Re: Why...
When I was at uni (back when dinosaurs roamed the earth), the admin mainframe was in a subterranean fortress-like administration building and the student timeshare/batch mainframe was on the ground floor of the research center on the opposite side of campus.
They were, needless to say, completely separate operations and in no way connected. IIRC, the admin system was IBM, the student system was CDC.
// fortress-like, because it was the 70s and there was an unpopular war on
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