Lack of Seat Belt Now a Primary Offense; Buckle Up

Failure to wear a seat belt is now a primary traffic offense. This means a police officer can pull a vehicle over if the officer sees that the driver or a front-seat passenger is not wearing a seatbelt. Nationally, about 83 percent of drivers use seat belts, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The percentage of Arkansas drivers who use seat belts, however, is only 70 percent. If all drivers and front-seat passengers wore their seat belts, around 50 lives would be saved each year in automobile crashes. Arkansas is the 27th state to enact such legislation. The University of Arkansas Police Department encourages all drivers and passengers to buckle up to protect life, to prevent injuries and to avoid traffic tickets.

Dickson Street Closure

Dickson Street is currently closed between Duncan Avenue and Harmon Avenue. Beginning Monday, June 29, the section of Dickson Street from the Dickson Street Annex to the west side of Duncan Avenue will be closed.  This closure will last through Aug. 23.  There will be no access to Duncan Avenue from Dickson Street.

Permit holders parking in lots 70 and 71, around the Dickson Street Annex, will need to enter the lots through lot 16 off Dickson Street or from Whiteside Drive off University Avenue.

Please contact Transit and Parking at parking@uark.edu or 575-PARK (7275) if you have questions about parking lot access.

Stadium Drive Street Closure

Due to construction delays, Stadium Drive will remain closed through July 3. Also, the partial closing of Meadow Street, originally scheduled for June 29 through July 24,  has been rescheduled to July 9 through July 24.  One lane of Meadow Street will remain open at all times.

Please contact Geta at Facilities Management at 575-6191 if you have any questions about this project.

Summer Issue of Campus Sustainability Newsletter GO! Available

The new issue of GO! Green Outreach published by the office of university relations for the campus is now available. The newsletter is not printed and only available as a downloadable PDF from http://sustainability.uark.edu.

The publication was devised as a way to keep awareness about sustainability issues high among people on campus, and to provide ideas for people to try at work and home. GO! is available to anyone who subscribes to Daily Headlines, or visits Daily Headlines on the university Web site.

To submit story ideas for futures issues of GO!, contact Laura Jacobs or Danielle Strickland in university relations at 479-575-5555.

Phishing Scam Guised as a Virus Warning

The phishing scam artists continue to pelt the University of Arkansas with fraudulent messages meant to confuse or trick campus users into sending sensitive information, such as UARK account passwords, to the attacker. The scam message, sometimes known as a phishing scam, is notable as it appears to be a virus warning message and may be more effective in tripping up our users. 

Campus mail servers did detect that the message was suspicious and tagged the subject line with {SPAM?} to alert the reader of the message.  The best thing to do with these messages is to delete them.  An example of this new variation of a phishing is provided below.

Please remember that the University of Arkansas will _NEVER_ send a message

to our clients asking for their account passwords or other sensitive data. If you should ever receive something like that appears to originate from us (or your bank or similar organizations), please be aware that it is most likely someone trying to scam access into your accounts.  However, we will send out friendly notices to remind you to change your password every 90 days (approximately once a semester) via our PASSweb facility located at passweb.uark.edu

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the IT Security Office via email (security@uark.edu) or via the IT Services Help Desk at 479-575-2905.

Portion of Dickson Street to be Closed

Dickson Street will be closed to vehicular traffic from May 11 to August 21, from Harmon Ave. to Duncan Street.  Dickson St. from Duncan Ave. to Arkansas will be closed July 1 through August 21. Pedestrian traffic in this area will be re-routed to the north side of Dickson St. and vehicular traffic will need to follow appropriate detour signage.

Please contact Shawn Pierce at Facilities Management, 575-8472, if you have any questions about this information.

Update to Fayetteville Policies and Procedures

The following Fayetteville Policy an Procedure has been updated and may be viewed at http://vcfa.uark.edu/Documents/7021List.pdf.

• 702.1 - Building Executives. The change consists of updated executives, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail listings. 

The entire list of Fayetteville Policies and Procedures may be view at http://vcfa.uark.edu/675.htm.

University of Arkansas Faculty and Staff Now Have Access to RazAlert

The RazALERT and University emergency Web site have recently been updated to include more information for faculty and staff. The left navigation now includes a link to the BASIS Web site as well as to a page detailing how faculty and staff should update their personal information to receive alerts:  http://razalert.uark.edu/14855.php. This page details how to enter information for voice, SMS/text, and TTY/TTD teletype phones. Also, the RazALERT FAQ has been updated so that it no longer states that SMS alerts will be available to faculty and staff in the future, but rather how to receive, opt out of, etc. of these alerts.

