NEWS The Michigan Daily - Monday, January 31, 2005- 3A . ON CAMPUS MLK closing lecture focuses on Sept. 11 impact Popular myster writer Walter Mosley will speak in a lecture titled 'Bearing Witness' where he will focus on both positive and negative effects of Sept. 11. Mosley is best known for his mystery series surrounding the adventures of a black detective named Easy Rawlins. The lecture will be held today in Rackham Auditorium at 7 p.m. SAFE event depicts Palestinian life Today, Students Allied for Free- dom and Equality are holding an event which will depict the hard- ships of Palestinian life. SAFE members will create an environment that will attempt to simulate the checkpoints Palestin- ians have to cross and typical Pal- estinian living conditions. The event will be held at 6:30 p.m in the Parker room of the Michigan Union. CRIME NOTES Two public urinators caught DPS reported that two subjects were cited for urinating in public just after midnight yesterday morning. The inci- dent took place at the Church Carport at 525 Church. Patient leaves hospital during treatment While being treated by medical staff at the University hospital, a subject walked away early yesterday morning. DPS reported the subject was located and returned for treatment. THIS DAY In Daily History South Quad urinals leak through ceiling Jan. 31, 1985 - Sections of South Quad Residence Hall lobby were satu- rated with bathroom water when the day before a broken pipeline from the uri- nals on the third floor bursted. Surrounded by tape, parts of the lobby were sectioned off in order to pre- vent students from coming in contact with the pools of water. South Quad deskworker Nancy Koch said the building maintenance officials were called about the leaking pipe and would attempt to fix the pipe today. It was also reported that there was no damage to the third floor bathrooms. While housekeepers had mopped up the mess, by 5 p.m the next day, new puddles had already formed. A sign on one of the pieces of tape that sectioned-off the area said, "What you smell is what it is! Watch the drips!" Some students didn't mind the mess though. "It's typical of the Quad, you expect things like that to happen. It always smells like sweatsocks anyway," said one resident, who wished to remain anonymous. New 'U' president may be Berkeley Chancellor Jan. 31, 1967 - University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley Chancellor Roger W. Heyns has expressed great interest in becoming the next President of the Uni- versity according to an authoritative source. The current University president Har- lan Hatcher plans to retire this summer after having served the University as President for 15 years. Even with Heyns's interest, Universi- ty's Board of Regents have yet to contact Heyns. The authoritative source said the ITCS offers anti-spainlist to e-mail users By Sarah Sprague Daily Staff Reporter If spam is filling up more of your inbox than you like, a new Do Not Spam list may help reduce the number of unsolicited e-mails. Offered by the University's Infor- mation Technology Central Services team, the list blocks e-mails from some IP addresses that are known to produce spam e-mail. "How successful the (new) system has been varies; I know some people have had more than half of their spam reduced and others who it has hardly affected at all," said ITCS Anti-Spam Project Leader Amy Brooks. While accessible to both students and faculty, the new anti-spam list has primarily been benefiting University faculty because e-mail is their primary form of communication. "Spam does not seem to be as much of a problem for students because they use (AOL Instant Messenger) to com- municate, but faculty uses e-mail a lot more. Half of my messages each day can be spam," Brooks added. Some students, however, said they already find little spam in their Univer- sity inboxes. LSA freshman Amanda Staschke said she abandoned her hot- mail e-mail account after spamlittered her inbox. "I would get 40 spam messages and maybe one relevant one every day," she said. But after switching to the University e-mail account, Staschke said, "Now, I just use my school account e-mail and I've only had like five spam messages since I started using it this summer. If they were a problem for me, I would sign up for a list but I really have no need for one." Kitty Bridges, Associate Vice Pres- ident for ITCS, said the anti-spam list was purchased from an outside orga- nization and works by filtering out unwanted e-mails. "The e-mail comes into the cam- pus mail system and then, and this has nothing to do with the content of the mail, any mail from the addresses on the list is blocked," she said. The growth in spam over the years comes as a result of businesses hir- ing people to send spam for a living, where their wages are determined by how much spam they can send Brooks said. But she added that these spammers have efficient ways of getting around No more spam E-mail list protects University inboxes To sign up, users can log on to http://spambusters. mailumich.edu and click on the "sign up/manage do not spam list" where users have the option to block spam for an individual address or group e-mail. Questions can be directed to the ITCS hotline at 764-HELP or onlineconsulting@umich. spam prevention programs. The list is not meant to prevent all spam, but to help reduce it by blocking the best- known spammers. "We're trying to get rid of all the spam so that e-mail can be used as an effective form of communication without all of the obnoxious messag- es," Brooks said. Brooks and Bridges both said they are carefully dealing with the issue of spam prevention since they fear aggressive measures would inadver- tently block or delete mail that people want to receive. Members of the proj- ect also feel it is necessary to offer the service as a voluntary option so people can accept spam as legitimate mail if they choose to. Anyone, or any group, using a Uni- versity e-mail account has the option of deciding for themselves if spam is enough of a problem to sign up for the list or not. "It is important (to offer the service as an option) in any place, especially in the University, because some people might not want any spam blocked at all. For example, there are some people who do research on spam or those who want to get all of their mail and decide what is spam and what is not for themselves. It's a very personal decision," Bridges said. Unlike some systems that divert spam messages into a special junk folder, the list blocks e-mails from ever reaching the person they are sent to. This means that there is no way to see what e-mails have been blocked or read their con- tent. It also means not having to deal with them at all. Toyota gives $150,000 grant to Engi1neering program By Jacqueline E. Howard Daily Staff Reporter Last week, the Toyota USA