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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.
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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