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form was dated and stamped March 5,2007 by the Office of the University Registrar. Hoge filled out the document, complete with her confidential student identification number, to withdraw from an English class she had been taking.
Hoge said knowing her information was floating around wasn't comforting, but she wasn't concerned it would fall into the wrong hands.
"Maybe it was an accident," she said. "I'm not super worried about it."
Another schedule change form belonging to Lindsay Fetter, St. Louis
senior, was also recovered. She said she had been through this before.
"My declaration of major form was lost," she said. "I couldn't enroll and I had to redo it. I don't know if they misplaced it or what."
Her schedule change form, dated and stamped April 19, 2007 by the Office of the University Registrar, was also used to drop an English class.
"I had too heavy of a load and that class was the most time consuming so I withdrew," Fetter said.
She said she wasn't too concerned her private information would be stolen from her because most offices require a password to access that information, but she said that doesn't mean she wants her number leaked.
makes me feel uncomfortable," Fetter said. "It shouldn't be sitting around in the basement of Wescoe."
"That's kind of weird; kind of
Bretz said the mistake was an opportunity for the University to reiterate the importance of student privacy to people as they return from summer break.
Bretz said there wasn't a University-wide disposal policy for student materials, and that the method for disposing of materials varied from school to school.
She said the University wanted to annualize its privacy training and ensure the message gets through to all of the schools.
"Good can come out of episodes like this,"Bretz said.
— Edited by Joe Caponio and Ben Smith
Bush warns public that al Qaida is still a threat
CHARLESTON, S.C. President Bush on Tuesday lashed out at critics who say that al-Qaida's operation in Iraq is distinct from terrorists who attacked the United States on Sept. 11,2001.
"The merger between al-Qaida and its Iraqi affiliate is an alliance of killers and that is why the finest military in the world is on their trail."Bush said.
Citing security details he declassified for his speech, Bush described al-Qaida's burgeoning operation in Iraq as a direct threat
to the United States. Bush accused critics in Congress of misleading the American public by suggesting otherwise.
"That's like watching a man walk into a bank with a mask and a gun and saying, 'He's probably just there to cash a check," Bush told troops at Charleston Air Force Base.
Bush is up against highly skeptical audiences with 18 months left in office. The public has largely lost faith in the war, Congress is weighing ways to end it, and international partners have fading memories of the 2001 attacks against the U.S.
In Washington, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Bush "is trying to
scare the American people into believing that al Qaida is the rationale for continuing the war in Iraq." But Kerry said Bush presented no new evidence to back that up, and added: "The president is picking the wrong rationale for this war. Al-Qaida is not the principal killer of American forces in Iraq."
In broad strokes, Bush linked the Iraq war to an event that Americans remember deeply — the Sept. 11 attacks, not the sectarian strife among Iraqis, which has caused some to question U.S.military involvement.
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Facebook threatened with lawsuit
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Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg smiles at his office in Palo Alto, Calif. The owners of a rival social networking Web site are trying to shut down Facebook.com, charging in a federal lawsuit that Facebook's founder stole their ideas while they were students at Harvard. The three founders of ConnectU say Zuckerberg agreed to finish computer code for their site, but repeatedly stalled and eventually created Facebook using their ideas.
Conn. town first to offer ID cards for illegal immigrants
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Dozens of people lined up at City Hall on Tuesday for municipal identification cards,the first city-issued ID cards specifically designed to bring illegal immigrants out of the shadows and give them access to community services.
The cards, available to New Haven's entire population, are meant to help anyone without a state- or federal-issued ID open a bank accounts and use other services that would otherwise be inaccessible. Advocates argue
that if immigrants can open bank accounts, they will be less likely to carry large amounts of cash, a practice that makes them easy targets for robbers.
An estimated 10,000 to 12,000 of New Haven's 125,000 residents are believed to be in the country illegally.
The mayor said the federal government had failed to address immigration-related issues, forcing cities to find ways to manage them. New Haven is simply acknowledging the people who already live there, he said.
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