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
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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.
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