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INSIDE: • Area election results, page 5
November 7, 2002
• Writing Center goes to dorms, page 7 Vol.XLIX Number Ten
• 'Burnin' up the ?'irwaves, page 9
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Rendell wins VINCE DEFRUSCJO NEWS EDITOR
MICHAf.LPEREZ/PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
With fellow Democrats Chaka Fattah and Philadelphia's Mayor John Street by his side, former Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell celebrates his victory in Tuesday night's election. Rendell is the first Philadelphian elected governor of Pennsylvania since 1914.
In a landmark election, Ed Rendell has become Pennsylvania's 45th governor, and the first Philadelphian to be governor in 88 years. Pennsylvania Attorney General Mike Fisher conceded the race shortly before 11 p.m. at a hotel in Pittsburgh, Pa. Rendell, mayor of Philadelphia for eight years during the '90s, had long been the projected winner. The Philadelphia Daily News went so far as to declare the head1ine, "Ed Wins!," on their Wednesday,Oct. 30 front page. Dr. Jim Hedtke, chair of the history and political science department, was not surprised at Rendell's win. Hedtke feels that Rendell will work hard to keep out-of-state college students in Pennsylvania. "He has always spoken quite
openly about keeping Philadelphia college students in the area," Hedtke said. According to Hedtke, Rendell is a, "cheerleader for the state of Pennsylvania." Hedtke said that Fisher has not helped himself with his. "Philly bashing." "Keep your mouth shut about cheesesteaks," Hedtke said, referring to Fisher's campaign ads in which he claimed to prefer Pittsburgh-style sandwiches more. Hedtke said that Philadelphians would tum against Fisher for his comments. According to Hedtke, Pennsylvanians have long seen Philadelphia as a money-sucking "appendage" to the state. Hedtke mentioned a longstanding joke about Pennsylvania which says that, "Pennsylvania is Philadel-phia and Pittsburgh, surrounded by Pa-tucky."
Tunedout, turnedoff Voter turnout rates among 18- to 24-year-olds in the United States have dropped by one-third since 1972.
Disaffected youth Percent of 18- to 24-year-olds who say that ... Voting is a duty 9%
Voting is a responsibility 20%
Votin,g is a right 31%
Voting is a choice 34%
Politicians prefer to talk with older, wealthier
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Source· Center for Informationand Research on Civ,cLearning and Engagementand Pew Center for People and the Press survey of 1,500 people ages 15-25,Jan. 6-16.2002, 3 percenterror margin GraphiC:Pat Carr Cl2002
Students, faculty question Drexel partnership SHANNON KrNG FEATURES EDITOR
The $1 million a year partnership between Drexel University and Cabrini does not seem to be paying off, according to most faculty and students. In the first two months of the semester, the server has gone down numerous times causing headaches and added stress to the campus community. Students are outraged by the fact that they cannot rely on Internet access when most teachers are now requiring homework to be emailed and often times, not accepting hard copies of assignments at all. In one instance, the Internet went down on a Friday
afternoon and did not come back up until Monday morning after classes had already begun. Sopho~ore Kristy Jameson said, "It's horrible. I couldn't email my papers to my teachers and it was starting to affect my grades." Lauren Kupniewski, help desk coordinator, worked for Drexel for three years before joining the Cabrini team. "We are a small group over here," she said. "We try our best to make sure that the problems are taken care of as soon as possible." Precautions are being taken to prevent the server from being down so long in the future. As of Oct. 16, John McIntyre, director of information technology and
resources, indicated that the proxy server through which the Internet is accessed on campus had problems due to environmental issues that have now been addressed. He also noted that plans were in the works for a back-up server that would be invoked immediately if the server should ever fail. The exact cause of the problem, however, is disputed among the campus community. Don Dempsey, chair of the graphic design department, questions the size of the network itself and wonders if campus needs have grown too _largefor the network to handle. "I think that Drexel inherited network problems that already existed," Dempsey said. "The graphic
design department alone takes up a lot of network space." Music and video downloading in the dorms is also taking up a lot of network space. According to Kupniewski, the ITR department is looking into investing in software that can manage what part of the server is being used at what time to try to even out the usage. Still some people have their doubts about the service that we are receiving. "Cabrini e-mail is useless. I used to use it last year, but I don't use it anymore," Jameson said. "I get messages extremely late and more than half of my messages never get sent. I get error messages back all the time."
Kupniewski agreed that the email problem is something that needs to be addressed, "Even at Drexel the e-mail issues are the same as we are facing here," she said. "But I think we are a lot better off with Drexel. We wouldn't be able to afford half of what we have without them." Students can also be reassured that is now possible for the campus server to be monitored from off-campus so that any problem can be corrected immediately. Senior Internet computing major Jim McCrea, said, "The system is getting better, but the reliability of the network is still horrible. You never know when it's going to go down."