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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2007
GREEK LIFE
Recruitment numbers up for sororities and fraternities
BY SARAH NEFF
sneff@kansan.com
Formal recruitment was overwhelming and time-consuming for Zach Kouri, especially the first two days. But his desire to join a fraternity lent him from withdrawing.
"Just seeing every single house—it was monotonous and I ended up having the exact same conversation at every house I went to, which ended up turning into a joke by the time recruitment was ending," said Kouri, Tulsa, Okla. freshman. "By the end of that second day it seemed like every house was exactly the same."
Kouri stuck with it and according to the Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Association, so did many other recruits. Both groups reported an increase in recruitment numbers this year.
Ian Lang, Wichita senior and president of the council, said the number of recruits had increased by 18 percent since last year. More men enrolled this year because the council implemented different programs during recruitment, including
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a table at several Hawk Week events and at Mrs. E's. They also visited high schools and sent out flyers,
"Formal recruitment is a good opportunity to get men from out of state and those without connections in the community," Lang said. "We want to give more men the opportunity."
The tool provides information about various celestial bodies, from stars to planets, and includes imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope and other sources. It also allows users to take virtual tours through galaxies, including the Milky Way from any point on Earth
"Throughout the upcoming year, the Panhellenic Association will be exploring new event scheduling options that we think would help more women stay in the process longer as well as help the chapters retain more women." Gregory said.
Erin Gregory, Leawood senior and president of the association, said they were pleased with Fall Formal Recruitment this year. She said 729 women began recruitment and 159 withdrew.
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Gregory said she didn't have the exact numbers from last year, but more women applied this year and fewer women withdrew.
Overall, Gregory was pleased with the success of this year. Lang said the number of recruits went up because of the hard work of the council.
"By working with some of the
industry's leading experts, we've been able to transform Google Earth into a virtual telescope," said Lior Ron, a Google product manager.
The new software allows users to see planets in motion and to witness a supernova.
"What's unique about this is you have all of the imaging data over the whole of the sky actually streaming," said Andrew Connolly, a University of Washington associate professor of astronomy and part of Google's visiting faculty program. "So I can look at something that covers most of the sky, say our Milky Way galaxy, and I can zoom right into a tiny galaxy that's in the formation cycle."
Associated Press
Students injured in car crash
》 ACCIDENT
BY MARK DENT mdent@kansan.com
A University of Kansas student is listed in serious condition at the KU Medical Center after sustaining an injury from a car accident involving five people early Tuesday morning, said Med Center spokesman Chris Ballihan. Another one is in fair condition.
Daniel Tuttle, Olathe freshman, is listed in serious condition, and Tyler Duncan, Lawrence freshman, is listed as fair. Police reported that Amber Henke, Downs freshman, was transported to the Med Center also on
Tuesday, Ballian couldn't confirm or deny that she was at the hospital.
Two other students, Nicholas Duiton, Olathe freshman, and Christopher Hong, Lawrence freshman, were also involved in the accident. According to Lawrence Memorial Hospital spokeswoman Belinda Rehmer, they were treated and released Tuesday. All five students live at Oliver Hall.
The car accident occurred Tuesday around 1 a.m., according to police reports. Hong told police he was at Oliver Hall when a group of people asked if he wanted to get something to eat. He said he didn't know any of
them well because he had just moved in. Hong and the other four students entered Dutoit's Ford Mustang.
Hong told police Dutoit drove, and Duncan sat in the front passenger seat. Tuttle, Henke and Hong were in the back.
They started driving south on Naismith Drive, according to the report, and stopped at the traffic light at 19th Street and Naismith Drive. After the light turned green, Hong told police, Dutoit began to accelerate quickly. Dutoit lost control of the car as he sped around the corner, Hong said, and hit a tree in the median. Hong said the car was
only traveling about 30 mph, but he thought the rapid acceleration caused Dutoit to lose control.
