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Story on Page 3 Story on Page 1b Story on Page 8 ‘Live life with love rather than hate’ Registration More than 700 attend Shepard’s for classes heart-wrenching speech Thursday via Web site By Karen Kirr Staff writer increasing A profound energy filled the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union’s Grand Ballroom, which By Karen Kirr well exceeded its capacity, as Judy Staff writer Shepard delivered an emotionally- charged speech about her late son, Eastern’s continuous technology advances during Matthew. the last year have allowed students a convenient way “My goal in speaking to colleges to not only access their grades through the Internet, is to tell them we should be living but also to register for their spring semester courses our life with love rather than hate,” through the Panthers Access to Web Services system Shepard said. on Eastern’s Web site. Shepard’s lecture was proceeded Currently the percentage of registration activity by a video portraying the work she via PAWS is 14 percent, as opposed to touchtone, and her husband have devoted their which saw 86 percent of registration activity, said Bill time to in order to make a difference Witsman, director of informations systems. in others’ lives. As the registration process proceeds from seniors She described the fateful day she through the lower classes, a higher percentage of stu- received a phone call while she was dents will likely register through the Web, Witsman living in Saudi Arabia, and was said. made aware of the suffering her son He said students who have grown up with tech- endured because of his sexuality. nology tend to use it more than those who are older “It was Oct. 8, 1998 at 5 a.m. and are not as accustomed to always having it avail- when we received the call from the able. hospital in Wyoming explaining his “The younger students feel more comfortable with condition,” Shepard said. “We (the Web) registering,” Witsman said. hoped and prayed he would recover He said he expects Web registration to be more from his injuries.” popular with underclassmen, although he said upper- Shepard told the more than 700- classmen also will find it a more useful way to regis- member audience that it felt like an ter. eternity having to wait 19 hours just Many students maintained the fact that they are to get on a flight and another 25 Kate Mitchell / Staff photographer less than enthusiastic about the new Web option, at hours to reach the hospital in least for the time being. Wyoming. Judy Shepard, mother of the late Matthew Shepard, tells the story of her son’s murder to a full house “(Touchtone registering is) what I’m used to,” said “By the time we were escorted in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Thursday night. Christina Gugliotta, a junior elementary education into Matt’s room, I saw him and was major. “I’m more trusting of the system.” not even sure it was him at first,” she said. she said. It was a relief he was no longer to take advantage of the window of oppor- However, Gugliotta said once online registration There lay her eldest son unconscious suffering. The two men responsible for his tunity presented to us through this situa- smooths all of its kinks out, it will be a great tool for and so brutally beaten Shepard said when death received life sentences, Shepard tion to make a difference,” Shepard said. students to use. her younger son, Logan, finally allowed said. “What I am doing is planting seeds and “When everyone is hooked up to the Ethernet, and himself to see his older brother’s broken However, the realization was Shepard hoping things will change.” the system is consistently running well, I’m sure I’ll condition, he burst into tears. and her family’s suffering was just begin- She emphasized her strong desire to use it,” Gugliotta said. “I’ll never forget Logan’s reaction ning. have the Hate Crime Prevention Act Sarah Walck, a junior family and consumer sci- when he saw Matt,” Shepard said. “We With money sent to the family to defray ence major, said her previous experiences with the were all painfully aware Matt would never medical costs, Shepard and her husband PAWS system left her seeking the more familiar and wake up.” started the Matthew Shepard Foundation. See SHEPARD Page 6A adequate process. At 12:53 a.m. on Oct. 12, Matt died, “After Matthew’s death, we felt we had “With the touchtone process, I know it will work,” Walck said. “I don’t believe the technology here is ready for online registration.” Other students figured taking the phone route to Complaint filed against Eastern News register for spring courses would be faster than wait- ing for their computers to load all the necessary com- By Kyle Bauer Civil Rights, said she was not at liberty to The advertisement was supposed to run ponents. Staff editor comment on the matter. in the Nov. 3 and Nov. 10 editions of “I didn’t even think of using the Web,” said Steamtunnels Managing Editor Keith Steamtunnels, but The Daily Eastern News Margaret Leffert, a junior accounting major. “(Phone A complaint was filed in Eastern’s Office Powers said the magazine itself received has decided not to run these inserts for the registering is) just easier.” of Civil Rights against The Daily Eastern numerous complaints from across the coun- next two weeks. Leffert also said she was really not told how to go News regarding an advertisement that ran try regarding the advertisement, prompting it “The Eastern News can stand on the First about registering online. last week in a Steamtunnels insert. to pull the ad. Amendment, but as a student newspaper it Brock Dennis, a junior elementary education The ad depicted an American Indian “We pulled that ad internally,” he said. has to look at the moral and ethical issues,” major, said the new option of course registration meditating in front of a steamtunnel. Around “We had a few schools that complained and Leonard said. “It has a responsibility to put through PAWS has not been publicized well. the picture were the words, “Shaman says: we fully support it. The ad offended people out less biased information.” “I’m not good with computers in the first place,” Go to www.steamtunnels.net.” and we know it. We just plain screwed up.” Curt Wilson, a Charleston resident and a he said. “I was not aware, though, that you even could “There is a complaint,” said Tom Steamtunnels is inserted in 250 newspa- member of the Southern Band of the register online.” Leonard, an Eastern employee and member pers, primarily college publications, across Cherokee said the problem came about Sue Harvey, director of academic records, encour- of a group filing the complaint. “It goes back the country. because of lack of education. aged students to use the Internet for registration to to everything people perceive about Powers said the ad was developed from a “The truth is in the education of children,” their advantage. American Indians. To me, it is a monstrosity character found on Steamtunnels Web site, he said. “In American history, they are taught She said anyone who has questions regarding the of a stereotype. The way it comes off is he is which has different characters guiding visi- about the genocide in Europe, but they are system can stop by the registration office anytime. getting a message from God to tell people to tors through its pages. The Shaman character not taught about the attempted genocide here “We are always willing to help,” Harvey said. do something. They mock Indian religion.” directs visitors through the technology por- in America. It is time for the children to start Cynthia Nicholls, of Eastern’s Office of tion of the site. learning the truth.” See REGISTRATION Page 6A 2A Friday, November 3, 2000 CampusThe Daily Eastern News The Daily Special events open to all students,faculty,staff and community members can be published Eastern What’s on in What’s on tap. Events limited to specific groups or organizations or regularly scheduled events can be published in CampusClips. 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