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MP3 provider.
“We don’t disagree with what
they are trying to accomplish,”
Grier said, “but with the way
they want to go about it."
According to Grier, the Univer
sity does not seem to he in a po
sition where it will soon see a
lawsuit.
“I am pretty comfortable with
our legal position,” she said. “We
don’t feel we have taken a risky
position, especially since a num
ber of other universities have also
taken this position.”
Some universities have al
ready decided not to comply
with the request to ban Napster.
In a recent Chronicle of Higher
Education article, seven univer
sities, including the Georgia In
stitute of Technology, Princeton
University, Stanford University,
the University of California at
Berkeley, the University of Cali
fornia at Los Angeles, the Univer
sity of Michigan and the Univer
sity of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, stated they would not bow
to the attorney’s requests.
A number of students at the
University agree with the institu
tions that refuse to block Napster.
“I hope the University doesn’t
give in to the pressure from the
attorney,” Jessie Kirk, a sopho
more journalism major, said. “It
seems like if they block it there
will just be another program on
its heels.”
Other students agreed.
“I don’t think it is fair [to block
access],” Amy Shearer, a sopho
more business major, said. “Col
lege students don’t have the
money to go out and buy music.
What I do is sample a few of the
songs from an artist and then if I
like the CD I go out and buy it.”
While the University will not
block Napster from its servers,
officials said they are still con
cerned with students illegally
downloading copyrighted mate
rial. The University’s proper In
ternet guidelines are outlined in
detail in the University’s accept
able use policies.
“All members of the University of
Oregon community should famil
iarize themselves with the Uni
versity’s acceptable use policy,”
said Jon Miyake, acceptable use
policy officer.
As of spring 2000, the Univer
sity’s position on the Napster is
sue is to “closely monitor Nap
ster usage” and “continue to
cooperate fully with law en
forcement authorities when
copyright infringements are re
ported,” according to the Uni
versity’s spring 2000 computing
news Web site.
Penalties for violating the ac
ceptable use policy or down
loading illegal copyrighted mate
rial could result in civil or
criminal action or University
sanctions.
For more information or ques
tions about the appropriate use
of computer programs on cam
pus go to
http://cc.uoregon.edu/docs/ac
ceptableuse.html.
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would be difficult for him to fulfill
his role under the rules of the
House [of Representatives], which
would prevent him from using
congressional staff,” Weiss said.
“And when Congressman Miller
gets involved in something, he
likes to really get involved.”
Shortly after Miller’s resigna
tion, the WRC’s Advisory Council
elected Mark Barenber. a professor
at Columbia University’s law
school, to fill his seat.
Kahle said as a result of limited
membership and funds, governing
hoard members have realized that
there probably won’t be funding
for on-the-spot surprise monitor
ing. Instead, the WRC plans to
gather complaints from workers,
which will then be investigated by
non-governmental organizations.
“The students who are partici
pating have very admirable ideas,”
Kahle said. “I think they are mak
ing progress, but slowly.”
He also said although some stu
dent protesters at the University
demanded that the University re
frain from joining the Fair Labor
Association, another labor-moni
toring group that, unlike the WRC,
is industry-driven, WRC board
members took no stance on that is
sue.
“They explicitly said the WRC
has no position on whether people
should join the FLA,” he said.
The University joined the FLA
shortly before the beginning of fall
term.
Kahle added that board mem
bers, although still opposed to in
dustry participation on the WRC’s
board, discussed developing
processes for working on resolving
problems with labor conditions.
After all. Kahle said, problems
cannot be fixed without incorpo
rating factory representatives.
But while the WRC’s board is
Thestudenetswho
are participating have
very admitalbe ideas. I
think they are making
progress, but slowly.
Lynn Kahle
professor, Marketing
working on finding ways to incor
porate industry cooperation into
the WRC’s monitoring processes,
McDonald said he came away
from Tuesday’s meeting with the
impression that industry represen
tation on the group’s board is out
of the question.
“It’s my view... that the issue of
corporate participation on the
board is dead in the water,” Mc
Donald said. “On the other hand,
there seemed to be a somewhat
more conciliatory tone about ways
to engage licensees.”
The lack of industry representa
tion on the WRC was one of the
concerns University officials
voiced when signing on to the
group in April, after students
staged protests and camped out
side Johnson Hall for days, and the
University Senate recommended
that the University join the organ
ization.
New concerns raised by some
member universities involve insur
ance and liability issues, McDon
ald said. Initially the WRC had
been founded on the idea that stu
dents from member universities
would conduct some of the moni
toring, information gathering and
reporting abroad.
However, McDonald said
whether the universities or the
WRC will be responsible for pro
viding insurance, coping with is
sues of liability and possible
defamation, and training students
for accurate information-gathering
remains to be decided.
Many of these issues go back to
money, which universities still
haven’t been able to contribute be
cause of the WRC’s lack of official
status and a bank account, he said.
“You’re going to need a lot of
members if you are going to be able
to fund some of those things,” Mct
Donald said.
He said the group will have to
tackle one issue at a time and will
have to take up the ratification of
bylaws again once it gains its offi
cial status.
McDonald said he hopes the
group will have filled the chair of ex
ecutive director and an opening on
the governing board, and taken up
other outstanding issues by its next
governing board meeting, which is
scheduled for early next year.
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