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Student submitted poetry Volume 39, Issue 6 Page 6 Bl gains ri o spy on tudents pansion of Federal law to include lieges heats up debate over civil wties, funding en Maras lEilitor-m-Chief Kitting in the Streeter Lab ■g the computers may Im like a private experience ween the student and the |w of the monitor, but who ft bows about that letter to ■girlfriend or research on ling methamphetamine? ■ew provisions updating the ■ear-old Communication ■stance of Law Enforcement ■would require colleges to Irade their telecommunica- B to give the FBI the abil- Ito view this information lly - all, paid for out of the jsge’s pocket, inevitably ■ a raise in tuition. Some |e suggested that this could ■n a $450 raise per student ■me universities. ■he Streeter Lab computers ■currently equipped with a Virtual Network Computing tech nology, which allows officials inside the campus to view the screen of any computer in real time. This technology is pro tected by layers of firewalls and hardware, Associate Dean of Information Technology Services Joe Austin says, and not accessible from out side the campus. This is where the controversy sur rounding the new law comes in. “The FBI would be able to access“ what we consider a private network,” Austin said. “They want to be able to have access to it from the outside [like a public network] via subpoena.” Set to take effect in 2007, the law would also affect libraries, airports, commercial Internet providers and any one else who provides public Internet access. Technical analysis Ben Maras Clackamas Print of the campus communications are part of a private network tected by layers of hardware and software, as seen above. As the law stands now, in order to do an Internet wiretap law enforcement must obtain a court order, at which point they would work, with the admin istration to quietly install the proper technology. The new expansion would require the technology to be installed prior, so that only a court order would need to be obtained. This is a challenge to begin with. The law focuses on Internet voice and data com munications. Unlike phone roadcast Journalism course pngs new facet of media auk Jordan ¡Clackamas Print lackamas will offer pdcast Journalism as a class lining Winter Term to any ®t interested in video pro li011' [he class, listed in the course [e as J-220, will be a great jrtunity for students to learn prt of filmmaking and video juction for television and pet-based broadcasts. ■he direction and goals of rision will be redefined dur- |the course of the next five h” according to English juctor Andy Mingo, who K with Journalism Instructor Linda Vogt, will be teaching this new class. “There will be more of the merging of the Internet and television as we now know it dur ing the near future than we have ever seen.” The goal of the class is to give students exposure to this new medium in the easiest way possible. Clackamas has the technology available to be able to have students’ productions be broadcast over the Internet, and not have to rely on the tradition al broadcast studio that regular broadcast television requires. Mingo says that he will retool and revive The Print’s website to allow print versions of The Clackamas Print to appear on the Internet, but also use those print stories to become the basis for video productions of those news stories. “Essentially, it will allow The Print to go global, not just be relegated to the Clackamas cam pus,” said Mingo. This will also make Clackamas the only community college in the state to offer broadcast jour nalism. The college is working out the details to make sure the course is transferable to other four-yeat schools, including the broadcast journalism program at the University of Oregon.. “This is going to be a very exciting venture for the students and the college,” said Mingo. “We encourage any student that is interested in video production for any purpose to enroll in this course.” Photo Illustration by Jeff Sorensen Clackamas Print lines in which a single signal is sent, the nature of the Internet would require a jumble of information to be collected and reassembled at a network center before being sent onto the Internet and then to the recipient. The cost of security At some universities, the cost could total up to several billion dollars, and although the price tag would be lower for Clackamas, members of the administration see it as being too much, “What it could mean is that all voice and data communica tion in all of the college should be replaced - huge expense,” Austin said. “The college has a process it goes through for spend ing money,” Dean of Campus Services Bill Leach said. “We haven’t had a lot to spend on infrastructure.” The precedent Many opponents of the expansion believe that it is too much work for a “just in case” scenario. In 2003, there were 1,442 wiretaps issued by state and federal governments, and only 12 of them were for com puter systems. The FBI admits it never had a problem com pleting any of the wiretaps. Please see WIRETAPS, Page 2 More authors grace LAC Two local authors will be offering tantalizing tidbits from their new books tonight at 7 p.m. Margaret Bechard and Carmen T. Bernier-Grand will be reading from their latest books in the Literary Art Center to support Friends of the Library. Both Bechard and Bernier- Grand are published authors from Portland. “Portland is famous for children’s authors,” said Allen Widerburg, who organized the reading. “Both [Bechard and Bernier-Grand] write for children and young adults.” Bechard has been awarded several honors, including School Library Journal’s Best Book of the Year. Though she mostly writes “realistic fiction” for teens and young adults, her latest book, “Spacer and Rat,” is a science-fiction work. Bernier-Grand moved to Portland from Puerto Rico. Her books for children often include Puerto Rican folktales and most have been translated into' Spanish. She will be reading from her latest book, “César: ¡Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can!” a biography in poems of César Chávez. Entry to the reading is free, though a $2 donation is request ed. All donations go to Friends of the Library to help support thé Lending Library in the LAC. -Compiled by Laura Cameron, The Clackamas Print
