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Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1999-2000 The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 12-2-1999 The thI acan, 1999-12-02 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1999-2000 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 1999-12-02" (1999). The Ithacan, 1999-2000. 14. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1999-2000/14 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 1999-2000 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. Accent 14 Summer school The college's program can for high school students serves many purposes. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1999 28 PAGES, FREE -· ',",.>, Day focuses on education The World AIDS Day is the AIDS group only international day of coordi nated action against AIDS. The World Summit Ministers of stresses theme Health on Programs for AIDS Prevention established the event in of prevention 1988. The day's purpose is to raise BY ELLEN STAPLETON AIDS awareness as well as mon -< .., Staff Writer ey for AIDS organizations. The founders wanted to create open An appearance of the Blair channels of communication, Witch, a paper Quilt of Support and strengthen the exchange of infor ,: ,. lighted candles in Muller Chapel mation and experience and forge a were all part of an effort to honor spirit of tolerance. World AIDS Day Wednesday. "Our biggest hope with World The Ithaca College AIDS AIDS Day is for people to stop and GARRETT SMITH/THE ITHACAN Working Group took action on the think about risky behavior and how THE "BLAIR WITCH" (right) gives Hhaca College Registered Professional Nurse Mary Taylor a handful day to remember AIDS victims and they can stop it and stop the of condoms while Channel 7 news reporter Jeff Kullkowsky looks on during World AIDS Day Wednesday. educate students about AIDS. See QUILT, page 4 Lingerie hoax STUDENTS CAN USE Microsoft's Network ,. ' - - -·-·-- .. -· a Neighborhood to access hoodwinks O....c ,_.. Cit-- P. materials such as • music, software, videos Ii and movies like Star six students Wars: The Phantom - •- Menace. Much of this Prank caller promises a posted material falls lWo Ablii under the U.S. Copyright non-existent products • Act, which prohlbHs duplication without the II owner's pennlsslon. BY KIM BURNELL s-... 5....., Staff, Wri(er • When· freshinlin Whitney Adams picked up the phone in early October, the voice on the other end asked her if she had time for a Copyrights violated? survey. Usually she would have said, "no" and hung up, but a friend told her she would be . getting this call and if she did the survey, she music, movies and software . right to reproduce that work. distribute would get free lingerie. Adams agreed to co- Protected material Freshman Heather Sterman has copies, perform or display the work pub operate. watched several movies illegally posted licly, and prepare derivative works. In most The caller claimed to be named Eileen and on the colTege's network, including cases, the law prohibits anyone from du acted female, but Adams said it sounded like shared on network "South Park: The Movie", "The Matrix" plicating a copyrighted work without the a male voice. 1be survey questions were about and "American Pie." Sterman said she copyright owner's permission. what kinds of fashions she liked, she said. BY LYNSEY A. PAVLIK watched the movies because she does not "I do not think a lot of the people com "It was really sketchy," Adams said. "I Staff Writer have a television and secs nothing ing to college understand all the impli wondered what the point was, but I wanted wrong with the movies being posted on cations of the technology and what it the free lingerie, so I kept talking. Now I re These days, finding music and the network. means to be a good user of technology, alize the person was just trying to warm me movies on the Internet or Ithaca College's Ithaca College has a computer and net including a lot of the social, legal and eth up to talk more." network is as easy as two left clicks. work-use policy outlining the guidelines ical issues," said David Weil, associate di When the survey was over, Eileen said But just because material is posted on for computing at the campus. All students, rector of Academic Computing and "she" worked at a lingerie st.ore in the Ithaca the Web or the college's network does not staff and faculty using the college's net Client Services. Commons called Silk and Lace, Adams said. make ii legal. work are required to follow college rules Sterman is aware of the copyright in "Eileen said a Victoria's Secret represen- Ithaca College's network, where stu and policies along with local, slate and fed fringements and said, "I am sure other peo . tative wac; in town, and if Eileen could prove dents at the college can make their files eral laws, including copyright laws. ple arc aware, but they probably just do there was enough interest for Victoria's Se available for others hooked up to the net The U.S. Copyright Act gives the own cret in Ithaca, then 'she' would start carrying work, contains many files of copyrighted er of a copyrighted work the exclusive See FILES, page 4 it at Silk and Lace and would possibly open a new Victoria's Secret store in Ithaca." Then, Eileen said Adams would receive EVEN MOVIES STILL IN ·-·-·,,_,·,, .. ··.:..... ·. ..,.