Transit and Parking Service Information for Summer

Transit Service Information

During spring semester final exams, Razorback Transit will operate one bus daily on each regular route. Buses will run from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., starting Saturday, May 2, through Friday, May 08, except Sunday. Night service will end Thursday, April 30, and resume on Monday, Aug. 24.

On Dead Day, Friday, May 1, Razorback Transit will operate one bus per route from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Razorback Transit will begin Reduced Service on Monday, May 11. Transit service will be provided from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, throughout the summer. Reduced service routes and schedules are available from the Transit and Parking Department, the Hunt Hall and Administration Building lobbies, the Arkansas Union Information Desk, and the Transit and Parking web site at http://parking.uark.edu/67.htm.  Razorback Transit will resume full service on Aug. 24.

Safe Ride

Safe Ride, which operates the Night Owl service, operated Mondays and Tuesdays from 10:30 p.m. until 12:30 a.m., will not be in service on Monday, May 4 or Tuesday, May 5. Regular Safe Ride services from 11 p.m. until 3 a.m. Wednesday through Saturday will operate through Saturday, May 9. Safe Ride will not operate during the summer. Safe Ride will resume the Night Owl service on Monday, Aug. 24, and the regular Safe Ride services will resume Wednesday, Aug. 26.

Parking Information

Parking regulations will be enforced during final exams. Lots 2 (between Plant Science and Memorial Hall), 4 (east of the Fine Arts Theatre), 7, 8 and 9 (north of the Home Economics and Agriculture Buildings), and 61 (around the McIlroy House) will be reserved on Saturday May 2 for Reserved and Faculty/Staff permit holders who will be working that day. Resident Reserved permit requirements will be enforced until 5 p.m. on Friday, May 8. After May 8, Resident Reserved lots, with the exception of lot 79 will be open for all permit types.

Inclement Weather Policy Reminder

The University of Arkansas rarely closes due to bad weather, but it does happen.

Ice and snow storms have caused most of the closures. When these storms hit the university, the administration’s primary concern is for the safety of university staff, faculty and off-campus students who have to drive to campus. Administrators get an early morning assessment of road conditions, on and off campus, from the Arkansas State Police, University Police, and parking and transit workers. Facilities management staff also report on sidewalk and building conditions on campus. Administrators then decide whether to close the university for the day, delay opening for two hours, or keep the university open on a normal schedule.

If the university is closed, or opening is delayed, university relations staff will post a notice to the home page of the University of Arkansas Web site at http://www.uark.edu. A message will be recorded for the university Weather Hotline, which can be reached at 575-7000; that message will also be sent out to on-campus voice mail. In addition, northwest Arkansas and Little Rock television and radio stations will be notified. All of these notifications will be made between 5:30 and 6 a.m.

If students, faculty and staff don’t see or hear from any of these sources that the university is closed, they can assume it is open. There is no notification when the decision is made that the university will remain open and on a normal schedule. 

These same procedures apply when severe weather strikes in the middle of the day, and a decision is made to close the university early before driving becomes too hazardous. Staff members from the office of university relations will send notices to the Web site home page, the Weather Hot Line, individual voice mail and local media.

Even when the university remains open, faculty members have the option of canceling individual classes, and it is the faculty member’s responsibility to notify students of any cancellations.

The university’s complete inclement weather policy can be found at:

210.0 - Inclement Weather Policy at

http://vcfa.uark.edu/Documents/2100.pdf.

Winter Issue of Campus Sustainability Newsletter GO! Available

The new issue of GO! Green Outreach published by the office of university relations for the campus is now available. The newsletter is not printed and only available as a downloadable PDF from http://sustainability.uark.edu.

The publication was devised as a way to keep awareness about sustainability issues high among people on campus, and to provide ideas for people to try at work and home. GO! is now available to anyone who subscribes to Daily Headlines, or visits Daily Headlines on the university Web site.

To submit story ideas for futures issues of GO!, contact Laura Jacobs or Danielle Strickland in university relations at 479-575-5555.

New Phishing Scam Making Campus Rounds

Attackers have used a compromised e-mail account to send out e-mail purporting to be from Uark Support and requested that the e-mail account holder verify their username and password by replying to the e-mail message, which contains the dire warning that the account would be deactivated within 48 hours.

Please note that the only valid place to change your UARK Password is through PASSweb.  The link to PASSweb is on the University IT Services webpage or can be reached by typing into your browser the address www.uark.edu/passweb.

Should someone receive a message similar to the below, feel free to forward it with full headers to abuse@uark.edu.  IT Services will investigate and respond appropriately to protect our campus.