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Virginia's Governor Tim Kaine addresses Convocation.
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President of The United States of America, George W. Bush is addressing the Virginia Tech crowd at the Convocation ceremony.
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Members of the Virginia Tech's Corps of Cadets are standing as honor guards at the VT War Memorial.
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Students laying wreaths at the stone of the Congressional Medal of Honor honorees.
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First memorial (near the War Memorial Chapel) that was made by the students on Monday evening (April 16th).
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A closer look at the epitaphs left by the students on the first memorial to the victims of the shooting.
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Editorial Board
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2007-09-03
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By:Editorial Staff
Posted: 8/29/07
This summer, University Police, in cooperation with Information Services and University Communications, implemented a new software system called UNLAlert, most likely in response to the April shootings at Virginia Tech.
The software, which students can download and install on their computers, communicates with UNL servers to provide alerts and updates in emergency situations. The thinking is that during an emergency, better communication and dissemination of information leads to a safer campus.
We applaud the continuing effort of the university to keep students safe, but the software is by no means an all-inclusive safety net.
Far from it, in fact.
The software isn't much of an application at all. It's essentially a stand-alone Flash file - University Police are harnessing the same technology used to bring you online Su-Do-Ku puzzles and amusing "Pac-Man" imitation games.
And it's big. Really big, actually. Its executable image, the program's memory footprint, is about 16 megabytes - bigger than AOL Instant Messenger and Mozilla Firefox, both of which are full-fledged desktop applications.
It should come as no surprise, then, that it constantly consumed almost 10 percent of the processing resources on one of our brand new 2.2-gigahertz design computers.
To put that in perspective: Adobe Photoshop, Apple iTunes, and Mozilla Firefox together use less than 3 percent while idle. UNLAlert is no little program that runs in the background.
It's not a big deal, though, right? Who cares if it slows down your machine a bit - this application could save your life.
Right?
Assuming the two servers that are responsible for handling all the emergency alert requests for the entire campus - alert1 and alert2 - stay online, then yes, it could save your life.
But, after reverse-engineering and analyzing the software, we're not only disappointed with its performance, we're disappointed with the way information is being distributed to computers.
Instead of using industry-standard TCP/IP multicast, which allows data to be distributed to all "subscribers" simultaneously, instantly and efficiently, Information Services is using a simple Web server to distribute information.
In an emergency situation, this could lead to heavy network congestion, which could then slow all of our Internet connections on campus to a stand-still.
A slow, unresponsive network probably won't help emergency responders, university officials, students or staff.
UNLAlert is a great idea that's been poorly executed.
With a software rewrite and more robust network design, UNLAlert would prove to be a valuable tool. Until then, it might cause more problems than it solves.
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Original Source:<a href=http://media.www.dailynebraskan.com/media/storage/paper857/news/2007/08/29/Opinion/Staff.Editorial.Unlalert.A.Great.Idea.But.Needs.Some.Work-2941116.shtml>Daily Nebraskan - August 29, 2007</a>
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STAFF EDITORIAL: UNLAlert a great idea, but needs some work
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Ryan Norman
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2007-09-03
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By: Ryan Norman
Posted: 8/23/07
With the looming arrival of the fall semester at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University Police are preparing for the increased number of on-campus students.
University Police are hoping to stay ahead of crime by supplementing training and implementing new technology, said Jim Davis, the education and personnel officer of the University Police.
"We have been preparing this summer by training for drug and alcohol-related situations," Davis said. "We have also taken time to study more on action and reaction to hostage situations, in reaction to Virginia Tech."
Davis said, along with increased training, the University Police have hired a new officer, Michael Eckel, to increase student safety.
The University Police are also planning on using two new online tools to help students.
By second semester, the University Police hope to have a system in place where students can register valuable items online in case of campus theft.
"We are trying to go out this year and entice everyone to register bicycles and electronics with us." Davis said. "Anything valuable students want to register, we want to be able to put in a system that we can pull up if that item disappears."
Capt. Carl Oestmann of University Police said the department implemented another online tool this summer called UNLAlert.
UNLAlert is a program which can be downloaded to any computer and will be used to alert university students, parents and staff members in case of a campus emergency. The program can be downloaded at http://emergency.unl.edu/unlalert.shtml.
"If you download the program, and have your computer on during a campus emergency, we can send out an emergency message that will automatically come up on your screen," Oestmann said. "It is another tool we can use to alert the campus community in case of an emergency."
Even with the new safety measures, the beginning of the fall semester inevitably causes an increase in several problems, including traffic and theft, Oestmann said.
