Tuesday, November 4, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 5
KU e-mail not picture perfect
By Melissa Ngo
Special to the Kansan
On the University of Kansas' e-mail system, graphics and e-mail don't go together.
The University's e-mail is processed by a system called Telnet. Telnet does not allow graphics or active links to Web sites in e-mail messages.
"I use the KU system because it's free, even though it can't do graphics that would let me do things such as send a map or a greeting card to a friend," said Angi Cross, Wichita sophomore.
Students also might want to use graphics in e-mail to send graphs or charts in homework e-mailed to a professor or to send illustrations.
These graphic services are offered through Web-based e-mail sites such as http://www.hotmail.com, http://www.juno.com and http://www.maillexcite.com.
Olathe senior Melissa Bowman said she used Hotmail because it was better than the University email system, especially because of what Telnet can and cannot read.
2. 0 and 6.0. Microsoft 2.0 can't read what's written by 6.0 because it's newer, Bowman said. "Sometimes people send an updated type of e-mail and Telnet cannot读 it."
She also likes Hotmail because it can handle bigger files than Telnet. Hotmail allows three megabytes of storage in the inbox while Telnet allows only two megabytes.
When a user exceeds the amount of space allowed in the University's Telnet inbox, the system will send the user a message to remove some information. If users continue to exceed the allotted amount, this can create problems in the system, said Wes Hubert, assistant director of academic computing services.
"If people fill up the spool area, the inbox, which is shared by the whole system, then no one could get incoming mail," Hubert said. "If they fill up a file system, each of which has 500 to 2000 people using it, then those people couldn't store any new files."
These lockups would not be caused by one person exceeding the allotted space but by many people doing it, he said.
Another advantage to Web-based
e-mail is that a user can keep the same address even after graduating from the University or switching Internet providers.
There are also disadvantages to having a Web-e-mail account.
"The bad thing about these e-mail accounts is that on occasion you'll get commercial mail, ads, and you don't get those with TeInet," Bowman said.
Also, if a user doesn't have Web access, then the user can't retrieve e-mail.
When users use Telnet to access the Web, they can't see the graphics because Telnet doesn't have a graphics interface.
The University is updating Telnet in two ways this year, although viewing graphics through the system still won't be possible.
"We're currently ordering a new computer for the main processing system for Falcon and Eagle. This one will be twice as fast as the current system," Hubert said. "We're also adding more disk space."
Although it may consider using Windows NT in the future, the university has no plans to discontinue UNIX, Hubert said.
Study shows that diabetes affects nearly six percent of Americans
By Sarah Chadwick
schadwick@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
More Americans than ever have diabetes, and half of them do not even know it.
An average of 798,000 new cases are reported each year, and nearly six percent of the population has diabetes, according to a study released last month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. These numbers have been steadily increasing since 1980.
The increase can be attributed to a variety of factors, including the increasing number of overweight Americans, said Ann Chapman, Watkins Health Center dietitian.
An estimated 50 percent of people with diabetes have not yet been diagnosed with the condition. Physicians can test for diabetes during routine physicals.
Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or properly use insulin, a hormone that converts sugar into energy. The disease is classified in two ways: Type 1 and Type 2.
Type 1 diabetes must depend on insulin shots for the rest of their lives. Type 2 diabetes accounts for nearly 90 percent of people with diabetes and does not necessarily require medication, Chapman said.
Often, eating a healthy diet and losing weight will bring the disease under control, she said.
"An overwhelming majority of Type 2 people are overweight," Chapman said. "That's one of the reasons for the rise. More and more people are overweight. It just makes sense that more people would be be diabetic. We are such a sedentary nation and set such high-fat diets."
Diabetes has traditionally been more common in middle-aged people, but because more Americans
are overweight at a younger age, the chances of diabetes being diagnosed in younger people are increasing. Chapman said.
Being overweight requires the body to produce a larger amount of insulin to break down the sugar in the bloodstream. Often, the pancreas, which produces the insulin, is not able to keep up.
"It's a myth that eating too much sugar will
Diabetes data
- An average of 798,000 new cases are reported each year.
- Nearly six percent of total population has diabetes.
- Symptoms include extreme thirst, excessive urination, tingling or loss of feeling in the hands or feet and chanas in weight.
- Type 2 (noninsulin dependent) diabetes is most common.
- Keeping physically fit can greatly reduce the chances of developing diabetes.
give you diabetes," Chapman said. "That's not really true. Too much simple sugar, like in cakes, pies, pastries, is not going to tax your pancreas too much. It's more the fat in those foods that contributes to the weight gain. That puts you at risk."
Common symptoms of both types of diabetes are frequent urination, excessive thirst, tingling or loss of feeling in the hands or feet and changes in weight. Type 2 diabetics also often experience blurred vision and frequent infections.
Diabetics are more at risk for heart disease, clogged arteries, kidney disease, blindness and lower-extremity amputations.
Many people are already genetically predisposed to diabetes and must rely on staying physically fit to ward off the disease, Chapman said.
"You should have your blood sugar levels checked, especially if it's in your family," she said.
KU professor recognized by president for scientific explorations
President Clinton honored Ying-Cheng Lai, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas, yesterday at the White House in Washington, D.C.
Lai received the 1997 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He was one of two scientists who were given the award by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Sixty young scientists were nominated for the award.
The award includes $500,000 over five years for the scientists to further their research and advance science for important government missions.
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Lai's major field of interest is fundamental theory and significant applications of nonlinear dynamics and chaos.
"He studies chaotic behavior, which is a relatively new field," Ammar said. "It's a field which has many applications, such as fluid motion, human heartbeats and brain activity. These all show chaotic activity sometimes."
"We're all very proud of him," said Ray Ammar, physics and astronomy department chairman. "It's a well deserved award."
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