BEGUM BENGU/YH Internet2: Bypassing the Internet Scientists were the first users of the Internet. Now, with the Internet slowed down by millions of users and everycompany.com, researchers at Yale and around the country will soon have their own exclusive network: Internet2. Read about it in this week's online exclusive. Don't just sit there, react. Sound off about articles in the Herald, and read what other people have to say. Listen to what you've been reading about. Visit the Planet of Sound to listen to songs from albums discussed in this week's Arts & Entertainment section. This week: Schubert, symphonies no. 3 and 8.		DAVID A. MOORE/YH Ramona Brown, ES '97, worked in the Bursar's Office during her sophomore year. There she witnessed firsthand the frustrations of students placed on Bursar's hold. "It would get really hectic at the beginning of the year. People would have to wait on line for hours during peak periods," she said. "They'd bring crossword puzzles with them." Any Yale student whose financial account is not fully paid a month before the beginning of any semester must cope with Bursar's hold; students on hold cannot register for courses. The only way to get off Bursar's hold is to clear up financial records at the Bursar's Office. Clearing up such records once required waiting in excruciatingly long lines. During the 1995-96 academic year, approximately 1,000 students were placed on Bursar's hold at the beginning of each semester. But this number later trailed off dramatically: at the beginning of the fall 1996 semester, approximately 300 students were on Bursar's hold. Bursar's hold was once such a source of anguish for students that it sparked a protest on Cross Campus lawn in 1993. Today, students on Bursar's hold at the beginning of a semester face shorter lines and less hassle... The cover story for this week's print edition of the Yale Herald.
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