistant to the Students enjoyed an unexpected vacation as the college was closed for the entire week. When they returned, neighboring streets were clogged, sidewalks were impassable and the Sears Parking Ramp had only one accessible entrance, as the north entrance on Jefferson Ave. was blocked by drifts that were as high as 8-10 feet. The now infamous Blizzard of '85 kept Canisius crews inundated with snow removal tasks last week as the campus neighborhood was buried by the heavy snow and blinding winds which paralyzed most of Western New York. by Mike Harrington Lowman noted that students helped move cars around the campus parking lots, but said "no- "The city couldn't get back to the side streets until Friday," said Robert I. Lowman, director of the physical plant. "The biggest problem we had was that the wind forced us to repeat plowing of areas we had already done." The Faculty Senate will hold an executive meeting next week and may discuss the decision at that time. Schroeder indicated that any faculty member could protest the move by bringing it to the attention of the Faculty Welfare Committee. "I have not yet heard about anyone doing this as of yet," he said. "The academic calendar is not traditionally something we are active in," noted Melvin W. Schroeder, associate professor of English and chairman of the Facutly Senate. "I wasn't surprised when I heard about the decision." The Winter Holiday was the most logical time to make up the days, Neuner said, because taking days away from Easter break would be "very unpopular," while adding days to the end of the semester would be virtually impossible because of commitments for graduation at Memorial Auditorium on Saturday, May 18. Both Dr. Curtis and Dr. McConnell are hopeful that the department will be able to acquire other grants in the immediate future. As of now there are several other possibilities being looked into, particularly in the field of computer graphics. Both mentioned that the department is in line for a grant from the National Science Foundation but at this point developments are still quite tentative. used to store a large amount of the images produced on the Videotex. Eventually, a program will be developed to display Videotex images on the Vax 11-750 itself. 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