News briefs
U.S. Senate introduces
anti-spam bill
U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and
Conrad Bums, R-Mont., recently in
troduced the CAN-SPAM bill, which is
designed to protect consumers from
unsolicited e-mails.
“Just as quickly as the use of e-mail
has spread, its usefulness could dwin
dle, buried under an avalanche of ‘get
rich quick,’ ‘lose weight fast’ and
pornographic marketing pitches,”
Wyden said in a press conference.
“This bill will help to keep legitimate
Internet traffic and e-commerce flow
ing by going after those unscrupulous
individuals who use e-mail in annoy
ing and misleading ways.”
Approximately 40 percent of all e
mail sent in the United States is spam,
which creates an annual cost of $10
billion due to lost productivity, addi
tional equipment, software and man
power needed to handle spam mail.
In December 2002, AOL won a law
suit filed against spamming company
CN Productions, which many said was
a huge victory in the fight to stop
spam. In its complaint, AOL alleged
GN Productions had transmitted
more than a billion junk e-mail mes
sages to AOL users with e-mails ad
vertising adult Web sites.
The University has taken its own
precautions to keep spam out of stu
dents’ University accounts by request
ing that students forward it to
spam@uoregon.edu. The University
can then file a complaint or fix the fil
ter used to block the address that is
sending the spam.
The bill would require all marketing
e-mail to have a valid return e-mail ad
dress, so recipients could easily ask to
be removed from mass e-mail lists.
Once notified, a company would be
prohibited from sending any further
messages to a consumer who has
asked them to stop.
“The fact that the bill is strongly
supported by AOL, Yahoo and eBay
speaks to the logical approach the
GAN-SPAM bill offers,” Bums said. “I
am very confident in this common
sense bill that is critical to the future
of e-commerce.”
—Ali Shanghnessy
Faculty plans public
forum on post-war
economies
Now that the war in Iraq has end
ed, University faculty members are
starting to examine how the war
has affected economies, both in the
Middle East and in Oregon.
Concerned Faculty for Peace and
Justice and the Department of His
tory are co-sponsoring a public fo
rum called “The Economics of
War,” tonight at 7 p.m. in 180 PLC.
Featured speakers include sociolo
gy Professor Sandra Morgen, who is
the director of the University Cen
ter for the Study of Women in Soci
ety, and Professor Gordon Lafer,
who works at the Labor Education
and Research Center.
Topics will include analyzing
corporate interests in post-war Iraq
and in the United States, examin
ing the economic impact of the war
on Oregon and discovering how the
war will affect future employment,
public services and taxation.
The event is free and open to the
public. For more information, con
tact Barbara Pope at 683-5368 or
346-5523.
—Brook Reinhard
Daily scavenger hunt: Four-pronged fountain
Adam Amato Emerald
What the heck is this? As part of the local celebration for National Historic Preservation Week, University graduate
student Christopher Bell is sponsoring a weeklong photo scavenger hunt, with prizes to be announced.
The contest Be able to correctly identify the location of the photographed object on campus and provide a bit of
history about the object. The Emerald will print a different photo each day this week — to enter, simply send an e
mail to hpweek2003@yahoo.com and make your guess.
Today's photo: Where is this located on campus? What is it made out of? (Be specific!)
Fora full listing of events planned as part of National Historic Preservation Week, visit
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~ashp/.
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nanotechnology to microtechnology.
After that link is established, he said,
bridging the gap between nanotech
nology and macrotechnology should
be easier. And when that bridge is
built, nanotechnology can be more
useful to society as a whole.
Where the MMDC will be built de
pends on a variety of factors, such as
funding and location. Hutchison said
at first, researchers were debating
building a virtual center, with all of the
information online. However, he said
now they are looking at building the
center on Riverfront Research Park
property near the University.
Diane Wiley, director of the re
search park, said it is a combination
of private businesses and University
research centers with focuses in areas
like biotechnology, neuroscience and
education, While no nanotechnology
exploration is currently happening in
the research park, Wiley said she was
excited at the prospect of building the
MMDC on the park’s property.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., recently
introduced legislation to fund and
coordinate accelerated nanotech
nology research, and has repeatedly
said he is committed to making Ore
gon a national center for nanotech
nology research and development.
Wyden has also applauded the Bush
administration’s efforts to fund the
science, saying there is nothing par
tisan about nanotechnology.
At a January press conference,
Wyden pushed for support for his
legislation.
“Nanotechnology has the capacity
to start no less than a revolution in a
number of important fields — medi
cine, manufacturing and information
technology among them,” he said at
the conference. “We’ve introduced
this legislation to help Americans reap
the benefits of nanotechnology as
soon as possible, and to help our coun
try stay at the forefront of scientific ad
vancement worldwide.”
Contact the reporter
atalishaughnessy@dailyemerald.com.
Nanotechnology industry value
Group Funding 2002 Requested funding 2003
Department of Agriculture $1.5 million $2.5 million
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Department ofjustice
Department
of Transportation
Environmental
Protection Agency
National Aeronautics
and Science Agency
National Institutes
of Health
National Institute
of Standard s
and Technology
National Science
Agency
$180 million
$91.1 million
$1.4 million
$201 million
$139.3 million
$1.4 million 1
$2 million $2 million
$5 million $5 million
$46 million $51 million
$40.8 million $43.2 million
$37.6 million $43.8 million
$199 million
$221 million
SOURCE: http://www.nano.gov