An independent newspaper Volume 99, Issue 11 TUESDAY. JULY 29.1997 INDEX Opinion News Sports Classifieds Crossword Horoscope vi -si m ui « m TODAY The ASUO Executive is having a staff meeting in Century A of the Erb Memorial Union at 4 p.m. INSIDE A ninth-inning home run helps propel the Spokane Indians past the Ems 4-2 Monday night Oregon senior associate athletic director Barbara Walker resigns to take a position at Texas WEATHER Mostly sunny. High 80. Low 55. DEDUCK CARDS CHAD PATTESON/Emerald Roster Clerk Robert Ackley scans the student body card of graduate student Chatree Kowltanupong at the Carson Dining Hall. New food payment options offered ■ CARD: The added options will allow faculty and off-campus residents to purchase food on campus without carrying cash By Michael Hines Oregon Daily Emerald Owning a University identification card can mean a lot these days. University Housing is offering the De Duck Program for a fifth year. The program offers anyone with a Uni versity card the option to prepay money into an account, then spend the money at a housing food outlet when the customer wants. This also eliminates the need to carry cash on the spot. DeDuck, which earned $18,633 during the last school year, was used by both on and off-campus students, family housing students, graduate teaching fellows and University staff. “It’s much easier to be able to show the ID card and say, ‘charge it,’” said Jim Allen, Housing catering manager. In the past, people with a University ID could place a certain amount of money in a DeDuck account. They would receive a larger discount as they spent more. Begin ning this year, discounts will be given at the time of the food purchase. Housing is making the change because beginning in the 1998-99 school year, the DeDuck Program will be applicable to most of the food vendors in the EMU. Vendors will decide how much of a dis count to give at the time of purchase. “It’s a real viable option for people to use whether they are residents or not,” Housing Food Service Director Fred Bab cock said. The EMU already has the restaurant lineup. Sbarro, Subway, Holy Cow, which is a local vegetarian restaurant, and a bakery and espresso bar will be permanent fix tures, EMU Food Service Manager There sa Coleman-Kaiser said. The food court, which will be in one corner of the Fishbowl and stretch through where the convenience store was, will also include a rotating food booth. Five restaurants will rotate using the space, Coleman-Kaiser said. For this school year, the program will be available through any of the housing dining outlets. This includes the three Turn to CARD, Page 3 Novelty usernames way of past ■ E-MAIL: Usernames are being assigned to incoming students as they enroll at the University By Carl Yeh Associate Editor In a few years Yoda, Satan, Pimp and Sassy will disappear from Gladstone, the University’s undergraduate network serv er. When the students who own these nov elty usernames graduate, so will their user names. “That’s because we’re automatically generating [user names],” said Joe St Sauver, an assistant director for the Uni versity Computing Center. The Computing Center is generating thousands of new preassigned and ready-to-go names for the new stu dents coming to the University this fall. ccWe’re trying to ensure that people don’t have to wait in line to create an account. 55 Joe St Sauver Assistant Director of Computing Center Many incoming freshmen have already picked up their usernames at IntroDuck tion, and if they have Internet connections at home, they can start using their new e mail address. One obvious benefit from the change is that students will not have to sign them selves up for an e-mail account. “We’re trying to ensure that people don’t have to wait in line to create an account,” St Sauversaid. There is also a benefit for those students who choose novelty usernames but regret it later when they have to put their e-mail address on a resume. "The new usernames are more profes sional,” Tarr said. “If it’s for a personal ac count, it’s fine, but if it goes to prospective employers, it’s not so good. New Macintosh operating system upgrade hits computer market ■ UPGRADE: Students and faculty can download the new operating system upgrade for free By Cart Yeh Associate Editor The long-awaited upgrade to the Macintosh operat ing system, MacOS 8, arrived in computer stores over the weekend. Apple Computer, Inc. calls its MacOS 8 “the most sig nificant Macintosh operating system release since 1984.” Steve Taylor, a microservices student assistant at the University Microcomputing Services, agreed. “The wait is over for Macintosh to finally be a multi tasking machine. It took them 13 years to come up with a real multitasking system.” said Taylor, who is a junior majoring in computer information science. Previous versions of Macintosh operating systems al lowed users to switch between applications that were loaded at the same time, but did not allow them actually run concurrently, Taylor explained. “For example, you can empty the [trash can] while you’re copying a file,” Taylor said. “This is a huge plus for those who run several applications at once.” The true multitasking ability of MacOS 8 is only one improvement over the previous versions. The interface in the Macintosh Finder has been improved with “spring-loaded folders” which allow users to automati cally open folders by holding a file over it. The win dows then close automatically after the file is dropped. MacOS 8 also has “contextual menus” which are menus embedded within each icon. These features may be new to the Macintosh, but they already exist in Microsoft’s operating system, Windows 95, which debuted two years ago. “It’s going to make Windows 95 users a little more at home on a Macintosh,” Taylor said. Turn to UPGRADE, Page 3 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS ■ VIA ETHERKET OM.Y (ON CAMPUS): 1 .Select “Chooser” under the the Apple Menu 2. Select “AppleShare" 3. Select “UOnet” in the Apple Talk Zones 4. Select “CC Public Domain”—the CC Pub lic Domain win appear on the desktop as an AppleShare icon. 5. MacOS 8 installer is found in the Macin tosh System Software folder within CC Public Domain ■ SYSTEM REQWREMMTS: MacOS based computer with a 68050 or PowerPC processor and at least 12 MB of physical RAM. with virtual memofy set to at least 20 MB.