Running simultaneously with Eastern’s server complications, Citrix, another new server on campus, is experiencing set backs as well.

Citrix is part of this year’s new network upgrade and has been implemented in Eastern’s English technology classrooms or writing center labs in Coleman Hall.

Citrix is designed to allow students to use their web browser to access various applications, such as Microsoft Office, whether they are here on campus or not, said Randall Beebe, an English professor and coordinator of the English technology classrooms.

Because the English technology classrooms are centered around writing, which may call for the need for Microsoft Word, the English department especially has been effected by Citrix’s setbacks.

“I think (Citrix) has a great deal of potential,” Beebe said. “We’ve just been experiencing difficulties because (Citrix) was implemented at the same time when Eastern’s new network was.

“Launching all of these new things at once is what is causing the problems,” he said.

However, Beebe said this past week the server has been running better than it has all year.

“(Citrix) has been going fine this week,” he said. “In the past weeks we were having problems getting it stable and reliable, but (CATS and I) have been working out the kinks, and its been running fine this past week.”

Jerie Weasmer, an Eastern English professor, said she has experienced problems while trying to use Microsoft Word in her technology classes, but the problems did not delay teaching her planned lessons.

“I think if you’re teaching and using computers, you have to expect problems and be a team player,” Weasmer said. “(Microsoft Word) is just a tool, and if you can’t use the tool, you use something else.

“Also, if you can’t teach without a computer and its programs, you’re in trouble,” she added.

The same network problems have effected the Daily Eastern News, preventing it from posting its online edition.

For the past two weeks, the online newspaper has had to be posted from an off-campus site, said Stephen Haas, The Daily Eastern News’ online editor.

“Since the beginning of the school year, we’ve been posting from home, which is twice the work,” Haas said. “I could surf the net all day, but as soon as I tried to post the articles, I’d get kicked off because they thought I was file sharing.”

Haas said the problem was fixed late Thursday evening, which will be the first time he has been able to post articles from the newsroom this semester.