Wireless: Expansion cards allow students to surf the Web with PDAs
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vendors are making products that
don’t have any finalized standards,
which means everything from speed
to compatibility is affected.”
He said an 802.11b card will work
for the University wireless and most
places where wireless is offered.
University student Brady Miller
said he likes to carry around his lap
top when he’s on campus and he
typically uses wireless at the EMU.
“I think the University’s coverage is
really good and I like to use the laptop
in class because it’s good for discus
sion and you have a lot more informa
tion at your disposal,” Miller said.
Miller identified residence halls
and some areas of the library as be
ing key areas in need of improvement
for wireless access. He added that the
University should keep its wireless
system up during the summer.
Smith said the Network Solutions
department recognizes the need to im
prove access in residence halls, but
this is a low priority because the focus
is on public places where many people
would benefit from wireless access,
and also because all residence hall
rooms come with two ethemet ports.
Wireless technology isn’t limited to
laptop computers. Albrich said
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students also come in with Pocket PCs
or handhelds looking for help on how
to set them up to use the Internet.
Most of the handheld computers
today that advertise wireless tech
nology need a Bluetooth-enabled
phone to access the Internet, Al
brich said. Bluetooth is a wireless
standard that is limited in range,
mostly because its original goal was
to replace Infared — the technology
found most on a remote control —
so that computers could access
printers and other computers with
out wires. If the phone and hand
held both have Bluetooth, the hand
held connects to the phone and
then uses the phone’s network to
access the Internet.
“To get a scope of how much range
Bluetooth has, it would mean that
any student using a handheld with
Bluetooth would have to sit right un
der an access point to use the Inter
net,” Albrich said.
But many handheld computers offer
WiFi, or 802.11, wireless that lets stu
dents connect to the 218 access points
currently at the University, Smith said.
Also, certain PDAs that do not
have integrated wireless can surf the
Web with Secure Digital expansion
cards the size of a thumbnail, which
slide in or out of the handheld.
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Election: Counselor seeks
to treat politically distressed
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“It’s a really new perspective and
it’s growing,” he said.
Reiss said it is vital for people to
talk about their feelings and realize
they can change how they relate to a
certain issue, even if they can’t
change it on a global scale.
“What’s more hopeful is if you
can get them to understand that
maybe they can’t cause global
changes right away, but they can do
their own work,” he said. “That’s
one of the things that helps to get
people working locally. ”
He said some people invested so
much effort in campaigns that they
feel they should give up, but that their
efforts are still necessary for grassroots
work. Reiss said he promotes the
same concept of local involvement to
Israelis and Palestinians he works
with on trips to the Middle East. He
added that the old concept that people
change their leaders has become out
moded compared to building grass
roots political change.
“Looking at the change and im
provement people can make in their
own community helps a lot to em
power people,” he said.
Reiss also said people shouldn’t try
to deny feeling anxious or depressed.
“It can get to the point where you
really need to talk with a therapist
about it,” he said.
People’s distress over the election
caused Eugene counselor Richard
Grimaldi to form a support group of
nine people to help them “express and
crystallize their feelings and thoughts.”
Grimaldi, who held similar sessions
during both wars in Iraq and said he
placed an advertisement for the ses
sion in the Nov. 11 issue of the Eugene
Weekly, said “it’s obvious there’s this
mood about (the election).
“Certainly the election has been a
catalyst and a source of distress, but I
think it feeds into a larger concern
about the direction of the country
and the world,” he said.
Grimaldi said part of his approach
for the group is seeking to identify and
create a dialogue between the internal
roles participants play, such as a victim
or a winner. He said the process gives
people hope because they can realize
they have more options about how to
feel and can have greater empathy for
people with different views.
Grimaldi said people should talk
with each other, look to their spiri
tual beliefs or practices and try to
express themselves through song,
poetry or journaling to cope with
election-related distress.
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Aid: Some Fallujah areas lack
medical care, hospital access
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have been unable to gain access to peo
ple inside Fallujah during more than a
week of fighting between U.S. and Iraqi
government forces and insurgents.
No patients have been able reach
Fallujah General Hospital and med
ical supplies there have gone unused,
Rawi said.
The hospital lies in a U.S.-Iraqi
controlled area across the Euphrates
River from the main part of Fallujah.
Rawi said that the convoy then
went to the south in hopes of enter
ing nearby Amiriyah al-Fallujah,
where there are civilians who have
fled the fighting.
Muin Kassis, ICRC’s spokesman
in Amman, Jordan, said the agency
planned to send investigators to two
Fallujah suburbs Tuesday to check
on the condition of hundreds of dis
placed families there.
Kassis said the ICRC was concerned
about people living in makeshift shel
ters in the cold weather, and had pre
liminary reports of fever, diarrhea and
other illnesses in the camps, especially
among children.
Kassis also said the ICRC had re
ports that people in areas of Fallujah
not under the control of the U.S.-led
forces had no access to medical care.
Fallujah: Body collection effort
hits roadblock of Iraqi workers
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with bullet holes. Marines have
blown holes in walls and knocked
down doors to search homes and
shops.
Dead Iraqis still lay out in the open
Monday. At least two women were
seen among the dead.
Most civilians appeared to have
fled before the offensive, given early
warning by Iraqi and U.S. Ip4ders„,
but some stayed. A few families
walked out of town Monday.
A Marine-directed body collection
effort begun a day earlier stalled
Monday when Iraqi workers de
manded that Marines first open a
road to their village.
U.S. commanders estimated 1,200
insurgents had been killed, at a loss
of 38 Marines and six Iraqi soldiers
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