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EDITORIAL Athletes’ violence scars victims, fans When people think of college athletics, they might recall the Rose Bowl or another memorable game or cel ebrated athlete. However, there is a darker side to collegiate athletics — the violent or intimidating acts of those few Univer sity athletes who use their power and prestige to get whatever they want. They abuse their status to the ter rible misfortune of their victims and fans, Some athletes may believe that their roles as pam pered campus heroes may excuse them from rules and laws all citizens are required to follow. However, no one is above the law A number of assaults by members of the football team havo allegedly taken place in recent years. While the vic tims of those attacks have, in many cases, initially filed police reports, victims are often reluctant to pursue pros ecution because of fear of violence from eitnor the indi vidual person or the team. Intimidation of assault by a football player ran be a very real fear for someone already assaulted once. Some victims assume they will be pitted against the entire starting line-up of the Ducks if they go public. There is evidence to support this assumption. In one case detailed in Emerald articles today and Tuesday, a voting woman sprayed one football player with mace because she thought he was going to assault her. She was then hit in the chest by another player who object ed to her action. In another case, the live-in girlfriend of another football player tried to retract statements she made in a police report after a story about the incident appeared in the Emerald because sbe feared reprisals In each of these cases, the women wore unwilling to press charges because they wore scared of the outcome of their cases. They not only feared physical reprisals from football players, but feared the humiliation that comes with a public trial. Those women, like other vic tims. will live with emotional scars all their lives. Take, for example the case of the University student who accused three University of Washington athletes of sexual abuse. While testifying against the men, the young women often burst into tears and bogged to know why she was the one on trial. Although the men she accused were from another state, she was forced to leave the University because of the incident. Just imagine if she had accused one of Ore gon's football heroes. It's unfortunate some athletes must abuse their pow er and prestige, especially when they are using up valu able scholarship dollars. Teammates of these athletes must not tolerate this behavior; otherwise Oregon's rep utation as a clean football program will suffer. 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So now you say you want a pint e of the action You've used Mosaic Now you want to carve out your own niche in the Web and create your ow n home page No problem One of the greatest selling points of the Web is that high quality pages can lie very easy to make i o create a Web page, you'il need access to a machine running a WWW server A server com puter is a storehouse of docu ments and multimedia ob|m Is (sound and graphics) that a per son can gain access to. using browser programs such as Mosa ic and Netscape to retrieve them. Fortunately, most of the Inter net-connected machines on campus ant pouncing on the Web bandwagon and starting their own servers. This includes Gladstone and Darkwing, the general undergraduate and grad uate machines Since most WWW servers run the Unix operating system. 1 will assume that yours does. too. Web browsers speak a lan guage called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) to interpret and format documents on the screen HTML is simply a set of codes that are inserted into plain text, telling the browser to for mat the text or to add graphics and links to other pages (hyper links) Perhaps the best part about making Web pages is that they are written entirely in text no interpreter or special editor is required to create them The only tool needed to write an HTML document is a lirxt editor (Macintosh SimpleText, for example) A Web browser would also help to ohoi k your work The firsi thing to do before writing a home page is to famil iarize yourself with HTML An HTML d(* urnont is a text dot u menl interspersed with a set of formatting codes called "tags." 1 very HTML tag is enclosed by angle brackets ("<" and “>“) to distinguish it from normal text. Most tags appear in pairs. their effect is applied to any text that appears Ixctween the two One simple example is the <t> and </i> pair, which cause any text they surround to l>e italicized If this column were an HTML doc ument, the word "and“ in the previous sentence would appear in italics. Note that the ending tag is the same as the starting tag, but pm eded by a slosh {"/"). All paired HTML tags work this way. A few HTML tags cause a one shot effect, rather than modify ing a block of text 'Hie chr> tag is one example that makes a line appear in the formatted docu ment Tags such as <hr> and <p,> are used to separate text into logic a I sections Now let's make a document. Begin by starting up that text editor (If you are on a Unix sys tem. the editor “pic o” is a good choice for the novice.) First, type the line <!itie> (Your name)'* home page</title> The text between the tags will become the title of your docu ment Next, write the <body> tag to indicate that the "meat" of your document is about to begin. Now write whatever you like for your practice page Try experi menting with the <b>bold</b> and <i> italic </i> tags, and use the <p> tag to separate para graphs To insert a hyperlink to another page (the University home page, for example) type: <a href "http7/wwwuore gon >*du/"> UO home page </a> Notice that this tag, too. has two parts. The text between the starting and ending tags ("UO home page”) will he an under lined hyperlink when viewed with a browser. When you are finished, use the </bodv> tag to end the docu ment. You could write an entire HTML document on a single line and it would still turn out the same Web browsers don't care how you format HTML code, bet auso the tags embed ded within it explicitly format the page Still, it's generally not a good idea to jumble all the tags and text together. The only thing remaining is to put your new document in the proper place. On most Unix servers, t all your home page "index.html" and put it in a sul> diroctory of your home directory named “public html." This is where the WWW server will look for your HTML documents For Unix newbies type the fol lowing after you have saved your document as “index bind": mkdir public html <return> cp mdex.html public html <retum>. 1 recommend checking out an introductory Unix book from the Computing ('.enter to help you get around Meanwhile, you can type “men xxx" for help on the xxx command, “man mkdir.” for example, will tell you all al>out the mkdir command For more information about making your own Web docu ments, check out the UHL http //www ncsa.uiuc.edu/ demowob/html-primerhtm! The easiest way to learn HTML is probably by example Make good use of your browser's "view source" option Compare the source code of your favorite doc uments to their appearance in the browser to see how the effects of the finished product are achieved. If vou need help getting start ed. try the UK1 .http://www.cs.uareKaa.edu/ -joison/makehame.html It will ask you for some infor mation about yourself and create a basic home page you tan use as a template. You will need to use a browser with forms support. Joshua Olson is a senior in computer and information sci ence at the University. Questions can he addressed via e-mail to ode&omgon. uoregon.edu.