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...crude to the lewd -- have slipped into (some would say assaulted) the language. Most of the new vocabulary has come fromdiscrete groups for whom a special jargon affords status and protection: students (barf), blacks (jazz, originally to copulate), the military (blow it out your barracks bag), alcohol user (crocked), drug user (crackhead) and the underworld (grifter...
...think this has to be user driven, or wecould find ourselves wasting a lot of money,"Hartman says...
...April 1992 memo to the Faculty of Artsand Sciences (FAS) Committee on InformationTechnology, Steen wrote: "HASCS is in no positionto handle the extra user services and networkingload generated by such a dramatic increase ofusers...
These problems hurt the quality of servicestudents received. HASCS's computer serversregularly crashed, leaving e-mail inoperable forours. And the organization's user assistants, whowere assigned the task of answering studentquestions and introducing them to the network,were badly trained and ineffectual...
Steen says he will also put a training programin place for user assistants. And he has movedquickly to fill two of four empty positions withinhis staff. The other slots, he promises, "Shouldbe filled shortly...