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October 28, 2021
HSU Dorm Internet Upgrade Bateman trial underway Lance Brownfield Editor-in-Chief
Jury selection for the “Breaking Bad” case began Monday, with the trial starting the next day. Professors Bradley Rowland and Terry David Bateman have been awaiting trial for over two years after being caught manufacturing methamphetamine in the lab at Henderson. Bateman’s trial is now underway. The two would-be Heisenbergs were found
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Phil Grace managing the data center at Henderson.
William Matthews Contributing Reporter
Henderson’s Information Technology department has recently surpassed a huge milestone. On Oct. 19, the last fiber optic cable was connected to the dorms. From then on, all dorms on campus have seen the benefits of this new installation, but what does this mean to actual residences? According to Phil Grace, director of IT infrastructure at Henderson, All dorms on campus are now getting 10 times more internet traffic than before this installation. That means that more
out when an odor was detected in the Donald W. Reynolds Science Center. Benzyl chloride, which is part of the cooking process, was spilled in the lab of room 304. Cleanup of the chemical spill has cost the university almost $150,000 and the room is still not back to its former state. Opening and testimony for Bateman’s case began 9 a.m. Tuesday. Check back for more as this story develops.
dorm residents should be able to use the internet reliably during times of heavy internet usage. That is the biggest and most important change because of this project. There might be some slight network speed increase but most users won’t notice any of these changes. This project was about increasing the stability of the dorm internet and WiFi, and not the download and upload speeds. This was a project that took much longer to finish than originally intended. The IT department had gone through many personnel changes
since this was started two years ago. At the time, director Grace wasn’t employed here yet, so this was something that he inherited with the job. Aside from himself, there were several others in the IT department that had come and gone that were supposed to help with this project, including different contractors being supplied by Areon, the internet supplier of Henderson and various other schools across the state. The next phase of this project will be replacing and installing more WiFi access points in dorms. This will help increase
WiFi signal strength to dorm rooms with weak or no internet access. This will also take some time to address, but is something that will be accomplished much easier. For any complaints or problems with the WiFi Photo by Blanton Matthews in your dorm or anywhere else across cam- Damage of Henderson professors using science labs for the pus, please contact the creation of meth. IT department’s Help Desk. The email address is helpdesk@hsu.edu and the phone number is (870)230-5678. All requests will be handled as quickly as possible, and requests will help them Blanton Matthews had been let go, and this address weaker network Staff Reporter seemed to be something areas faster. of a confirmation. Shortly H e n d e r s o n S t a t e after that email address employees were notified proved to no longer exist, o n M o n d a y , O c t . 1 8 the staff directory on HSU’s that Human Resources website also updated with o p e r a t i o n s w o u l d b e her name removed, except handled by the Arkansas other names remained State University System such as Phyllis Cogburn, directly effective January 1, listed as human resources 2022. The announcement specialist. Rita Fleming, came by way of an email vice chancellor for finance sent to faculty by Tina Hall, a n d a d m i n i s t r a t i o n , his decision, but he later associate vice chancellor confirmed that only one regretted it. He was also o f m a r k e t i n g a n d person lost their job with criticized for not pushing communications. Hall says Henderson. “The remaining harder to stop the Iraq that the reorganization is part of the benefits of employees who want to War. He defended himself shared services within the stay with Henderson have by citing his duty to presiASU system, but it raised options to transfer to dential authority. questions about the state of other open positions on In his first year as seccampus for which they are retary, he won the release HR moving forward. “Although the change qualified,” said Fleming in from China of the crew of w i l l n o t b e c o m p l e t e an email last Wednesday. a U.S. surveillance plane until Jan. 1, some staffing Fleming reiterated that that made an emergency changes are in progress,” there will be no loss in landing after colliding said Hall in the email services, and said that the with a Chinese plane over release. ASU System’s services the South China Sea. He This proved true, as The would be “vastly upgraded also led the pullout of U.S. troops from NATO peace- Oracle attempted to reach from what HSU is able to keeping operations in the out to Loretta Brantley provide.” While all position Balkans, and he planned via her Henderson email last week, but the account advertising, on-boarding, the U.S. withdrawal from of the former director and payroll will now be the Anti-Ballistic Missile of human resources had handled out of Jonesboro, Treaty without causing already been deactivated. there will be an HR office Russian backlash. R u m o r s h a d b e e n on campus with one staff After retiring from circulating that the entire m e m b e r a v a i l able to public service, Powell staff of the department answer questions. spent time on the lecture
Henderson's Resources: HSU's HR dept. moving to ASU
Colin Powell pronounced dead at age 84
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Colin Powell was the first African American Secretary of State.
Kolby Reck Contributing Reporter
Former American statesman, diplomat, four-star general, and the first African-American
secretary of state passed away on Oct. 18, 2021. He was 84 and died at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. He served as the 16th United States
national security advisor from 1987 to 1989 and as the 12th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993. Colin Powell helped guide the U.S. military to victory in the 1991 Persian Gulf War as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Powell was born in New York to Jamaican immigrants and eventually became the youngest and first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the Army. He went through many jobs as military assistant to a high-level government official and as national security advisor for President Ronald Reagan for a short time. He served as the Pentagon’s top officer and helped play a positive role with the post-Vietnam military and helped reshape American forces after the Cold War. He was selected by President George W. Bush in late 2000 to be secretary of state. He received backlash in 2003 during the invasion of Iraq for the size of the invading U.S. force. He supported
circuit. He helped children and minorities in need through a nonprofit organization called America’s Promise. He was a true American historical figure and had an amazing career where he accomplished many things and had a positive impact on our country.
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