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Show Today is Friday, Sept. 14, 2007 www.utahstatesman.com Logan, Utah Utah State Universit Good Greek Swing, swing Fraternities and sororities see recruitment increase Breaking News The USU volleyball team defeated WAC foe, Boise State, 3-0, Thursday night. Page 8 Campus News A USU student and professor travel up to 47,000 feet to view meteors from the comet Kiess Page 3 Features A group of students learn the secrets of handball from the masters. .... Page 7 By LIZ LAWYER assistant news editor Out-of-state enrollment had a small spike this year, and Greek recruitment appears to have reaped the benefits, Panhellenic Council President Alexis Lear said. This week was the fraternities' recruitment week, with each house holding activities and running tables on campus to draw in new pledges. The sororities' recruitment week was Aug. 22-25. "Generally at Utah State, those who join fraternities and sororities are from out of state," said Alexis Lear, senior in public relations and an alumna oi Chi Omega. "In-state students tend to come with people and already have friends, so they don't feel the need to find new people." PROJECT BANDALOOP performed on the side of the Merill Cazier Library Wednesday night. Kevin Webb, president of Pi Kappa Alpha, said hisAccording to the group's Web site, projectbandaloop.org, they aim to perform with dance, ritual torically Greek life seems to fit out-of-state students and environmental awareness. Project Bandaloop is also performing at the Ellen Eccles Theatre more. this weekend. TYLER LARSON photo "When the Legislature passed House Bill 315, we saw a drop in recruitment and so we were glad when they reversed it," Webb said. "We thought it would take a little while for the word to get out, but the university's done a really good job of educating freshmen about that there was a need among the student body the Greeks." By LIZ WILSON for this area of study." Utah's Greek system has struggled over the past few staff writer The ADVS department has offered some years, with enrollment dipping at USU in 2005 to 237 horse minors in the past, but it was decided members in 10 fraternities and sororities affiliated that a four-year program was needed. The animal, dairy and veterinary science with the Greek Council. Membership has been steadily Evans explained that by adding this new department and the political science departfalling since 2001. The official numbers for this year's emphasis, the university has received strong ment introduced two new areas to study. The recruitment weeks have not yet been tallied. interest from prospective students from across ADVS department now lias an equine studies Despite the friendly competition between fraternithe country. Inviting new students with an and management emphasis under the ADVS ties and sororities at USU, Lear said, they all have the interest in equine studies may increase the major, and the political science department same goal of helping the Greek community grow and ADVS department's number of students drahas also added a new minor, Latin American thrive. matically, she said. studies. Each department developed its new "I think we're definitely worried," she said. "We programs due to a growing need for each, Under the new Latin American studies want to keep going, keep growing upwards. Right now as many students have been requesting prominor, students are required to study political is a semester in which I've seen a lot of potential." grams in these two specific areas. science as well as the history of various Latin Taylor Johnson, president of Delta Sigma Phi, said American countries, and they must have two Patricia Evans, the director of the underthe fraternity has had the highest recruitment numbers years of introductory Spanish or Portuguese. graduate equine program, developed the it's had in years, with 15 new students pledging to join Students can also take classes in anthropology the organization, which currently has 13 members. curriculum for this new emphasis. Along and geography of Latin American countries. with heading the program, Evans teaches Johnson said a lack of school support may have hurt two classes in equine studies. She said the These specifications are unique to this Greek recruitment the past few years. university decided to add this program "due major and prove its emphasis on Latin,. "We haven't had a lot of school support," Johnson to student interest and industry need. Many institutions have equine curriculum, and USD, [MSee GREEKS, page 3 H See DEGREES, page 4 or the ADVS department specifically, realized New degrees offered at USU IT monitoring Internet traffic and hackers Sports Four USU soccer players score in the Aggies' 4-3 victory over Weber State. Page 8 Opinion "Maybe we're spending too much effort looking over the shoulders of the people we put in