Student Affairs Committee (SAC) Chair Michael D. Shumsky '00, who represents the council on COHL, questioned the effectiveness of a system that doesn't always use a central database to read IDs.
"The system isn't designed in a very smart way," Shumsky said.
But Lichten said there is logic to the seemingly inefficient system.
"If the [central computer] is down, or if you're servicing it, or if lightning strikes, local processors keep working," Lichten said.
He said when the local processors were originally installed, he believes the systems' memory capacity at the time was "state-of-the-art."
And although some of the updated processors are in place, Lichten said his office is still waiting for additional hardware--most of which he expects will arrive in the next two weeks.
Once the units are installed--a job which will likely occur during spring break--they still must be programmed, which Mortimer calls the most time-consuming part of the job. But Mortimer said he is fairly confident that the job will be done on time.
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