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Hardware failure creates headache
Students, faculty struggle to get by without access to e-mail, servers
A hardware failure caused the KU Outlook Web Access server to go down, leaving thousands of students and University employees without e-mail access the day before the start of the spring semester.
RUSTIN DODD
dodd@kansan.com
Todd Cohen, director of University Relations, said the hardware failure, which occurred early Wednesday morning, caused many servers to go down. Cohen said the e-mail server was the last thing to be fixed. The e-mail situation was resolved and available to students Wednesday night.
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The lack of e-mail access caused problems for many University employees who were preparing for the start of classes.
Cohen said the cause for the hardware failure had not been determined.
"Just like with your car, sometimes things just stop working." Cohen said.
Tammara Durham, director of the University Advising Center, said the center also experienced problems. The advising center relies on KU Outlook Web Access to schedule advising appointments.
"It's sort of an e-mail free holiday. Hopefully people took it that way."
"Students have been great about coming in and scheduling appointments," Durham said.
"It's a big headache; coordinating classes, getting the syllabus out," Dorian Sobel, administrative assistant in the department of English said. "It's more of an issue for people in the department," Sobel said. "There's one person here who can't get anything done without e-mail."
The University Daily Kansas
TODD COHEN
Director of University Relations
by Daily Kansan Advertising Department also experienced problems. Jon Schlitt, Sales and Marketing Adviser at the Kansan, said the Kansan lost use of a storage server and had trouble running the classified advertisements.
Cohen said the hardware failure had nothing to do with the new home
page on the KU Web site.
The failure did not affect the enroll and pay page on the University Web site, which allows people to enroll in classes and manage their financial and academic records.
"It's sort of an e-mail free holiday," Cohen said. "Hopefully people took it that way."
Edited by Sasha Roe
CAMPUS
New keycards boost security in dorms
Diana Robertson, director of student housing, said that the new system will increase security for the residence halls, but not everyone is impressed with the idea.
The Department of Student Housing has begun to put in a new card-scanning system in all residence halls.
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Conductor orchestra come to Lawrence
Music lovers will get the chance to see award winning conductor and violinist Pinchas Zukerman perform alongside the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Lied Center on Saturday night.
Zukerman will guest conduct the orchestra in performances by two notable classical composers.
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LAWRENCE
While students were away on break, Lawrence city commissioners gave the final approval for a project that had students and Lawrence residents divided for five and a half years.
City commission approves new Wal-Mart
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Retailers hurt by law banning sale of drug paraphernalia
BY JESSICA WICKS
jwicks@kansan.com
Up to $100,000 and two years in prison:
That's how much it could now cost Lawrence retailers for selling a glass tobacco pipe.
Lawrence police began enforcing a law Friday that bans all glass pipes, water bongs, scales and other paraphernalia "intended" or "designed" for illegal drug use.
Third Planet imports 846 Massachusetts St. manager Melissa Padget said police officers told her everything in her pipe shop had to be gone by Wednesday.
"I can understand coming down on some of those convenience shops that sell crack pipes, but we are actually kind of bitchy about who we let buy our pipes," Padget said. "If we have the slightest hint someone wants to use the pipe illegally, we
won't sell it to them. No exceptions."
Padget said that eight local glass bloo
crack and methamphetamines, local tobacco merchants who do not cater to drug users will take the brunt of the loss.
"I just bought $10,000 worth of hoo
are real pieces of art," Padget said. "Glass blowing is how some local artists make a living."
The sergeant in charge of Lawrence drug enforcement, Troy Squire, said he personally delivered news of the regulation Monday to stores in Lawrence that carry or coul$^2$
MOHAMMED ISKANDRANI
Aladdin's Cafe owner
"I just bought six kabs that I can't return because it's a state law," Aladdin's Cafe owner Mohammed Iskandrani said.
we hit them with a citation," Squire said.
"I just bought $10,000 worth of hookahs that I can't return because it's a state law."
potentially carry the forbidden items.
"I'm just warning them about it before we hit them with a jibitation." Souire said.
Squire said the city was giving business owners time to liquidate their merchandise before doing spot checks.
Padget said that if the city gave Third Planet a month to liquidate, it might be able to break even. Seven days is the amount of time stores will actually receive.
House Bill number 2062 defines illegal paraphernalia as anything primarily intended for illegal drug use. The word "primarily" was in italics to show that this word was added to the
Padget said Third Planet would follow the law strictly, as it always has, but she was not looking forward to telling the small business glass blowers that they are out of business.
"Most of the pipes we sell
ers would seriously suffer from the closing of Third Planet and two employees would be put on reduced hours.
"If someone can demonstrate a legal purpose [for the item], and proves that it was not primarily intended for illegal use, then it is not illegal," Branson said.
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new draft of the bill. The city's flier to educate retailers left that word out.
- Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson said that the interpretation of the law was determined by the police as it applies to specific cases.
Squire said that hookahs would be considered illegal by the Lawrence Police Department.
Branson said there was no appeal process he knew of right now against police
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