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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2008
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When Freddie Mercury was touring he would phone his cats and talk to them for hours.
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Two ducks waddle to the edge of a Government Springs Park bench for pieces of bread Aug. 24 in Enid, Okla.
University updates privacy policies
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BY RYAN MCGEENEY
rmcgeeney@kansan.com
At the direction of the Office of the Provost, all University departments have adopted comprehensive policies in the past year dealing with the disposal of paper documents and electronic data that contain sensitive personal information about students, including names, grades and student identification numbers.
The new policies, which includes a revised privacy policy and a new e-data disposal policy, were in part a response to an incident in September 2007, when documents containing sensitive student data, were discovered behind Snow Hall. They were then anonymously delivered to three newspapers, including The University Daily Kansan. The documents, which belonged to the department of mathematics, had not been properly disposed of or shredded.
"In that particular instance, they really just didn't have good office procedures on what to do once you're removing data from files," said Jane Rosenthal, University Privacy Officer.
Gloria Prothe, an administrative professional in the mathematics department who was implicated in an unsigned letter that accompanied the documents sent to the Kansan, disagreed with that assessment.
"We always had a policy, it just wasn't written down. People were sent e-mails and told verbally, and we did have a shredding machine that people were supposed to shred documents into," Prothe said. "Now we have a several-pages-long departmental policy on record retention and disposal of private information."
"It was a failure to have a good, everyday practice in place," she said.
Subsequent to an investigation by the University into the matter of
the documents last October, a written disciplinary form was attached to her employee file, and Prothe was placed on one-year probation.
Like many departments, the department of mathematics has ceased its use of shredding machines in favor of using Iron Mountain, the sole vendor approved for the disposal of sensitive documents.
According to Jack Martin, deputy director of University Relations, 57 departments at the University contracted with Iron Mountain in fiscal year 2008, with expenditures for the service totaling almost $26,000. The number of departments using the service more than doubled since the previous fiscal year, when only 26 departments participated.
Sensitive documents are collected in secure bins placed throughout academic departments. Both the number of bins and their size are tailored to the needs of the department. Though the mathematics department, which offers more than 30 separate courses, uses 14 bins, the department's neighbor on the fourth floor of Snow Hall, the department of economics, uses only three.
Michelle Huslig-Lawrence, an administrative associate with the department of economics, said that use of a contractor was a practical alternative to manual shredding. Huslig-Lawrence it took three days alone to dispose of the sensitive paper waste produced by Economics 104 in one semester.
"It's a lot of man-hours for me to stand there and shred things," Huslig-Lawrence said. "This is, time-wise, easier for us, and it's about the same amount of money wed be spending shredding the stuff ourselves anyways, because wed have to buy supplies and the oil, and everything else to keep our stuff working properly."
Edited by Scott Toland
ODD NEWS Priest decides against idea for beauty pageant
ROME — An Italian priest backtracked from his idea to organize an online beauty pageant for nuns, saying Tuesday he had been misunderstood and incurred the protests of the faithful and local religious authorities.
The Rev. Antonio Rungi had thought of the beauty contest to give nuns more visibility within the Catholic Church and to fight the stereotype that they are all old and dour. The "Miss Sister 2008" contest was supposed to start in September on a blog run by the priest, who is a theologian and schoolteacher from the Naples area.
But he changed his mind after seeing reports that suggested nuns would be metaphorically put on a catwalk. He said what he had in mind was not just external beauty but what he called "overall beauty."
"Instead, they made it look like it was a catwalk a la Miss Italy," he said. "I have been misunderstood."
vocations, one where everybody could bring their own experiences," Rungi said by telephone from his town of Mondragone, about 35 miles north of Naples." I wanted to create a showcase for the pastoral experience of nuns."
The reverend said attacks against him, phone calls and e-mails prompted him to cancel the plan, as well as reported unease of his religious superiors over the idea.
"I wanted to make a blog on
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — A judge has decided that a suburban Seattle woman who registered her Australian shepherd-terrier mix to vote has spent enough time in the legal doghouse.
Jane Balogh had been charged with making a false statement but entered into a
No charges for woman who registered dog to vote
plea agreement last year. A King County judge dismissed the charge Monday after Balogh showed that she had paid $240 in court costs and completed community service.
Balogh says she registered her dog Duncan to protest a loophole in the law that she says makes voter registration so easy a non-existent person could be added to the voter rolls.
She says she made no secret of her action after the fact, telling a number of elected officials she had registered her dog.
De QUEEN, Ark. — Firefighters were right on top of this blaze.
And she says Duncan never voted.
Firefighters surprised by fire at their station
The De Queen fire station is closed on weekends, so when a call is received the firefighters go to the station to get their gear before heading out.
"One of the firemen called me and said the place was full of smoke. I thought he was joshing me. He said 'We've got a fire at the fire station,'" De Queen Fire Marshal Dennis Pruitt said.
But when they gathered at
the station Saturday to answer a call about a burning utility pole, they discovered they had another problem on their hands.
Firefighters called a dispatcher to get the Southwestern Electric Power Co. to disconnect the station's electrical service.
"We told them the fire department has a fire. SWEPCO said 'Yeah, the fire department has a fire.' The dispatcher told them, 'No it's the fire station on fire!' Pruitt said.
Authorities say the blaze was started by lightning.
Much of the station's equipment was saved by surge protectors. Pruitt said.
"We fuss and fuss at people to get surge protectors and they do work," Pruitt said.
Associated Press
On Aug. 26, the Lawrence Police Department reported that on Aug. 25, a KU student was the victim of domestic battery.
On Aug. 26, the KU Public Safety Office reported that a suspect was arrested for attempting to manufacture a controlled substance in a laboratory in Malott Hall.
The workshop "Blackboard Strategies and Tools" will begin at 11:30 a.m. in 6 Budig.
The workshop "Introduction to Personal Computing with Mac OS X" will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Media Lab in Budig Hall.
The workshop "Conducting Faculty Searches" will begin at 9 a.m. in 258 Strong Hall.
The lecture "University Forum. Homeless Families: Hidden in Lawrence" will begin at 12 p.m. in the ECM Center, 1204 Oread Ave.
The public event "Osher Institute Open House" will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Continuing Education, 1515 St. Andrews Dr, Lower level.
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ODD NEWS Million-mile truck fails to sell on eBay
CATAWBA, Wis. — A 1991 Chevrolet Silverado that has traveled more than 1 million miles is still on the market, its owner says, though it failed to fetch the premium price that he had hoped for.
Frank Oresnik said he failed to sell the 1991 truck during a 10-day auction on eBay that ended Sunday. He had placed a minimum bid of $30,000, and said all he got was a couple of feelers.
But he's not giving up.
The 58-year-old Oresnik said he is going to put the truck back on eBay later this week with no minimum bid.
Oresnik bought the truck 12 years ago when it had 41,000 miles. He used the vehicle to deliver seafood in three states, putting on about 85,000 miles a year.
When the odometer hit a million miles earlier this year on a road near Fond du Lac, Wis., the feat brought him national attention.
Throughout the years, the truck has had four radiators, three gas tanks and six water pumps, but the engine is still original. He practiced such car-friendly techniques as always letting the engine warm up first, even in summer, according to the Web site www. roadsbridges.com.
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