FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
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Wireless Internet access: At a location near you
Information Services and Student Senate work together to provide better, more wireless access on campus
BY HALEY JONES hjones@kansan.com
Wireless Internet access on campus is about to improve.
Information Services is working with Student Senate to determine where to place about 100 additional access points to the University's wireless network. Depending on their placement, the access points could increase the network's strength in specific areas or add wireless capability to areas on campus that are not yet wireless.
The new hot spots will be paid for by money left over from the $2.6 million KU wireless initiative that began in 2006.
Adam McGonigle, Student Senate president, said he surveyed senators to find out where
on campus they would like to see improved wireless access, meaning newly established access or a stronger signal where access already is available. The top 10 areas senators chose were:
- Wescoe Beach
- Kansas Union
- Anschutz Library
- Anschutz Library
- Mrs. E's dining hall
- the lobby of Blake Hall
- Watson Library
first floor atrium of Strong Hall
back deck of the Underground
Spencer Research Library
and the Spencer Museum of Art
Student Senate provided the results to Information Services as recommendations for preferred locations to make wireless.
The goal of the initiative was to
provide wireless coverage in the classrooms and labs of all academic buildings except Budig Hall, which was contracted separately. Information Services was to complete its five-phase wireless plan by December 2008, but the fifth phase was completed four months early in mid-August.
According to the Information Services Web site, 700 new access points were to be added to the existing 218 access points, but Information Services completed the project after installing about 600 access points.
Bill Myers, director of assessment and outreach for Information Services, said fewer access points were required to complete the KU wireless initiative because technology had improved since the initial wireless expansion plans were made, allowing one access point to provide wireless to a larger area.
"Conceivably, there could be
Myers said once Information Services received bids on how much it would cost to nut wire-
add coverage based on Student Senate's suggested locations on campus.
"We wanted to be sure that we
"There's always a lot of people out here with computers. I think it would be good if they were able to get online here."
less access in Budig Hall, it would know how much money was left from the wireless initiative funds. Information Services would then
AMANDA TAYLOR Dallas sophomore
continued the conversation of preference areas with Student Senate," Myers said. "But we won't be able to give a firm answer until the dollars come clear on Budig's
Students said the wireless network was strong on the main floor of the libraries but weak in larg.
installation costs."
er buildings like Budig. Hall and Haworth Hall.
Chris Minter, Overland Park senior, said he usually stayed on the main floor in Watson Library because his computer didn't have a strong wireless signal on the upper floors or in the corners of the library.
"There's dead spots everywhere, You've just got to find them," Minter said.
Amanda Taylor, Dallas sophomore, said she thinks wireless access should be available on Wescoe Beach.
"There are always a lot of people out here with computers, so I think it would be good if they were able to get online here," Taylor said.
Edited by Brieun Scott
POLITICS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former Sen. John Edwards, speaks to the audience at the National Constitution Center about the role health care is playing in the upcoming presidential election Tuesday in Philadelphia. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-III.) said in June that he would partner with Elizabeth Edwards on a health care plan.
Elizabeth Edwards shifts focus to health care reform
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DETROIT — The wife of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards says her husband's extramartial affair has allowed her to focus on the importance of her children and health reform as she goes through "an ongoing process of finding your feet again."
"There's a lot of adjustment to make," Elizabeth Edwards told the Detroit Free Press for a story published Thursday. "When you mention trust, that's probably the most difficult hurdle."
The interview came more than a month after her husband acknowledged that he repeatedly lied about having an affair in 2006.
Elizabeth Edwards, 59, had been quiet about the affair, only discussing it in a brief statement
last month in which she pleaded for privacy and said her husband confessed the affair to her in 2006.
Edwards, who is being treated for breast cancer, spoke to the newspaper ahead of a visit to Detroit next month to talk about coping with life's setbacks, including the loss of her teenage son in an auto accident and her 2004 cancer diagnosis.
She also said she wanted her children — Cate, 26, Emma Claire, 10, and Jack, 8 — to have an image of their father as "an advocate for poverty, not for this current picture of him to be the only one they carry with them, as young people and as adults."
