Victorianitas

List of things that are not working this Sunday morning:

• Student e-mail servers
• WebCT
• Intranet anything
• On-campus internet access (which has, luckily for my sanity, now been restored)
• Library catalogues
• Library systems
• Printing systems
• Photocopying systems
• All the tills and systems at the sports facilities, apparently; it's difficult to tell from all the distressed wailing, but they're certainly Not Happy about something over there
• The big flat-screen monitors that give students various bright-coloured and blinky bits of information
• The 'systems currently having problems' status page. (Helpful.)

And because it's a Sunday morning, the campus is not exactly crawling with technicians or helpful-looking senior people or indeed anybody who knows what the hell's going on. Reducing weekend mornings to a skeleton staff probably looked like a great decision from a budgeting perspective for a university anxious to set up various new projects for attracting new students; the reality, it turns out, is a constant stream of the students we've already got winding their way into the library, to be greeted by a staff of underpaid, disaffected minions whose best guess on the whole matter is "I dunno. EMP grenade?"