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THE ARROLL EWS Thursday,C March 13, 2008 Serving John Carroll University Since 1925N Vol. 84, No. 16 LSO running low CheckJCU enables service thatthis will text studentstext to alert in them class of emergency Student organizations not having money they need this spring Max Flessner count holds up to one e-mail Campus Editor address and two cell phone Cassandra Larson sororities on campus, contain- numbers that can be alerted. Staff Reporter ing members from the differ- John Carroll University Regular text messaging ent chapters. announced the unveiling of Aggressive spending in rates between a user and their “I believe that there should a text message alert system the first semester has left the provider apply upon receiv- be more equality on who gets that could prove vital in case Legion of Student Organiza- ing the text message. funding,” said Ivans. “Greek of an on-campus emergency. tions near broke and some In the case of an emer- Life was attacked for most of In the future the system organizations struggling to gency, an all-student e- the requests presented. Like would also be useful for find the funding they need. mail would be sent out any other organization, Greek school closings, according LSO is a resource that to notify the JCU com- Life also needs assistance to Vice President for Student provides financial assistance munity in addition with funding and we would Affairs Patrick Rombalski. for all recognized student to the notifications appreciate the support.” The system will be run organizations. Groups can sent out from JCU LSO also provides fund- through Campus Safety Ser- request funding for events Alert. ing for service organizations vices and the annual $5,000 that require food and sup- Once it has on campus, including Seeds fee will be paid for out of plies, as well as trips and been determined of Hope. Seeds of Hope is a their budget, according to additional internal costs. that there is a mentoring program in which Timothy Peppard, chief of Kappa Delta, one of five threat on JCU students spend one af- CSS. sororities on John Carroll campus ternoon a week with chil- The fee is calculated from University’s campus, will that dren from inner-city middle $1 per user account and the not be reimbursed for plane schools. They are also an University has signed up for tickets to their Leadership organization that did not re- 5,000 accounts. Anyone, Conference. ceive all the funding that they parents and off-campus “The request made for could’ve used. family and friends included, the conference was rejected, “If we were able to request can sign up free of charge while other organizations more funding, we could pro- to receive JCU Alert text with similar objectives had Photo courtesy of www.tech2.com vide more programs and ac- messages. Each user ac- Please see TEXT, p. 2 their requests approved,” tivities for the kids to partake said sophomore Annie Ivans, in,” said junior Erin McBride, treasurer and LSO repre- president of Seeds of Hope. sentative for Kappa Delta. “We would love to take the “Being able to attend our kids to ball games, the zoo, conference is an honor. It museums and other places enriches our sorority with that they aren’t able to afford the tools it needs to become to go themselves.” an even more active student The majority of the finan- organization.” cial assistance Seeds of Hope Earlier this month, student What’s wrong receives each semester is in- organizations were faced vested towards transportation with a dilemma regarding for the children. their financial futures: the with Webmail? “The budget of the service Reserve University. LSO didn’t have enough Max Flessner fund does not compare to the Campus Editor “JCU Information Services staff have been money. “The problem that general fund,” said McBride. working with the e-mail system vendor to put LSO had faced at the be- “Because of the difference, If you have been frustrated with John Carroll safeguards in place to make our server less at- ginning of this semester we are unable to ask for as University’s Webmail problems lately, you are not tractive to spammers,” said Burke. “We have was having more money much financial assistance as alone. JCU’s Information Technology Department also put early-warning measures in place so we requested than what was other groups can.” is not too happy either, according to James Burke, can respond to future attacks more quickly.” available in our budget,” said The Service Fund began director of computing systems and services. The e-mails ask for people’s usernames sophomore Andrea Capasso, with $5,000 this fall, and “There are two separate issues in play,” said and passwords, and out of the thousands of vice president of student $2,672 was left for the spring Burke. “The first issue is the use of our server by e-mails that were sent out over JCU’s network, organizations. “This was semester; $2,178 was re- spammers. The second issue is related to what we the spammers only needed between 30 and 50 solved by giving every orga- quested by service organiza- suspect to be a software problem with the e-mail responses. It is not clear how many students nization that was requesting tions, with a remainder of server.” responded. money the opportunity to only $494. Although the spamming problem has been They then log into those people’s accounts lower their request before In the fall, LSO began solved, the server is still an issue. JCU Information and send out mass e-mails to the public telling and during this past week’s with $60,000 in the General Services has been working with the vendor to iso- them that they have won the lottery or won a meeting.” Fund. The money is divided late and correct any issues. Burke said that “[his] prize from Pepsi. People are then asked to reply Not only does distribution up between the two semes- confidence is waning,” with the server vendor. with specific information that the spammers can of LSO money impact Kappa ters, and the budget runs on a Spam e-mail is a scheme to make money. Spam- use to make money such as credit card numbers Delta, but Greek Life as a school year calendar. mers send out e-mails asking for specific informa- and bank account information. community. Like Kappa Del- $18,457.00 was avail- tion on how to gain access to peoples’ accounts and Only a few responses are needed to make the ta, the Panhellenic Council able in the General Fund this hope that they get a few replies. several thousand spam e-mails worthwhile. was also denied funding for spring and $19,289.00 was Last Saturday, the day the original spam e-mail Each theft is typically small, making it dif- their leadership conference. requested from the General was sent out through JCU’s network, there was ficult to obtain law enforcement attention to The Panhellenic Council is also a similar spam e-mail sent out at Case Western address the problem, according to Burke. the governing body for the Please see LSO, p. 3 Index Inside this issue of the CN Campus 2 Campus Arts & Life World News Sports Arts & Life 5 Johanna Orozco tells her How did JCU’s wrestlers do Features 12 What’s going on with the Governor of New York Eliot tragic and brave story at JCU. new Armor exhibit at the Cleve- Spitzer is caught using a highly in the NCAA tournement? See World News 14 The Senior Legacy project is land Museum of Art? Check out priced call girl. What is going what happened at baseball’s and Sports 18 back, and see what the latest the WJCU recap. Be sure not to on with Obama, Clinton and softball’s spring trips. Be sure to Editorial 21 developments are with JCU’s miss the history and fun ideas Pennsylvania? Patrick Swayze see how the Blue Streak track Op/Ed 22 Master Plan. Don’t skip the to spice up your Saint Patrick’s has pancreatic cancer and check team did at the OAC Champi- Classifieds 24 crime log, p. 2 Day, p. 5 out Brad’s Journal, p. 14 onship last weekend, p. 18 2 Campus March 13, 2008 www.jcunews.com The Carroll News JCU student tells story of horror, then bravery Andrew Rafferty and want to talk about their relationships. She Managing Editor thinks she is going to major is psychology at JCU because she wants to help people. Johanna Orozco still isn’t completely “As difficult as it was for her, I think she comfortable with how she looks, but she isn’t realized the importance of telling her story,” allowing that to stop her from telling her story said Gus Chan, The Plain Dealer photographer and advocating for a change in how Ohio deals who worked on her story.