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Internet speed may increase

By Laura Pelner
Campus Editor

After doing research this weekend, employees of Purdue's computing center made a change to the University's Internet connections this morning that may improve online connection speeds.

"We've used the weekend to gather more data and we've done experiments," said Scott Ksander, the associate director of the computing center.

Ksander said that over the weekend PUCC's employees tried to understand the amount of traffic and the different applications influencing Purdue's Internet connections. "As a result, we feel we have a good profile (of what's going on)."

This morning the computing center put a new configuration into its system. "We think this is the best balance for the different applications," said Ksander. "It has to do with balancing the usage amongst applications so no single application or web access can take a disproportionate part of the load.

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Indiana limits abortion options

By Megan Finnerty
Features Editor

Today is a day of celebration and awareness for many pro-choice groups across America, but at the Lafayette Right to Life clinic, it is a day of sadness.

"This is a day of mourning," said Terry Wykoff of Right to Life. "More than 48 million babies have been killed in the last 28 years. We mourn for the babies and we mourn with the mothers who are grieving for the child they never had."

This is the 28th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision making abortion legal in the United States in the case of Roe v. Wade, based on the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of the right to privacy. This ruling reduced deadly pilgrimages to back-alley abortionists and started a political debate that still divides the country down political, religious, economic and social lines.

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