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).\tt KEYED UP Remember that one early in the basement of Lewis Sunday evening, when you just where students struggled in left GLAR after a leisurely re- mutual agony over PASCAL flection on the weekend's ac- and Hypercard programs. Per- tivities with your friends, and haps you were just looking for you suddenly remembered a a change from the typical paper that was due in your first Macintosh encounter. Then, class on Monday morning? the IBM Lab on first floor Me- Luckily, you didn't have to morial was your lifesaver. Oth- panic because you knew that erwise, you most likely found one of the four computer cen- yourself at the Micro Comput- ter s still open on campus ing lab in Hoover Library. With would have an empty seal its 20 Macintosh computers, 6 available for you. IBM's, 2 laser printers, and Then, your biggest problem early and late night hours, the was trying to decide which one new addition to the computer to go to. For the student with lab family was often overload- writing problems the best ed and in heated demand. place 10 head was the English These four havens were nu- Department's Writing Center merously the sights of crea- up in Memorial. There a trained tive, last-minute brainstorms, student aide could help you frustrated, half-hearted foul- polish up the paper or just get ups, and promises never to let you headed in the right direc- another paper go until the last tion. If you were doing work for minute again science, math, or computer class, you probably ended up -J.J. Boggs Bob Kendall is ali smiles 8S he types a paper In the Memorial Writing