THE UNIVERSITY DARY KANSAN
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2007
NEWS
CRIME
3A
University e-mail addresses receive fraudulent messages
BY MARK DENT
mdent@kansan.com
A phisher sent people with University e-mail addresses messages appearing to be from KU Credit Union requesting account numbers.
Capt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office recommends students delete the e-mails if they receive them. Bailey said it was rare for a local company like KU Credit Union to be included in fraudulent e-mails. He said it was also strange that they seemed to be aimed only at people with University e-mail addresses.
Dennis Halpin, spokesperson for KU Credit Union, said the e-mails weren't from his company. KU Credit Union, a financial institution similar
to a bank with about 78,000 Lawrence clients, would never ask for information such as account numbers or credit card numbers in e-mail. Halpin said. The KU Credit Union Web site has a notification asking people who receive the e-mails to notify it immediately.
This isn't the first time phishers have used the KU Credit Union's name to send e-mails. Phishers claim to be from legitimate companies and send e-mails to users asking for personal information. Halpin said phishers did a good job at replicating the KU Credit Union screen shot all the time. KU Credit Union traces the phishers down and shuts down their Web addresses, preventing them from sending more e-mails. Halpin said. But the addresses are usually traced to different countries, making it nearly impossible to prosecute the people who send them.
"it's pretty complicated." Halpin said.
"The main step is educating members as to what the real messages are"
"I figure they can contact me in a different way," she said. "If it's a real bank, they can call me or mail me"
Amanda Knoll, Morland senior, and Katey Basye, Hays junior, didn't recall receiving the KU Credit Union e-mails, but they said they received e-mails like it all the time. Knoll questions the accuracy of an e-mail that would ask for something like an account number in an e-mail.
Basye just deletes every e-mail she receives from major companies.
Edited by Luke Morris
》 EXPEDITION
Japan whalers target humpbacks
BY HIROKO TABUCHI ASSOCIATED PRESS
SHIMONOSEKI, Japan — A defiant Japan embarked on its largest whaling expedition in decades Sunday, targeting protected humpbacks for the first time since the 1960s despite international opposition. An anti-whaling protest boat awaited the fleet offshore.
Bid farewell in a festive ceremony in the southern port of Shimonoseki, four ships headed for the waters off Antarctica, resuming a hunt that was cut short by a deadly fire last February that crippled the fleet's mother ship.
Families waved little flags emblazoned with smiling whales and the crew raised a toast with cans of beer, while a brass band played "Popeye the Sailor Man." Officials told the crowd that Japan should not give
into militant activists and preserve its whale-eating culture.
"They're violent environmental terrorists," mission leader Hajime Ishikawa told the ceremony. "Their violence is unforgivable ... we must fight against their hypocrisy and lies."
The whalers plan to kill up to 50 humpbacks in what is believed to be the first large-scale hunt for the once nearly extinct species since a 1963 moratorium in the Southern Pacific put the giant marine mammals under international protection
The mission also aims to take as many as 935 minke whales and up to 50 fin whales in what Japan's Fisheries Agency says is its largest-ever scientific whale hunt. The expedition lasts through April.
Japan says it needs to kill the animals in order to conduct research
on their reproductive and feeding patterns.
While scientific whale hunts are allowed by the International Whaling Commission, or IWC, critics say Japan is simply using science as a cover for commercial whaling.
The anti-whaling group Greenpeace said its protest ship, Esperanza, was moored just outside Japan's territorial waters and would chase the fleet to the southern ocean. There was no immediate word Sunday of an offshore confrontation.
"We are going to do everything in our power to reduce the catch" Karli Thomas, expedition leader on the Esperanza, told The Associated Press by telephone. "Japan's research program is a sham. We demand that the Japanese government cancel it."
FOOTBALL
Arrowhead resale prices soar Tickets to game listed on Web sites as high as $250
BY THOR NYSTROM
tnystrom@kansan.com
The easiest way to quantify the hype leading up to a big game might be studying the resale price of that game's tickets. In the case of this weekend's Border Showdown between Kansas and Missouri, with tickets on eBay and StubHub
you basically have a perfect storm of influences to make the game as popular as it ever has been"
fetching staggering prices, it wouldn't be hyperbolic to prematurely agree with Kansas Associate Athletics Director Jim Marchiony, who called this a possible
Pate said the game being sold out and the lack of tickets available led to the inflated resale value. The average Chiefs game in Arrowhead has more than 1,000 tickets for sale on Stubflub. As of Sunday, only 499 tickets are available on the
StubHub spokesman Sean Pate said the tickets for the KU-MU game were a perfect case of supply-and-demand.
"I've been in business for 19 years,and it has been a long, long time since a game has had this much interest."
"A rivalry game has a demand around it, even if both teams are winless," Pate said. "You have family and tradition and everything else. When you add performance to that, and two teams in the top five,
HAL WAGNER
Owner Ace Sports
Nationwide Tickets
StubHub, which monitors ticket resale prices, has the average Kansas-Missouri ticket going for $157. Just last year, the resale price of the contest, which was in Colombia, Mo., was $69.
