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Show 6 Signpost Tuesday, February 25, 1986 Convo slates comedian Byron Allen, an actor, comedian and co-host of NBC television's "Real People," will give a lecture and performance Feb. 27 at Weber State College. Allen will speak at 10:30 a.m. in the Austad Auditorium of the Browning Center for the Performing Arts as part of the convocation series sponsored by the ASWSC. Allen's lecture will not be a comedy show. V': i .. - Byron Allen Rather, he will tell about his life experiences in a humorous way. The same evening, he will give a performance at 8 p.m. in the Austad Auditorium. Cost for the performance is $3 for students and $4 for the general public. Tickets are available at the Browning Center ticket office and at all Datatix outlets. At age 23, Allen has built a reputation as an accomplished actor and comedian. He has opened for such acts as Lionel Richie, Dionne Warwick, the Pointer Sisters and Sammy Davis, Jr. He is also pursuing new acting roles in film and television. An aspiring comedian at age 18, Allen turned down an offer to appear on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" because "high school midterms were coming up. I wanted to get into USC University of Southern California, and I wasn't training for one shot on TV I was training for a lifetime." The show's talent coordinator appreciated Allen's priorities and offered him a guest spot on the show after exams and two weeks before his high school graduation. That appearance won both the audience and Carson as well as opening up numerous offers for movie and television projects, including an offer from "Real People." At age 14, Allen was writing comedy for David Letterman, Jay Leno, Freddie Prinze and Jimmie Walker. By 16, he was performing in three or four clubs a night. A vegetarian and avid jogger, Allen keeps his comedy clean and presents it in a way that everyone can relate to. Computer availability peaks out (cont. from front page) From 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and again from 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., there are between 40 and 60 students using the lab. The lab is also open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays and noon to 6 p.m. on Sundays. Use of the terminals on these days averages between 25 and 35 students. There are two more computer labs in the social science building and one in the business building. The number of terminals in these labs is smaller, however, and funds are not available for increasing the number of hours they remain open. Peak student use hours are approximately the sane in these labs as for the one in the TE building. ' Business and English students do the bulk of their work on the terminals in the TE building, which remains open until 2 a.m. on weekdays. If every hour of every day in the year was counted, the Harris . computer would be in the user mode 41 percent of the time. The user mode is the term given to the amount of time the computer is in actual use, operating on commands.Although the lab has dispensed with the use of a waiting list for students using the terminals, instructors feel additional equipment is needed, and soon. Horizons in Tnouqht The Ogden LDS Institute Presents: NATHAN C TANNER Former mission President ? England London South mission Friday, February 28, 11:30 a.m 1302 Edvalson, Ogden Vx - Horizons in Thought is a weekly series featuring outstanding speakers. Plan on attending each week. Excellence A Students hampered by inefficiency (cont. from front page) "What would they use?" he said. "It's like teaching everyone to drive when there are no cars . . . there just aren't enough computers." Dr. Gordon Jacox, assistant dean of the School of Business, said the Harris is "not quite adequate" for the research needs of his school. According to Jacox, there are 600 majors in the COMIS (Computer Information Systems) department. Jacox said the COMIS department is the biggest user of the Harris system, with 50 percent of the users coming from this department. He said the computer system lacks statistics programs a fundamental in business education. The basic language used on the Harris is not standard, and students find learning it awkward, he said. COBOL, one of the major computer languages, is non standard on the Harris, according to Jacox, and the Harris won't support a new COBOL language. Jacox said the language is hard to learn, and as it is non-standard, affects job placement. "Companies ask student applicants what type of machine they learned on. What's a Harris? is the next question . . . students are at a high disadvantage," he said. In order to combat this, Jacox said the department has moved as many COMIS courses as possible onto personal computers, and the department continues to "limp along on one leg." 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