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Internet should be provided for students, staff V Streeter Hall computer lab yet to receive Internet hookup by Patrick Lundstrom Staff Writer Clackamas stu dents can get ac cess to the Inter net through the Streeter computer lab, but only in a limited way. E-mail capabili ties have been available for some time, but this is only one (but the most common) of the many Internet com munication stan dards (protocols). The administra tion has plans for ex tending other services to students. Some of the anticipated capabilities are World Wide Web (Web), File Transfer Pro tocol (FTP), File Search and Retrieval (Gopher) and Telnet (older protocol commonly used in librar ies), utilitizing the pro gram Netscape. There is still some uncertainty about extend ing Usenet newsgroup capabili ties. The school is committed to providing Internet access to the students and staff, having in- vested “many tens of thousands of dollars bring ing Internet e- mail and Web ac cess,” stated Net work Adminis trator Scott Branscum. “I feel they have done a very good job investing in that technology.” Student ac cess, through the Streeter com puter lab, is planned for this term. Dividing the lab into sec tions has caused delays in hook up; the date is still to be an nounced. Delays in access are gener ating concern among students. To some, it sounds like the same sort of de lays that they got last term, after access had been promised. “They say money is their concern,” states Chris Esteriy. “I seemed to think that it is a issue, of the way in which each student may use the Net. You know stu dents using the Net for sex talk, the retrieval of obscene material, or just innocently hogging the Net, when other students may wish to do their homework. It kind of gets down to a suppres sion of certain types of informa’ tion deemed unworthy of the col leges time and money. Sounds a lot like the college is telling us what we can read. I’m sorry, but I was unaware of the college’s au- II» Ctoeluww faint SHi Editor-in-Chief: Tina Guinn (Ext. 2576) News Editor: Anjanette Booth (Ext. 2576) Feature Editor: Jocelyn Gauthier (Ext. 2577) Sports Editor: Jesse Sowa (Ext. 2577) Photography Editor: Chad Patteson (Ext. 2578) Copy Editor: Cori Kargel (Ext. 2578) Opinion Editor: Christi Snavely (Ext. 2576) Business Manager: Donny Kemp (Ext. 2578) iVföxevWB Tz> tub . ÛJMPMrsB» L ab S we O -ièri ON? like «4) INTERNET ACCESS TO stup & tesi thority to dictate morals and eth ics. The Net is a huge resource (over 12 terabytes of information) that brings the proximity of the world within reach of your termi nal, and as the world shrinks, your understanding of it increases, hence a broader, more understood student. Isn’t a broader base a important byproduct of col leges?” The stu dents have already been given the potentially most harmful tool available. E-mail is the most popular service on the Internet, with an estimated 20 million us ers, and one of the more immedi ate interfaces. It is true that one could search for, or stumble across, po tentially offensive, or explicit, ma terial on the Web. This can also be said of a library, or some text books. Michael Garvison stated by e-mail, “I thought one of the rea sons for going to college is to be simply say that access should be given to anyone who asks. Some people suggested ac cess for members of a Web club. Besides informing members of the joys and dangers of the Internet, a club could help rehabilitate ‘Net junkies. Rehab failing, the club could help the junkies get hooked up at home. A solution that some schools have opted for is to limit access. Students could freely surf the ‘Net, but could not save and/ or print things they access. This prevents excessive use or abuse of paper and storage media. Giving students access, without the abil ity to take it away from the lab, could result in the excessive use of lab time to read and hand copy information from the screen. Delays in Internet ac cess are generating con cern among students. exposed to different views. But I guess that is not the case on this campus. Why is it that a privi leged few such as instructors can have access to the ‘Net but not the students?” The question: “Which stu dents should have how much ac cess to the Internet?” received many varying responses. Many ♦ ♦♦♦ Staff Writers/Photographers: Eric Eatherton, Donny Kemp, Hoyun Choi, Patrick Lundstrom, Brendon Neal, Jon Roberts, Lora Wahrgren, Linda Barr Batdorf, Amy Bierman, Josh Kehler ♦ ♦♦♦ Secretary: Joanne Gale (Ext. 2309) Advisor : John Knowlton (Ext. 2310) The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased, professional manner. 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