4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN STUDENT SENATE
NEWS
Hacker tags Senate site
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 5. 2005
A hacker defaced the Student Senate Web site during the weekend, marking the home page with "online graffiti."
BY JOHN JORDAN
jjordan@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Riley Dutton, the site manager, is working with KU Information Services to increase security on the site. He said he would comment on the hacking after he met with University officials. The Senate Web site is currently down.
He said someone may have stolen the site's password and used it to make the change.
Nolan Jones, Pittsburg junior and Student Senate communications director, said the message indicated a group of Kurdish hackers accessed the site. He said the hacking didn't affect the site's content, but only added the message.
Allison Rose Lopez, spokeswoman for KU Information Services, said the hacking was a form of online graffiti, and that similar attacks happened every day around the world.
Lopez said Information Services provided servers for the Senate site, but senate managed its own content and applications. Information Services uses employees to monitor applications and security on KU sites it maintains. Other sites are responsible for ensuring their own security.
She said Information Services worked to keep sites updated to avoid this problem and cited education as the most effective tool.
"Every person who uses a computer needs to move past thinking computer security is someone else's job," Lopez said.
Applications such as calendars, mail forms and photo galleries need to be updated routinely to stay secure, she said. Any site needs to be careful about what applications are included, Lopez said.
During the summer, the Web site of KUJH-TV was hacked and shut down for a brief period of time. Last year, servers for Watkins Health Center that contained private student information were also hacked.
Tom Loucks/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
—Edited by Becca Evanhoe
Rover gets religion
Father Al Wierzba of Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic church in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., blesses animals Tuesday celebrating St. Francis of Assisi blessing of the animals.
STATE
DODGE CITY — A western Kansas school bus driver has resigned after leaving a sleeping first-grader on a vehicle.
Bus driver leaves student unattended
The child woke up after the vehicle returned to the Dodge City school district's transportation building and was taken to class.
Kim Andrews/KANSAN
Under district policy, Eckelman said the driver would have faced termination, anyway.
The district requires its bus drivers to walk up and down their
buses looking for students at the end of each route. But district spokesman Seth Eckelman said the driver, whose name wasn't released, didn't complete the task after finishing his morning rounds. He resigned the next day
"The guy erred, and he resigned as a result of it," Eckelman said. "That's just policy if you don't check the bus."
The Associated Press
Better bites
Christina Ferguson, Overland Park senior, participates in the Etiquette Dinner at the Burge Union. The evening consists of instruction for proper dining procedures in professional dining situations. "It will help me in the professional world," Ferguson said.
HURRICANE KATRINA
New Orleans mayor could lay off as many as 3,000
BY CAIN BURDEAU THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS — Mayor Ray Nagin said Tuesday the city is laying off as many as 3,000 employees — or about half its workforce — because of the financial damage inflicted on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.
He said only non-essential workers will be laid off and that no firefighters or police will be among those let go.
Nagin announced with "great sadness" that he had been unable to find the money to keep the workers on the payroll.
"I wish I didn't have to do this. I wish we had the money, the resources to keep these people," Nagin said. "The problem we have is
we have no revenue streams."
Nagin described the layoffs as "pretty permanent" and said that the city will work with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to notify municipal employees who fled the city in the aftermath of Katrina, which struck about a month ago.
The mayor said the move will save about $5 million to $8 million of the city's monthly payroll of $20 million. The layoffs will take place over the next two weeks.
"We talked to local banks and other financial institutions and we are just not able to put together the financing necessary to continue to maintain City Hall's staffing at its current levels," the mayor said.
According to court documents, the shower happening occurred after the team's loss to Texas A&M, April 2, when softball coach Tracy Bunge ordered her players to shower while wearing their uniforms. Bunge claims the shower was meant to, "wash away the bad play." The players were then ordered to strip to their underwear. They were lectured by Bunge for nearly 20 minutes about their play. During the lecture, Bunge made a remark about the underwear worn by then-sophomore pitcher Kassie Humphrey. The team was then sent home by Bunge.
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The next day, Sewell commented to the entire team, "I hope you girls make better choices of underwear."
According to the report by the Equal Opportunity Office, at least one other witness and Bunge do not remember Bunge making the comment.
Vasquez and two other teammates met with Athletics Director Lew Perkins two weeks later to discuss the shower incident.
Court documents show Perkins said he would resolve the situation over the summer.
During an Aug. 26 meeting with Perkins, Vasquez was notified her scholarship had been revoked, court documents said.
In a report sent to the University's Equal Opportunity Office Aug. 24, Vasquez said she and her teammates were sexually harassed by Bunge and Sewell. Vasquez also alleged four seperate incidents of retaliation by Bunge and Sewell.
The report was reviewed by the Department of Human Resources and Equal Opportunity. The review found that Bunge and Sewell's alleged comments and the shower incident did not constitute sexual harassment, as defined by University policy. The review also concluded there was no indication of retaliation by either Bunge or Sewell.
The lawsuit named Chancelor Robert Hemenway, Perkins, Bunge, Sewell and faculty representative Don Green as defendants.
- Edited by Kellis Robinett
HEALTH
Children adopt fatty food habits
BY JAMIE STENGLE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS — As toddlers begin eating "grown-up" food, they may also develop grown-up eating habits — like too much junk food and too few vegetables, warn doctors who want parents to change their ways.
Within the childhood obesity outbreak is an increasing number of overweight 2-year-olds, according to pediatrics experts. In an effort to address the problem, the American Heart Association is offering this advice to parents: Children 2 and older should eat mostly fruits and vegetables, whole grains, low-fat and non-fat dairy products, beans, fish and lean meat.
"These guidelines are not that different from what you as a parent should be following," said Lona Sandon, a dietitian and assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. "Kids will follow the example of their parents if the example is there."
"We've gotten away from preparing foods at home." Sandon said. "We are eating foods that are much higher in fat and calories and larger portion sizes. We've gotten away from physical activity."
The new recommendations for infants, children and adolescents
revise the heart association's 1982 statement. Since then, more and more children have been falling into the overweight or obese category. The updated guidelines, which are endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, also recommend children 2 and older get an hour of exercise a day.
Dr. Barbara Dennison, who helped draw up the guidelines and is associate professor of clinical pediatrics at Columbia University, said that 10 percent of 2-year-olds are overweight, doubling the rate from the mid-1970s.
"The whole idea of a nutritionally balanced diet has been compromised," said Dr. Samuel S. Gidding, another adviser on the AHA recommendations and professor of pediatric cardiology at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. "I think that fast foods have become — rather than being discretionary choices — the main stop for meals."
He said that 30 to 50 years ago, foods that were nutritional were considered "kids' foods." Now, he said, kids' foods are viewed as sweets, snacks or so-called comfort foods.
The heart association notes that by the time kids are 19 to 24 months, french fries are the most commonly eaten vegetable. Experts say that as jars of baby food packed with fruits and vegetables give way to solid foods, nutritious food is often bypassed for whatever ever is easiest.
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