Outage briefly knocks UI's computer network for loop

URBANA – Computer services were interrupted Monday morning at the University of Illinois after a power fluctuation put the network on backup and the Digital Computing Lab turned off some of its machines to save electricity.

By mid-afternoon, most services were restored, and a UI official was confident things would stay that way – barring another fluctuation in power.

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