Students overwhelmed with new classes during the first two days of the fall semester met an additional and unwelcome inconvenience at campus printers this week.
In the lab of the Undergraduate Library, the line to use the Carolina Computing Initiative printers was much longer than usual, prompting angry reactions from students.
CCI normally experiences delays during the first days of classes as students hurry to print course documents.
“Because of the high volume, it just seems to be one of the things that we face throughout the first couple of days of the semester,” said Jeremiah Joyner, manager of Information Technology Services labs and systems.
Some of the confusion has also resulted from the move of two printers from the basement of the Undergraduate Library to the ground floor, Joyner said.
Crowds should die down in the coming weeks, Joyner said. But students have been complaining about the long lines and delays in the system.
Sophomore Chandler Gurley said she has seen lines wrapped around the desks in the library.
“I’m not waiting 30 minutes to print out a syllabus I could print in my dorm,” she said.
Other printing locations on campus, such as the Student Union, are experiencing similar issues, students said.
