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-
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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
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