TUESDAY Blanked September 7, 2004 THE DAILD A I L Y Soccer team runs 0-0 game against Partly cloudy No. 8 High: 75 | Low: 48 Tennesse Sports | 7 More weather, Page 2 Volume 111 | No. 13 | www.dailyevergreen.comEverEver | [email protected] grgrg eeneenA student publication of WashingtonWashington State UniversityUniversity | Pullman, WashingtonWashington Stomach ailment sweeps through campus Lisa Stone given IV fluids to treat his same time,” Egan said. Research. Contributing writer getconnected dehydration, a common symp- Gastroenteritis causes flu- There is no effective treat- Find out about clinic services at: tom with the illness. like symptoms and is a high- ment, so one must try to pre- An unknown amount of stu- www.hws.wsu.edu “When I got down (to Student ly contagious viral or bacte- vent the illness by washing dents have recently contracted Health), I walked in and doctors rial infection that may cause their hands and avoiding con- a stomach illness, possibly gas- started asking me questions, cramps, diarrhea or vomit- taminated food and water. troenteritis. ed feeling ill on Wednesday. He and there were three other girls ing, according to the Mayo went to Student Health and Jeff Egan, a freshman com- in the room where I got my IV Clinic of the Mayo Foundation See ILLNESS Page 3 munication major, said he start- Wellness Services and was treatment being treated at the for Medical Education and Illegal file sharing gets mixed responses Paul M. Warner Contributing writer As the Recording Industry Association of America launch- es a new round of lawsuits against individuals suspected of illegally downloading and sharing copyrighted materials, universities across the nation are responding to students’ file- sharing activities with various measures of concern. According to a report sub- mitted to Congress by the RIAA, at least 20 U.S. univer- sities have signed agreements with “legitimate” music down- load sites in the past year in a move to discourage students from accessing unauthorized downloads using peer-to-peer services such as Limewire, Kazaa, eDonkey and Grokster. The report cites examples such as Duke University’s agreement with Apple’s popu- lar iTunes. The school pur- chases songs for students at a discount and offers all incom- ing freshmen an iPod to carry Joe Barrentine/Daily Evergreen downloaded lectures, course Donald Kayser, 6, from Endicott examines a 1899 Case steam-powered tractor at the Threshing Bee in Colfax Monday. Hundreds of people materials and of course songs. throughout the state turned out to relive history as farmers demonstrated harvesting techniques using horse and steam powered equipment. Officials at Penn State University recently signed an agreement with Napster for a pilot program allowing stu- dents access to free on-demand streaming audio and down- Farmers take a look back loaded songs. The songs can be stored on a hard drive for $.99 Threshing Bee offers “When I say, ‘Giddy up,’ we a song. don’t know what’s gonna hap- WSU has not reached an glance into antique pen,” he said. agreement with any music agricultural methods Every Labor Day, local services and has no plans to farmers toil for an afternoon do so. like their grandparents might Dan Thompson “We’ve had casual conversa- have, with original equipment Daily Evergreen staff tion with content providers,” from as far back as the early said Dave Ostrom, Information 1900s. ehind the 1913 steam Technology director of commu- All the equipment works engine, a father nication and network services. explained to his young effectively, but it takes more B people to operate than modern Ostrom said the best possible son how the equipment way to offer pay-for-play music worked. The word “grandfa- machinery. “Someday, there won’t be services on campus would be ther” echoed across the golden to set up a contract, have the fields, and farmers discussing anybody left who knows much about them; this old equip- Kevin Nibur/Daily Evergreen service provider house its own the “good ol’ days” donned hardware in the Information fraying straw cowboy hats. ment ain’t gettin’ any younger, Horses pull carts and equipment during the annual Threshing Bee. As cars sped by on east- either,” said Dennis “Denny” Technology building and allow have lived in Latah all their Waters of Joseph, Ore. bound state Route 26 just Brown. the provider to maintain the life, she said. outside Colfax, six horses and Like Brown, the bee gave A new combine costs about server. mules dragged a 100-year-old many onlookers a chance to “I live a quarter of a mile $300,000, he said, which most “We may be chasing a pushheader across nine acres reminisce and laugh about today from where I was born,” farmers simply cannot afford. dream,” Ostrom said. “We Harold said. of whispering fields of grain their youth. Such high operating costs have not found anyone willing The nostalgic event has a Monday as part of the 2004 Harold Brincken, 79, and favor vast farming enterprises to do that.” hint of melancholy for other Students who are download- Vintage Threshing Bee. Jean, his wife, came down of thousands of acres, he said. farmers, a demonstration of a ing copyrighted materials are a Stan Riebold, a farmer from Latah for the threshing. Consolidation chases some dying agrarian tradition. concern for the university, but from St. John, locked the Jean’s father came from farmers out of the fields. horses into place and stepped “Mizzura” before she was “The family farms are back. born, and she and Harold going out of style,” said Larry See THRESHING, Page 4 See DOWNLOAD, Page 4 Headline: 2 | TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 2004 NEWS THE DAILY EVERGREEN communitycalendar weather Today Tomorrow: Mostly sunny A concert will be held from High: 85 Low: 53 The Washington Equestrian 6 to 8:30 p.m. on the Honor’s Thursday: Showers Show Team will hold an infor- Hall lawn. Erik Smith and Mark High: 75 Low: 50 mational meeting in CUB Room Romney will perform, and the Friday: Possible showers 108. It will also hold meetings Daily Grind will provide coffee. 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