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CHARGER BULLETIN The official news source of the University of New Haven. Volume 98, Issue 12| November 21, 2016 | West Haven, Conn.
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Registration Frustration Article by Karina Krul l, u f s res wing t s ely g knotting m re ssin f ge need t x e le, depreance outely b i rr htly o ch bsol e t . “.. slig ad n s I a e andat I hclass ed.” ‘19 th the n o ndo int A n - Je
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egistration this year, did not go as smoothly as everyone had hoped. There were occasional issues with the server when seniors registered on November 7, only occurring in Sheffield Hall. “Late in the morning of November 7, a contractor accidentally shutdown the power to the network equipment in Sheffield Hall, only affecting students in Sheffield Hall,” says OIT staff. This was a relatively small, very centralized, issue. The greatest issue arose when sophomores went to register Tuesday morning, on November 15th. There was an issue with the server that persisted long enough for registration to be postponed to the next morning, November 16th, at 7am. Many sophomores voiced their concerns and discontent with their situation. OIT provides detail saying, “On Tuesday the 15th shortly before sophomore registration began a very slow memory leak in our router software
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which affected the router performance and prevented access to the Banner network.” “It was not as awful as my previous semesters but still terrible, extremely stressful, and slightly depressing knowing that I had no chance of getting into the classes I absolutely needed,” says sophomore, Jen Andon. She continued saying, “The server basically crashed while I was trying to sign in multiple times, slowing my registration process and making it even more stressful.” Sophomore Jordi Proskinitopoulos agrees saying, “UNH has to get its stuff together if we’re paying 50 thousand a year to come here.” Commuter students had an even larger problem, as they were not on campus for their classes. Registration caused many students to miss their 8am classes because they were stuck at home dealing with registration. “I wasn’t officially notified [that registration was postponed] until See REGISTRATION page 3