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High number of devices creates connectivity issues
Connect to IllinoisNet_ Devices when using: - Gaming consoles - Televisions Connect to IllinoisNet - Mobile Phones - Laptops - Tablets
With 85,000 devices connected to the Wi-Fi on any given day, the University stands as one of the largest school-provided wireless networks in the nation. Such high usage numbers lead to many challenges, including obtaining a secure connection to the University’s wireless network and staying linked. Brian Mertz, chief communications officer for Technology Services, said that difficulty with wireless connections is not a new problem. “The start of every school year we see a dramatic rise in the number of devices that people are bringing to campus that have Wi-Fi connections,” Mertz said. “We just need to scale up our network to handle that.” This year stands out for an over-saturation of the network and a lack of properly configured devices, he said. Often, si mple config uration changes can change the speed and the strength of a connection. Mertz said many mobile phones stay attached to a wireless connection access point for as long as possible instead of switching to a new access point with a stronger connection. To combat this, a new network, “IllinoisNet_ Dev ic es,” was setup this year solely for students’ gaming consoles, televisions, and other non-laptop devices. Students should connect their computers and mobile devices instead to “IllinoisNet.” Issues occur across campus, but residence halls are uniquely affected since student devices make up most of the connections in the wireless network. Alma Sealine, director
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Big Ten schools to issue ‘no confidence’ vote in Iowa hire
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The University of Iowa faculty senate’s vote of no confidence in its Board of Regents is gaining Big Ten support, and the Senate Executive Committee wants to join in. The committee u na ni mously ag reed Monday to send a resolution to the Academic Senate stating the senate should support a vote of no confidence in the University of Iowa’s faculty senate. The University of Iowa’s faculty senate issued a vote of no confidence in Iowa’s Board of Regents on Sept. 8 for hiring President Bruce
Harreld against their faculty search committee’s recommendation. The faculty search
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One half of all sexually active people will get a sexually transmitted disease by age 25, according to the American Sexual Health Association. However, Illinois state labs will no longer diagnose STD specimens, which will affect jails, Planned Parenthood facilities and other public health institutions, said Julie Pryde, public
Oberlin College President Marvin Krislov, Ohio State University Provost Joseph Steinmetz and Tulane University Provost Michael Bernstein. The University of Iowa Chapter of the American Association of University Professors published the results of an informal su r vey ci rcu lated among faculty, staff and students on Sept. 2, which asked whether the four fi nalists “were qualified to be President of the University of Iowa.” Accordi ng to the survey, over 60 percent of respondents believed that
“We are disappointed that some of those stakeholders have decided to embrace the status quo of the past over opportunities for the future BRUCE RASTETTER
BOARD OF REGENTS PRESIDENT
committee’s discontent with Harreld stemmed from his lack of academic administrative experience.
Budget causes state to redirect STD testing BY ADAM KAZ
Harreld previously worked at IBM for 13 years and taught at Harvard Business School for six years and
health administrator for Champaign-Urbana Public Health District. Pryde feels her district will be able to continue their testing, but she’s uncertain about the future for other counties. “The difference is just where the cost has been shifted,” she said. “It used to be the cost for the testing was borne by the state of Illinois through the Illinois Department of Public
Northwestern University for one year. The other three fi nalists for Iowa president included
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Health. Now, we at the local levels have to do that.” The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District adapted to the change by redirecting their STD specimens to the University of Illinois Reference Lab in Chicago instead of state labs. The health district had used the lab’s resources in the past, and Pryde said it has been a “relatively easy transition.” “We’re used to weathering these storms, and we’re able to,” she said. “It’s frustrating, and I get tired of doing it, but we’re prepared for it. What’s frustrating and upsetting is that this kind of budget impasse, it hurts all of the allied services around us; the mental health services, the services to the homeless, things
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of University Housing, and Kirsten Ruby, associate director of housing for c om mu n ic ations a nd marketing, said housing staff members helped technology service officials through residence halls to talk with students about their concerns with the network. Technology Services added six support stations in laboratories across campus for students without easy access to their main help desk in the Digital Computer Lab building and set up booths in dining halls to help with immediate concerns. Technology Services reached out to all other Big Ten schools and the University of Chicago to compare networks. The University has more connected devices than many of the schools — Nebraska has roughly 13-18,000 devices —, but wireless connections are an issue across the board. “Each of us configures our network differently in terms of security, so some people have fewer problems than us, some have more problems,” Mertz said. “It is not anything uncommon in the Big Ten.” For many students, d i fficu lt y rema i ni ng connected to the wireless network interferes with
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases are prevalent in the U.S. Half of all sexually active people will contract an STD by age 25 but fewer are aware of the risk.
Less than 1 out of 3 of U.S. doctors routinely check for STDs/STIs
1 in 4 teens will get an STD every year
It is estimated that 1 in 5 Americans have Genital Herpes 90% are unaware they have it
SHANNON HELMUTH THE DAILY ILLINI
SOURCE: ASHA Sexual Health
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