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The BG News Volume 85/lssue 138 mmma E-mail problems persist Honors Students continue to experience frustration, hassle with current server program their e-mail. high: 61 By STEFANIE "We do have some students SIZEMORE who are still having problems rewards low: 42 The BG News and I know for them that is a In the past (cw weeks there real problem," Singer said. "We are working on the problems Welcome to ga^fcgQQl have been several incidents MAIl- opinion where students' e-mail accounts and think they will be solved seniors have been delayed, but the Uni- very soon." rmaNMfUMf LrsfrMf This delayed e-mail was a • Gel you own Yahoo! email i versity said that those problems tlflOJD4.URl • v& t*e fs easy By JEFFARNETT serious problem because many • AcooaB eman front art/where have been solved. • YQI/I M roostoroo' w*i ail of vanoor* Mrvton. The BG News i Columnist Jud Laipply. students and faculty rely on e- • Gat «WBrf nottcabon wnen you have now «MMpM Susie Markocic, freshman win YjQfifli£*aa£ The Honors Program present- otherwise known as elementary education major, is mail as a stable form of commu- nication. ed various awards and honors Dr. Love, gives dati- one of the students who experi- 153 projects last night at the fourth enced delayed e-mail. "I use my e-mail a lot to com- ng advice. municate with old friends and annual 1998-99 Senior Honors "A few weeks ago I had a lot Project Presentation and Recep- • • • • • of problems with my e-mail," ask teachers questions," Marko- cic said. "I would like to be able PHOTO ILLUSTRATION tion in the Alumni Room of the i Students speak out on Markocic said. "One day I University Union. would not get any e-mail and to rely on it." USG. bikes and athl- Singer said that they are This login screen for Yahoo is becoming familiar to students "Academically, this is the big then another day I would get event of the year (for the Honors etes. three or four messages that had going to spend the beginning of and faculty who are opting to use Yahoo instead of Lotus the summer on a massive polic- Notes. Program)," said Allan Emery, been sent days ago." director of the Honors Program. ing of the new e-mail system. problem has been solved." Toby Singer, University inter- and believes that the University "The honors project is the culmi- world an d nation 4 im executive director of infor- "We want the system to be should have chosen a better Smead believes that people running efficiently when the nation of honors course work." mation technological services time to implement this new sys- should not rely on any e-mail According to Emery, 42 students return next year," system as an important form of assured students that the bulk tem. She also believes that Lotus senior honors projects were i Mistrial denied in the Singer said. "People need to of the problems like delayed e- Notes is a major step up from communication because they completed this year. All who look at the whole picture. With case of the Marine mail have been solved. the old e-mail system. are not always reliable. completed projects were invited every system there are prob- whose plane killed 20 "A few weeks ago we had a "1 think timing was bad, but She also stressed that people to make a short presentation of lems. In the long run, students people on a ski lift. lot of complaints and problems just need to become more famil- their project, and 21 agreed to and faculty will understand that overall this system will be bet- with delayed e-mail, but recent- iar with the new system to be do so. The topics of the projects this system is better and more ter," Smead said. "In the begin- ly things seem to be working able to deal with any problems. included biochemistry, psychol- stable than the old one." ning there were a lot of com- fine except for some specific e- "People just need to get used ogy, economics and history. i Yugoslav Deputy Pre- mail accounts," Singer said. Karen Smead, a senior ele- plaints. Lately, I really have not to the new system and they will Some of the seniors who pre- mentary education major, is a mier is fired after Those specific accounts heard anything. Delayed e-mail realize that it was really worth sented their projects said the student assistant at the Clinical include 20-30 students who are experience was a valuable one. denouncing govern- Lab in the Education Building was an issue but I think that all the problems," Smead said. ment. still experiencing problems with "I learned a lot from it," said Heidi Hansen, whose project, Students opt to use other e-mail systems Defining Effective Development and Team Communication to sports class can have discussions via e- municate to him. one the University used to use, and said he likes it because of its Ensure Usable Products, regard- By BRANDI BARHITE mail, something which has been "1 tried to use it," he said. ed the gap between technical and AMYJO L. BROWN hampered since the installment "The problem is I just don't simplicity. Another student prefers and usability expertise. "1 think The BG News of Lotus Notes. have confidence in the new sys- it serves as a catalyst for future using her Yahoo account. "After the change, e-mail was tem " research and future articles." As the reliability of Lotus Several students have also "1 got it so I could keep my Notes becomes more and more terrible," K.V. Rao, sociology "It was a good way to pull professor. "I was not confident switched over to other e-mail addresses because Lotus Notes questionable, University stu- together everything I've that the mail was reaching the systems since Lotus Notes has has problems with that," said dents and faculty are opting to Angela Simonetta, freshman learned," said Katy Creecy, / • K , class." been installed. whose project studied the eco- use alternative e-mail systems, chemistry major. Therefore he has been pro- "I don't like it and it is still a nomic and geographic effects of such as Yahoo and Internet Simonetta said she does use viding his students with his per- little bit new to me," said Quebec secession. Direct. Gilbert Kporku, freshman MIS Lotus Notes and likes it, yet she One professor is actually sonal e-mail account, which he Creecy noted that in other major. has the other system in case encouraging his students to set purchased through the off-cam- classes, the professor tells the pus internet company, Internet Kporku uses Pine, a version student what to do, but for the up alternative accounts so the • See E-MAIL, page six. i Baseball splits big twin- Direct, so his students can com- slightly more modern than the senior project, advisors help the students do what they want to bill against Ball State. do. Junior Jill Olthouse, who Students urged to donate food presented her project, but will finish it in May 2000, agreed. "I enjoyed it because it gave Fraternity says use leftover meal plan money to help less fortunate me freedom to explore my own Bradley suggested that stu- 2 "Students can use the money food drive has not been that • interests and an opportunity to Opinion By SARAH DELANEY great so far. The box at GT's is dents donate non-perishable work with my advisors," Olt- 3 they have left on their food cards Page Three The BG News to buy- food to donate to the fairly empty. items that will feed a family, like house said. World and Nation 4 Bradley noted that she knew canned fruits and vegetables, According to Emery, senior As the school year ends, many Bowling Green Food Pantry," Sports 7 Lehrman said. of one student who had over boxes of spaghetti, boxes of mac- honors projects must be origi- University students are trying to nal, interdisciplinary projects. Sports Agate 8 To encourage students, Alpha $400 led on her food plan. aroni and cheese, soup and use up the money on their food "Personally, it surprises me," Though they are generally done Phi Omega has left donation snack-pack puddings. plans by buying "staple" items to she said. "If someone has that in the form of a thesis, he noted boxes outside of Chily's and GT Lehrman suggested that stu- take home with them for the Express-Convenience Store. The much, they can donate a few that projects can include art, dents also donate cans of tuna summer. • —os vtriU be therp until Fridav. cans." computer projects, musical per- say what? boxes will be there until Friday. cans." dents also donate cans of tuna But the Alpha Phi Omega co- computer projects, musical per- Lehrman explained that stu- During the holiday season, ed service fraternity has come up and jars of peanut butter.