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Bottom, proposed floor plan of the first floor of the newly renovated Logan Library. Tim Ekl • The Rose Thorn Stock Photo • Rose-Hulman Tim Ekl • editor-in-chief work on the main and upper floors of this significantly enhanced and is to update the aesthetics of the li- the library is now scheduled to last functional space,” Jerrell said in a brary,” said Rachel Crowley, Direc- Ed. note: an earlier version of through September 20, according to campus-wide email. tor of the Logan Library. She notes this article ran in the freshman is- Jan Jerrell, circulation coordinator. The renovation project began in that “the Reference area and the sue of The Rose Thorn. That article While the entire book collection is June and lasted the summer. New [Digital Resource Center] will still was written by Alex Mullans, edi- being held in storage, library staff will features to the reconstructed library be available for use, but in a more tor-in-chief. attempt to retrieve books on request. are to include a café, additional indi- inviting atmosphere.” The renovation of Logan Library In addition, inter-library loans are vidual and group workspaces, and ex- During the renovation, several stu- stretched into the first weeks of the still available. tra seating for students. dent employees worked to place books 2010-2011 academic year as work “We feel confident that these mi- “There are several reasons [why in storage and, along with library crews rushed to complete the rebuild. nor inconveniences will be worth the library is being renovated]. The staff, evaluate the existing collection Though originally slated to be com- the effort and that students, faculty main one is to provide more learn- and discard materials as necessary to plete by the start of the school year, and staff will be very pleased with ing space for students and the other make room for newer items. InsIde tHIs Issue Summer comics review Good eats Religious apathy Volleyball’s best start SharePoint fallout Market Bel- In all the furor over the Girls’ vol- The Flipside gives The Rose la Rossa on Quran-burning, leyball gets a humor- Thorn reviews Wabash of- is there really off to a phe- ous take on summer news fers tasty and that much to nomenal 5-0 Wednesday’s in the world of economical get upset start — the SharePoint comics. food - includ- over ? best in RHIT disaster and ing vegetarian history. official re- options. actions. page 4: enteRtaInment page 5: lIVIng page 6: opInIons page 7: spoRts page 8: flIpsIde 2 PUZZLES SEP 10, 2010 To play, fill in the grid with the numbers 1-5. No number can be repeated in the same row, column, or “stream.” A steam STRIMKO is a group of 5 circles that are connected by lines. 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SEP 10, 2010 NEWS 3 News Briefs IAIT implements new bandwidth BY ALEX MULLANS Koran burning and wireless policies plans on hold Alex Mullans • editor-in-chief Installation of the system are still allowed for students mense slowdown of the cam- cost around $200,000. who wish to hard-wire mul- pus network), this academic After a week’s worth of heat- Returning upperclass- Along with the new system tiple devices into the campus year a middle ground was ed debate, Florida pastor Terry men were greeted with a came new restrictions for network. However, the wire- bridged between the restric- Jones has cancelled plans to burn pleasant surprise the first student-owned wireless rout- less component of the router tions of years past and com- copies of the Islamic holy book time the laptops kicked ers. Students are no longer al- must be turned off or the port plete freedom. IAIT sums up on the ninth anniversary of the back to life. RHIT-1X, aka lowed to run their own wire- connecting the router to the the policy as follows: “There September 11 terrorist attacks. the ‘official’ campus wire- less networks. IAIT’s website campus network will be disa- are no email notifications, the Criticism for the pastor’s plan less network, now extends notes that “Personal wireless bled by IAIT. transfer limits are higher, and came from ranking politicians to all ten residence halls on routers interfere with the The second major change bandwidth rates will recover including President Obama, who campus. For the first time campus wireless infrastruc- to campus computing policy over time if Internet usage is warned that the attacks could last year, a campus survey ture in the academic and ad- lies in bandwidth restric- reduced.” In addition, heavy provoke more suicide bombings found that more than 50% ministrative buildings [and] tions. After an attempt sever- users get a ‘discount’ of sorts from al-Qaeda and possibly put of students surveyed want- can allow unauthorized ac- al years ago to completely re- by downloading large files US forces in Afghanistan and ed institute-provided wire- cess to individuals sitting in a move bandwidth restrictions late at night or during the Iraq at risk of retaliation. How- less in the residence halls. parking lot.” Personal routers (which resulted in an im- weekend. ever, in his press conference, Jones linked his decision to a rumored agreement by Muslim leaders in New York City to re- locate the proposed Islamic cul- tural center near Ground Zero. Those leaders have denied any such agreement. Antivirus-on-a- chip? Last Thursday, chip behemoth Intel purchased security software maker McAfee for more than $7.5bn. Intel touts the purchase as the next step in computer se- curity, suggesting that it wants to Above, an example of an email students across campus with wireless routers have been receiving. move antivirus protection from Alex Mullans • editor-in-chief software to hardware.