Henke and Tuttle were ejected from the car, according to the police report, and an air ambulance took them to the Med Center. Dutoit had to be extracted from the car. Hong and Duncan walked out on their own. Dutoit, Hong and Duncan received treatment at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Dutoit and Hong were released Tuesday, and Duncan was transferred to the Med Center.
— Edited by Kaitlyn Syring
IRAQ WAR
Bush vocalizes continuous support for Iraqi leader
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — President Bush, scrambling to show he still backs embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, offered him a fresh endorsement on Wednesday, calling him "a good guy, good man with a difficult job."
"I support him," Bush said a day after he acknowledged frustration with the Iraqi leader's inability to bridge political divisions in his country. "It's not up to the politicians in Washington, D.C., to say whether he will remain in his position. It is up to the Iraqi people who now live in a democracy and not a dictatorship."
Bush's validation of al-Maliki came in the last minute of his speech at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention and nearly stole the spotlight from his attempt to justify support for the war by likening the Iraqi situation to past conflicts in Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
leader when he said at a North American summit in Canada: "Clearly, the Iraqi government's got to do more."
Bush had appeared on Tuesday to be distancing himself from the Iraqi
Al-Maliki, on a trip to Syria, quickly lashed back at U.S. criticism. He said that no one had the right to impose timetables on his elected government and that Iraq could "find friends elsewhere." Without naming any American official, al-Maliki said that he thought some criticism of him and his government in recent days had been "discourteous."
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., said Monday that Iraq's parliament should oust al-Maliki and replace his government with a more unifying one.
Bush said in January that Iraq's slow political progress was the reason for the buildup of U.S. troops. He said that sending more troops should increase security and give Iraqi political leaders the breathing space to reconcile.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
George Bush, rush, salutes the audience Wednesday during his speech at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention in Cincinnati. Bush emphasized his support of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
planned as part of an effort to set the stage for a Sept. 15 report on the progress of fighting and steps toward political reconciliation in Iraq.
Bush's speech was the first of two speeches on Iraq this month. He said that both speeches were
in the Middle East what veterans in this room did in Asia?" Bush said.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who addressed the convention after Bush on Tuesday, said that there is no military solution to Iraq's problems. He said that he thought there should be a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops to pressure the Iraqi government to take action.
Bush said that the history of U.S. conflicts in Asia have shown that critics of the day are often wrong, and that withdrawing from war should never be done for short-term gain.
"The question now before us comes down to this: 'Will today's generation of Americans resist the deceptive allure of retreat and do"
INTERNET
E-mail fraud strikes Monster.com
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON — A recently disclosed fraud involving hundreds of thousands of people on the Monster.com jobs Web site reveals the perils of leaving detailed personal information online, security analysts say.
Before the scheme was uncovered last week by researchers at Symantec Corp., con artists had stolen legitimate user names and passwords from recruiters who search for job candidates on Monster. Then, with access to the Monster system, the hackers grabbed resumes and used information on those documents to
craft personalized "phishing" emails that they sent to job seekers
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"What phishers are trying to do these days is make them as realistic as possible, by adding specific information," said Patrick Martin, a Symantec product manager. "If they know you have submitted a resume to Monster, that makes it (seem) a little more legitimate."
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If the recipients took the bait, they had spyware or other harmful programs secretly installed on their computers. Even if the phishing attempt wasn't successful, the names, addresses and other details on the resumes can still be lucrative.
A server in the Ukraine used in the scheme held 1.6 million entries. Because of duplications, Symantec said those files actually held personal information for "several hundred thousand" job seekers.
Symantec said that it relayed details to Monster.com so it could disable the compromised recruiter accounts, and the Web site now has a security notice that warns users of the recent email scam. The security company also advised Web users to limit their exposure to such frauds by reducing the amount of personal information they post on the Internet.
Other corporations gave similar advice. Ron O'Brien, senior security analyst for Sophos PLC, said that the same standards should apply to any social networking sites that ask for a wealth of personal information, such as Facebook.com and myspace.com.