Campus Notes

Sig Eps house to become parking lot

At the June meeting of the University Board of Regents, the regents voted to turn the site of the former Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house into a 60-space University faculty and staff parking lot later this summer.

The University recently purchased the property on which the former fraternity house stands. The house suffered severe damage due to a fire last fall. No one was living in the house at the time because the fraternity's nationals revoked the Alpha Chapter's charter in 1994.

Several reasons for demolition of the nearly 80-year-old house were cited at the meeting, including rain damage to the floors and walls of the house.

MIRLYN to be shut down; MTS no longer in use

No one will be able to access MIRLYN, the University's online library catalog, July 5 through July 7 because the mainframe, computer which runs MIRLYN is scheduled to be moved during that time.

The mainframe holding 20 million citations and 35 indexes is being moved from the ITD site at the North Campus Computing Center to the Data Systems Central site, "to put it in area where we can be sure it will get 24-hour attention," ITD Interim Chief Operations Officer Cheryl Munn-Fremon said.

The system has been housed at the North Campus site in the Michigan Terminal System (MTS) mainframe since its creation in 1988. Munn-Fremon said newer technologies have replaced MTS.

Library Systems staff member Beth Warner said because MTS will no longer be operational, the operating staff will not be available at the North Campus site to perform backups and machine maintenance for the MIRLYN mainframe. Warner said MIRLYN is expected to be up and running again on Monday.

Status report on search for president due in fall

The regents agreed at their June board meeting, to make information about the search for a new president public on Oct. 14 at the earliest.

The names of five candidates chosen by the Presidential Search Advisory Committee were scheduled to be delivered to the Board early in the fall.

The exact earliest date for delivery was set because Regent Shirley McFee (R-Battle Creek) said she would be out of the country from Sept. 22 to Oct. 13, and all members of the Board must be present to hear the report of the advisory committee. It will be delivered by Law School Dean Jeffrey Lehman, who chairs the committee.

- Compiled by Daily Managing News Editor Jennifer Harvey

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