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Effects of Internet Outage Felt Throughout Campus 21st Century SPARTAN BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK "EVIEW AND Q&A SEV-.1" BACK TO THE 'OLD SCHOOL' Digital Boy Ii' IHE Feral', Wilson and Vaughn talk about Student apathy hurts their roles as fraternity leaders entire campus community PAINT OPINION 2 SPORTS 8 A&E 4 VOLUME 120, NUMBER 20 SERVING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1934 SPARTAN DAILY WWW.THESPARTANDAILY.COM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20,2003 Effects of Internet outage felt throughout campus By Paulo Hernandez People were working to correct the sit- entire campus wuld not connect with The hardware that caused Thurday's Caret said he wasn't sure about the no up-to-date information." uation all day, Judd said. Daily Staff Writer the outside and the outside couldn't Internet interruption was replaced costs to the campus because of the Robert Milnes, director of the school "Something like this should not connect with the campus." with temporary parts. The permanent Intern et outage. of art and design, said that last happen very often at all," he said. Concerning the costs to the univer- parts are on rush order, he said. "There are a lot of issues we have to Thurday's Internet incident is proof of Last Thurday's Internet outage was a "This is a highly unusual event." sity's students, classes and depart- "We take pride in the system we deal with," he said. "We have to take how reliant we are on contemporary problem of hardware, not software, The Internet could be out for about ments as a result of the outage, Judd have on campus," Judd said. "I would the network to the next level of secu- technology. said Bruce Judd, associate vice-presi- three to four hours every once in a declined to comment on it specifically, like to express my apologies to the rity" "I deal with about 40 to 100 e-mails dent of university computing and while, but to lose it for an entire day is saying only that he believed- there was campus community for what took Not having Internet access meant everyday, and I didn't have access to telecommunications. a very serious problem, Judd said. a significant" cost. place." faculty had to find other means of car- them," he said. "That was critical. I A failure to the campus firewall The root of the problem was an Steps are being taken to prevent an The Internet failure was indiscrimi- rying out their lesson plans. couldn't do anything." made the Internet unavailable all day, incompatability between the hardware incident like Thursday's from happen- nant, also affecting San Jose State "It was chaotic," said Elizabeth Judd said e-mails were held on is he said. and the software the university net- ing again, Judd said. University President Robert Caret. Dietz, a professor in the nursing proxy server while the system was All servers on campus were working. work uses, he said. We are in the midst of the complete "It drove me crazy," Caret said. "I do school at SJSU. "I couldn't touch the down. When the Internet came back However the university was complete- "Everyone on campus was affected redesign of the university's security about 80 percent of my business on work I'd done at home. I had to re- up, the e-mails were relayed to their ly disconnected from the Internet by Thursday's event, Judd said. "The network," Judd said the web " create a lecture for my class, and I had appropriate destinations. Bulldogs win double overtime nailbiter Alumnus produces Controversy surrounds press photo of the year final seconds of regulation By Janine Stanhope "I am from a community of By Chris Giovannetti Daily Staff Writer Armenians living in Iran that escaped Daily Senior Staff Writer to Los Angeles, Grigorian said. "I lived Passion for photojournalism does and grew up in Los Angeles and then The camera never lies. have its reward and former San Jose went to school in San Jose." In perhaps the strangest and most exciting game of the season for State University student, Eric His enthusiasm for photojournalism the San Jose State University men's basketball team, visiting Grigorian, won just that. began while attending Pierce College, a Fresno State University survived an overturned potential game He describes his entry for community college in Los winning-shot and a buzzer-beating three-pointer for a 74-70 dou- the 46th Annual World Angeles. He transferred to ble-overtime victory on Wednesday at the Event Center. Press Photo Contest for SJSU, completed the photo- With 37 seconds to play in regulation, Spartan guard Brandon 2002 of a boy in Iran who is journalism program and Hawkins gave SJSU its first lead of the game