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.
Now you may be able to sit in the comfort of your
home or dorm room and say "I wouldn't be intimidated
by a football player." but it would probably be a differ
ent story if you were confronted by 300 pounds of an
angry defensive lineman.
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■ OPINION
World Wide Web a popular forum
Joshua Olson
f you've never surfed the
Web, vou don't know what
JL you're missing The World
Wide Web is energetic.all) mak
mg its bid for the title of Ameri
ca's Other Favorite Pastime
After all, just about everything
baseball offers tan fie found on
the Web somewhere sports,
entertainment, music and hordes
of jieople No beer, unfortunate
ly But you certainly won't see a
Web page canceled because of
rain The Web is rapidly fan one
mg the medium of choice for stu
dents. corporation* and just about
anyone else who has something
to sav.
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.