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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
kansan.com
WOEFUL "WHOO"
CHRIS BRONSON/KANSAN
Fans display signs of their favorite players before the start of Saturday's game against Iowa State at Allen Filedhouse where the Jayhawks were victorious 78-67.
KELSEY CIPOLLA
kcipolla@kansan.com
Never before has an onomatopoia caused so much debate.
A Facebook group created several years ago after fans started noticing a "whoo" between verses of the Rock Chalk Chant grabbed the attention of local news outlets last month, turning a grievance into a controversy.
"I have nothing against fans who are exuberant and there cheering at the game, it's just that this is a 100 year tradition," said Paul Birkholz, a 1998 graduate who created the Facebook group. "There's not many universities out there that have anything close to that."
Birkholz said that the whoo makes the chant seem more like a high school cheer and disregards the chant's long history, but many students at Saturday's men's basketball game felt that the whoo shouldn't be an issue.
"I don't really see how it's a big deal," said Chelsea Vaught, a doctoral student from Henderson, Neb. "It's just a whoo."
Carson Pedigo, asophomore from Wichita, appreciates the addition and said the whoosh should definitely remain a part of the chant.
Vaught
Pedigo
Other students are less accepting of the change.
"I don't really like it," said Dan Haven, an alumnus from Lawrence.
SEE "WHOO" PAGE 3A
CRIME
Sororities warn members of potential online imposters
RACHEL SALYER
RACHEL SALTER
rsalyer@kansan.com
When Colleen Monaghan, a junior from Overland Park, logs onto her blog, Twitter and Facebook, a sorority meeting last spring is at the forefront of her thoughts.
The University's Delta Gamma chapter warned Monaghan and other members that some Facebook users aren't who they say they are. Male impersonators posing as sorority sisters on the social networking site were attempting to message other members to convince them to meet up.
"We were told the impersonators would message you, just like a friend would." Monaghan said. "They didn't say specifically who was targeted. They only told us that we was on going at the University."
Following the incident, the sorority asked its members to make profiles private, turn off phone locations and also updated its entrance system.
While Monaghan wasn't personally targeted, realizing how easy it was to become an online target made her rethink her safety. As a blogger, she struggles with being personable and safe.
“it's hard because you want people to know you,” Monaghan said. “The more the personal connection, the more likely people will read your stuff, but at the same time, I don't want people to be able to find me”
targeted other sororites, like those at Kansas State University.
Claire Jensen, a Kansas State University junior from El Dorado, joined the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority and started receiving Facebook friend requests.
"I thought I would at least recognize everybody," Jensen said. "But one girl's profile looked weird and she didn't look familiar."
Online impersonators also
As Jensen mulled over her profile, she realized the birthdate put the woman in her sixties, though she looked young in her profile picture.
"I messaged her, and she said the profile picture was of her granddaughter," Jensen said. "She said her granddaughter had just become a Zeta and so she was adding all of her friends."
"You can only be as safe as your computer," said Chelsie Hadlock, a graduate student from Steamboom Springs, Colo., who works in the University's department of Information and Technology.
According to a Pew Research Center study, 98 percent of undergraduates use the Internet, with 86 percent of those students using social networking sites.
Jensen and her sorority sisters found it unusual that someone would request people they didn't know, so they reported the profile.
"After we reported it, we found out about the fake profiles," Jensen said. "Our president told all of the sorority members what to look for."
Hadlock has some personal tips for safe Internet use, and the University provides tips of its own on the information technology security office website.
Be careful with insecure connections. Personal information sent over free networks can be accessed by others.
- Keep your computer up-to-date.
As new bugs develop, programs will update their systems to deflect them.
Use antivirus software. The University provides Sophos Antivirus free to students online.
Use strong passwords. Make passwords meaningful to only you.
All University sites will end in ku.edu in the URL bar. If not, do not enter your personal information.
Monaghan remembers her own advice every time she logs on.
"It doesn't take much for one piece of information to get you in trouble," Monaghan said. "Think about what you are putting for the world to see."
— Edited by Christine Curtin
Online sources:
http://www.security.ku.edu/docs/
downloads/7-Step-for-Windows-Securit-
tv-2010.pdf
http://pewinter.net/Reports/2011/Callege-students-and-technology/Report.aspx
Learning changes with e-textbooks
CAMPUS
MARSHALL SCHMIDT
mschmidt@kansan.com
As e-readers become more common in society, the possibility of e-textbooks in the classroom instead of actual textbooks could alter the landscape of how classes are taught and information is learned.
"I have seen the use of e-books in other college bookstores, just not here at KU," said Randi Pounds, store manager of Jayhaw Bookstore. Professors at other universities have exclusively assigned e-textbooks for their class, but that has yet to happen at the University.
Ase-book versions of textbooks become more widely available, they provide students and faculty both benefits and
"Teachers would have to change the way they teach," said Tim Reeb, a junior from Haysville who works as a technology specialist in the KU Bookstore. "Students would have to change the way they learn."
Reeb believes that the comprehensive adoption of e-textbooks will take place in the next five to 10 years. Reeb said e-textbooks allow versions of text material to be updated, similar to software on a computer. E-readers also allow simpler annotating, copying and commenting without distracting from the text. Web links to supplementary material and embedded videos can
Index
SEE E-TEXTBOOK PAGE 3A
challenges as learning tools.
CLASSIFIEDS 2B
CROSSWORD 4A
CRYPTOQUIPS 4A
OPINION 5A
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