Foundation named the University's College of Engi- neering the recipient of a $150,000 grant. The grant will support the college's 2005 Summer Engineering Academy - a pro- gram that targets middle and high school minority students throughout America. The Toyota USA Foundation is a $40 million charitable endowment created by the car company to enrich educa- tional programs for K-12 students in America. With a special emphasis on math and science, the foundation has spent a total of $650,836 this year to fund four educational programs, including the Engineering school. The other, award recipients include the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy and community programs in Stamford, Conn. and Santa Fe, NM. Through the years the foundation has steadily supported the Engineering school, said Chundra Johnson, coordinator of the Summer Engineering Academy. "We have established a relationship with (Toyota) because many College of Engi- neering students intern with Toyota and later become employees at the Toyota Tech Center," Johnson said. Other sponsors of the academy are the Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Pro- gram, Hewlett-Packard Company, NASA's Glenn Research Center, the Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manu- facturing Systems and Modern Technology Systems Inc. Johnson said the grant from Toyota was given to the Engineering school in a private ceremony. "The grant will go towards student expenses for the academy," she said. "So students' families won't have to pay so much for their room and board, instruction costs and everything else that comes with the program." The academy was established in 1990 and offers engineering and technology instruc- tion for high school students. The academy also tries to create a diverse environment by recruiting students from various ethnic backgrounds. Last year, students came from 20 states and Puerto Rico. Johnson said the pro- gram has helped with University recruiting because at least 25 percent of academy stu- dents later attend the College of Engineer- ing, while a higher percentage later attend the University itself. "Students that come (to the acad- emy) have been given (scholarships), and each year the University gives one student a full-tuition scholarship," Johnson said. During the summer of 2003, Engineer- ing freshman Alexis Clark received the Engineering Scholarship of Honor from the academy, which awards full tuition for the University. "I didn't think that I was going to win the award," Clark said. "Usually they give hints and it's easy to tell who the winner will be. But I was really happy with the achievement." Because the academy was a memorable experience for Clark, she said the grant awarded to the college will help make a positive difference in another student's edu- cational experience. "The Summer Engineering Academy helped me mature academically," she said. "It was intense at times but fun. They gave a fair amount of work but showed us how to manage our time." The 2002 Engineering Scholarship of Honor recipient, engineering sophomore Ebon Hughes, also said that the academy was beneficial. "The academy is part of the reason why I'm here," Hughes said. "They really pre- pare you for college." Hughes said the academy provides its students with a real university experience. He described his experience as "college with training wheels". "The academy was helpful because not only did I get a taste of college life, but it helped me make connections (at the Univer- sity)," he said. "It builds a support system." FuturTech showcases speakers, new gadgets By Kim Tomlin Daily Staff Reporter Do you have a cell phone that can block your drunk-dialing attempts? Or one that offers rescue rings - a feature that allows users to program a time the phone will call itself - for that tragic blind date? Virgin mobile phones do. These phones were among the many new tech- nologies featured in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business FuturTech 2005 Conference on Thursday' and Friday. The FuturTech Conference is an annual event that is organized by Business and Engineering students. The event, sponsored in part by Ecolab, Citigroup, DaimlerChrysler and Microsoft, is designed to show the new and upcoming technologies that may soon transform both the business and science worlds. There were numerous panels that provided infor- mation on some of the new technology, like radio fre- quency identification, small computer chips attached to shipments that communicate with wireless anten- nae. Other panels discussed nanotechnology and hydrogen-fueled technology. Keynote speakers for the conference were Linda Dillman, executive vice president and chief informa- tion officer for Wal-Mart, who spoke on Friday eve- ning, and Howard Handler, chief marketing officer of Virgin Mobile, who spoke Saturday afternoon. Dillman was awarded the Women in Leadership Award by the Business School, an award that has rec- ognized women leaders for the past 12 years. Dillman said she achieved her success because she never allowed herself to stay in a job that would never amount to her receiving a promotion. "There are no limitations placed on you other than the limitations you place on yourself," she said. The Indiana University alumnus is a 13-year veter- an of Wal-Mart, where she oversees 2,400 employees from around the world. As a young girl growing up, Dillman said she originally aspired to be a beautician or an assistant because saw women in her family in those careers. But she said she later found tier calling in the business "There are no limitations placed on you other than the limitations ou place on yourself." - Linda Dillman Executive vice president and chief information officer for Wal-Mart world, taking chances and risks that got her where more options for ring tones. A Virgin Mobile she is today. user could hold his phone up to a radio, and the "I believe it is about a direction and not a single phone would recognize the tune and download it plan." she said. "Take opportunities that arise - even as a ring tone. those that feel risky," she added. Handler also discussed the anger many customers The next day, Virgin Mobile CMO Howard Han- feel toward cell phone companies. dler - whose resume includes marketing work with "The wireless industry was voted second-lowest the National Football League, Saturday Night Live, ranking for customer satisfaction," he said. MTV and Quaker Oats Company - discussed the Despite his prior experience with increasing com- many ways the Virgin cell phone company has used pany revenues, Handler said his work for Virgin marketing strategies and packages to appeal to the Mobile had a rough start. youth, "unloved" by the other cell phone companies. "It was more like a herd of thundering tur- One feature of the new phones allows users tIes," he said. ;a s >:> "