The Web site has a "StubHub Top 25 Rivalry Rankings" index that lists the top 25 average resale price of college football games in 2007. The Jayhawk-Tiger game, as of Sunday afternoon, ranked 15 behind storied rivalries such as Ohio State-Michigan, USC-Notre Dame, UCLA-USC and Oklahoma-Texas.
"game of the year" candidate.
This year's figure could end up closer to $200 by Saturday — the vast majority of the game tickets currently available on StubHub are being offered for $250 or more.
site for the KU-
MU contest, a clear indication that most ticket holders are enthusiastic fans of the respective schools and don't intend to part with their tickets. The lack of quantity on the open market
has pushed up the price of available tickets.
Hal Wagner,
owner of
Overland Park-
based AceSports
and Nationwide
Tickets,
said the build up
for the game was
"unbelievable."
"This is the biggest KU football game in history — ever,"
less, because they are thinking of KU-MU football. It is insane!"
Marchiony said the Athletic Department was happy about last year's decision to change the venue of the game to Arrowhead for this year and next.
"I am sure very few of us imagined that this game would mean so much," Marchiony said. "To have it actually come to fruition is gratifying. I am sure, for both programs."
Marchiony said Arrowhead would provide "more of a home field advantage than not," for the Jayhawks. Kansas, technically the home team, sold slightly more than 40,000 tickets to the game and Missouri sold 17,000. The Chiefs sold the rest, about 20,000, to season ticket holders. The capacity of Arrowhead is just less than 80,000. Marchiony he expected at least half of the Chiefs season ticket holders, and possibly more, to be
"I'm sure very few of us imagined that this game would mean so much."
JIM MARCHIONY Associate Athletics Director
Wagner said. "I've been in business 19 years, and it has been a long, long time since a game has had this much interest."
Wagner said his KU-MU tickets were listed at $149 and higher at Ace Sports.
"The funniest thing to me is normally at this time, we would be inundated with KU basketball orders," Wagner said. "The phenomenon of KU football has definitely made KU basketball not as hot. We are one week away from the biggest KU basketball game of the year, Kansas vs. Arizona, and it is almost like people couldn't care
Jayhawk supporters.
The influence of the free market was also on display on campus last week. Before the ticket office at Allen Fieldhouse opened on
Monday morning to distribute student tickets to the game, people at the front of the line, some of whom had shown up on in the wee hours of Sunday morning and spent two nights under the stars in tents, were offered hundreds of dollars to take other student's KUIDs to the window.
Marchiony said the system for ticket distribution, which had set an arbitrary number of allowing each student to take 10 KUIDs to the window, would be under review by the Athletic Department.
Edited by Kaitlyn Syring
THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS
November 19,2007
Lutheran Campus Ministry
Come join us for worship on Sundays at 5
And Spaghetti for the Soul on Wednesday at 6
We are celebrating our 45th year at KU. For more info
contact lutherans@ku.edu or www.kuluhersans.com
We are Reconciling in Christ Community. All are welcome.
Join in the fun with CCO EARTH!
(Environmental Action for Revitalizing the Heartland)
Recycling at KU Football Games: Together with "Cans for the Community", a local non-for-profit organization, you can help EARTH collect and recycle cans from tailgaters at the home games.
All proceeds from the recycling go towards local charities.
Our tent is located at the southeast corner of the entrance to the stadium. Feel free to stop by, strap on some rubber gloves, grab a bag, and go! It's a lot of fun for a great cause! FREE shirts and snacks are included.
Check out the website for more information at cansfortbecommunity.org or email Melissa Rogers and
funded by:
SENATE
Interested in becoming a Student Senator?
PAID FOR BY KU
a Student Senator?
Student Senate is currently accepting applications for the following seats:
Fr/Sr CLAS (1) Off-Campus (1)
Fr/So CLAS (1) Non-Traditional/Stouffier Place (1)
Graduate (2) Education (1)
Tuesday, November 27th 7:00pm - 10:00pm Alcove G in the Kansas Union
A discussion about the ways that media influence our feelings of safety and create a culture of fear especially targeted at women.
Salon Nouveau: Afraid to be a Woman?
For more information please contact Adam Mcgonigle a amcgonigle87@yahoo.com, or stop by the Student Senate office in 410 Kanye United.
...
Consenting Adults:
A workshop on Healthy Relationships
What makes a healthy relationship?
Monday, November 19 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union
In need of community service hours? Come and help serve the people of the community at Jubilee Cafe
National Society of Collegiate Scholars
Friday, November 16, 2007 6-9am • First United Methodist Church on 946 Vermont
The next NXC general meeting is on Tuesday, November 27
@ 8 pm in Alderson Andoritium of KS Union.
DU CULTURAL INDIA CLUB PRESENTS DIYA
ual Diwal
Join us and indulge your senses in a cultural extravaganza of melodious music, enchanting dances and delicious Indian food.
Further information & purchase of tickets: RSVP
Nikki Smith (705) 123-0541 or Amanda Burtzell (602) 312-1128