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Show W- GET A HAIRCUT! clt USU Barbershop Shy/ Monday, Aug. 27, 2007 Construction: Aggie Shuttle taking new routes / / CampusNews Page 6 N U continued from page 1 Men & Women Haircuts $ 12 Monday-Friday 9am-5pm No Appointment Needed 797-1648 Cash or check only VN Located in the TSC next to the bookstore people and vehicles the new Student Living Center brought to the area. "This is a traffic control system to separate cars from pedestrians," he said. "This is an upgrade in safety." The construction, which Kane said began the week of May 7, was supposed to be finished before the first day of school. However, due to unforeseen conditions, he said its completion has been delayed by one week. Kane said project development was hindered by a surprise discovery of utility lines and modifications to the sewer system. He said the proper time to cure cement must also be allowed. Even though the last concrete was poured Friday, it must dry for a week to be able to support the weight of heavy buses. Darrell Hart, associate vice president of Facilities, said production was also slowed because of a labor shortage. "The construction market is pretty hot and labor is hard to get," Hart said. He also said it is a challenge to guarantee an exact completion date because of the many variables involved in construction. TOC HOHTM STIIECr TOO MOffn* tTHCT "Construction isn't a science," Hart said. "Sometimes it takes longer than T H E P L A N T E R A R E A near the TSC has been split into two to help with the flow of traffic. The you thought it might, sometimes it is north roundabout is for private vehicles. The south roundabout is for buses, and emergency and delivery shorter." vehicles. Map courtesy ofJeffTurley -arie. k@aggiemail. usu. edu AGGIEMAIL: New server increases capabilities [1 continued from page 1 Hawley said. The Microsoft Exchange option would have cost the school S800.000 a year to maintain an e-mail service that would provide 2GB of space and remain active even after students graduated, which would have resulted in an increase in student fees, Hawley said. The options were presented to ASUSU's Academic Senate and Executive Council. Hawley said. After explaining the advantages and disadvantages of each system, ASUSU unanimously approved a resolution to go ahead with the partnership with Google and create a new student e-mail system, he said. "We had been in talks with Google for three months before (the resolution was passed)," Hawley said. "We had also spoken to Arizona State University, who had moved all their faculty and staff to Google before we A"k.. Y • \ did. Google does not charge USU any money for e-mail. It's not free in the sense that it still requires IT personnel." At the time the resolution was passed, the e-mail system was not named and students had the opportunity to vote on the name of the new system. Aggiemail was selected as the name of the new service and was made available at the beginning of May. Aggiemail is currently available to all USU students free of charge and will gradually replace the antiquated WebMail and WebMail Plus e-mail systems. WebMail Plus will be discontinued on Sept. 14, so students wishing to transfer their e-mail and address book to Aggiemail will need to do so by that date or lose that information, Hawley said. "Webmail.usu.edu will stay up but will be phased out," Hawley said. "No deadline has been set yet. New students shouldn't create or use either of those. All new students should set up new Aggiemail accounts directly. "If you're a student who already has accounts on WebMail or WebMail Plus, you should create an Aggiemail account and move your e-mail over. Yes, it's kind of a painful transition, but this pain will pass." To set up an Aggiemail account, students need to log in to Access using their A number and password. Next, click on the "Personal Information" link and then click on the "Aggiemail" link. Read the license agreement and click the "I Agree" link. The next screen has a scrolldown menu that provides a list of possible user names that are combinations of the student's first, middle and last names. THIS YEAR PASSING YOUR. MOST DIFFICULT TEST MAY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH COLLEGE Uhe T) £ am o n d Sailer u v' 45 NORTH MAIN | 753-1870 ACROSS I-ROM I l l l I AhlRNACLI:, N I X I IO I HI- PFRSION PhACOCK 30% OFF FOR USU STUDENTS Choose the desired account name from the scroll list and click the "Submit" button. If another student has already selected the desired account name, a new name must be selected. Once a name has been selected, the new Aggiemail account is created and can be accessed at aggiemail.usu.edu. Students can only have one active Aggiemail account at a time, and this account will remain active for students even after they graduate. Once an Aggiemail account is created, students can import their e-mail and contact lists from their old WebMail accounts into the Aggiemail account. Scott Urie, junior in landscape architecture, said, "I never liked WebMail and never used it. I like (Aggiemail) a lot better than WebMail already. I'll be using it a lot more, possibly more than my Hotmail." One disadvantage to the new Aggiemail system is its inability to work with POP3 services such as Outlook or Thunderbird. Hawley said USU IT is working with Google to get this service operational. Another difference between Aggiemail and a full Gmail account is the absence of some of the applications and advertising in Aggiemail. Hawley said USU IT regularly requests these applications from Google, but as of yet they will not add these features to their free .edu accounts. So what happens down the road when multiple students with the same name try to sign up for an Aggiemail account and the usernames are already taken? Will the system have to be revamped? "It's possible," Hawley said. "If there were 10 people with your exact same name at USU in the next 10 years and if one a year showed up, which is unlikely, there's still another 10-15 choices available. Its extremely adaptable. It's the same problem Gmail is dealing with. Google has millions of accounts. Down the road we'll have to do what they do. But that's 30 years down the road. But we will never have as many users as Google does." So far, there have been no problems with the transition from WebMail to Aggiemail, Hawley said. "Presently I think we have over 5,000 accounts created on Aggiemail and it's growing by hundreds every day," he said. "That's one great advantage of Google: They're good at handling massive amounts of users." For more information or help with Aggiemail, visit it.usu.edu/ aggiemail or call the Help Desk at 797-HELP. -seth.h@Qggiemail.usu.edu |