charge of the conflict in Iraq." _ Page 12 Almanac Today in History: In 1971, a four-day revolt at Attica Correctional Facility, in New York, ends after 39 people are killed in a battle where police opened fire on immates holding other officers hostage. This marked the worst prison riot in U.S. history. By ALISON B A U C H sen/or writer A visual device now allows the Information Technology team to track Internet traffic and people trying to hack into the USU computer system. Rian Shelley, a USU network specialist, designed the program locally and completely from scratch. The screen has different color dots to identify the various types of communication and also shows different colors of lines for when people are trying to break into the system or successfully do and when people on campus try to break into something the firewall blocks. "I don't know about any other programs like this one," said Bob Bayn, IT team coordinator. The main visual screen, which was put in about six months ago, is helped by additional screens on each side. The right screen may seem like a jumble of numbers to the regular person, but the IT team is able to break them down and see how often people are doing the same thing on multiple computers, looking for patterns that show hacking. The IT team reported that people from all over the world, such as the Netherlands and China, have attempted to break in, but with no success. The left monitor has what the team calls a "honeypot," or tolerated target, where the technicians can see what kinds of things people are trying, allowing them to keep their system updated against it all. Computers can still be taken over or compromised while on campus I N F O R M A T I O N T E C H N O L O G Y can follow Internet traffic and hackers by downloading or clicking on the LI See INTERNET, page 3 trying to compromise the school's computer system.The visual device, shown above with Miles Johnson, was designed by a USU network specialist. Different colored dots identify types of communication and attempts to break into the system. NOELLE &ERLAGE photo Residents address concerns about Boulevard trail By HOLLY WARDLE-VENTURA staff writer Residents of Logan held a meeting at a home on the Boulevard Thursday night to address concerns about the new trail plans being implemented by Logan City. Amy Hochberg and Brooke Whiting organized the meeting to inform the community about the new trail plans and to allow the community's concerns to be heard. "The city has been planning this for years but has not communicated with residents and has given Weather High: 82° Low: 46° Skies: Partly cloudy with 20 percent chance of showers after midnight. no opportunity for comments," Hochberg said. Construction plans for the trail are to run from 600 East to 400 East of the upper Boulevard. Although construction was to begin last week, it was halted by residents until after Thursday s meeting where all in attendance were asked to fill out questionnaires about the project. Those questionnaire's will now be submitted to the city for review before construction of the trail will continue. Residents were concerned about trees the city plans to plant along the trail. Logan has a tree planting code calling on new developments to plant every 30 feet in the center of the planting strip. "It would block the view of people living in these houses," said Hochberg. Another concern was what type of material the trail would be constructed of and if it would be weather resistant. Archives and breaking always ready; BROOKE W H I T I N G , left, and Amy Hochberg organized a meeting for the Boulevard neighborhood to discuss concerns about the placement of a trail in the area. NOELLE BERLAGE photo 0 fc "Bikers are not supposed to go on the cement. It would be nice if it were a different material because I'm afraid it will look like just sidewalk," said Hochberg. Residents offered suggestions to add color concrete to the distinguish the trail from regular sidewalk. According to Mark Nielsen of Logan City, there is a budget and a plan the city must adhere to, but it may be possible if it fits within the budget plan. Other concerns discussed were whether or not benches, garbage cans, doggie bag dispensers and decorative lighting were options to add to the new trail for esthetic purposes. Russ Akina, of the Parks and Recreation of Logan said that cost is the real issue but holds no objection to placing benches in areas where people congregate. Whiting asks that Logan city try to "keep the appeal to the trail." Parking issues alongside the boulevard and safety hazards such as cross walks and biker trail signs were also discussed. Residents must now await final say from Logan City as to which proposals will will be granted. "Sure we can adapt and work together and feel unified as a whole. That is my expectation," said Barker. -hoIly.ventura@aggiemaiLusu.edu |