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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
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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
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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