ATTN: College Students!

[penmage]

If you are in college/university (or heck, if you were recently and you're not anymore, but want to fill this out anyway), this poll's for you. I'm doing a bit of research on printing systems in different colleges. All your input would be greatly appreciated.


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Feel free to add anything else you have to say in comments - if you have an opinion on said printing system, etc etc. Thanks!

Comments

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

I ran the computer labs at UMass for four years. UMass doesn't have a quota, but in the labs you can only print out documents of a certain length, and no multiple copies. (We will let someone print out a 40 page paper, if they do it in three chunks. That's mostly a matter of not tying up the printers so that other people's jobs can't go through.) UMass BADLY needs a semesterly quota, though, because people abuse the system like crazy, and student employees get TONS of abuse heaped on them just for trying to enforce badly-needed rules. (I absolutely hate using this term, but I kid you not when I say that one girl called me a "fucking cunt," right there while I was working with the "MANAGER" ID around my neck, because I wouldn't let her print her entire semester's powerpoint class notes all at once in a super-busy lab when people were trying to print papers. Hers was a 600 page print job. I threw her out.) For all I know they finally instituted a limit this year.

At BU, there's a semester quota. I think it's probably 500 pages, but I'm not sure -- I'm pretty sure the grad student quota is higher than the undergrad, because you have to print out several copies of your 100-page thesis to graduate. We get library books for five months at a time, too.