as his apparent three- crouching in the midst of graduated in 1998. pointer from the top of the arc put the Spartans up 54-53. the rubble left from a Grigorian first started Or did it? ruinous earthquake near the working as a photojournalist "(Guard) Travis DeManby ran over to an official and told him his grave where the body of his covering the San Fernando foot was on the line. The official just blew him off," Fresno State father is about to be buried Valley for the Los Angeles head coach Ray Lopes said. "The official told him to get on the tia conix.1.1ing. Daily News and then signed other end of the court." It won e prestigious up as a freelance photojour- DaManby's dish led to a strange turn of events for SJSU. photo of the year award. nalist with a New York According to Lopes, Fresno State assistant media relations direc- The photo was selected by agency, Polaris Images. tor Jay Bargonier heard a KMJA 580 Bulldog radio announcer say an international jury of Grigorian Jay Clendenin, an SJSU on the air, that Hawkins' foot photojournalists, who are graduate from the photo- was on the three-point line, thus nul- journalism program, said he recently lifying SJSU's one-point lead. members of the nonprofit World Press started Under a first-year rule in the "2003 Men's and Women's Rules Photo Foundation, from a list of more working for Polaris Images as and Interpretation," than 59,000 applicants. well. Clendenin went to work after NCAA rule book, "a two-point basket can be graduation for the Hartford Courant, a reversed to a three-point basket and a three-point basket can be Upon viewing the photograph, Jannel newspaper reversed to a two-point basket by video review (Rule 2, Section 5, Leasing, a junior majoring in kinesiolo- in Connecticut. He and gy, said Grigorian showed determina- Grigorian worked hard together in Article 3)." school to build a photojournalism port- Bargonier told a Bulldog assistant coach to challenge the play tion. folio. and the assistant coach (Lopes doesn't recall who brought it to his "He is someone who definitely wants to do something "I be more happy for him," attention), told Lopes to challenge the shot. with his life," she said. Clendenin said. "We went to Lopes did, and court officials Tom Harrington, Bob Sitov and "And he came from here." the Eddie Arthar Hafiz, a Adams workshop together during our Ruben Ramos spent nearly three minutes on the sideline review- senior fine arts major, first year in the program ing tape of Hawkins shot. said he was glad to know that former at SJSU. SJSU students were Adams is the photojournalist who They reversed it. seeking interna- took the famous picture of a 53-53. tional opinions. South "It is very powerful," Vietnamese general shooting a Viet 37.4 seconds to play. Hafiz said about Cong prisoner in the head during Bulldog basketball. the winning "It is already telling the whole story." war. "That's a first for me," said Spartan head coach Phil Johnson, "The most important things that stu- who didn't see any film of Hawkins' shot. "I wasn't aware of the I lafiz said he felt the photo showed a sense of humanity for people in the dents can do is enter a lot of contests, rule. I guess his foot was on the line and that changed the com- build a portfolio, go to workshops and plexity of the game. Middle East. 'They are not all terrorists,' he said. apply for internships," Grigorian said. Hawkins was even more stunned. 101 ne internship opportunity helped to "That really hurt. I thought I had stepped back because my shot "A lot of people were around him while digging," launch his career in international pho- was a step-back shot," said Hawkins, who scored one point in the Grigorian said. "He had tojournalism, he said. first halibut finished with 22 points. "They always say to make been crying for about eight hours he had gone through a lot, and he had I won a scholarship from the Alexis sure (it's a three-pointer)." Foundation for World Peace to intern The Bulldogs took all of the remaining 37 seconds to look for a nothing left." Crystal Del as a student in a London study abroad game winner but guard Rolando Todd's three-pointer from the Rosario, a junior major in program with the Syracuse University right corner of the arc bounced off of the far side of the rim to send liberal studies, said the photo is moving and in New York," he said. the game to overtime. truthful. He said he wrote a proposal to the The Bulldogs scored the first four points of the first overtime and "It says so much without any words at program about his passion for photo- held a 60-57 when guard Terry Pettis missed the second of two all," she said.
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