4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 22, 2006
Spam
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She said making the system more aggressive was just the first step of many to further reduce the amount of SPAM that students receive. A planning group has been formed to find the next SPAM solution for the University.
Information Services expects that an additional 10 percent of e-mail would be tagged as SPAM with the lower-threshold system. Ludwig said that this number could be different for every student depending on the kind of things they do online.
Darion Pearson, Lawrence senior, said on average she received about six SPAM e-mails per day. She said it was a pain to keep deleting them throughout the day.
"In a university you have a different expectation." Ludwig said. "We are a little more concerned about the scope of what we automatically delete."
Pearson said she didn't like getting the SPAM e-mail because she would get excited about receiving mail, and then was let down when it was "junk."
Some goals for the new system are to not only detect SPAM and other malicious e-mail, but also to find a way to recover more messages.
With the current system, Ludwig said they didn't delete any e-mail for students, even if they were tagged as SPAM. She said before the University changed the way it filtered SPAM it needed to get student input on what they would like to see happen.
Pearson said she wanted to reserve the right to final judgement on her e-mail.
"I don't want KU to have the right to get rid of my junk," Pearson said.
She said she liked the idea of the University decreasing the amount of SPAM she received but wanted to make sure she still received all of her personal e-mail.
— Edited by Matt Wilson
Time for a trip to the baaa-rber
Arthur Soreaga/THE SAN ANGELO STANDARD-TIMES
A Delaine Merino sheep receives a spot trim of fleece from around the crown of its head Tuesday at the San Angelo, Texas, Fairgounds Sheep Barn during the 74th annual San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo.
Standoff ends with spectacular ambush
CRIME
BY RYAN NAKASHIMA
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAS VEGAS — Police blasted out a 20th story window and stormed a room at a Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino Tuesday, arresting a gunman who authorities say killed a man and shot at police and a security guard during a six-hour standoff.
No shots were fired in the final assault on Room 2036 of Harrah's Carnaval Tower, as a SWAT team burst in around 7
"We were forced to take out an outside window in our attempts to take him into custody." Sgt. Chris Jones said.
a. m. Police would not say how they shattered the window on the 35-story tower, describing it only as a tactical diversion.
Hotel guests on the 19th, 20th and 21st floors were evacuated about 1 a.m. after several people said they heard shots ring out.
Police said the man fired three shots at a security guard who went to the hotel room.
He also fired on SWAT officers through the door and the wall twice, but did not injure anyone during the negotiations, police said.
The alleged gunman was uninjured. Curtis Billy Bonilla, 22, of Las Vegas, was charged with murder, attempted murder and three counts of attempted murder of a police officer.
Guests in sleep clothes and robes were evacuated from the 19th,20th and 21st floors and offered blankets and food at the
hotel buffet, Harrah's, spokesman Alberto Lopez said.
Jim Hack, 31, a stockbroker from Phoenix, said he heard two shots about 12:30 a.m., opened his door and saw a man bleeding in the hallway several rooms away.
"He was crying for help and he was having trouble breathing." Hack said.
The victim was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
Police said he was from Reno but did not identify him.
The amount of ice mass lost from the 21 largest glaciers was equivalent to one-tenth of Mount Everest. As a result, the sea level rose approximately half a millimeter last year, an increase from the .2-millimeter addition to the oceans in 1996.
If the Greenland glaciers melt completely, the sea level would rise seven meters, enough to cover low-lying areas like Miami.
"I think it is disconcerting to see the ice melting at such a rapid rate," Kanagaratnam said. "There is a large population living in the coastal areas and rising sea levels will affect them."
David Braaten, associate professor of geography, said the size of the ice sheets results in an enormous potential for rising sea levels. These changes could "really change the face of the planet in terms of land and ocean boundaries," he said.
With NASA reporting that 53 percent of Americans live along coastlines, the implications of rapid sea level change could be financially devastating.
"If it happens slowly, I think society can adapt," Braaten said. "If it happens very rapidly, it will be very hard to adapt. It doesn't look like the long-term change is part of the picture."
Braaten said he didn't have the answer to dealing with the rising sea levels. The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets is developing new models, maps and computer models to better understand the changes and predict what the future holds.
Director Prasad Gogineni started researching glaciers in 1993. KU research has been published since 1997 and has brought extensive news coverage for both the center and the University, he said.
Edited by Kathryn Anderson