E-mails delayed after infected mail clogs server

Seventy computers on the university network have been infected by a vicious computer program that crashed the university's e-mail server by flooding it with more than 100,000 e-mails.

Monday evening, staff members at the Center for Computing and Information Technology were working to block a barrage of infected e-mails sent by the Mydoom worm. [Read article]

Anirudh Chaudhary, a pre-business freshman, thought he had it all figured out: Fail math, retake it with the Grade Replacement Opportunity, and say hello to law school.

In theory, Chaudhary's plan sounds secure; unfortunately, it's completely misguided.

The UA is among a few schools across the country that offer the GRO, which allows students to retake up to 10 credits and replace the original grades if they were a "C," "D" or "E." That causes grade point averages to increase significantly, an attractive option for students applying to medical and law schools. [Read article]

ASUA senators are questioning their election commissioner's decision to extend the deadline to commit to running in this year's ASUA elections, saying it might violate the ASUA constitution.

After only nine candidates signed up to run for the 10 ASUA Senate positions, and only one candidate for the executive vice president position, elections commissioner Dan Suh decided to allot more time for students to get into the race in order to create a more competitive election. [Read article]

From the age of 12, Tracey Gold suffered from anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder that almost killed her.

But since overcoming her disorder nine years ago, Gold, who used to star on TV's "Growing Pains," has taken her experience to the road to educate people about how destructive the disorder can be.

"Someone with an eating disorder is literally walking around as the living dead," Gold said.

More than 200 women and a handful of men piled into the Integrated Learning Center lecture hall last night to hear about Gold's bouts with anorexia nervosa. [Read article]

More than a year after the Residence Life Recycling program was almost scrapped, it has bounced back to become a contender in a national recycling competition.

Residence Life Recycling will participate in the Recycle Mania competition that begins Monday. The program has 18 universities compete to determine who can collect the largest amount of recyclables from residence halls, on-campus apartments and dining halls. [Read article]

Freshman claims to be an "all-star," but can't even beat a Wildcat reporter at basketball

Wildcat: (walking up to a group of guys shooting hoops, and after some preliminary introductions ·) Hi, my name's Nathan and you're on the spot. Why were you so emphatic about this?

Garrity: The interview? Because I'm an all-star at life. I don't know.

Wildcat: All right, you're an all-star? I challenge you to a game of what · three · five? [Read article]

Things you always never wanted to know

QUESTION: How far off is the campus bell from the actual time? Who controls the bell time and how?
÷ Anonymous

ANSWER:

Well, my time-obsessed friend, thank you for your questions.

This is something I've wondered about myself. I mean, why exactly does the bell chime 2 1/2 minutes fast?

Of course, the answer appears simple at first: It's a subtle method of mind manipulation that "encourages" students to show up to class three minutes early. But to indulge your question, I decided to look a little bit past the surface. Just who is responsible for this dilemma? What can be done about it? [Read article]