BINGHAMTON, NY— Students across campus were hit with an internet
outage on their first day of classes. This meant that students
were unable to register for classes, look up their schedules, or
play chess during lecture.
At 11:01 a.m., a B-Alert had reportedly been sent to the student
body in hopes of alleviating their concerns and assuring them
that the university’s Information Technology Services (ITS)
would remedy the connection issues in a short matter of time. It
would not be until 12:45 p.m. that students would receive this
update.
Many students had expressed disappointment in the University and
wished that more steps were taken to prepare for such an
internet outage. June Yior, a freshman mathematics major, was
particularly affected by what had happened: “Does Binghamton
have any idea how much data I blew through by using my hotspot?”
University President Harvey Stenger, meanwhile, felt the
frustration of these students was unwarranted. He viewed the
connection failures as an “important wake-up call” to students
who use modern-day necessities like the internet “as a crutch.”
Cam Puter, the chief information officer at ITS, apologized for
the incident but had expressed pride in her team’s ability to
fix the internet outage: “Unplugging the internet was the easy
part. It wasn’t until later that our research team realized that
not only did we need to unplug the internet, but that we had to
plug it back in as well.”
At press time, Puter and her team of researchers and computer
scientists at ITS had reportedly created a small spark by
rubbing two sticks they had gathered from the Nature Preserve
together, and plan to harness this energy into some kind of
campus-wide heating system.
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