Volume 30, Issue 3 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA August 30 2006 Wednesday THIS WEEK Building 11 to be demolished, NEWS Alum runs for office A former University of Green expansion planned North Florida student is trying his hand at politics, running for a seat in the U.S. Congress in November. the clean up of debris that building, which showed See CONGRESS, page 5 will inevitably follow. that air quality was not David Birkelbach, the proj- worse than the air outside. ect manager for Elkins Some students with Constructors, said that classes in the building safety is of the utmost reported various health importance to his compa- problems, such as nausea n y. and headaches, but it was “I guarantee that we inconclusive as to whether will stress caution and or not these ailments were safety throughout the dem- caused by mold or poor air olition,” Birkelbach said. quality. “Students and faculty have According to Elmore, absolutely nothing to there should also be no worry about in regards to environmental hazards personal safety.” associated with the demo- EXPRESSIONS Birkelbach said that it lition process. should take the 10-20 per- “Asbestos abatement work son workforce no more has been completed so MySpace mania than two months to finish there should be nothing in Social networking Web the work. “The majority of the air to worry about,” sites are taking over the the work will be done dur- Elmore said. “Mold is also Internet. More businesses, ing the standard 7 a.m. to 5 not a concern.” bands and buddies are using PHOT p.m. workday, with occa- The original decision to them than ever before. O ILLUSTRATION BY R BY O ILLUSTRATION sional weekend hours,” tear down Building 11 was See EXPRESSIONS, page 15 Birkelbach said. “We want- made in 2002 by interim ed to keep the schedule president David Kline. open for the weekend so we During a faculty associa- SPORTS could conduct work that tion meeting, Kline stated OBER may be unsafe with many that he and the Board of Trustees were informed Ospreys settle into D-1 T K. PIETRZYK students around, and to Two years into the new keep up to date with the that it would be cheaper to division, the University of work.” demolish the building North Florida will play bigger While some students rather than renovate. names in bigger games. This Building 11 has hosted classes at UNF since its construction in 1975. It was home to the uni- and faculty may be con- The only long-term may be the Ospreys’ year to versity’s social sciences program, which is now located in the newly-constructed Building 51. cerned with the demoli- option to stop mold growth soar. tion of a building in the suggested by engineers’ See SPORTS, page 21 heart of the school, studies involved ripping BY MATT COLEMAN The decision was based and leave the space unoc- Elmore said there should off the outside of the ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR on the fact that it would cupied. “The demolition not be a problem. “The building. WEEKEND not be cost effective to ren- will really open up the entire area surrounding Construction on The thirty-year legacy ovate, said project manag- campus,” said Elmore. the building is completely Building 11 began in 1975 WEATHER of Building 11 will soon er, Rich Elmore. “Due to its “The newly cleared space fenced off, so the only con- and it was occupied the fol- come to a close here at the condition and age, it was will serve as an extension cern should be the noise lowing year. The building University of North deemed more economical of the Green.” level springing from the was the home of the social Florida. Physical demoli- to demolish Building 11 Elkins Constructors, demolition,” Elmore said. sciences program, which tion activities are sched- and start anew,” Elmore the company responsible In the past, classes have has since been moved to uled to begin on the former said. for the construction of been moved from Building the newly built Building social sciences building Once the debris is Jacksonville’s new Main 11 due to concerns of mold 51. Sept. 5. and are expected to cleaned up, the school library, will be conducting growth. Air samples were last until Nov. 6. plans to sod the entire area the demolition, as well as E-mail Matt Coleman at taken from inside the [email protected]. Friday Saturday Sunday Sept. 1 Sept. 2 Sept. 3 91/72 90/72 90/73 P-Cloudy P-Cloudy P-Cloudy ITS beefs up Internet security for students 7-day forecast, page 5 SOURCE: NOAA BY TAMI LIVINGSTON MANAGING EDITOR INDEX The University of North Florida Department of Information Technology Discourse. 2 Services recently instituted new programs Weather . .5 and procedures to help students and to also Osprey TV lineup. .. 