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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1994)
Senate won’t fund computers Frtodarlch von Carp Oregon Oaky f metak) The Student voted Thursday night to scrap its recent computer-funding policy and now plans to refuse all requests to fund computer* from its budget surplus Difficult issues surfaced when Zeenab Johnson, a co-director of the Black Student Union, opened her groups spec lal request for $1,195 to buy a top of the line IBM computable computer The BSU's request had been postponed from last week when the- senate wrote a new policy regard ing allocating money for computers i-ast week's resolution set a $1,000 per-compulor limit on what the senate could allocate and forccst groups to prove that existing computer resources on < a in pus are inadequate for their needs Johnson complained to the senate that the poli cy. whir h did not apply to tin* USD's request, dis criminated against her group "We didn’t know that you were going to c twinge your policy bec ause we came to you to ask for a computer. I find that if you want to look at it like this — it's racist," Johnson said Several senators expressed opposition to the sen ate awarding any money for c omputers I jist year s Incidental Fee* Committee, whic h the restructured Student Senate replac»d. allocated $20,000 to tin* ASIIO Fxec utives Kquipment Reserve fund Curnml executive policy mandates that student groups may draw no more than Si.000 from this fund to buy computers, forc ing groups to the sen ate and outside lamefactor* to make up the differ ence. "I'm a firm believer that we set that money aside to the exes Senator John Howe said "It seems that |the BSD has) the exact same niseis for a c omputer that (the senate doe*|." Senator Kent Bleu k contended "I don't see how we c an not give them a computer when the Senate uses one for the exac t same reasons." "We just don't have the blue." Johnson told the senate. "This is stressing me out As the BSt J members filed through the doorway, tlie senate quickly proposed and defeated a sec ond motion that would have allocated the BSD $1,000 for a computer "The representation on that board — them's one person of color on that board Was it a woman’ No." HSt > member Kenya divert said outside of the meet in« "What they were doing was lynching us They might ns well have lvn< tied us from a tree and burned us up on a limb." divert said "We are going to get our computer They am not going to hinder us on accomplishing our goals " Policy shifts A ws ond s|*s lal request for computers filed joint ly by the Office of Student Advocacy and ASUO dtgnl Services drew more support from the senate, although those groups, too, left the meeting emp ty handed, both groups provide legal servo es for University students and are professional sub-con tractors of the ASUO This request. submitted after the senate approved the computer alicxation resolution last week, was subject to the resolutions limitations, including a limit of $1,000 per-computer or one-third of the total computer price, whichever is less "Why were we so quick to deny the HSU com puters and everyone is pretty enthused to give these two groups their request," Black said. "There's a huge different e between these groups and the HSU. said senator lessn a Krahs "It s real ly important to make that dear, because I really want to fund them." ASUO Budget Coordinator Kristen McCown told the senate that the legal groups, because they are professional contractors, should not lie expected to raise significant amounts of money through fund raising. "They represent students against the University They can't really go to the dean and ask for $1,000 to buy a computer." McOrwan said. The senate proposed and rejected several reso lutions to give the two legal services groups $2,000 to buy two computers The amount the senate pro posed would have been sufficient to buy two com puters but the groups complained that the wording on the resolution prevented them from buying even one "whole" computer with money earmarked for no more than 1/2 each of two machines EMU Main Desk Store T1Odciy, Oct. 21,9am-4pm Come by for free samples of cookies, chips, dips, etc. Special: 37$ Monster Cookies while they last Ala Carte Cookies two for the price of one while they last! DRAWINGS: Grand Prize Two nights at the coast! Snapple, t-shirts, Halt & much more! Main Desk Cloned cellular phones used in alleged fraud SAN JOSE. Calif. (AP) — A San Jose man has been charged for allegedly making "clone" cellular phones that allowed users to make calls while the hills went to other unsuspecting cellular phone owners Clinton L Watson. 44, who described himself to investi gators ns a computer consul tant and music producer, was arrested at his suburban home Monday and charged with throe counts of fraud. A federal grand jury indict ment referred to 30 altered i ellular phones. 16 altered computer circuits and about MX) electroni< serial numbers seized at Watson's home But U S Attorney Michael Yam aguchi said prosecutors believe Watson has sold about 1,000 of the phones for $1,000 to $2,000 each. In a single - thioe-month period earlier this year, the phones wore used to defraud cellular companies out of more than $500,000, Yam aguchi said Wednesday. Prosecutors said Watson made the "clone" phones, tinkering with each set's seri al number, embedded in a computer chip, so that it matched the serial number of someone else's cellular phone. He allegedly used a radio-wave scanner to record the serial numbers of passing drivers' cor phones Calls from the clones are billed to the phones of inno cent owners. Because cus tomers are likely to notice the ( alls and complain to the cel lular company, most of the costs am !>onie hy the compa nies, which lose about St million a day from such fraud nationwide, said Mike Houghton, spokesman for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Yamnguchi said Watson also tried to target high-vol ume commercial cellular users, who would he less likely to notice others' (.alls on their hills. The clones Watson is accused of making are called "lifetime” phones, which are equipped with multiple seri al numbers so that the user can use the phone keypad to convert to a new number. "It was really pretty inge nious," Yamaguchi said. "It lakes a highly sophisticated individual to come up with the software and perpetrate a fraud like this." Also arrested were Wat son's son, Mark, charged with making $14,000 in calls with an altered phone, and another man, Dwayne Street, charged with two counts of fraud. Beyond AIDS 101 l i OT JUST ANOTHER What can you do to make a difference? 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