"I have to prepare for the possibility if I die before they are grown," she said, of helping them
"function without an involved, engaged and admiring parent. So I need to create the picture for them that I want them to have."
Audience members asked no questions about her private life, and Edwards did not mention the affair. She did not return a message left Thursday by The Associated Press.
John Edwards has canceled all of his public events until after the election, saying in a statement through his publicist he doesn't want to be a distraction to his party's ticket.
He said in early August that he had an affair with a woman hired to produce videos of him doing advocacy work as he laid the groundwork for a presidential campaign.
IRAQ
Solider's mother says son deserves highest award
Rosa Peralta said Thursday she made the decision after a Marine general told her that her son, Sgt. Rafael Peralta, would be awarded the Navy Cross rather than the Medal of Honor because the nomination was tainted by reports he was accidentally shot by a fellow Marine shortly before an insurgent lobbed the grenade.
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — The mother of a Marine who witnesses say covered a grenade with his body to save comrades in Iraq plans to appeal to Congress to award her son the nation's highest military honor after learning it was denied by Defense Secretary Robert Gates because of questions about his final act.
"I'm going to see what can be done, because I'm not satisfied with what they want to do now," she said in Spanish.
She said she was considering rejecting the Navy Cross, the second-highest award for valor in combat that can be awarded to a Marine. Peralta will be the 24th recipient of the Navy Cross for actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The question about whether to award Peralta the Medal of Honor centers on whether the Marine, who was shot in the head and upper body, could have intentionally reached for the grenade and covered it with his body.
"There was conflicting evidence in the case of Sgt. Peralta as to whether he could have performed his final acts given the nature of his injuries," said Capt. Beci Brenton, spokeswoman for Navy Secretary Donald Winter.
ing to do," she said.
After all the evidence was scrutinized, officials determined that it "did not meet the exact standard necessary to support the Medal of Honor." Brenton said.
But Rosa Perala said she was led to believe her son would get the Medal of Honor in a November 2007 telephone call from an undersecretary of the Navy, who she says told her the nomination was to be forwarded to the White House. Perala was 25.
Associated Press
"I still don't know what I'm go-
POLITICS
Former Rep. Mark Foley may not face charges in sexual investigation
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley isn't expected to face charges after a lengthy investigation into his uridid messages to underage congressional pages, two federal law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case, said the results of a state investigation would be announced Friday.
They said neither state nor federal charges were expected, although an FBI investigation has not been closed yet.
Foley resigned in 2006 after being confronted with the e-mails and instant messages he sent to male pages. He has since been under investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the FBI.
Foley's attorney, David Roth, has acknowledged that Foley sent the messages to the teenagers, but has maintained that the Florida Republican never had inappropriate contact with minors. Roth had no immediate comment on the pending announcement.
Shortly after Foley's resignation, Roth announced Foley was gay and had been molested by a priest as a teenage altar boy. Foley also checked himself into an Arizona treatment facility for what his attorneys said was "alcoholism and other behavioral problems."
"Mark does not blame the trauma he sustained as a young adolescent for his totally inappropriate e-mails and (instant messages). He continues to offer no excuse whatsoever for his conduct." Roth said at the time.
Foley was seen as a shoe-in for re-election in 2006. His resignation received national attention as Democrats were trying to win 15 Republican seats to regain power in the House. Democrat Tim Mahoney won the election after Republicans
Foley represented parts of Palm Beach County for 12 years. He has kept a low profile since coming out of rehabilitation late last year but has been seen occasionally in the West Palm Beach area.
had just weeks to select a new candidate to replace Foley, whose name remained on the ballot.
Then-House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-III., and other Republican leaders came under fire for their handling of the Foley matter. Hastert had claimed he did not learn of Foley's messages to the teens until the scandal broke. A House ethics committee concluded in December 2006 that Hastert actually had heard about the e-mails months earlier, as had other Republicans, but the panel
did not find that anyone broke rules.
Foley himself was the only person who could release the computers for review, but he had refused. It was not immediately clear what information from the computers investigators had been able to review.
Florida authorities had said their investigation was hampered because neither Foley nor the House would let its investigators examine his congressional computers.
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