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Volume 104, Issue 154
Faculty tell UO to issue
reports on PATRIOT Act
The Faculty Senate approved a
motion requiring the University to
report how the government uses
the USA PATRIOT Act on campus
Peter Sur
Freelance Reporter
The Faculty Senate unanimously ap
proved a motion on Wednesday request
ing that the University disclose how the
federal government is using the USA PA
TRIOT Act on this campus.
The motion, proposed by Professor
Emerita Barbara Pope, stipulates that the
administration provides annual reports
that disclose exactly what information
the federal government has gleaned and
what rules the University has set in con
trolling the process.
Soul fulfillment
In addition, the administration’s final
report will detail any government-im
posed limitations on research. The initial
report should be delivered at the Senate’s
first fall meeting on Oct. 8.
Senate President Greg McLaughlan
said he was not surprised by the unani
mous vote.
“It seems to be a straightforward issue,”
Turn to Faculty, page 14
Joel Skinner
leads
hundreds of
college
students in
song during
a Friday
night
service at
the Onyx
House.
Mark
McCambridge
Emerald
Following the faith
The Onyx House attracts
hundreds to its Friday evening
services and also serves as
a communal home for students
Roman Gokhman
Campus/City Culture Reporter
Most student groups would jump at
the chance to attract as many as 400
students to their weekly events, but
most don’t gather a fraction of that.
The Onyx House, one of the
largest Christian college ministries
in the Northwest, doesn’t advertise
or charge admission, but it draws
hundreds of college students to a Fri
day night service — even though few
students outside the ministry know
it exists.
“It’s a place that’s characterized by
a bunch of people coming together to
pursue their spiritual journey,” Onyx
House pastor Nathan Poetzl said.
“The Onyx House is a place where
you can come to follow Jesus.”
The house is a different type of
church, Poetzl said, adding that his
role as a pastor for college students
is to take an unchanging ancient
message and present it in a cultural
ly relevant way.
“’Church’ in the Bible doesn’t
mean a building — it means people,”
he said. “We have a motto that says
‘come as you are.’”
The 90-minute services usually in
clude a sermon by Poetzl and 30
minutes of praise and worship, where
a full band of students plays music.
Turn to Onyx House, page 6
U.S. seeks link
between Iran,
Saudi bombings
John Walcott
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies are investi
gating whether senior al-Qaida leaders hiding in Iran may
have helped to plan or coordinate the terrorist bombings
that killed 34 people, including eight Americans, late Mon
day in Saudi Arabia.
Intelligence officials said several al-Qaida leaders, includ
ing Saif al Adel, who’s wanted in connection with the 1998
bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa and may now be
the terrorist group’s third-ranking official, and Osama bin
Laden’s son Saad have found refuge in Iran, where they re
main active.
National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, speaking to
foreign journalists in Washington on Wednesday, made no
mention of a possible link between al-Qaida members in
Iran and the Saudi bombings but said: “We are concerned
about al-Qaida operating in Iran.”
If the CIA or other intelligence agencies find evidence
confirming suspicions that the Saudi bombings were
planned or supported from Iran, one senior U.S. official
warned Wednesday, the conversation with Iran “could
Turn to Link, page 16
Campus prepares
to take back night
with rally, march
The 1 Oth annual Take Back the Night will feature
speakers, survivor accounts and musical performances
as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Week
Jennifer Sudick
Copy Chief
After almost 15 years of hurt and confusion, University
alumna Keely G. Helmick single handedly put her abuser in
jail. Sexually abused by her stepfather as a child, for years
Helmick was unable to gain access to the services that
would enable her to openly discuss the abuse she endured.
Finally, as a senior in college, Helmick used diary entries,
her sharp memory and help from the University’s Sexual As
sault Support Services to work through her painful memories.
“I was sick of the lies,” she said. “I knew I had made that
effort so no one else could get hurt.”
Providing information about sexual assault and helping to
empower women are just some of the goals of today’s Take
Back the Night rally, march and speak out. The annual
event, coordinated by SASS and the ASUO Women’s Center,
is part of the University’s Sexual Assault Awareness Week.
Turn to Night, page 4
Wal-Mart denies existence of virus on CD distributed at UO
Compact discs distributed nationally
in college newspapers by Wal-Mart may
have contained a suspicious file, alleged
by some to be a trojan horse or spyware
Ali Shaughnessy
Environment/Science/Technology Reporter
On April 2, Wal-Mart ran a nationwide adver
tisement in college newspapers that included a
compact disc with music, music videos and
movie and video game previews. One month lat
er, University chemistry Professor John Hard
wick discovered the distributed CD carried a file
of unknown origin.
Hardwick said a student put one of the CDs in a
lab computer out of curiosity, and immediately
Norton AntiVirus launched, detected a virus and
warned the user. He said he then reported it to
the University’s computing center.
University Microcomputer Services, through
Norton AntiVirus, verified a program titled
“TagRecall.exe” existed at the base level of the CD
and was infected with a “trojan horse,” a file con
taining data that, when triggered, could cause loss
or theft of data. The trojan horse spreads when a
user invites the program onto their computer, ei
ther by opening an e-mail attachment or down
loading and running a file from the Internet.
Patrick Chinn, a network consultant with the
Computing Center, submitted the file to Syman
tec, a company that produces software utilities
such as Norton AntiVirus. He later received an
automated reply confirming it was a trojan horse,
but Symantec failed to supply the exact type of
trojan horse that existed in the file. Because of
this lack of information, it is unclear whether the
file actually does any damage.
Chinn added that if one CD is infected with a
trojan horse, then most likely all of the CDs
that were distributed were infected.
“The CDs are commercially re
produced,” he said. “Each copy
contains the same stuff.
Karen Burk, the public rela
tions manager for Wal-Mart, de
nied that the CD contained a
virus. However, she said it con
tained a program that allowed
Wal-Mart to receive information to
better improve the program.
“We are not aware of any viruses on any of the
CDs,” she said. She said if a person does have
Turn to Wal-Mart, page 5
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