Brown and White Vol. 109 No. 6

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 109 no 6 friday september 21 2001 ah the lehigh news first fall victim released recovering by amanda macmillan news writer a student who sustained a fall off of a fraternity house balcony sept 8 has been released from the hospital and is now in a rehabilitation center according to vice provost for student affairs john smeaton brothers of phi delta theta fraternity and university police are still refusing to comment about the incident the student who lives in an off campus residence was injured after falling about 30 feet off of phi delt's porch the incident occurred while the fraternity was having an unregistered party university police were called to the scene and an ambulance transported the student to the hospital he spent four days in the intensive care unit the student was then trans ferred to a rehabilitation facility to begin his recovery smeaton said although his injuries will likely require four to six more weeks of recovery the student has been making good progress university police are still working on the investigation but will not comment it is not appropriate for me to give away any of the informa tion we have until the investiga tion is closed and the formal report is available said chief of police ed shupp phi delt brother elliot noon 04 said that for insurance and privacy reasons the fraternity members have all been instruct ed to not talk to anyone about the situation a campus-wide email sent wednesday by smeaton con cluded by saying that the student's family is appreciative of everyone's concern smeaton said that before attention shifted to the terrorist attacks on new york and washington sept 11 many students had been inquiring about the status of the injured student b&wphoto by autumn cruz the student fell approximately 30 feet off phi delt's balcony internet access improves by amanda macmillan news writer a new e-mail server and an increase in memory are among the improvements made to lehigh's internet access this year during the first week of classes many professors had their students log into the course information web site to demonstrate how it works this overflow of usage was unex pected and too much for the system to handle according to bruce taggart vice provost for information resources roy gruver ir director of technical services agrees the volume caused the server to fully utilize the avail able system memory - which turned out to be an insufficient amount - thus slowing it to a crawl gruver said we bought another gigabyte of memory effectively doubling the amount of memory in the machine and installed it in less than a week the memory problem was resolved oishee dasgupta 04 hopes that blackboard will have a quicker response time now that the immediate problems have been solved sometimes it works fine but at other times it takes so long to load that i just want to give up on it dasgupta said we need to access it so much for class but it really has been impossible also they seem to take a long time to respond to changes in my schedule i changed classes and it has taken over a week for them to correct my blackboard students who have been using course information for a few years have noticed a differ ence in its performance this year i've been using blackboard for three years jc stephanak 03 said this year it is a lot slower then it ever has been in the past and i hope that the changes they've made can fix photo by b&w staff member the problems because it's been very frustrating blackboard access and campus internet traffic have been growing exponentially in the past year there have been no major issues with the rest of the network but there have been a few common problems that occur at the begin ning of every year there have been some large spikes in campus internet usage which is usual during the start up of fall taggart said but we are monitoring the traffic to assure that we don't have very high usage of the campus network in any one sub net loca tion which impacts the whole campus network backbone technical services has added a few other services that have been helping to keep the traffic under access to the internet has become faster with recent improvements to the server and the decrease in traffic jazz great to hold seminar by renata gagnon news writer jazz pianist hal galper will be giving a two day instruction al seminar this weekend called how to get gigs and tour with your band in zoellner arts center the seminar will be held from 10 a.m to 1 p.m today and 2 p.m to 5 p.m saturday galper is a veteran in the music industry his presenta tion is based on his book the touring musician a small business approach to booking your band on the road the seminar is geared toward music majors and those pursuing a career in the music industry galper thinks seminars like these are needed because the material is not something music majors typically learn in a class this aspect of the music business is never taught in schools galper said the seminar will cover a wide variety of topics includ see seminar page 4 see internet page 4 hhsw _____________! _» i.i_*^_i sophomore dave wilson shines on the football team see page 13 . sports 13 16 football preview 16 sports spotlight 16 stricter rules may interfere with this year's tailgates see page 3 news 1-4 world news briefs 2 police reports 3 an inside view on minority relations on campus see page 5 lifestyle 5-12 hidden treasure 6 look who's talking 9 face in the crowd 11 residents of hawaii outlive residents of all other states source:http://www.uselessknowl edge.com