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Volume 39, Issue 6
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pansion of Federal law to include
lieges heats up debate over civil
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■g the computers may
Im like a private experience
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|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