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soon as the debate was finished his next two ads were both negative." Based on the television ads available on both candidates' websites, the percentage of negative ads produced by Kaine was 42 percent compared to 50 percent by Kilgore. Longwood associate professor
With less than a week until the November 8 election, the tooclose-to-call race for Virginia's next governor has both Republican Jerry Kilgore and Democrat Tim Kaine fighting for votes. Looking to discredit their opponent, both candidates have waged' a television ad war that stops just short of playground name calling. WWW.JERRYKILGORE.COM In the only televised debate between the two candidates, of polincal science David Calihan when both were asked to pledge said, "Conventional wisdom is that at least 50 percent of their that negative campaigns do work. remaining ads be non-negative, People say that they don't like Kaine agreed, while Kilgore them, but the negativity does help to attract the viewers. They help abstained from commitment. Tucker Martin, a spokesperson to shake the voter's attention for Jerry Kilgore, stated, "Tim toward the other candidate." One of Kilgore's more inflamKaine is rhetoric over record; as
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matory ads featured an elderly attorney general, helped the comman condemning Kaine, a former pany, (King Pharmaceuticals) avoid any federal charges despite the fact that Kilgore only assisted in the feddefense lawyer, for helping to eral SBC investigation. appeal the case for his son's murAccording to a poll conducted derer. by Mason-Dixon Polling & He states that Kaine would not Research Inc. the "Hitler" ad support the death penalty even seems to have backfired, harming for Hitler. Kilgore's campaign more than Kaine has not risen above the Kaine's. fray either. In one ad, he claimed According to the poll, 25 perthat "Jerry Kilgore has a political cent of respondents claimed that sugar daddy. Jerry Kilgore took the ad would make them less like600,000 dollars from the owners ly to vote for Kilgore while only of a drug company under federal 10 percent claimed that it helped investigation for Medicaid fraud. to gain their vote. Instead of protecting Virginia Kaine's press secretary Delacy tax payers from being cheated, Skinner said, "Nearly every newsJerry Kilgore protected his politi- paper in Virginia says Kilgore's cal sugar daddy." smear campaign has gone beyond The ad, using ominous back- all standards of decency." ground music and a condemning tone in the announcer's voice, see ATMOSPHERE p.4 implied that Kilgore, in his role of
Departmental, Orgaizational E-mails Undergoing a New Change Leslie Smith Design Editor
Features, Page 9
November 3, 2005
Longwood's engineering team is in the process of applying its newest, securest e-mail feature for on-campus organizations and offices. Organizational and departmental e-mails are classified as local ID systems - they have their own e-mail space, and have individual user names and permanent passwords. The new system entails changing these to shared folder accounts. A student, or faculty memeber, will soon be able to access both their own email account, and that of their organization, all with their own username and password. The makeover started with faculty and staff in February 2005. Information & Instructional Technology Services' (ITTS) engineering team, headed up by 2004 alumnus Christopher Glaze, is in charge of switching organizations and offices over to the new system.
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So far, only seven or eight offices have been modified, including Admissions, Alumni Office, and Financial Aid. Security is one of the main reasons for the change. Kim Rcdford at User Support Services talked about how this will allow groups .to maintain who sees their webmail, and it will, "[put] the accountability back on the department, which is where it belongs." People who leave the group or office will find themselves unable to see their old organization's webmail. Redford said about the old system, "The group accounts are one, not in compliance with the security policy, and two, not in compliance with the ninety-day password policy." The new system will run by the same rules that normal students and faculty have to obey. This will be a little complicated at first, as students must submit a list of names and e-mail addresses of their executive staff, and anyone else that should have access to their webmail. This list needs to
be updated at the beginning of every semester, and maybe during the middle, depending on who leaves or joins the staff. If advisors change, they will need to be updated on how to keep the list maintained, and new staff members will need to be shown how to work in the new system. The form can be found at: http://www.longwood.edu/help desk/shared_imap_folder_reques t_form.htm, but Redford said, "Until the group is contacted, they don't need to fill out anything yet...The engineers will walk them through the process." After submitting the e-mail list, the people who have been granted access will be able to access the organization's folder through their own e-mail account, through the "Folder" function, found on the left-hand sidebar. There are even two parts to the access: "read and writing" access, and "write" access. "Read and writing" will allow the person to read, respond, and delete e-mails. "Write" access would allow read-
ing and deleting access only. This will further allow organizations and departments to keep watch over their webmail and who can do what within it. Redford stressed that there will be some "administrative red tape for all of us," and that because the new system will affect every department on campus, the student organizations should be patient. "When we upgraded the student webmail about a month ago, we gained the capability to do theirs," Glaze said. At the moment, the ITTS engineering team is mainly working with the Student Goverment Association's (SGA) multiple accounts. "Once we finish up with SGA, we'll start contacting the rest, which may be later this month, or December," Glaze said. Glaze asks that organizations pull together names and email addresses of people on their staff that would be qualified to access their webmail, in order to help them ease their way into the new system.