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THE REPORTER Seeking The Truth At Stetson University Volume CXIX Issue 15 rtill*!f»*i'Wn'Wiji*itfW^rih,^ Wfc^fcS^^Wie^ Thursday, February 15,2DD7 vmmmmmistmmsmm «ry I 10 ,25*Cf£S A»Y VILLAGE. ptosis' -Scs-isi'i^'-l ^(LUV^LS ;ttC ,^'/ V r? x r1 1 8 I I I I v,ou«-tt'*/ri.*-v..efl. te^j-!Ti»j ps&ths Hav^usi*. 59JEUtS^HPEBJ-"-?1''^FHVHIiiBK*"|_fwl^{JE^\J!!^V!^^lSS^^^JI^M!(^^!iJ^VlXl3Sl^-J WPS5 BS Public forum about new com-' munity on ^!—-*^x;s^ x-^l . if--., ■ *y i7p.m. in the Rinker Auditorium.; 1 I - .. ' ... >-j- ,«* ii >- . ^.at : ". *^_J?.Ji- '. . .-"".-"■-.■- ,-.,!^\Z;^,-s:i''i'Js\%C@sydm£ - . • '.' - J '...-.■<■-■ -■:■ ■.-■■• w^'PsAiispiy HT ■■« na -—■■■*- mr(m- _ti>u' .ii ■,Ml-~liln Tt'aVlil ii«-*m jm-mt Viii.i iffr-nr-l^V.- rt.u'lriilii ■frill fu—J-r-ii rrr*^iihiii»*,iii r s8^aL,ssffia,iuaaaJ'asBSf iffi£a4'"te^b"sssba'isSH»,fcftffi3aJ Homeless Community Proposal To Be Discussed At Stetson By HEATHER MARTYN A public forum on homelessness, sponsored by DeLand's Government Affairs Committee, will take place on February 20 at 7 p.m. in the Rinker Auditorium of the Lynn Business Center to discuss the proposal of Tiger Bay Pedestrian Village. With eight panelists in attendance, the forum will be open to the Stetson and greater DeLand community. It will be a discussion about the proposal to build a homeless community on 125 acres of county-owned land west of Daytona Beach on International Speedway Blvd., adjacent to the county jail. "The village could meet the needs of the temporarily homeless and also those who, for their own safety and the safety of others, should have some buffer from the wider world," said homeless advocate and urban builder Michael Arth. "For far less than what we spend now treat-" ing the homeless like packs of stray dogs, we could instead enable them to have charming houses and amenities that would be a temporary stop for most and a permanent solution, for some." The proposal, which has created controversy among residents in Volusia County, would allow for a pedestrian community where the homeless of Volusia County could go to find housing and employment. A pedestrian community is based off of the concept of New Pedestrianism, what Arth describes as walking communities that have tree-lined streets at the rear of houses and tree-lined pedestrian lanes in front. The Tiger Bay Village plan follows New Pedestrianism and has been proposed to county officials and homeless agencies to efficiently address issues of homelessness. Contact Heather Martyn at [email protected]. Construction Drags On By MARYANNE WALDRON The Department of Transportation (DOT) began construction late last year at the intersection of East Minnesota and Woodland Boulevard at the university's front . entrance. Construction began in December 2006 after the university requested a two-fold evaluation from the DOT. % Pedestrian s afety was one concern. Additionally, administrators had a concern that the Woodland Blvd. intersection was not meeting standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Vice President of Facilities Management, Duane Knecht said, "Our main concern was ADA requirements weren't being met, that they were out of compliance. We have impaired students that use that crosswalk, who had to try to maneuver in the corner of the sidewalk and it was unsafe." The DOT decided that the crosswalk on all four corners needed to be modified and, at no cost to the university, remodeled them. —__^^ Although many students feel that the-new crosswalks will be an improvement, they also expressed that the ongoing construction is an inconvience. Freshman business major Aldo Rodriguez said, "I think that it should have been done this summer when no one was in school. It is hard for people trying to drive through the entrance and I think it's a safety hazard for the pedestrians." Another common sentiment expressed by students was that the reconstruction seemed to be a lengthy process. Freshman marketing major Cristin Turner said, "This construction seems to be taking forever, it never stops." Some of the changes to the intersection are new crosswalk signs that provide a numerical 'The construction seems to be taking forevery it never stops.' countdown that shows students how many seconds they have left to cross the street. According to Knecht, in addition to the reconstruction on the part of the DOT, the university has enlisted the help of a contractor to enhance the appearance of the crosswalks by installing brick runners in the pavement. Despite minor inconveniences, many, are looking forward to a safer, better looking crosswalk on Woodland Boulevard. Contact Maryanne Waldron at mwaldron@stetson. edu. ^|! No: page Jto;displa y^ File Edit. View Favorites Tools Help sjyn' '•) Back ■ ^ ■-) * 7?1 Search "-*>*?* Favorites &j& » Address ^]| https://www.stetson.edu/home/ Go Internet Fails For A Second Weekend By WES BROOKER The weekends of January 21 and 28, in retrospect, were blessedly tornado- free. In the absence of some such catastrophe, however, the fact that the internet on campus was not operational over two successive weekends caused a lot of aggravation. "The two outages were unrelated," said university Chief Technology Officer Bill Penney. "It was really a big coincidence that the first problems of the year were on consecutive weekends." This coincidence, in fact, generally only affected on-campus students and those who attempted to access their campus e-mail from another location. The public site designed for prospective students and their parents was similarly communications-free. Multiple on-campus equipment failures early on Saturday Jan 20 demanded the prompt response of weekending staff of the university IT department. As they worked to troubleshoot the system shutdown, the Stetson website as well as on-campus internet connections remained down for the greater part of that weekend. The problem was solved by Sunday evening. The following weekend outage (January 28th) was, however, the result of human error rather than technological failure. Miscommu- nications with Stetson's Internet Service Provider ironically caused the second system shutdown among efforts to improve the campus' internet capabilities. In upgrading the system from 21 to 45 megabytes of band width, an installer had in fact misconfigured a router. The result? Another outage and another long weekend for Stetson IT. Although campus computers were incapable of connecting to the larger "world wide" web, the intranet continued to function and on- campus users were able to access campus e-mail accounts. Stetson weekenders and commuters, on the other hand, found themselves yet again cut off from their Stetson inboxes. Like clockwork, the problem was again solved late Sunday evening. "It was inconvenient," commented one sophomore psychology/history major, "but I just used the extra time to get writing done." This view appears to be the predominant one, as most students were able to deal with the issue but expressed hope that the problem would not be recurring. Though the close proximity of the outages was unprecedented, it appears as if they were indeed the result of an accident. As IT moves forward to increase bandwidth to 100 megs (five times the campus capacity at the close of last year), further outages are not expected. Most importantly, the IT department remains more than ever committed to providing dependable access to the Stetson community. "We never leave if there is an outage," Penney emphasized. "Someone will be here 24/7; we don't go home until the problem is fixed." Contact Wess Brooker ' at wbrooker@stetson. edu. »WEATHER THURSDAY Cloudy High 58 Low 39 FRIDAY Sunny High 55 Low 33 - Brrrr SATURDAY Sunny High 62 Low 46 7 SUNDAY Showers High 60 Low 44 »LIFE Emily Sawyer gives the scoop on Flags of Our Fathers. PAGE C2 OPINIONS Pat and Pat debate minimum wage. PAGE B1 »SPDRTS Katherine St. Clair does a Hatter Profile on Chris Sias. PAGE D2