7 better protect them when they use computers Police Beat. .9 on campus. Squawk Box. .. 13 Over the summer, a new endpoint security Expressions. 15 program was instituted in all residential areas Zan on the Street. 20 on campus that forces each student who logs Comics. 21 onto the university’s housing Internet net- Horoscopes. 21 works to have up-to-date virus protection and Classifieds. .. ..22 anti-spyware programs. Crossword. 22 Not only will this policy key provide a min- Sports. 23 imum level of security for campus residents’ computers but it will also cut down on traffic in the network and protect students from downloading viruses and unwanted programs, according to Jeff Durfee, assistant director of ONLINE information security. The procedure was implemented in Daniel Rigby, a senior information technology major at UNF, repairs a student’s computer in the ITS Support response to numerous issues with housing res- Center in Building 15. ITS employees provide support and repairs for faculty and student computers. idents trying to use the network, Durfee said. Many students bring computers with them to To help, ITS has offered free security pro- for each user to have security protection. campus that have expired virus protection, grams for housing students the last two years “We’re trying to avoid a situation where a outdated security software or no security pro- but few students took advantage of the offer, student that has all this good stuff like virus tection at all, he said. This slows down the net- he said. That’s when the decision was made to work and also allows for easy transmission of eSpinnaker.com implement the policy and make it mandatory See TECHNOLOGY, page 13 viruses and spyware, he said. PAGE 2 QUOTE of theWEEK WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2006 “Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither Awarded first place for Best of Show at freedom nor justice the 2005 National College Media can be permanently Convention by the Associated Collegiate maintained.” Press. O O O James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881) Spinnaker Staff July 12, 1880 Editor in Chief Jenna Strom Art Director Robert K. Pietrzyk Business Manager Adina Daar Managing Editor Tami Livingston O O O O O O Advertising Manager Kristen Montalto Editorials Adviser Belinda Hulin News Editor Ace Stryker Positivity still exists in world affairs Features Editor Zan Gonano Sports Editor Holli Welch Copy Editor Emily Bruce n the wake of corrupt, government. America would finally be United States can bounce Photo Editor Valerie Martin President Bush's But his tour was not aware of its existence. back from its current rep- plummeting just one of rousing rheto- He even trekked out utation as the world’s Web Editor Meghan Dornbrock approval ratings, ric, it was also one of beyond the cities to the biggest bully. Graphic Designer Jen Quinn Vice President Dick action. drought-parched areas in Obama brought a mes- Discourse Editor Chelsey Wacha Cheney'sI stone-cold per- To fight the stigma that the northeast region of the sage of peace and con- sona and Defense Asst. News Editor Matt Coleman envelopes most of Africa country, where malnutri- structive criticism, rather Secretary Donald about AIDS, despite that tion and disease consumes than chastisement or Asst. Features Editor Jeanie Correa Rumsfeld's inability to the epidemic is decimating daily life. aggression. People were Asst. Sports Editor Natalie Nguyen take responsibility for entire populations of peo- Obama also spent time able to warm up to him Production Assistant Sarah Houston botching the Iraq war, ple all over the continent, inspecting some of the because he presented him- Senator Barack Obama's, Obama and his wife took country’s good-works proj- self as one of them, not as Distributor D-Illinois, positive global an HIV test in the midst of ects, which range from a demagogue from the Printer Bailey Publishing outreach is a breath of cameras and reporters. helping foster the growth celestially perfect land of fresh air. He made a point to of small businesses to America. O O O Obama's recent trip to maneuver his entourage staving off disease in Beyond just that, his his father's homeland, away from the modern- farm animals. trip reminds Americans Robinson Student Center, room 2627 Kenya, proves that a politi- ized, glamorous parts of Obama is obviously not that the Middle East is not 4567 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S. cian can walk the walk the city of Kibera, to its the first public figure to the only part of the world Jacksonville, FL 32224 and talk the talk. intense and little-publi- grace the Dark Continent embedded in turmoil. To Obama was received cized slum. Where there is with his presence.