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I ; The race is on | Both Oregon's men's and women's basketball teams are j right in the thick of things, | thanks to the production of several key players, Read more j in Oregon notes, RAGE 5 The Flash Solar Information Center hosts workshops In an effort to increase awareness of ; alternative forms of energy con sumption, planning and transporta j tion, the University’s Solar Informa tion Center is hosting a series of weekly workshops through spring term. Chris Chalmers, events director for the SIC, organized the workshops, which run every Tuesday evening and started Feb. 1. “The Solar Information Center is about more than solar energy, ” Chalmers said. “We want to help pro vide people with information about many different areas of sustainable living.” The featured workshops for the month of February are as follows: Feb. 8: Video—Jude Flobbs, local landscape designer, gives workshops | and lectures on permaculture. This video highlights her 1997 lecture on the University campus. Permacul ture is built upon an ethic of caring for the earth and interacting with the environment in mutually benefi cial ways, according to the Permacul ture Drylands Institute. Feb. 15: Dean Still, alternative tech I nology coordinator for Aprovecho, a sustainable living education and re search center in Cottage Grove, OR. Still recently finished a study on how passive solar designs work when used in a cloudy climate, according \ to the SIC. Feb. 22: Video — Ken Haggard, an architect from Southern California, I who specializes in green architec ture, passive solar design and sus tainable planning. Feb. 29: lanto Evans, an applied ecol ogist, landscape architect, inventor, writer and teacher, co-runs the Cob Cottage Company and teaches work shops on building with cob. All of the Solar Information Center i workshopsare held at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday evenings in 177 Lawrence Hall. The events are free !b Universi ty students and the public. [ I Weather Wednesday high 52, low 41 high 52, low 49 Today Emerald Tuesday February 8,2000 Volume 101, Issue 92 _Q_Di h £_W . £- -b www.dailyemerald.com University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper Bike parking expansion 5^” Proposed project sites for covered and secure bike parking at the Beach and Agate street entrances to the University Health Center. Catharine Kendall Emerald University Health Center Covered bike racks discussed Added security for bikes at the health center is a concern that recently has gained momentum By Simone Ripke 'Oregon Daily Emerald The University Design Review Subcommittee re viewed and approved a recommendation for cov ered and secured bike parking for University Health Center and Counsel ing Center staff Monday. This decision could re sult in more covered bike parking for staff members but is not a part of the ASUO Executive’s plan for more covered bike racks for students. The committee, headed by Chairwoman Carole Daly, toured the sites of the proposed bike racks, which are located on the east side of the health cen ter underneath an existing flight of stairs and on the west side of the building by the Beech Street entrance. Daly pointed out that the approval by the committee was only an approval to present this proposal to President Dave Frohnmay er. Should Frohnmayer pass the proposal, it will then go to Facilities Ser vices for implementation. Daly was pleased with the swift approval. “I think it will encour-. age... more staff to ride al ternative modes of trans portation,” she said. If implemented, the two covered and secured areas would provide room for 13 bikes. Robert Petit, health center administrator, said he might have to use some sort of lottery to distribute the spots to the staff. Petit estimates that ap proximately 15 staff mem bers ride their bikes to work regularly and many more ride their bikes occa sionally, on a sunny day. In light of some recent bike and equipment thefts from existing bike parking be tween the health center and Carson Hall, Petit said the staff has asked for this improvement. “With having some thing of this convenience Turn to Bike racks, page 4 Students use Web to cheat ■ As the Internet becomes more popular as a classroom tool, it also provides a source of material to plagiarize uy ben Komano Oregon Daily Emerald The Internet is a store house of information that has become a vital resource for students. Many classes even demand that students do research on-line. But the Internet has also created more opportunities for plagiarism. Entire Web sites exist that are devoted solely to producing term pa pers. Students can log-on, find a paper on their chosen topic and download it fora price. “I wouldn’t say that the change is in the degree of plagiarism, but the Internet is now a primary source for plagiarism,” said John Gage, director of the English de partment. The Internet has been fea tured in the majority of the plagiarism cases that Gage has seen in the last three years. Most of the cases involved pa pers that had been down loaded from “paper mills.” Paper mills have always been around, but now that many of them are on-line it is easier for students to plagiarize, he said. Turn to Plagiarism, page 3 This is part two of a two-day series examining aca demic dishonesty at the University. Monday: Academ ic dishonesty is alarmingly high. Today: The Inter net has taken pla giarism to new heights. Such aca demic dishonesty has a detrimental effect on students and the University. Clinton: computer security necessary ■ The University has already begun to incorporate components of information security into its programs By Jessica Blanchard Oregon Daily Emerald Hoping to entice more workers into the field of computer security, President Clinton announced a pro posal last month that would offer scholarships to college students who agree to be come part of a federal “cyber corps” of computer informa tion security specialists upon graduation. The scholarship proposal is part of a larger $91 million budget proposal aimed at protecting the country against “cyber attacks” on the nation’s information technology infrastructure. A slice of the budget’s pie — about $25 million — would go toward funding the Scholarships for Service program for students who work toward degrees in areas such as computer science. The University has al ready begun weaving com ponents of information se curity into its computer science degree program, said Sarah Douglas, head of the computer science and information department. Turn to Security, page 3 Deterring hacking President Clinton’s $91 million plan for national infor mation systems protection in cludes funding for several initiatives: Creating a “schol arship for service” to recruit college students for gov ernment work Designing a feder al intrusion detec tion network Creating a Center for Information Technology to train current fed eral workers to meet new security challenges Developing a high school recruitment and training to identify students for federal internships SOURCE. White House fact sheet on Federal Cy ber Services Education Initiative
