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While supplies last. 346-4331 UOBookstore.com IN BRIEF E-mail stresses need for Social Security change WASHINGTON, D.C. — The suc cess of President Bush’s push to re make Social Security depends on con vincing the public that the system is “heading for an iceberg,” according to a White House strategy e-mail that makes the case for cutting benefits promised for the future. Calling the ef fort “one of the most important conser vative undertakings of modern times,” Karl Rove deputy Peter Wehner says in the e-mail that “the Social Security bat tle is one we can win. ” Doing so would advance the idea of limited govern ment and could transform the nation’s political landscape, he said. Gonzales promises non-torture policy WASHINGTON, D.C. — Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales is promising senators that he will abide by treaties prohibiting the torture of prisoners, despite deriding the restraints as relics in 2002. White House counsel Gonzales, in line to be come the first Hispanic attorney gener al, had a hand in much of the White House’s post-Sept. 11 terrorism policies as President Bush’s top lawyer. Suicide car bombings kill 25 in Baghdad BAGHDAD, Iraq — A suicide at tacker blew up an explosives-laden car Wednesday outside a police acad emy south of Baghdad during a grad uation ceremony, killing 20 people. A second car bomber killed five Iraqi policemen, bringing the death toll to at least 90 so far this week in surging violence aimed at derailing this month’s elections. Despite the mounting attacks and death toll, Iraq’s interim leader again insisted the ballot would go ahead as planned. World leaders open tsunami aid summit JAKARTA, Indonesia — World lead ers opened an emergency summit Thursday with a moment of silence for the tens of thousands of tsunami victims, before focusing on the best way to rush nearly $4 billion pledged worldwide to millions of survivors. U.S. Secre tary-General Kofi Annan told the gathering that the world was in a race against time to get food, medicine and supplies to the neediest. Wintry storm faulted in at least four deaths A huge storm spread a smear of ice and snow from the Rockies to the Northeast on Wednesday, snarling highway and airline traffic, causing record-low temperatures in the Midwest and snapping power lines serving tens of thousands of people. Weather-relat ed traffic deaths included one each in Colorado, Oklahoma, Nebraska and South Dakota. The weather also may have been a contributing factor in a collision that killed another five in Oklahoma and two in Michigan. — The Associated Press Credit: Staying debt free should be a goal Continued from page 1 suggested students have at least two credit cards and use them wisely “to get a good credit history going and establish good habits with credit card use.” Juggling credit and debt parallels managing classwork, Wagenknecht said. She said understanding a credit card agreement is like understanding a course syllabus and making credit card payments on time is like having good attendance. Credit cards are a problem when a student lacks maturity and an understanding of credit, but most stu dents are mature and responsible, she said. University senior Jamie Young said she has always handled her three cred it cards responsibly, although she not ed not all students are so accountable. She manages her debt by only using credit for larger expenses, such as holi day shopping and at the beginning of the school year. When tempted, she tries 10 ue logical, sne saia. “I may want to use it,” Young said, “But I don’t because I know I’m living off financial aid and can’t afford that.” Students who do spend more than they can pay off and end up with bad credit may encounter some le niency from credit bureaus if they’re still young. “If you were under 25 years of age, there is more room for creditors to un derstand that you were young and in experienced and that you may mature and may be able to redeem yourself,” Wagenknecht said. She said the Fair Credit Reporting Act offers some additional rights use ful to students. The law gives people the right to review their credit history. If students are turned down for credit of any kind, they have the right to ask for a written explanation. If there is something in the credit history that is unfair, people have the right to give their side of the story in their credit report, wagenKnecnt saia. Checking on credit history can help catch some potentially damaging mis takes. One in four credit reports con tains errors serious enough for a per son to be denied credit, a loan or even a job, according to a 2004 survey by the National Association of State Pub lic Interest Research Groups. About 79 percent of credit reports contain other mistakes, according to the survey. Annual free credit reports can be obtained at www.annualcreditre port.com. Wagenknecht said know ing one’s credit history is important, but staying free from debt should be a student’s ultimate goal. “Being free from debt, all debt, is a wonderful place,” Wagenknecht said. “For most people over 25 years of age, it should be an aspiration that we all strive for. However, it is not an aspira tion that is sold and marketed to us.” karahansen@ daily emerald, com Webmail: University waiting on special hardware Continued from page 1 problems in the classroom. “I missed a meeting with students to set a time for the discussion hour,” Landers said. “I could be missing more but I don’t know be cause I can’t see new e-mails. Some of my friends are teaching courses and it’s a problem because they can’t talk to their students at all.” The slow-down has been a com mon complaint among graduate stu dents, EMU computer lab assistant Bryan Kreitlow said. Kreitlow also mentioned that users who are still accessing their University mail through the old Webmail system, lo cated at webmail.uoregon.edu, are receiving messages like “maximum number of users reached” and can not log in. “We have been getting tons of complaints,” Kreitlow said. “We’ve been saying (the University) is figur ing it out since it’s the first week. We don’t know how true that is.” Al brich said for Darkwing Webmail users the wait will only be a couple more days. The server’s upgrade is centered around a new high-speed Network Attached Storage system, or NAS, that will store user accounts and data on these new servers, Al .brich said. However, the high cost of these NAS servers requires a special bid from the University to the State of Oregon’s Justice Department, which “has not yet approved the necessary hardware purchase,” Albrich said. When the University needs to purchase more than $50,000 in hardware, Albrich said, it is a long process in which many hardware vendors make bids. The University must justify a bid to the Justice De partment if a company’s offer is not the lowest bid but offers a superior product, which can make the process even longer. )arkwing TEMPORARY FIXES FOR DARKWING WEBMAIL USERS: • Users may want to switch to an e-mail program like Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird (www.mozilla.org) or Mac OSX’s built-in mail application. The drawback is that without a laptop, users cannot access e-mail on campus without reverting to Webmail. • Another option is to activate mail forwarding to other accounts such as Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail. When mail forwarding is activated on the Microcomputer Services site, mail sent to your University account will automatically go to the other account. For the instructions on both of these options, visit the University's Microcomputer Services Web site at micro.uoregon.edu. “In the meantime, we have built a temporary high-speed storage system which has some, but not all, of the performance improvements of the fi nal solution,” Albrich said. “Dark wing users will only see a perform ance improvement after they change their e-mail program settings. ” The change involves switching the server address Darkwing users have inputted into their e-mail programs, like Microsoft Outlook, Eudora or Mozilla Thunderbird, to access e mail instead of using Webmail. The process is detailed at micro.uore gon.edu/email/upgrade, Albrich said. Albrich recommends that e-mail users who use an e-mail program choose Thunderbird (www.mozilla.org) if on a Windows machine and Apple's built-in Mail application if using Mac OS X.As for when these new servers will be im plemented, Albrich cannot give a concrete answer. “I’d say both Darkwing and Glad stone users will see a very noticeable improvement prior to the next aca demic year, with smaller but critical improvements in the short term,” Al brich said. Until then, graduate students will suffer in an e-mail limbo. “Yesterday it was 45 minutes (un til I could check e-mail),” Vinit Siri chit, a graduate student studying economics, said. “It’s a little bit bet ter from yesterday. I missed a class because we changed the time through an e-mail notification.” anthonylucero@ daily emerald, com
