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The Clackamas Prin t? Wednesday, Feb 29, 2012 newsed@clackamas.edu CCC pays thousands for virus protection By Nora Goodman The Clackamas Print '' 1 - can access porn on the Clackamas Community College campus. Despite the’fact that CCC shells out hun dreds o f dollars every month to keep our. com puters ‘secure’ with a web filter contracted out to Barracuda Networks, you can still weedle your way through their filter and get a little XXX action. According to Kim Carey, head of ITS, viruses are the main reason that the college installed the web filter. “Viruses from the web have become just as big an issue as viruses from email. We become vulnerable to spyware and malware which can make our users computers nonfunctional; log our key strokes to obtain passwords and other sensitive information that compromise our security not just on the local PC, but also on our network,” said Carey., The college has set up.a three-year con tract with Barracuda Networks, paying $834 a month plus hardware cost. By the end of the third year CCC, will have spent at least $30,000 on the web filter, which seems to have some pretty wide gaps. ' The colfege, however, has a very positive opinioniof the filter. Although the cost might seem like a loti Carey believes that the cost is balanced by reducing the frequency ITS will need to repair and restore networks and computers. “There is also the impact to the user who is unable to .use -their computer once it has been infected, resulting in lost productivity and .interruptionto work,” said Carey.. . and very public, delight, maybe it’s doing jt& job. “It’s preventing viruses to enter and since students search YouTube and other free streaming media sites all the time. Those sites are full of malware and viruses, so spending $834 a month to save hundreds of computers from failure seems viable and a smart thing to do,” said Paul Rios, a computer, science student and Excel tutor. CCC doesn’t recommend using the com puters on campus for social media, which could lead to viruses. - “CCC values the use and sees the effect of social media in the world and as a part of our learning community,”, said Rick Sparks, direc tor of technical services., , Most of the time we don’t realize that our computer has been compromised until our bankcard is reporting irregular activity, our email account is spewing spam or our web browser is, hijacked. Setting things straight after such an intrusion can takes days,.months or years to recover. .The college’s hope is that this layer of protection is transparent in such a way that our users would say, “Nope, that didn’t happen to me, just lucky, I guess.”; .< CCC filters for known malicious sites whose purpose is phishing and fraud, illegal, distribution of copy written materials, spy- ware, malware and pornography at levels that cross legal, statutory or regulatory boundaries. . “If for any reason our service provider returns a ‘false positive’ on a website requested on our campus, please ask your instructor to call the IT Helpdesk at [extension] 3500 and we can add the website to the priority list and override the pfotection layer,” said $parks, vent viruses from sinking thei r teeth in to the computers on campus, rather than stopping onlookers from enjoying a little afternoon, uses on campus may be assured that personal information is safe, but porn cansrafoccupy the computers here. I f th e m a in p u r p o se o f th e filter is to p r e PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Is graduate school in your future? You are a racist; believe it or not! By James Duncan Design Editor Everyone is a little bit rac ist. That includes you. No matter how hard you have tried to be the epitome of political correctness, .you are a racist, and that is exacdy why. As February ends we find ourselves drifting farther away from what seems to be the greatest affront to the talization in our society: ck History Month. While history is Impor tant, it seems to me that BHM does a. great deal more to discourage the acceptance of others than it does to inform people about the tribulations that African Americans went through from the founding o f America to today. - Slaveryis stiH, relatively, ■ B Ku Klux Kian it’s all the same. fresh in o u r cu ltu re. 1 5 0 years T h e harder p e o p le try th e ago slaves were ‘freed,’ but well into the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s the black community suffered through segregation and a society that was unwill ing to give them a chance due to the stereotypes and generational hatred mat had ermeated American culture, ut that isn’t the topic at hand. The problem that people here are facing is over-com- >ensation. As a whole people eel so bad about the way’ ‘minorities’ have been treated over the years that now they need to be treated special. We need to have BHM or latino History Month orany other variation of ‘Insert Racial Identity’ History Month. It feels like we are creating a gap between people. By labeling it black history or Arab his tory or anything other than history! People áre just beg ging to keep everyone sepa rate, but equal. There aren’t black people and tan people and white people there are just people. Everyone is the same ana we all share a com mon history. History is the record of more racist they-are.;. ' One of many things that has made race relations in this country difficult was the introduction of affirmative action. At one point in his-. tory it helped - to allow the persecuted minorities of our country to be treated with some degree of equality, but it is a system gone mad. It makes the hiring process more difficult for business es by forcing them to have a quota of minorities? ’ By doing this employers over look better or equally quali fied people in favor o f some body because of their race. The thing that bothers me is that it doesn’t seem like people understand that over compensating bv treating minorities’ special is still rac ism and persecution. So long as there are people who are being treated special because of the color of their skin, eth nic identity or anything else there will be racism and per secution. A lack of persecu tion is not preferential treat ment; it is the continuation of discrimination through over-compensation. | It’s not too early to learn more about your potential career in teaching, counseling or adult education. GSE program advisors will be in attendance to answer questions. Open to all undergraduates, graduates, community college students and advisors. past events and times, espe cially in connection with the human race. (Webster’s Dictionary) That’s right. The human race: all history pertains to everyone equally. By saying that there is such a thing as black history, people are making It seem special and separate from the whole of human history. Maybe next year we can all recognize ‘History. Month,’ acknowledging all the people who have championed the cause of acceptance in our country and overcome adyer- sity in the face of overwhelm- i ng odds There has been a hard fight in America for the rights of people other than white-men and that needs to be part of our collective history because the most important thing about rights is that everyone has them Because the.simple truth is no one is special. No one group is special. We are the human race, nothing more and certainly not less. To treat human history with more reverence than a certain roup just because it is the istory of a specific race is racism. Be it BHM. or the Need your taxes done so you can file your FAFSA forms? 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