From staff and wire reports
The Office of the Registrar now allows students to get a copy of their current and future course schedules via e-mail.
Students can send an e-mail message to schedule@registrar.duke.edu with their social security number and the desired term in the body of the message. If no term is specified, students will receive their schedules for the current term and all preregistered terms.
The system was developed in the last few months largely through the efforts of the Office of Information Technology and the department of Management Information Services, said Harry Demik, deputy University director in the Office of the Registrar.
As a result of the new service, the Office of the Registrar will stop mailing schedules to students in an effort to save postage fees and time, Demik said.
The Office of the Registrar will also provide an e-mail address for students to send address and telephone changes. Send changes to address@registrar. duke.edu. Students should include their name, social security number and the change in the message, Demik said.
Internet radio offered: If you just can't get your antenna quite the right position, maybe you should try the Internet instead.
WXYC, the student-run radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, offers one of the nation's first real-time broadcasts of its complete programming over the Internet.
By using the World Wide Web, a graphical interface to the Internet, users can hear the actual broadcast through their computer.
In addition to the live broadcast, WWW browsers can access the station's playlist, the station's schedule, and information about legal and ethical issues raised by the new service.
"This technology will eventually change the face of media," said David McConville, a UNC journalism graduate student and one of the project leaders.
Web surfers can access WXYC using any of the various WWW browsers at http://sunsite.unc.edu/wxyc/.
Compuserve to offer Internet: Compuserve, Inc. has announced that it is within 60 days of offering the World Wide Web and other Internet services to some of its 2.6 million on-line information service customers.
The company, a division of H&R Block that is based in Columbus, Ohio, will make the Internet services available to computer users with "dial PPP" Internet connections.
Such connections are typically more complex than those made to standard commercial information services and are usually made through companies called Internet service providers.
Only a relatively small number of Compuserve's customers are thought to have dial-PPP connections.
But unlike some of its competitors, Compuserve owns its own extensive network infrastructure, with more than 400 hubs around the world. This allows Compuserve to be both an Internet service provider and, through its Compuserve Information Service, a content provider.
R. Pierce Reid, a Compuserve spokesman, said full Internet access would be available under Microsoft's extended service plan, which is $9.95 a month plus $4.80 for each hour of use.
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