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MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2015
Vol. 128 / No. 17
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Office 365 to replace Redbird Mail ISU students will say goodbye to the current Redbird Mail and hello to the Microsoft email system NIKKI NIGGEMEYER News Reporter
On Thursday, students received an email saying Illinois State University will be transitioning from the current email system to a new email system beginning Monday, Oct. 26. “Redbird Mail has been around for a very long time and has begun to reach its end of life,” Tyler Piper, team leader at the Technology Support Center said. Redbird Mail has been around for nine years and does not offer the capabilities of newer email systems such as Microsoft Office 365. The newer email system will offer more space to store emails and will also allow students to take advantage of mobile apps. Mobile apps can allow students to more conveniently access their emails. Also since Office 365 is controlled through Microsoft, students will not have to rely on ISU for updates and upgrades. This will make it so the email will constantly be updating and offer students the most recent email technology. “We expect it to be a pretty smooth transition because it is on a Microsoft environment and we have already talked to Microsoft consultants about the transition,” Assistant Vice President for Administrative Technologies
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ISU will be transitioning from Redbird Mail to Office 365 effective Oct. 26. Matthew Helm said. The transition will take place Monday Oct. 26. On this day students will log into Redbird Mail and a banner will pop up. This banner will explain the transition over to the new Office 365 email. The transition will consist of students putting in their Redbird email user
information. From here students will be directed to their new email with most of their current information transferred over in the process, including the same email username. However, Piper said all information should be able to transfer over.
Piper said the transition will be quick, and could only take seconds, depending on the amount of emails a person has. After the transition to Office 365, students will only have limited abilities available with their Redbird Mail. It will only have read-only capabilities. After recent changes to ReggieNet and Student Service Center, also known as Go Illnois State, students are beginning to wonder about all the changes. “I don’t understand why they are trying to change this in the middle of the year, especially after all the mess ups with ReggieNet and Go Illinois State this year,” Tracy Le, freshman psychology major, said. Le is not alone in her frustration. Junior undeclared major Kayla Daugherity said, “the amount of changes students have had to go through so far this year with the ReggieNet situation is enough, and it is only October.” Although the transition to Office 365 is completely separate from the ReggieNet changes, Helm said the learning curve will be the most difficult part of the transition. “The main thing to understand is we are doing this because our old email system is so old,” Helm said. “We want to be able to bring the best technology we can to students and this is the best way to do that in the best manner.”
Bloomington addresses pipeline concerns BRENT BADER News Reporter
The City of Bloomington is reviewing concerns raised by William Rau, Illinois State University professor emeritus of industrial sociology, about the security of the recently added pipeline that runs through McLean County. The pipeline runs five miles east of the twin cities, running north and south of the county line in a generally straight line. “It’s mostly about the safety of the environment and more specifically of our water supply,” Steve Rasmussen, assistant city manager of Bloomington, said. “The issue that concerns us is not in the city’s jurisdiction.” Rasmussen said the issue Rau was addressing was that it does cross over the watershed that feeds Lake Bloomington, which is much of the water supply for Bloomington, so if there were a breach in that line, it would spill the petroleum into the watershed and find its way into lake Bloomington. The over 160-mile pipeline transports crude oil from Flanagan in Livingston County, south through McLean, DeWitt, Macon, Christian, Shelby, Fayette and delivers it to Patoka in Marion County. Rasmussen said there are currently two measures in place to prevent or mitigate the consequences of a leak.
“There are pipeline shutoffs immediately north and south of the watershed, so if you had a breach in the pipe between those two shutoff points where the breach in the line could spill into the watershed, it can be cut off right there so no oil could come from either side,” Rasmussen said. “There are sophisticated monitors to let you know if any of the material is leaking out of the pipe and those have been installed as well so that the pipeline company can monitor the instruments and know all is well or, if there’s a problem, they can shut it down and take care of it.” Rau’s concerns directly reflect these instruments as he said in the council meeting that newer technology was available. The City of Bloomington knows that 100 percent complete security is impossible but is working with the pipeline company, Enbridge, to ensure the security of the pipeline to the best of its ability. “We’re working with the pipeline company now to see what they’ve installed there and what the relative frequency and sophistication of [the instruments] is and if we need to put more in,” Rasmussen said. “It’s a question of risk management. There’s a limit to how much you can do and still have a viable pipeline. We’re going to make sure it’s secure beyond a reasonable doubt.” see PIPELINE page 6
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Bloomington is looking into concerns about the security of the pipeline running through McLean County. The pipeline crosses the watershed that feeds Lake Bloomington.
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