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THURSDAY

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

B AY L O R L A R I AT. C O M

TECH UPDATE

ITS expands email storage system

PAYING TRIBUTE

JILLIAN ANDERSON Reporter Soon, Baylor students, faculty and staff will no longer receive “email almost full” messages. ITS has started to expand storage space for student email by moving servers to the Microsoft Cloud. Student mailboxes will expand from 600 megabytes to 50 gigabytes through the use of Microsoft’s Office 365 service. The move will be complete in spring 2016. Cloud storage refers to the storing of data on a server that isn’t local. Traditional email systems are housed in the same physical area as the system they serve. Baylor has had on premise servers, but is now moving students to the Microsoft cloud. “Anytime you wanted to check your email, it would come back to the server room,” said Bob Hartland, assistant vice president for IT infrastructure. Hartland his colleagues managed the servers that stored and authenticated all Baylor users email. “It was a struggle to improve storage as attachments have gotten larger,” Hartland said. ITS noticed many people utilized their email to store files. That issue, among others, prompted ITS to make the move, Hartland said. ITS infrastructure doubled the storage space for students even before moving to the cloud. The cloud, however, is considered more cost effective and beneficial for students and faculty. Although Baylor wasn’t one of the first universities to move to the Cloud officials are confident it was the right decision to make. Transitioning thousands of accounts is a delicate undertaking. Moving so much data at one time can be a risky task. “Because email is so critical we didn’t want to be on the leading edge,” said Becky King, associate vice president for

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>>WHAT’S INSIDE opinion Editorial: Two Muslim drivers were fired from their job for not delivering alcohol. pg. 2

news Philanthropy Day: Baylor gives back to those that have given to them. pg. 3

sports

Lady Bears look to add more recruits to their arsenal of athletes for the upcoming seasons. pg. 6

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Trey Honeycutt | Lariat Photographer

BIKING VETERANS, HONORING VETERANS Veterans on motorcycles ride down Austin Avenue in Wednesday’s Veterans Day Parade

People lined the streets to watch the parade.

Richard Hirst | Lariat Photo Editor

SALUTING SOLDIERS A former Marine salutes a trumpet player as the band member performs Taps and marches down the streets of Waco.

Trey Honeycutt | Lariat Photographer

FLAGS OVER WACO Waco Police Department’s Color Guard presented the American and Texas flags during the parade.

Waco’s Veterans Day Parade drew a crowd to the center of downtown Waco Wednesday morning. Children and adults of all ages participated in the tradition and watched from the curb as veterans and Wacoans paraded through the streets. The parade included active-duty servicemen and retired veterans, local school marching bands and the Waco and Hewitt Police and Fire departments.

FIRST AMENDMENT

Missouri students’ free speech rights are being challenged across campus SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. — Free speech advocates are expressing concern that instructions from University of Missouri police on how students should report “hateful and/or hurtful” speech could stifle legitimate differences of opinion. A campus email sent Tuesday instructs recipients to call university police as soon as possible and notes that while such speech isn’t always illegal, students can nonetheless be punished by the Office of Student Conduct. The university’s student conduct code prohibits harassment, which it defines as “unwelcome verbal or physical conduct” against “actual or perceived membership in a protected class ... that creates a hostile environment.” The conduct code also forbids bullying, retaliation and threatening or intimidating behaviors. The American Civil Liberties Union of

Missouri responded with a statement calling for write whatever they wanted on the large strip of the university to not compromise the right to paper. free expression in its efforts to fight racism. Its “Basically, if your feelings are hurt the police are going to crack down on statement says, “Mistakenly whoever hurt your feelings,” addressing symptoms — “I think that’s instead of causes — and doing Paris said. “I think that’s terrifying, because I it in a way that runs counter to terrifying, because I have the First Amendment is not the opinions every single day that have opinions every people find offensive or hurt wise or appropriate response.” single day.” their feelings because I disagree A University of Missouri police official referred with them.” Ian Paris |Young Americans questions about the email to the Authorities on Wednesday for Liberty, President school’s media relations office, arrested a 19-year-old student at another Missouri campus, which did not immediately alleging he posted online threats respond. The school’s email spurred a libertarian-leaning about shooting black people on the Columbia student group, Young Americans for Liberty, to campus. The threats were posted Tuesday, a day set up a “free speech wall” in a campus walkway after the university system president and the Wednesday. The chapter’s president, Ian Paris, said chancellor of the Columbia campus announced school administrators seem intent on quelling free they were resigning amid student-led protests over speech, and members encouraged passers-by to their handling of racial issues.

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