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Available recruits Because the NCAA overturned the 5-and-8 rule, Kansas can now offer three more basketball scholarships. The Kansan takes a look at three high school players who have yet to sign with schools. PAGE 1B
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KANSAN
April 30,2004
IN ITS 100TH YEAR AS THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Vol.114 Issue No.142
Department defends against hackers
While monitoring the University of Kansas's network on a slow day Jason Tinsley found himself in the middle of a high-speed computer duel.
a high-speed computer The security analyst for Information Technology Security found that a system — a fraction of the University's network — had been compromised by a hacker.
At the exact moment he found the hacker, the hacker had found him.
"Then the situation became like a gun on the table," Tinsley said.
tin on the table. Tinsley fell a surge of adrenaline as he fought for control. He and the hacker struggled to be king of the electronic hill, with the system as the prize. The battle lasted about five seconds but the network was saved.
"Then the situation became like a gun on the table."
Jason Tinsley Security adviser
The importance of the Information Technology Security Department is now salient. Its employees battle problems such as the worm-like program that caused Daisy Hill's Internet to be shut down.
And then the day continued.
This event was an anomaly in the world of network security. More often, network problems are dealt with systematically to avoid mistakes.
Tinsley is one of three people hired to protect the University's 17,000-computer network.
The leader and head of the Information Technology Security Department is Chuck Crawford. He grew up during the 1980s playing with the now-ancient Amiga and Commodore computing systems. He served as a security analyst for a financial security firm before arriving here last year.
last year. Tinsley found his calling for computer engineering after sleeping through a chemistry exam. At that point he realized that he should follow his passion for technology instead of
SEE CODE WAR ON PAGE 6A
Senate approves executive positions
By Laura Pate
ipate@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Hugs, jokes and tears filled the Kansas Union Ballroom Wednesday night as new Student Senate officers took their offices and old senators left their positions.
"This is an atypical meeting and you should feel lucky," Jeff Dunlap, student body vice president, told the new senators. "Usually joint senate lasts late into the night," the Lewood junior said.
Six students ran for the three positions of holdover senator; three of them from the Delta Force coalition, and three from the KUnited coalition. None of the Delta Force coalition members won a spot as a holdover senator. Holdover senators are those who held offices in the last year and are reelected by members of Student Senate.
It is rare for holdover senators to be along the same party line, said Marynell Jones, Dallas sophomore and CLAS senator for KUnited. Last year, Drew Thomas, Hays senior, earned a seat as a holdover senator for Delta Force.
holdover senator.
The election of three KUited senators had little to do with party lines, said Jones. The three Delta Force senators who ran, Blake Swenson, Topeka senior and 2004-2005 presidential candidate; Kevin McKenzie, Salina sophomore and 2004-2005 vice-presidential candidate and Ethan Nuss, Salina sophomore, had only held positions as replacement senators.
Replacement senators are chosen randomly to replace senators who have dropped out or been suspended during a regular senate term. Swenson was elected on November 15, and McKenzie and Nuss were elected on February 4.
February 4. The other senators served a full year's term. A holdover senator relays information from the last year to the current term.
Swenson said Senate should have elected McKenzie and him for holdover
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University doesn't require meningitis shot
By Joshus Bickel editor@kansan.com Special to the Kansan
The University of Kansas, like all other public universities in the country, does not require that students receive a meningitis vaccine before coming to school. The Centers for Disease Control set the vaccination requirements and most universities require only vaccinations for Measles, Mumps and Rubella.
tions for Measures.
Patty Dunn, registered nurse at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said she hoped that more students would come in to receive the vaccine, which takes effect after about two weeks, after news that Andy Marso, St. Cloud, Minn., senior, had bacterial meningitis. Myra Strother, Watkins chief of staff, said the best treatment for people in close contact with meningitis is an oral antibiotic, which takes effect immediately.
which takes effect immediately. Dunn said that Watkins had given at least eight meningitis vaccines yesterday.
"That's definitely more than usual," Dunn said.
The CDC and the American College Health Association strongly encourage that all universities inform their students about the disease and the potential benefits of vaccination.
Dunn said that while the University doesn't require a meningitis vaccine, it strongly encourages students to receive one.
Of all Big 12 Conference universities
Student update
Doctors diagnosed the illness as bacterial meningitis Wednesday. Marso is still in the intensive care unit at the University of Kansas Hospital. Officially, he is in critical condition, according to a hospital spokesman.
As of yesterday afternoon, Andy Marso, St. Cloud, Minn., senior and University Daily Kansan reporter, was in "cautiously stable" condition, said Myra Strather, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Strother and Frank DeSalvo, director of Counseling and Psychological Services, met with Kansas staffers yesterday, Health and University officials also met with Marso's housemates at Pearson Scholarship Hall.
Pearson Scholarship Plan Strothr provided prescriptions for antibiotics to those who wanted to take them as a precaution. No new cases of meningitis have been reported.
oiling to a hospital spokesman "He's doing well in comparison to other cases," Strother said.
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none require a meningitis vaccine for incoming students. The University of Missouri, however, requires that incoming freshmen provide documentation
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Topeka junior Mia Gonzalez shelved books yesterday afternoon at the Rape Victims Survivor Services office. Gonzalez is a volunteer and an advocate for the organization.
Advocates suffer with rape victims' trauma
By Ron Knox
rknox@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
In the ultra-white corridors of Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Mia Gonzalez doesn't know what to expect.
Just an hour before, she was relaxing at her home. The television was on. Then her pager went off.
Now, in the hospital, she's surrounded by doctors and police officers, waiting to see one woman who needs to see her more than anyone else.
oh else.
Gonzalez can't think. She's nervous. She
Her heart races. What will she look like? What will she want from her? The woman Gonzalez will see has just been raped; Gonzalez knows that but not much else.
can't, right now in the cold hospital waiting room, understand that these are the men and women — victims of violent, life changing crime — that she would come to work with for the next year of her life.
She doesn't have time to think about that in the flash-bright halls of Lawrence Memorial Hospital. A police officer tells Gonzalez that she is ready, leads her down the wide hallway to the door of a small, private room.
She creaks open the door, and there she is: on the paper-lined table, knees pulled to chest. Her face is buried between them, cheeks wet from tears. She is alone.
Gonzalez walks to her, knels by her side. She wants to talk, to tell her that everything will be OK.
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