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Initiative may upgrade accounts with Gmail technology
BY BRENNA HAWLEY
bhawley@kansan.com
A student group is trying to combine the University's e-mail system with Google.
Connect, a student coalition running for seats in next year's Student Senate, announced its second initiative Sunday. The initiative adds a free application offered by Google to the Outlook Web Access system used by the University.
The application would allow KU e-mail sign in to stay the same but change the e-mail to the format of Google's mail system.
Mohsin Iman, account strategist for the Google applications education team, said Gmail and Google were started by two students from Stanford and now are on the cutting edge of technology. He said offering free e-mail to schools was a Google effort.
Google offers a free e-mail application, called Gmail, to accredited nonprofit kindergarten through 12th grade schools and universities. It gives each user technical support and 6.5 gigabytes of space, which is 65 times the amount of space currently available to students. The application is integrated with the school's existing e-mail.
a Google initiative.
Max Davis-Johnson is the associate vice president for technology development at Arizona State University, which has integrated its e-mail system with the Google application. He said Google approached the school in October
"This is one way for Google to give back to education," Iman said.
Iman said when a school decided to integrate Gmail into its school e-mail accounts, all student e-mails would be hosted on Google servers, which would save money for schools.
He also said no advertisements would appear on student, faculty or staff e-mail accounts. He said that if schools offered e-mail to alumni, advertisements would appear on their accounts.
"This is one way for Google to give back to education."
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"From a support standpoint, we are out of the business of student e-mail." Davis-Johnson said.
H e said the switch h a saved the school a lot of
money. It no longer has to maintain servers or support staff.
He said the Web service Arizona State used before Gmail was three or
four years old and that Gmail provides a better service to students.
Austin Kelly, Lawrence junior and president of Connect, said his coalition introduced the new initiative because it thought e-mail at the University was a pressing issue and the coalition could make it better.
"Everyone wants KU e-mail to be the best it can be." Kelly said.
Kelly said his coalition had spoken with administrators at KU Information Technology about the e-mail integration. He said they were willing to work to address student needs, and if that need was Google integration they would consider change. To show student needs, Connect plans to increase membership in the Facebook group about the project and also petition for student support.
Bill Myers, spokesperson for KU information services, said that Information Technology had considered Google applications before for integration. He said that
when it looked, the Google contract didn't offer everything the University needed. He said the KU Portal allowed e-mail access that at this point Gmail would not be able to handle.
"We need an integration that will capture all the needs we have," Mvers said.
Jarrod Morgenstern, Overland Park senior and Connect member, said that this idea is different from a platform. Morgenstern said that a platform is an idea that a coalition promises to fill during its time in office, whereas an initiative is an idea a coalition works on before it is elected to office.
Connect will announce another initiative on March 9. Its first initiative was WiKUpedia, a Web site similar to wikipedia.com that focuses on groups and activities at the University.
Edited by Katherine Loeck
SECURITY
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Safety measures increase in scholarship halls
BY CALEB SOMMERVILLE csommerville@kansan.com
Security in campus housing,which has ranged from desk assistants to hand scanners,has undergone major changes this year.
University of Kansas students living on campus may feel safer this year.
At the beginning of the school year, scholarship halls moved to a system where the doors were locked 24 hours a day. Residence halls are in the process of having KUID scanners installed. They also have desk assistants that watch the door 24 hours a day.
knows one another in the building, meaning that the monitoring of security takes place on a more individualized level there." Robertson said.
"The scholarship halls are also a close-knit community of only 50 people per building..."
She said that she knows all the friends of the residents in Douthart,
Liz Winter, president of the All Scholarship Hall Council, agreed with Robertson.
DIANA ROBERTSON director of student housing
Diana Robertson, director of student housing, said she sees no problem with the scholarship hall security. She said the keypad system was installed long before the keycard system was installed at the residence halls.
She also said the closeness of the community helped with security.
"The scholarship halls are also a close-knit community of only 50 people per building, so everyone
the hall she lives in.
"I feel really safe here," Winter said.
She said that each hall has a keycode that only residents of that hall know. The residents of each hall must escort guests 24 hours a day.
Winter said security varies from hall to hall. Some halls have people on phone duty in the front room, and residents of Douthart can buzz in guests from their rooms.
She also said that residents feel safe; some don't even lock their doors.
There haven't been any security issues at any of the scholarship halls, Winter said.
recently upgraded to the keycard scanners for entry, Robertson said the scholarship halls will upgrade soon as well. The scholarship hall upgrades are part of the same safety additions that the residence halls are part of. She said the upgrade will most likely happen in the next school year.
Since the residence halls have
Justin Fredrick, the complex director for the scholarship halls, said the scholarship halls were in a phase of the KUID scanner upgrade.
Edited by Nick Mangiaracina
safety features
Residence Halls:
-Lockdown after 11 p.m.
-KUID scanners
-Desk attendants
Jayhawker Towers:
-KUID scanners
-24 hour locked doors
Fraternities and Sororities:
-Varies from keycodes to
hand scanners
Scholarship Halls:
-Keycodes
-24 hour locked doors
The University of Kansas Chancellor's Student Awards Committee
*The Rusty Leffel Concerned Student The Leffel Award is not restricted to graduating seniors
Alexis F. Dillard Student Involvement Award
The Donald K. Alderson Memorial
Now accepting nominations and applications for the following graduating senior awards:
The Class of 1913 Award
The Agnes Wright Strickland Award
The Caryl K. Smith Student Leader Award
Nomination and application forms are online at: http://www.vpss.ku.edu/
When a new strain of bees invades a region already populated by honey bees, they interbreed and gain benefits from the genes of their predecessors, researchers report in
WASHINGTON — The invasion of new bee populations has attracted attention in recent years with the spread of so-called Africanized, or "killer bees" moving north.
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Nominations must be received by Friday, February 15, 2008, at 5:00 p.m.
Applications must be received by Friday, February 29, 2008, at 5:00 p.m.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Charles Whitfield, an assistant professor of entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studied the genes of bees.
When the African honey bees
Whitfield's team found that when invading bees were interbreeding with those already present, the combined genes were not just joined randomly.
Study reveals mix of beneficial traits in bees
this week's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"But actually what we found was there was a preference for picking up functional parts of the western European genome over the non-functional parts."
mated with the western European honey bees that had been in South America for centuries, one might expect that the hybrid offspring would randomly pick up both the functional and nonfunctional parts of the genome, he said.
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