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September 17, 2012

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Cancer Center servers hacked by Svetlana Ozden news@dailylobo.com

UNM Cancer Center patients’ personal information may have been accessed by hackers, who attacked the center’s server in July. Center officials said as many as 2,365 patients’ information, including Social Security numbers, names and addresses, may have been accessed. The attack occurred July 17 and all affected patients were notified Wednesday, after investigations were conducted to figure out who may have been affected. UNM Health Sciences Center Communication and Marketing Executive Director Billy Sparks said no evidence has suggested that any of the information has been used. He said that although the information was hacked, forensic analysis concluded electronic medical records and financial information were not accessed.

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“The UNM Health Sciences Center and the UNM Cancer Center take this incident very seriously,” he said. “We are very sorry that this unauthorized access occurred.” Sparks said protecting privacy is the center’s priority and that HSC will continue to find ways to improve security measures. He said the center fixed the server to prevent similar attacks and will hold an internal and external risk analysis of information technology systems to address any other problems in the system. Sparks said UNM HSC has hired ID Experts, a company that specializes in computer data attacks, to provide services to the affected patients.

For more information, or to find out if you were affected, contact ID Experts at 1-866-940-3615.

Memorial to be held for former professor by Svetlana Ozden news@dailylobo.com

The life of a former UNM law professor will be celebrated by the UNM School of Law. Ann Scales, 60, was a professor at UNM until 1998, when she left to join the law department at the University of Denver. She died on June 24 at a hospice in Denver, a week after she suffered injuries to her brain from a fall in her home. Scales was a founder of feminist legal theory and a local leader in the community. She founded the Harvard

Women’s Law Journal at Harvard Law School. Scales came to UNM after working at an all-female law firm in Los Angeles that paid for race and sex discrimination cases by offering services to Hollywood stars getting divorces. While at UNM, Scales worked on a case that led the New Mexico Supreme Court to decide that women’s interest in equality requires abortion funding. The UNM School of Law will host a memorial at the law school for Scales on Wednesday at 4 p.m. A reception will follow.

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Senior forward Devon Sandoval holds off the defensive efforts of Dartmouth to equalize in the second minute of the game. No. 7-ranked UNM men’s soccer team hosted the TLC Heating, Cooling and Plumbing Lobo Invitational last weekend, beating Dartmouth 3-2 in a game that saw four goals scored in the first 20 minutes. Ben McKendry scored the game winner in the 66th minute, scoring off a short pass from Blake Smith. The Lobos ultimately won the tournament by beating UC Irvine 2-1 in the second overtime period. The Lobos are 5-1-0 as they head into next weekend’s Nike Lobo Invitational. See the UNM vs. Dartmouth photo gallery at DailyLobo.com.

Chicago strike deal on hold by Ophia Tareen and Tammy Webber The Associated Press

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CHICAGO — Chicago teachers uncomfortable with a tentative contract offer decided Sunday to remain on strike, insisting they first wanted to consult with their full membership before deciding whether to end an acrimonious standoff with Mayor Rahm Emanuel that will keep 350,000 students out of class for at least two more days. Emanuel fired back Sunday night by instructing city attorneys to seek a court order forcing Chicago Teachers Union members back into the classroom. “This was a strike of choice and is now a delay of choice that is wrong for our children,” he said in a statement. Meeting a week after the start of the city’s first teachers strike in 25 years, the union’s 800-member House of

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Delegates didn’t hold a planned formal vote on whether to suspend the strike. They had received a summary of a proposed settlement worked out over the weekend with officials from the nation’s third-largest school district. Presented with a choice on whether to ask members to vote on a contract that union president Karen Lewis had at one point called “a fight for the very soul of public education,” the union’s members told their leaders they needed more time to talk to the rank and file. The contract would base teacher evaluations in part on how well students succeed and whether laid-off teachers would have first chance at open jobs in the district. The union will meet again Tuesday, after the end of the Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year. “We felt more comfortable being able to take back what’s on the table and let our constituents look at it and

digest it,” said Dean Refakes, a physical education teacher at Gompers Elementary School. “We can have a much better decision come Tuesday.” That timeline, however, means the soonest classes could resume would be Wednesday. That frustrated both Emanuel and some parents, who learned late at night a week ago Sunday that a flurry of last-minute negotiations had failed to produce a contract agreement and that the strike was on. “I think a week is a long time to be wasting time. Another week would be murder. I don’t think it’s right,” said Beatriz Fierro, the mother of a fifth grader. “They should be back in school. I don’t think teachers should be on strike that long.” Other parents continued to stand with the teachers. As teachers walked picket lines in the past week and rallied Saturday in a park near downtown,

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