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<< “SUPER BOLL” NOT JUST FOR FOOTBALL PAGE 7 FRIDAY NEWS, FLYER IN FRANCE GETS FEET ON THE GROUND PAGE 2 FEB. 5, 2010 OPINIONS, SUPER BOWL AD ADDRESSES ABORTION PAGE 8 SPORTS, RIVALRY AT THE ARENA PAGES 10-12 university OF DaytON VOL. 57 NO. 28 Campus wide Student life at the click of a mouse Haiti donation Jen cheney should be at an academic institu- be accessible in an organized man- while personal announcements Staff Writer tion.” ner, the information shown on a are targeted to specific groups. effort continues Along with not being up to stan- student’s portal could be signifi- Tabs will be available to search While the student neighbor- dards in content, it also lacked in cantly different than that found the menus for dining facilities. dan cleVeland hood’s front porches are a symbol aesthetic appeal. This new on a peer’s portal, or even Also, a user will be able to use Staff Writer of the Ghetto and Darkside, start- system will a faculty or Porches to search Google, click ing this February, faculty, stu- f i x staff’s on links through udayton.edu or Three weeks after Haiti’s earth- dents and staff will be introduced search addresses in the UD net- quake, students are still persistent to a new digital gathering place work. in helping to raise funds and donate called Porches. A “My Tab” option will en- to the Haitians who need all the sup- Consider it a personal- compass custom content port they can get. ized Web page. Accord- such as customizable To further help, SGA met on Jan. ing to project man- news feeds, favorite 31 to discuss the opportunities and ager and assistant links, or even Face- resources available. The meeting let CIO Jaci Jackson, book news feeds. them plan a number of projects in- Porches will offer Group Studio cluding upcoming fundraisers and campus informa- will be provided on benefit events, according to SGA tion in one orga- the portal allow- member Courtney Beasley. nized location. ing students to log “We have some great ideas that By replacing the in to share infor- we are all excited to implement,” university’s cur- mation for class or said Beasley. “We need as much rently underused extracurricular ac- involvement as we can get. It is so portal (udportal. tivities. Groups may important for student involvement udayton.edu), Porch- be public or restricted, because we can work together to es will combine finan- with announcements, accomplish something great for an cial aid, human resources, message boards, photo al- entire nation in need. With man- student and finance applica- bums, calendar, chat and file power and voice, our ability to give tions in one easy to use data- sharing. will multiply and awareness will be base. Porches allows for the student raised, completing two of our main “Even as recently as last p a g e . to channel the layout of the portal goals.” year, students wouldn’t A user will to make it more suitable and or- The Center for Social Concern is know where to check course that along with add- have the option to modify ganized for the user. Faculty can also working hard to lend Haitians schedules and it would be ing to UD’s online pres- his or her page by organizing and access tools that will help them as much support as possible. They a hassle finding menus or ence. prioritizing important user func- communicate with students and created a Web site with informa- addresses,” said senior “Porches features an at- tions while minimizing channels collaborate across campus. Staff tion about the situation, prayers and Walker Foley, who ap- tractive new look that fits the of lesser importance. Informa- will have one location to access ways to donate to Haiti, according to pears in the Porches on- University’s branding guidelines tion specifically for the user will tools and databases to do their job. CSC director Nick Cardilino. There line commercial. “The and complements our Web pres- pop up and can be customized to Before second semester start- are also ways to get involved in ac- UD portal site was not ence with internal communica- further fit needs with information ed, 90 users began testing Porches tivism, such as writing a letter to up to par with what it tion,” said Jackson. regarding classes, activities and to work out the kinks to have the international organizations to can- The portal is an entry point clubs. portal ready to be introduced in cel all of Haiti’s debt in order to help for accessing information and Students will have the abil- phases starting in February. them recover. campus tools relevant to stu- ity to view grades and register “Porches will continue to grow Cardilino also said that the sec- dents, faculty and staff. This can for classes through the new por- and evolve; there will be more ond collections from all masses prove especially beneficial for tal, but new amenities won’t end content and functionality, all to on Jan. 17 were gathered for Haiti, promoting to incoming students. there. Sports and news updates provide tailored tools and com- which added up to be more than “It’s important that especially along with campus and personal munications that meet the needs $2,000. That money combined with new students have all the neces- announcements links will also be of our campus community,” Jack- donations collected by service clubs sary resources readily available provided on the page. son said. totals to over $3,000; half of which to them with just a click,” Foley The campus announcements To learn more about this Web explained. channel will display any campus site, sign onto porches.udayton. Not only will the information emergencies or school closings, edu. See Haiti , p. 3 weather TODAY SatURday SUNday (Source: www.nws.noaa.gov) 36/26 30/17 28/15 NOW OFFERING GREEN STUDIES Saints or Colts? Whatever, just take me to Super Chance Chance Sunny. Minor in sustainability, environmental issues available PAGE 4 Bowl XLIV in warm, sunny Florida. of snow. of snow. 2 NEWS Flyer News •Friday, February 5, 2010 Flyer in France Flight delays turn into camaraderie, eases nerves three times, first by a mechanical and sharply-dressed business on the ride and took the time to phabet actually do correlate with issue and later by snow closing woman melted as she talked to me show me on a map the best way the seat assignments on the train. the Philly airport. about her time with her daughter through the airport to make my Another helped lift my huge suit- After about hour four still sit- in France. My image of the gum- connection; a connection which case into the luggage compart- ting in the Dayton terminal, kind smacking, cell phone chattering I made with no trouble and the ment on the bullet train and yet is the last word I’d use to describe woman sitting behind me evolved flight to Paris went smoothly. another reassured me that yes, I the people I encountered. Every- was indeed about to get off at the REBECCA YOUNG, STAFF WRITER one was upset about missing con- right stop. nections or just being unable to But what made the biggest Everything seems to have get home. “In the time we had waited and shared our impression on me was the nap- changed since landing in France, Slowly some people left for ho- kin slipped to me by the business but my journey here demonstrat- tels or back to their homes while woman as I hurried off the plane ed that human capacity for kind- others, like me, continued to wait. stories we had brought out some of the in snowy Philadelphia. ness endures across cultures. As we entered into our fifth hour “In case you miss your flight The trip from Dayton, Ohio, together, people began to share or it gets canceled and you need to Angers, France is a long and their destinations and stories best in each other.” a place to stay,” she said as she somewhat difficult one in which with the now dwindling group. I handed me her address and phone I encountered the help and com- learned the young man sitting in number. “I know how I would feel passion of others in many un- front of me was a UD grad, trying Rebecca Young, if it were my daughter.” expected ways. Ironically, what to get home to his son in Rwanda. Staff writer Such a kindness was strik- should have been the simplest When we boarded the plan for ing but I don’t think its endemic part of the journey was actually the third and final time, five and to any one place. That said, life the most convoluted. a half hours after the scheduled into that of a dedicated fiancée In France I encountered more here is pretty different already so My route was Dayton to Phila- departure time, only nine of us who was trying to reach the man kind individuals who attempted, stay tuned for the truth about ba- delphia with a long layover in the were on the flight. In the time we she loved in the hospital. Even in French, of course, to explain guettes, myths about homesick- city and then onto Paris; but just had waited and shared our stories the stewardess whose big blonde to me among other things that the ness and my experience of what it getting out of Dayton proved to we had brought out some of the curls had slowly unfurled during Paris airport terminals are not really means to be lost in transla- be difficult.

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