Oestmann said drivers should "heed to the speed limits." University Police will be monitoring drivers' speeds, especially during the first few days of the school year.
"The beginning of the year always signals a high volume of traffic, and I don't like to pick on the freshman, but they need to be especially careful because it's new for them," Davis said. "We will be running the radar, especially on 16th and 17th street."
Oestmann also cautions students on leaving their car or dorm room unlocked while moving into University Housing.
"We get a few theft reports every year right when students move in because they leave their rooms or cars unlocked while they are moving in," Oestmann said. "Give up convenience and take the extra few minutes to lock your car and room."
Davis said he is looking forward to talking with students about any questions they may have for the University Police and any resident assistant who wants to invite him to speak is more than welcome to do so.
"Most of the time students see us in a negative light," Davis said. "We want students to be able to talk to us and know we are here to help them."
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Original Source:<a href=http://media.www.dailynebraskan.com/media/storage/paper857/news/2007/08/23/News/University.Police.Beef.Up.Training.Introduce.New.Technology-2934639.shtml>Daily Nebraskan - August 23, 2007</a>
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University Police beef up training, introduce new technology
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Jay Carlson
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2007-09-03
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By: Jay Carlson / Junior electrical engineering and mathematics major
Posted: 8/6/07
While watching the evening news this week, we heard brilliant accounts of heroism in response to the Interstate 35W bridge collapse into the Mississippi River. Many of these stories are reminiscent of the ones we heard years ago during the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It seems the citizens of this country can band together to accomplish so many things in times of national crisis and tragedy.
Yet, most of America's tragedies play to a deaf ear. People have no qualms with stepping in the way of danger when catastrophe strikes, but no one seems to be around to help save people from the smaller tragedies.
Sametta Heyward's babysitter had just canceled when Heyward was called in to start a double-shift at a county-run group home in South Carolina. Her two children, age 1 and 4, were left locked in her car for eight hours in the sweltering heat of that summer day.
After finding her unconscious, barely alive children in her car, Heyward tried her hardest to revive them by biting and kicking them.
Eventually she conceded to defeat. She quietly bathed and dressed them, then cached their bodies under the kitchen sink in garbage bags.
We as a nation need to band together to stop disasters - both big and small. It's obvious the deaths of these two small children were easily preventable.
At the bridge disaster, Gary Babineau was a lifeline to at least a dozen people he helped save. This woman had no lifeline - for a number of reasons.
Experts expect psychological testing of Heyward to show she was mentally unstable at the time.
Mental instability? This sounds gravely familiar to the April 16 shooting at Virginia Tech, where the mentally unstable Seung-Hi Cho killed 32 people and wounded 25 before ending his own life.
Of course, Heyward wasn't just mentally unstable - she was desperate, and without a babysitter, she had no choice.
As a near-socialist, I'm an advocate for universality of health care, which would include mental counseling.
Nevertheless, as citizens, we need to act in our communities and undertake the challenge of weaving a tighter bond among ourselves.
A paramount study last year from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago compared figures from 1985 to modern-day findings, and concluded that Americans have fewer close friends and, even more important, fewer connections with other community members.
Camaraderie doesn't present itself in the wake of disaster anymore than it does in our every day lives, so long as we allow it to.
Where was Heyward's neighbor down the street or her friend across the block? Who was around to detect the early signs of mental illness?
Obviously, even the best denizen can't do it all - and that's where we need government help. This woman shouldn't have had to work eight hour shifts, because we ought to have a living wage set. We should have free daycare of which low-income, single moms can take advantage. We should have free health care - including psychiatric therapy - that would help people cope with problems they're experiencing.
But in the end, no amount of government programs can do the same for someone as a Johnny-on-the-spot do-gooder.
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Posted: 4/30/07
Bomb threats, drunken drivers, pot smokers and thieves.
Those are just of the few problems university police dealt with during the past year.
Capt. Carl Oestmann of University Police said he thinks major criminal offenses decreased over the past year, and the minor ones have either decreased or stayed relatively the same.
"I think (the decrease) shows that an improvement in the constant awareness that our department has - staying alert for any criminal activity and patrolling the way we do in certain areas on campus," Oestmann said.
He said the Virginia Tech shootings have caused an increase in calls from people concerned about cases of depression in students.
"It might not be criminal," he said of students' depression, "but the safety of our students and faculty and staff is important, and that's part of ensuring that people are OK here."
Oestmann said he doesn't mind receiving those calls because "we want people to feel comfortable if they have concern for another student."
