All Systems Ready
There is keycard access to safeguard, research experiments to protect, and heating systems to keep functional. Not to mention the thousands of academic, professional and health records the University has stored away on its students, employees and faculty members.
Within FAS, meetings and coordinated activities to ensure Y2K compliance have been ongoing for the last two years, says Lenox C. Grasso, FAS' local coordinator for registrarial systems.
Grasso jurisdiction covers many potential Y2K-related problem areas--computer networks, elevators, heating systems, research experiments, even ventilation hoods in chemical laboratories.
Since 1995, Grasso's office has been working to reprogram hundreds of database fields and computer applications that contain students' housing and course records.
And as far back as the summer and fall of 1996, Grasso helped the registrar's office get ready to contend with the matriculating Class of 2000 and ensuing onslaught of "Class of 2000" entries.
"Today, we are about 97 percent complete with everything, so there is little need for alarm or concern here
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