Budget: Next to the Crabtree Valley Mall, the Fairfield Inn by Marriott-Crabtree, 2201 Summit Park Lane, (919) 881-9800, fax (919) 881-0221, offers 125 spacious green-and-pink rooms with outdoor pool, whirlpool, fitness center, desks and Continental breakfast.
Non-students will need to sign a waiver at the Z-center desk on the second floor entrance to the pool gallery.
"We have animals that have been stabbed or starved," said an employee at the center's desk who did not want to be identified.
Adults on the go are behind the conversion of a playroom at One Beacon Court, at 151 East 58th Street, to a business center with desks and computers.
Jim Lyon '75, who worked at the computer-center help desk as an undergraduate, especially enjoyed a gathering of former help-desk employees.
The media center provides desks for more than 200 members of the reporting press.
A Computer Sciences spokesman, Mike Dickerson, said the company would manage data centers, help desks, networks and other parts of Basell's computer systems, starting April 1.
Cheerful suites had been transformed into operational centers, with desks, communal work tables and walls covered with notated scheduling boards and scribbled-upon 2004 calendars, convention posters and a panoply of plans: city maps, schematics and diagrams of Madison Square Garden.
TPI's big deal last year: advising J.P. Morgan Chase on how to spend $5 billion over seven years to outsource its data centers, help desks, data networks and voice networks.
Beginning in January 2005, JPMorgan will begin transferring IBM employees who currently service JPMorgan's data centers, help desks, distributed computing, data and voice networks.
