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Thursday
Student forum, 1 p.m., Beall Hall, free.
"Introduction to Compassionate Conflict
Resolution" (exploring principles and
practices of compassionate conflict reso
lution embraced by religious traditions
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worldwide, sponsored by Lane Institute of
Faith and Education), 7-9:30 p.m., First
Christian Church Chapel, 1166 Oak St.,
donations requested.
"David Macaulay's Castle" (Historic
Preservation Film Series), 7 p.m., 115
Lawrence, 346-2982.
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The Department of Public Safe
ty received seven bike theft re
ports from the EMU, Willamette
Hall, Carson Hall, H.P. Barnhart
and off campus. DPS also re
ceived three found-property re
ports, three reports of theft and
two reports of burglary,
Monday, May 5, 10:36
a.m,: DPS received a report of
stolen vacuum cleaners at H.P.
Barnhart.
Disorderly
conduct
DPS received three dispute
reports, two graffiti reports, one
report of can rudimaging, and
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one noise report.
I ■ Friday, May 2, 2:20 p.m.:
DPS received a report of harass*
ing phone caffs made to a
student at Walton Complex.
Friday, May 2, 3:18 p.m.:
DPS received a report of a
Subject being verbally abusive
to a professor at Lawrence Hall,
Alcohol
and drugs
DPS received five reports of
a liquor-law violations and one
report of a drug law violation.
Monday, May 5, 11:38 p.m.:
DPS received a report of drug para
phernalia at Hamilton Complex.,
Miscellaneous
DPS received three towing
and traffic related reports.
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GwynKirk,a
visiting professor,
detailed military
spending in Iraq
and how it affects
Oregonians even
after the war has
been declared
won.
Mark McCambridge
Emerald
Panel
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Justice and featured a three-per
son panel who pooled their collec
ly about the hidden economic
agenda behind America’s invasion
of Iraq, Assistant Professor of the
University Labor Education and
Research Center Gordon Lafer
discussed the war’s effect on pub
lic service cuts and visiting profes
the budget decisions Bush is mak
ing. He added that while many
Americans will suffer from the
current state of the “war econo
my,” politically connected mili
tary defense contractors “are
making out like bandits.”
sor in the University Women s and
Gender Studies Program Gwyn
Kirk took a magnifying glass to the
U.S. military budget.
“You listen to (George) W. talk
about the war and you’d think it
has nothing to do with oil; it’s about
freedom and helping the Iraqis,”
Kane said, scoffing at such a pre
sumption.
Kane built his lecture around the
premise that the conflict in Iraq
has been a pretext for the establish
ment of an dominant American
military power in the Middle East.
He added that the Bush administra
tion’s goal has been to maintain
“American hegemony” in the glob
al marketplace by controlling the
oil of the Middle East.
Lafer argued that the economic
consequences of the war, com
bined with President George W.
Bush’s ambitious tax cut, are go
ing to detrimentally affect public
services, going so far as to claim
that people in Oregon are going to
die as a direct result of some of
“This is not what men and
women in the service gave their
lives for,” Lafer said.
Kirk focused her lecture more on
America’s military budget and how
militarism is the central organizing
principle of the U.S. economy. Kirk
used statistics to solidify her argu
ment that the U.S. military budget
is engorged with American tax dol
lars, saying that the United States
— No. 1 for military spending in
the world — is spending six times
more on its military budget than
the country with the second high
est military spending, Russia. She
added that taxpayers in Oregon will
pay #810.3 million for the war in
Iraq according to the National Pri
orities Project Database.
“How many daycare centers,
how many elementary school
teachers, how many food stamps,
can be taken care of with this kind
of money?” Kirk asked.
Contact the senior news reporter
atjenniferbear@dailyemerald.com.
File sharing
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Wilson disagreed with that argument,
however, and ruled in favor of Mor
pheus and Grokster, saying the two
groups could not control what is trad
ed over their respective programs.
Allen Dixon, general counsel for
the International Federation of the
Phonographic Industry, said evi
dence is still being collected against
Kazaa, adding that a victory against
Kazaa could end the file-sharing
services that license its technology.
“One thing is clear: It’s not over,”
he said.
IFPI has been working closely with
the RIAA on various technological,
educational and legal initiatives to
stop digital piracy, a trend RIAA says
is largely responsible for the three
year decline in compact disc sales.
“The IFPI and its member compa
nies and national groups will contin
ue to actively pursue infringes of all
types as we see them,” Dixon said.
“We are not going to take the whole
business of mass copying and distri
bution of music lying down.”
Experts in the music industry say
they are remaining optimistic about
ending illegal file sharing, pointing
to Apple Computer Incorporated’s
recent launch of the iTunes Music
Store, the first music downloading
service to be supported by the ma
jor music labels.
The iTunes service offers songs
for download to users for a price of
99 cents per song. Currently, more
than 200,000 songs are in the
iTunes database, but Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of Universal
Music Group Doug Morris predicted
that millions of songs will eventually
be available.
Users also have the option of buy
ing an entire album to download,
which costs $9.99 if the album has
more than 10 tracks, or the regular
99 cents per track if fewer than 10
songs are on the album.
Apple has also gained the support of
music artists — such as Bob Dylan,
Eminem and Sheryl Crow—who pre
viously shunned online distribution.
While some University students
cannot use the service because
iTunes is currently only compati
ble with Macintosh computers,
many have shown excitement at
the prospect.
“I’m glad there is now a legal way
to download music,” sophomore Er
ica Reid said.
Apple officials have said they are
hoping to make the program com
patible with the Microsoft Windows
platform by the end of the year.
“There’s no legal alternative that’s
worth beans,” Apple Chief Execu
tive Officer Steve Jobs said in a
statement. “It’s not stealing any
more. It’s good karma.”
Contact the reporter
atalishaughnessy@dailyemerald.com.
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