Road Warriors! My Story: South Africa Knights Topple A-io Champs By Yonah Perline (PHILADELPHIA) - The Knights were down by two with nine seconds left in a noisy gym on the road when Coach Greg Herenda called his last timeout. He couldn't have timed it better. "We ran a play to get Mus- tafaa Jones the ball for three, but it broke down and he went c- t, ; 1 rnavlc a play," Herenda said. "But that's col­ lege basketball; we just keep on play­ ing and figure out a way." ^4'- - at the top of the key, dribbled to the right corner, and with 3.3 seconds left on the clock, nailed an improbable off-balance 3-pointer to secure a 58-57 win for Photo Credit: Alma Sammel the Knights over the heavily favored One of the Workshops of the Humboldt Journey at the Research Container on the Topic "Transport" Hawks of St. Joseph's University on featuring several social entrepreneurs presenting their enterprises. Friday night in Philadelphia. "We drew a play, but things fell apart," Jones said. "As team cap­ tain, I just stepped up and did what Wireless Service on Campus coach tells me to do: shoot." The win was particularly Work in Progress sweet for Jones, because it was a bit of By Jonathan Acosta stemmed from a lack of new equip­ a strain on the system. "The new wire­ home cooking. ment. less in the residence halls has created "I grew up five blocks away (TEANECK) - Students, faculty and "We previously had an older a much higher demand on our exter­ from here," Jones said. "Playing in staff who work and study in Robison wireless technology around campus," nal Internet connection," he said. "We Continued on Page 14 Hall and Annex have long labored he said. "The old wireless controller have adjusted what we can, added without the benefit of wireless commu­ (the brain) of this system failed. As a 30oMB/second of bandwidth from our nication, and students in the residence result, buildings with the old wireless current Internet provider." halls frequently experience service are now down." Wireless connectivity issues problems. Explanations are available, Domenick and his staff £u-e have also been reported in other build­ but solutions remain elusive. working to bring the system up to date, ings on campus, as well. Domenick "Robison Hall was never offi­ and it's a complicated job. "We need to said that improvements have been cially a wireless enabled building," said re-engineer the wireless in each build­ made by University Systems and Se­ University Director of Information ing, not yet converted over to the new curity (USAS), which is in charge of Systems and Technology Brian Do- wireless," he said. "Wireless surveying maintaining the systems and network menick. "There was one access point and engineering needs to occur along infrastructure at FDU. in the building, which was intended to with the creation of a written design "They (USAS) have been ac­ cover a specific area. Any other areas plan for each building. Installation and tively trying to stabilize the network," that appeared to be covered were really programming of new wiring and elec­ he said. "The new hardware deployed from bleed over from that location or tronics soon followed." in various positions is all cutting edge, other nearby buildings." Dominick said that increased state of the art equipment." Mustafaa Jones, who hit the game Domenick said the problems Internet demand in the dorms has put winner against St. Josephs. Continued on Page 2 #daysandknights ^eqfdma^du [email protected] . • • Page 2 The Equinox November 20, 2014 NEWS Wireless Service Continued from Page 1 Dominick said that outages in wi-fi, as well as other issues, can be brought to the attention of University Technical Assistance Center (UTAC). "UTAC is the user facing sup­ port arm of Information Technology (IT) at FDU," he said. "The UTAC's primary goals are to initiate support requests, assist with troubleshooting, seek first contact resolution, and/or escalate the support request to an ap­ propriate resolving party." UTAC can be contacted via telephone, email, and online submis­ sion through the self-service portal. Their phone number is 973-443-8822, and their email address is fdutac@fdu. edu. 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Page 4 The Equinox November 20,2014 OPINION Editors Desk When I look back at the beginmng himself as a pitcher on the baseball team, ofthe paper were alreacfy running out by the is to help my staff become better writers of this semester, it is trufy humbling to see win be covering all of the men's games in following Monday. People are actually look­ and help my section editors become better how far the Equinox has come in onfy a few the upcoming season. And when I say all ing forward to reading the Equinox? Imag­ leaders. My final goal is to have the Equinox short months. Now, the rest of this semester the games, I mean all the games, home and ine that! compete for awards again. The paper hasn't is ffying by. Midterms have finalfy ended, away, fiom the sidelines to give the Metro The best characteristic of any suc­ won many awards in the past, but that will and students are busify working on their Campus community as exclusive an access cessful organization is the desire to always not stop us from trying. final projects and papers before it's time to as you can get of our Kiiights! As you saw in strive for better than before. Reaching a goal study for finals. It seems to go so fest when Issue 5 of the Ecpiinox, Yonah covered the and then setting an even more challenging you stop and see the bigpicture.Ifind myself story related to the "Smoke Spot" in between one is what makes successfid businesses doing this with the paper. The Equinox has Muscarelle and Robison Hall. I think he will come out on top over and over again.