Speaker Frames the 'Enemy'

An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner THE Stock smarts for the Mens basketball gets novice investor, last-second UNC win, Bl B8 250 University Center University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 Thesday & Friday • • FREE Volume 130. Issue 31 wwu:rel·iew.udel.edu February 20. 2004 Speaker ID system to change BY MOLLIE GROSS Foster also said students natives. Staff Reporter should keep their password pri "It is a Y2K-scale prob frames the The university is changing vate. lem," Durham said. "It is that the process used to identify stu "It is also important that big and that important." dents, faculty and staff from those who have shared their Senior Noah Mallitz said Social Security numbers to UDe!Net ID password with oth he has never felt comfortable UNIX identification usernames. ers take the precaution of logging onto a computer other 'enemy' Susan Foster, vice presi changing it by March I ," she than his own and entering his dent for information technolo said, "and then keeping it a Social Security number. gies, stated in an e-mail mes secret." "My Social Security num BYAUDREYGARR sage that the new identity Mark Durham, communi ber could easily stay on the Administrative News Editor process, called UDe!Net ID, cations director for Identity computer for the next person to The public responds to national threats by seek will begin after March I . Theft 911, said identity theft is see, which is not very safe," he ing scapegoats and enemies in an effort to make the The change was prompted an enormous problem world said. world seem simpler and more manageable, the CEO by recent heightened national wide, particularly at colleges Freshman Katie Allis said of Intellibridge told a packed crowd in Mitchell Hall concern of identity theft. because of the way personal THE REVIEW/Audrey Garr she felt secure using her Social Wednesday night. Joseph V. DiMartile, assis data is used. Security number as university David Rothkopf, the first speaker in the 2004 David Rothkopf, CEO of intelligence con tant provost for student services "The most egregious is the identification. Global Agenda lecture series, works for a consulting sulting firm Intellibridge, addresses Mitchell and the university registrar, stat use of Social Security num "It never bothered me," she firm that provides open-source intelligence informa Hall in the first Global Agenda lecture. ed in an e-mail message that bers," he said. "Students are said. " It is also an easy number tion to different facets of the government. computing systems used Social incredibly vulnerable." to always remember." ln addition, he was former managing director of are able to see things like Baywatch, the nightly news Security numbers decades ago Durham said Identity Theft Students have the option of Kissinger Associates, once a deputy under the secre and the handsome people on CNN." when data processing was first 911 found numerous spread using UDe!Net ID and their tary of commerce for international trace policy and Further along, Rothkopf said the United States introduced. sheets on the Internet contain password or their Social worked closely with the Clinton administration. cannot adopt a gated-community foreign policy. "It was a convenient way ing student names, Social Security number and pin num Rothkopf's speech was titled "Matrix of Terror," "[For example], 30,000 to 40,000 children die for the numerically oriented Security numbers and grades. ber until Aug. 15. as he touched on how people perceive their enemies. everyday, because they have no clean water," he said. systems of the day to identify "The problem is that pro After Aug. 15, only the "I want to frame the concept of an enemy," he "That's one World Trade Center collapsing every unique records," he said. "As fessors don't know the [priva UDelNet ID and password wi ll said. "An enemy is really a threat draped in an idea two hours in the emerging world, and we don't hear systems evolved, I think we just cy] guidelines," he said, "or be used. where the idea is more powerful than the threat." it." got into the habit of relying on don't care." Freshman Elizabeth Rothkopf said it is human nature for people to Senior Kim Howard said she attended the lecture Social Security numbers as the Durham said this leads to a Abramson said she is uncom identify enemies, and many times political leaders because she is an international relations student and primary key." legal issue in which universities fortable with the new process. will tap into that for their benefit. found much of what Rothkopf had to said interesting. He said with the problems cannot disclose certain informa In the past, she said, she had a "The idea of an enemy is extremely pregnant," "[The lecture touched on] the development of of identity theft today, this iden tion beyond the administrative problem with someone discov he said. our nation, our oceans protected us from wars in Asia tification process is inappropri level without being in violation ering her password and author Rothkopf said as a child growing up in the Cold and Europe, but in this age technology has brought us ate. of a federal statute. izing her e-mail account. War era, the Soviet Union represented a threat which so close, yet cannot keep us safe," she said. No specific event occurred One way for students to However, when individu made them an enemy. "Although we all knew this, the 9/ 11 attacks at the university to prompt this protect themselves from identi als use different passwords for "We were drilled in school," he said. "[We had made us all more aware of it." alteration. ty theft is to be aware of tech different accounts it is impossi to] put coats over our heads. Ralph Begleiter, distinguished journalist in resi Foster said specific inci nology and wary of downloads, ble for someone to access all of "We saw [Russia] as a fundamental hurdle." dence and Rosenberg professor of communications, dents at other universities have he said. your information, she said. Rothkopf then brought in the subject of the Sept. explained why this year's theme is entitled "Enemies caused student's Social Security "Technological vulnerabil "I don't use the same pass ll, 2001 terrorist attacks. List." numbers to be made available to ity can quickJy become serious word for anything," Abramson "[We now have] an enemy that has had an effect "I watched as Americans boycotted French wine, unauthorized people. financial vulnerability," said. "Using the same password on our soil greater than that [of Russia]," he said. the U.S. debated to invade Iraq alone, and the Senate She said the university is Durham said. for UNIX and my personal Nineteen people destroyed 17 acres of lower voted to change the name of French fries to freedom taking the precaution because Colleges are finally begin :tccounts is not a good idea." Manhatten, Rothkopf said, and people could say fries," he said. students, faculty and staff have ning to change their policies globalization has made this possible if the world "We need a more sophisticated view of nations, expressed concerns about using from using Social Security -additional reporting by · offers it to them. people, movements, etcetera." Social Security numbers over numbers that put students at Christina Hernandez "They see what they don' t have," he said. "They the years. risk, to new identification alter- City council faces challenge from students BY STEPHANIE ANDERSEN in Newark, a person must be 18 years of of Newark, having moved into her home Committee is a perfect example of In approximately I 0 days, the cam Citv News Editor age, a U.S. citizen and have been a resi on Prospect Avenue in 1980. improved relations. paign will really kick off, he said, and Students may be paying closer atten dent in the city for no less than 24 days Sixty percent of Rewa's neighbors "I was unaware when I went to hopefully attract more volunteers. tion than usual to the Newark City preceding the election. are students, and she said if re-elected, she school at the university," she said. "I DeWire said he believes Vonck and Council elections on April 13, as one of Elections for council positions occur would continue to work toward improved never gave a thought to whether the coun the campaign have great potential. their peers will be trying his luck at a seat every two years, and this is not the first relations between the city and the stu cil was infringing on my ri ghts." There are a lot of residents out there in local government. time a student has tried fer a seat. dents. This situation does not exist today, who do not even know there is an elec Although he has not officially regis Pat Fogg, deputy to the city secretary, "If I can't work out relations, 1 don't she said. tion, he said. tered yet, Kevin Vonck, a Ph.D. candidate said the city has had students run for know who can," Rewa said. "I think uni Rewa said she thinks her district is "Kevin and our crew have a desire to in the urban affairs and public policy pro council before as far back as 1971. versity students are good neighbors." one of the more progressive ones, and her make Newark a better place," DeWire gram, will be running against four-year However, she said, none have won an She said she enjoys being a council constituents will welcome Vonck into the said. "Kevin's campaign will motivate veteran Christine Rewa for the 6th election.

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