The Interfraternity Council also amended its bylaws and will require all greek housing to have installed a fire monitoring system by Aug. 27, 2007.
The monitoring system will hardwire all of the smoke detectors into a central unit, so if a smoke alarm goes off, a signal will be sent to the Lincoln Fire and Rescue Department immediately.
During this summer, University Police will be beta testing laptops for their cruisers, said Officer Gary Etherton of University Police in early April.
With these new systems, officers won't have to radio everything in to dispatch, which could help save time, he said.
Other than that, Oestmann said, University Police will continue to investigate cases it already has on file and get ready for next semester.
Oestmann said the officers have been working to communicate with different university departments about problems they've had, and they're still addressing concerns the campus community might have.
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By: Jake Meador / Freshman English major
Posted: 4/30/07
When I first sat down to write my column after the massacre at Virginia Tech on April 16, my thoughts were two-fold: First, to write a column advocating stricter gun control. Second, to write a column praising the selfless heroism of Leviu Lebrescu and Waleed Muhammad Shaalan. I did the latter, but I've since decided not to do the former.
Gun control is such a divisive issue; the last thing we need right now is further division between people. Today is a day for reconciliation, not debate. Besides, if 33 dead bodies, including the gunman's, won't change your mind (one way or the other), then 850 words probably won't either.
But as I browsed the Internet reading stories of the awful event, sometimes wondering what sick curiosity drives us to such exploration, I stumbled across a link with pictures and a brief bio for each victim. Many of the pictures were highly pixilated - a sad reminder that they were never intended for such use. And at that moment I realized I, and many others, have forgotten to talk about the most important lesson to come from Virginia Tech.
And it has nothing to do with gun control or stricter campus security policies.
Among those killed were husbands and fiancés, wives and mothers, fathers and sons, daughters and sisters, Muslims, Jews, Christians and Hindus. One was a resident assistant who was in the marching band. Another was trying to find a cure for cerebral palsy. Still another had started a sorority for female engineering students. Another was in the dance ensemble.
I'm listing all these things for two reasons. Each individual was unique and had diverse interests and a never-before-seen personality. And when these individuals died, it wasn't just another tally on Cho Seung-Hui's killing spree; it wasn't a nameless number.
It was the loss of a unique human being that God created and knew intimately. We've heard the number over and over, "32 dead," but we haven't heard about them as individuals, and if we keep repeating the number, it's easy for us to forget that there are 32 families in mourning, as well as countless friends and others who were touched by these individuals.
There is another reason I listed all those individual traits. Despite their differences in interests, age, ethnicity, political beliefs, gender and religion, they shared a common humanity (something also shared between the victims and Seung-Hui, incidentally.).
Sadly, in the wake of this tragedy, many of us have spent more time discussing those differences than the commonality. We've spent lots of time debating gun control, religion, university security policies, etc. And, of course, we need to talk about all of those issues. You might be like me and think stricter gun control is needed; you might be like many of my friends and think this event is the greatest argument possible for carrying concealed weapons.
You might be like me and think the only final solution to this event is through some sort of metaphysical belief that transcends debate about public policy. I spoke with a Buddhist monk on the day of the shooting, and he was convinced the problem is one of ignorance. I'm convinced it's the problem of a sinful human heart, and all the knowledge in the world can't change that - only Jesus can.
You might be like me and think tighter security measures might be a good idea, but you have no idea how they'd be implemented. Or perhaps you think they're important enough that significant sacrifices in student freedoms are necessary to ensure our safety.
I say all of that because these conversations are important. Having strong opinions is not a bad thing, but you have to know how to express them. So often as we have these conversations we lose sight of the fact that, ultimately, we're all human, and even if someone disagrees with you, he or she is not your enemy. If you're a Democrat, Republicans are not the enemy; if you're Christian, atheists are not the enemy. Because of the intensity of the events at Virginia Tech and the topics being discussed, it's easy to develop the idea that people with differing ideas are hindrances to progress - if they'd just believe like me, maybe we'd get somewhere.
But it's never that simple, and even if it were, arrogance gets us nowhere. So listen, learn, respect - and love every moment of it. To quote the late Kurt Vonnegut, "Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - God damn it, you've got to be kind."