·- -----····. ·-·-.. ·.:.. -.,- -------· free Victoria's Secret lingerie for participat ~--- theatres like "American ing in the survey, Adams said. Beauty" can be found on Then the conversation became very per- CJ D CJ D the network alongside . sonal and very sexual. Eileen asked for Adann's ·American AU$ln Powers Blair \tlilch C,uel thousands of popular bra size and inseam - for her free lingerie. Beauty 1n1ermom songs recorded in a Eileen also started to talk about what lingerie sound file format known "she" liked to wear and sexual games "she" as MP3. Students who played with "her" boyfriend, Adams said. CJ D D D have access to the network can easily Adams then gave Eileen her address so the usicVdeo$ Seneld S~Park Star\llars trade these copyrighted free lingerie could be sent to her. Adams also materials amongst gave out phone numbers of other girls she themselves. kne"Y because Eileen told her she would get See UNDERWEAR, page 4 ACCENT 13 CLASSIFIED 21 COMICS 20 OPINION 10 SPORTS 23 www.ithaca.edu/ithacan ~DAEifitr·. 2 THE ITHACAN THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1999 Issues in the News Political agreement paves the way for home rule in Northern Ir~land BY MICHAEL W. BLOOMROSE turned on a rescue mission to save it from the stalemate. Who's who In the new News Editor According to 1be Washington Post, it was his plan that Trimble and the Unionists decided to follow: immediate for Belfast Cabinet Decade-old hopes for home rule for Northern Ireland mation of the powa-sharing local government, followed soon should be realized after the UJster Unionist Party decided thereafter by some sign that the IRA would disarm. • First Minister: David Trimble to accept a coalition with its political rival, Sinn Fein. The position of chairman of the new cabinet will go Four political parties, including the Irish Republican to Trimble. It will also include two members of Sinn Fein, • Deputy First Minister: Seamus Mallon Army-linked Sinn Fein and the Unionists, nom three Ulster Unionists, three members of the So inated candidates Monday for a 12-member cial Den\bcratic and Labor Party and two De • Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development: Protestant-Catholic Cabinet. This cabinet, mocratic Unionists. Seamus Mallon of the Brid Rodgers S.D.L.P. Trimble's deputy. which will take over rule of the province from will be • Minister of Culture, Arts and Leisure: Michael the British Parliament, was outlined almost two According to The New York Times, the cab McGimpsey years ago in the Good Friday Peace Accords. inet was granted its ruling power Wednesday by The formation of the cabinet has been held a bill passed in London by the House of Com • Minister of Education: Martin McGuinness up by the pro-British Protestant Unionists who mons. Today, the assembly is to hold its first ses had, to this point, demanded that the IRA disarm sion as a fully empowered legislature. • Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment: Reg before forming the new administration with their However, Trimble promised his party mem- Empey republican rivals. bers on Sunday that he will resign his post as the • Minister of Environment: Sam Foster The Unionist leader, David Trimble, who has TRIMBLE first minister if the IRA has not begun disarma- · come to support the formation of the cabinet ment by February. This would bring the new gov • Minister of Finance and Personnel: Mark Durkan over the past 20 years, gained the support of deputy leader ernment to a halt. John Taylor in a dramatic vote Saturday, according to the "We've done our bit Mr. Adams, it is over to you," said • Minister' of Health, Social Belfast Telegraph. Trimble, addressing Sinn Fein leader Geny Adams. Services and Public Safety: Bairbre de Brun Taylor had been against the cabinet because he believed "We've jumped, you follow." the IRA would continue to drag its feet over disanning According to the Post, Adams said he is unhappy with • Minister of Higher until the middle of next year unless they were decom the February deadline, but he indicated Sinn Fein is ready and Further missioned prior to the formation of the new government.