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What's 18 ft. wide, fully automated and open 24 hours a day? Despite its name (which already seems a little out of date), the Shop 2000 is the cutting edge of robotic retail: a vending machine with the inventory of a minimart. The coin-and credit-card-operated vendor carries up to 200 items, from olive oil to computer discs to sandwiches to toothpaste (storing the perishables at a frosty 35°F). There's no smile with your service, but you do get the fun of watching a robotic arm grab your purchase. With convenience stores reporting a shortage...
Some were more caustic in tone: “Career Services absolves itself of any and all responsibility for the functionality of Career Link despite the fact we selected the vendor...
...current transition left many students without their money and without any clear way to get it. The SEO and the Office of Human Resources need to take vigorous action to solve the systematic problems that have arisen with the new payroll system. Instead of trading blame, the software vendor and the administration need to sit down and figure out how to make the system work. For students on a tight budget, not getting paid can be a serious problem. We hope the University keeps this in mind as it scrambles to fix the payroll mess...
...said she remembers disasters that include drunken spectators jumping off bridges into the river, a fried dough vendor with a burned hand, a child with a Cheerio lodged up his nose and a mounted police officer...
Also enjoying the festivities were Josh L. Stern ’05 and Andrew T. Budreika ’05, who browsed among the vendor stalls...