Word: bottlenecks
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...stations where students get their food from the station for the card-swiper. Directing students to get their food first and then line up to swipe would also work. This change would ameliorate the current system of one line for food and swiping, which creates an absolutely maddening bottleneck at peak hours of the day.With dining hall overcrowding becoming an increasingly large problem on campus, the proliferation of stringent interhouse dining restrictions is not a surprise. The escalation of restrictions is a necessary evil that we will have to live with, but it should...
...crack-down” on any future tailgates. Evans touted this crack-down, which will include parental notification for underage students caught drinking, as a response to students’ inappropriate actions at last year’s tailgate. Yes, there were problems in 2004. A bottleneck at the entrance caused crowd control issues, and a shortage of portable toilets made public urination common. But these problems are easy to remedy for the future. Overall, Ohiri Field was not the den of iniquity that Evans gleefully described to every media outlet that would listen to him. Actually, unlike previous years...
...committee’s proposal to add a peer advising system, particularly for freshmen. However, we fear that recruiting advisers and making sure they pay attention to advisees on top of each student’s heavy workload will be difficult. The Faculty should pay attention to this potential bottleneck. A small stipend for peer advisers may be the solution...
...capacity is not the major driver of higher gas prices. "The greater shortage is in the oil itself," says Rogers. Gas prices have been rising along with the price of crude. If gas prices were climbing while crude oil's remained flat, that would tell you there was a bottleneck pushing up prices. That hasn't been the case...
...million times and underpins a new generation of file-sharing technology. BitTorrent addresses a couple of the biggest problems of file sharing--that downloading bogs down when lots of folks access a file at once, and that some people leech, downloading content but refusing to share. BitTorrent eliminates the bottleneck by having everyone share little pieces of a file at the same time--a process techies call swarming. And the program prevents leeching since folks must upload a file while they download it. All this means that the more popular the content, the more efficiently it zips through the network...