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Email phishing scam targets UA UITS suggests that students check links, URLs in messages By Kaleb Stephens DAILY WILDCAT
With the UA’s phonebook open to the public on the university’s website, it’s easy for spammers and hackers to find thousands of emails in just a few keystrokes. But UITS has provided techniques that may help students avoid a potential hacking. A seemingly legitimate spam email
is circulating university accounts with the subject line “Urgent Announcement.” The message requests that users need to click a link in order to upgrade their university email account. University Information Technology Services released a warning about the “upgrade,” saying that neither they nor the 24/7 IT Support Center had sent or endorsed the email. According Cathy Bates, university information security officer and Derek Masseth, senior director of UITS client and infrastructure services, clicking the link in the message could compromise your personal data, your computer or even the campus
network as a whole. The email is an attempt at “phishing,” a technique where con artists send spam or pop-up messages to lure victims into revealing personal, financial or credential-related information. That information can then be used for hackers to commit identity theft or enter password-protected sites using a hacked account. The UA’s Informational Security website offers tips on how to spot phishing messages, steps to avoid getting tricked and what to do if a UA community member responded to a phishing email with personal information. UITS advises anyone with a UA
email account to check links and make sure URLs are legitimate. One helpful trick, they said, is to copy and paste any link into a browser to check the URL. The URL in the link code may not be the same as the link in the text. “I’m disappointed in the UA selling our emails and making me sort through over 200 spam messages a day,” said Christina Bischoff, a junior studying ecology and evolutionary biology. Aedan Morriss-Fregoso, an English senior, said he is fed up with spam messages polluting his university email account. “There are so many (emails)
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cluttering up my inbox that I frequently find that I have overlooked or deleted important emails,” he said. “I don’t use my UA email address for anything that isn’t school-related, so this spamming isn’t courtesy of inputting my address into forums on questionable websites.” If you are unsure whether a message is legitimate or you think your account has been compromised, UITS suggests that you contact the 24/7 IT Support Center. If you think your UA NetID password has been compromised, UITS said that you should go to the UA NetID site and change your password immediately.
Loan interest rate may double By Brittny Mejia DAILY WILDCAT
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The UA Staff Advisory Council teamed up with Parking and Transportation Services and Community Relations to “Stuff the CatTran.” The event, which is in its fourth year, encourages attendees to fill the bus with food donations. The donations are given to the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona and benefit the food bank’s child nutrition programs and emergency food assistance program. The event ran from 5:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Cherry Avenue and University Boulevard.
Online at DAILYWILDCAT.COM Check out more photos from this year’s Stuff the CatTran food drive.
BOARD OF REGENTS
ABOR will meet to set next year’s tuition By Luke Money DAILY WILDCAT
The Arizona Board of Regents will set tuition levels for next year during its meeting today in the Student Union Memorial Center Grand Ballroom. The UA’s proposal would not increase tuition for new and continuing resident undergraduate students, but contains a 3 percent across the board increase for all other segments of the student population. Undergraduate resident students have seen tuition increase by more than 20 percent each of the last three years. Though their tuition rate may not increase, resident undergraduate students could pay as much as $750 more in tuition due to the expiration of a regent-mandated tuition credit that was passed to help students cope with last year’s $1,500 tuition increase. The UA’s current resident undergraduate tuition rate is above the
median, but below the average of its peer institutions, as determined by the regents. The University of Florida has the lowest tuition rate in that group, at $5,657, and Pennsylvania State University has the highest, at $15,984. This year, only five of the UA’s 16 peer institutions had a lower projected cost of attendance, which is estimated at $19,575 for residents and $35,034 for nonresidents. But resident undergraduates saw an average of 35.4 percent of their family income go toward UArelated expenses last year. In total, tuition increases at the UA, Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University will generate roughly $112.2 million in revenue for the Arizona University system. Of that, $8 million will go to financial aid initiatives and $4.4 million will fund faculty recruitment and retention efforts at the UA. The UA will also receive $8.9 million for enrollment-related expenses and
$1.7 million in funding for the College of Medicine. Rent is expected to go up for every UA residence hall, with increases ranging from $129 for tier four halls such as Navajo-Pinal Residence Hall and Hopi Lodge, to $179 for tier one halls such as Coronado Residence Hall, Likins Hall and Árbol de la Vida Residence Hall. The UA’s proposal does not contain any increases in mandatory fees, meaning that students on the main campus would continue to pay $921 in mandatory fees, and students at UA South would pay $498. Online at DAILYWILDCAT.COM To view the agenda and all materials relating to this week’s meeting, head to the Daily Wildcat Data and Document Center: www.wildcat.arizona.edu/index. php/page/datacenter.
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Rep. Daniel Patterson has about a week to fight an ethics violation complaint.
Tucson Rep. Patterson: Ethics report ‘garbage’
With an interest rate cap set to expire in July, student organizations around the nation are lobbying Congress to keep Stafford subsidized loan rates from doubling. Associated Students’ Association representatives from each university in the state traveled to Washington D.C. in March to lobby at a federal level. These representatives lobbied legislators about the importance of Pell grants, need-based grants awarded to lowincome students, and keeping interest rates low on Stafford loans, forms of federal financial aid aimed at helping college students finance education. Tyler Dowden, an intern for the association and a political science freshman at Northern Arizona University, was one of these representatives. Dowden spoke at a news conference on Capitol Hill, which centered on Stafford loans and the possible increase from a 3.4 percent interest rate to 6.8 percent. Students also voiced their opinions through more than 130,000 letters delivered to Congress, asking for interest rates to remain at the current rate, Dowden said. “I feel like if the interest rates double it would have a harsh impact on me, personally,” Dowden said. “It limits my career options in the fact that I have to look for a job that I’m not passionate about, but that pays me money. I can’t be in a career where it pays nothing when I have to pay years of Stafford loans as well as my cost of living.” Alisha Raccuia, a psychology senior and ASA director at the UA, also lobbied in D.C. She said that they spoke with senate staffers about federal policy priorities and focused a lot of their
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for women with metastic breast cancer. Universally, doctors prescribe certain medications as a “quick fix” to health problems instead of investigating and deeply researching the problem, Weil said. “The average doctor doesn’t know how to distinguish good research versus bad research,” he
Arizona state Rep. Daniel Patterson doesn’t mince words when asked about the ongoing investigation into his alleged ethics violations. “A lot of what’s in that report is complete garbage,” he said. The report, which was released on Friday, calls for Patterson’s immediate expulsion from the Arizona House of Representatives. The ethics complaint originally stemmed from allegations of domestic abuse — allegations that Patterson still faces — but the report goes beyond those charges,
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Doc talks medical mistakes By Rachel Gottfried DAILY WILDCAT
Medical debacles and mistakes of the recent past were discussed at a lecture hosted by the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health on Wednesday. Dr. Andrew Weil, director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, spoke at the lecture. Weil, an internationally
recognized expert on medicinal plants, alternative medicine and the reform of medical education, has written 11 books in addition to numerous articles. Weil discussed what he viewed to be “colossal medical mistakes,” including tonsillectomies and appendectomies for everyone, X-ray treatments for acne, thymus ablation, reckless uses of drugs and bone marrow transplants
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