News
Four University employees receive
awards in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Sports
The Oregon women rebound from a loss
to OSU with a win over USC at Mac Court.
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Friday, January 25,2002
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University of Oregon
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Volume 103, Issue 82
‘We’re not here to tutor them — were here to communicate a joyfor reading. ”
—Lisa Elliot, SMART School Coordinator
University
users lack
Internet
protection
■ PRIVACY POLICY: Unlike
other schools, the University has
no policy protecting students
from communication surveillance
By Michael J. Kleckner
Oregon Daily Emerald
Don’t share University computer ac
counts. Don’t use University computers
to run a private business. Don’t spam in
newsgroups.
The University’s Acceptable Use Poli
cy is filled with rules, such as those
above, restricting people who use the
school’s computer network. But missing
from that policy — or any University
policy — are rules protecting students,
staff and faculty from having their hard
drives and e-mails searched.
Other colleges have specific electronic
communication privacy policies, but the
University, ranked in 2000 as one of the
“ 100 most wired” campuses in the nation
by Yahoo! Internet Life magazine, does
not, according to Joanne Hugi, associate
vice president of information services.
Hugi said a draft version of a privacy pol
icy is currently in front of University gener
al counsel Melinda Grier. Grier did not re
turn repeated calls seeking comment.
The absence of a privacy policy first
came to light in October. University
computing officials monitored heavy
bandwidth use, which they said is a pos
sible sign of uploading and download
ing of copyrighted material, and looked
at the files being transferred.
State laws and University policies exist
to protect personal information, such as
social security number and date of birth,
from being accessed inappropriately or
released without the owner’s consent. But
Turn to Privacy, page 8
Thomas Patterson Emerald
Skye Upson and University student Matt Henschen compare finger sizes. While reading about ‘creepy crawlies, ’ they learned that the world’s longest snake is 23 ft. long, but only
a little thicker than ‘your little finger.’ Henschen started became involved with the SMART program because ‘it’s pretty fun and good for the kids.’
The Most Beautiful Sound
University
students get
involved with
local reading
programs,
for work study
and volunteer
By Diane Huber
Oregon Daily Emerald
When first-grader Aidan
Ziegler-Hansen mas
tered the pronunciation
of chlorophyll, his read
ing partner, Sara Hoskinson, felt a
sense of accomplishment.
Since October, Hoskinson has been
reading to children three to ten hours
a week at Patterson and Westmore
land elementary schools as part of
the Start Making A Reader Today
(SMART) program.
Ziegler-Hansen is one of many chil
dren in kindergarten through third
grade who have little access to books
at home for a variety of reasons.
Thanks to the SMART program,
Ziegler-Hansen gets one-on-one time
to practice sounding out words such as
chlorophyll, and he gets to take a new
book home every month.
This is also the first year University
students who apply for work study can
get paid for reading to children in the
SMART program.
But Hoskinson, an integrated teach
ing major, recommends that even stu
dents who don’t qualify for work
study volunteer for SMART.
“I would encourage anyone with an
hour free in (his or her) week to vol
unteer,” she sad. “You leave with a
Turn to SMART, page 5
Oregon continues to look for economic relief
■With an unemployment rate of 7.5
percent, many are looking for ways
to get through tough times
By Brook Reinhard
Oregon Daily Emerald
The U.S. Senate resumed heated dis
cussion this week on an economic stim
ulus package designed to help busi
nesses and the unemployed, but some
Oregonians are skeptical whether relief
will impact this state at all.
“The physical stimulus package is
somewhat bent toward political ideolo
gy,” Oregon regional economist Brian
Rooney said. “By the time they get
something together, it may be too late.”
Oregon’s economy has been in a
nosedive for months. Local employers
such as Sony Disc Manufacturing and
Hynix Semiconductor have cut back
operations. President George W. Bush
recently stumped for his stimulus pack
age in Oregon, the state with the high
est unemployment rate in the nation at
7.5 percent.
Turn to Unemployment, page 7
■ PULLING THE PLUG: Copyright
violations leave some students
without Internet connection
By Robin Weber
Oregon Daily Emerald
Recent surveillance of the University’s
computing system has left a number of
students without Internet access and
looking for answers on what to do next.
An investigation in October on copy
right infringement, conducted by the Uni
versity’s Network Services, resulted in
136 students losing Internet privileges —
at least temporarily — in a period of just
one week. From that point on, many stu
dents have been left to wonder if they too
are in danger of losing their Net access af
ter sharing too many copyrighted files.
“We have the Internet on campus first
for our education, and then for download
ing other information as a bonus,” said
freshman David Metzger. “They’re just
Turn to Violations, page 8
Emerald
Shane Feinstein fills out paperwork at the Oregon Employment Department in Eugene. Feinstein is one of many students
seeking work in Oregon, which has the highest unemployment rate in the nation at 7.5 percent.