Tech-Savvy Baruch College Students Seek and Edge in Registration
Baruch College students were enticed by high-speed trading software used by Wall Street companies and used a “similar method to gain an edge in signing up” for online classes. This program would continuously refresh the sign up page and check for availability in desired courses. So much digital traffic was created that the students threatened to shut down the entire City University of New York computer system. Baruch College’s chief information officer Arthur Downing was proud of the students use of technology, and Dr. Ben Corpus, the dean of students, is having trouble finding a suitable punishment for the students because no malicious intent can be found. The students were not trying to steal information or crash the computer system. Administrators were impressed with the students “resourcefulness at figuring out how to adapt a real-world strategy to their own goals.”
~ Alan Lin