I've got about 100 words left this year, but rather than waste them on further elaboration, I thought it'd be appropriate to print the names of the 32 victims. As you read, remember each of these people had friends, family, hopes and dreams, just like you. And right now those dreams have gone to the grave with them, and their friends and families are still mourning two weeks later. Even if some of us have already forgotten:
Ryan Clark, 22. Emily Jane Hilscher, 19. Christopher James Bishop, 35. Daniel Perez Cueva, 21. G.V. Loganathan, 51. Ross Abdallah Alameddine, 20. Mary Karen Read, 19. Caitlin Hammaren, 19. Kevin Granata, 46. Liviu Librescu, 76. Brian Bluhm, 25. Austin Cloyd, 18. Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, 49. Matthew Gregory Gwaltney, 24. Jeremy Herbstritt, 27. Rachel Elizabeth Hill, 18. Jarrett Lane, 22. Matt La Porte, 20. Henry Lee (Henh Ly), 20. Partahi Lumbantoruan, 34. Lauren McCain, 20. Daniel O'Neil, 22. Juan Ortiz, 26. Minal Panchal, 26. Erin Peterson, 18. Michael Pohle, 23. Julia Pryde, 23. Reema Samaha, 18. Waleed Mohammed Shaalan, 32. Leslie Sherman, 20. Maxine Turner, 22. Nicole White, 20.
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The recent shootings at Virginia Tech have caused many to worry about a backlash against South Korean students.
However, Korean students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln say acts of discrimination have not occurred. And they hope it stays that way.
"It hasn't been a problem," said Min Suk Shin, a business management graduate student and a member of the Korean Student Association. "Maybe in larger cities with larger Korean communities, but not here."
Other students feel the actions of Cho Seung-Hui, a student from South Korea who committed the shootings, should not represent the South Korean community or the country itself.
They also agree that Seung-Hui was unstable and burdened with psychological issues.
"The first time I heard the news, it was surreal, that he was a South Korean-born student," said Sung Tae Kim, who is also a management graduate student and KSA member.
"I felt some sort of connection," he said. "But, nothing's really connected; he had a personal problem."
Shin said he felt a connection to the Virginia Tech tragedy "as a human being, a college student and as a Korean" but said Seung-Hui is not and should not become a symbol for the Korean community.
Although there has been no reaction against South Korean students at the university, some were worried that the announcement of Seung-Hui's ethnicity could lead to violence.
Shin said he became worried when he heard that Seung-Hui was born in South Korea because he felt it could lead to violence."I hope that doesn't happen," he said.
Still, students remain confident that acceptance will prevail over ignorance.
"I'm sure many people in Lincoln don't connect him (Seung-Hui) to the whole of the Korean people," Kim said. "I don't feel some serious problem will happen in the community or to any individuals."
Some students were concerned some people would not differentiate between North and South Koreans, associating all Koreans with President George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil." However, that sort of thinking does not appear widespread, they said.
"That sort of ignorance may be there at the junior high or high school level, but it rarely happens in college," Shin said.
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Events such as the Virginia Tech shooting can be hard on some students. Besides psychological services, students seeking counseling can also find help at campus ministries.
Cornerstone Church at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, however, is having more trouble providing this service.
The former campus pastor of the church, Melissa Finlaw Draper, became the pastor at Northeast United Church of Christ earlier this semester. This left Cornerstone without an on-site pastor, said Lew Kaye-Skinner, an English lecturer as well as faculty adviser and chair of the ministry board for Cornerstone-United Ministries in Higher Education.
"The current absence of a pastor on staff has meant that we have not been able to respond as quickly as might otherwise happen to issues such as the Virginia Tech massacre," Kaye-Skinner wrote in an e-mail interview.
Kaye-Skinner said the mission of Cornerstone is to bring the message of God to campus and respond to the needs of students. Because Cornerstone currently doesn't have a pastor, volunteers have been providing these services.
"Volunteers have had to fill in," Kaye-Skinner wrote. "For instance, we have had to supply pastors for the Sunday evening worship services at Cornerstone since the first of February."
Worship services haven't been the problem, said Jessica Lauer, a senior philosophy and religious studies major and intern at Cornerstone Church. It's the services not on Sundays, such as prayer groups and bible studies, that have suffered.
"These events are always a time of great fellowship and fun for students, and we haven't been able to do much of that," Lauer said.
Kaye-Skinner said the search for a pastor is progressing but isn't moving quite as quickly as he would like.
"It has been very difficult finding qualified applicants for the position," Kaye-Skinner wrote.
Cornerstone has been struggling with low attendance this year, and it hasn't been easy to improve campus involvement without a pastor, Lauer said.
Despite the setbacks, Lauer said she is confident the church will rebound in the upcoming years.
"I am sad that I am graduating and will miss the opportunity to meet the new chaplain and see the wonderful things that are in store for Cornerstone," Lauer said.
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