Show mail e-mail addresses easily obtained Nicholas Campus Reporter Advertising is pervasive particularly in America where it greets he at every ery opportunity including mc the t the h e i into i email email email e- e promotions rions that that pile il prom mail as quickly as they can be sent to the trash Like j conventional mail junk-mail this i unbidden information may often I cause people to miss the more i information like bills important Ii and personal correspondence of the cries At many for attention that drown out the important ma e-ma mail e-mail l from say Financial Aid or Enrollment internal to the Services are College and can be expected activities new classes clubs as time now But for some etc ete know outside students J advertising has found its way into mail e-mail accounts At the beginning of any semester many students can expect the nish rush of promotional offers from P PJ's College Books But how does PJ's and other advertisers obtain a student mail mail e-mail address an Enrollment Services technician at Campus Taylorsville-Redwood Taylorsville wonders how her mail e-mail got out She is subject to the rush of pre- pre semester mail e-mail from the book reseller as well I was wondering the same question How come we get all this junk mail from P PJ's Sentiments similar to came from students around the Student Center at the Redwood Campus When asked student Jessica Caldrone affirmed that she received the mails e-mails from PJ's books but when asked if she had done anything to provide PJ's College Books with her mail e-mail she replied No I When the Globe asked Caldrone if she had any idea how the merchant gother gother got gother her mail e-mail address she answered I was asking myself that theother the theother ot other er day actually When asked about how PJ's obtains student and staff mail e-mail addresses a manager atthe at atthe atthe the store named Dave responded We have a membership card program Students are given an opportunity Its It's kind of like a Smiths Fresh Value Card Anyone who shops here is asked if they want to pick up the card or not We collect their information and provide them advertising as to what were we're doing Information Technology Department Technology Director Casey Moore offered more on how the advertisers might spread their messages on mail e-mail servers Advertisers just scan over web pages for mail e-mail have an online staff directory In addition to this Mr Moore related the scale of the incoming mail the IT department deals with on a daily basis We typically get on an average day around thousand messages that come in and we block 90 percent of them Moore explained the amount of mail filtered can be adjusted but controls that are too restrictive can lead to desired mail not getting through to recipients The Office of Risk Management indicated that in order to acquire student information any party can request it under a federal law known as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act or Under this law All records are public un unless ess they fit within one of the categories exempt from public disclosure private mail E-mail ads Continued on mail E-mail Ads Continued from Al controlled protected or limited The college being a State-funded State institution must make available some directory information to inquiring parties including students student's name date of birth major field of study dates of attendance enrollment status degrees and awards received most recent previous educational institution agency participation in recognized sports activities address and mail e-mail address Per this legislation an advertiser need only contact the Office of Risk Management to request the data The student can counter this access as provided by the law allows directory information to be restricted by the student should they choose This is done by filling rilling out a form available at Enrollment Services and filing it with the Data Center There is a caveat however When asked if a student with this restriction in place would have the same access to his or her own records Mary Evans of the Taylorsville Data Center answered You have to come in person and have ID This means a student can canno canno canno no longer receive help heIp by phone from Enrollment Financial Aid or any other department saving them an extra trip to campus |