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Voyeurism begins at home with dorm room web cams
Visitors can look through the dorm cam. By Christine Tatum CollegePressWriter
CHICAGO (CPX) - The views in this dorm room are anything but interesting. Just ask the guy who lives here.
He'll be the first to tell you there's not a whole lot to look at - unless you're really into watching someone sit and type and sit and type some more. Oh, yeah, and maybe strum a guitar every now and then with new friends.
Welcome to WebDorm.com , an Internet site where the most mundane aspects of student life are entertainment. Brought to the world by a start-up company based in Boston called College Web Inc., the site allows viewers to peek into the rooms of college students scattered across the country.
The project launched Feb. 1, featuring eight students who purportedly attend Bentley and Trinity colleges, Brandeis and Cornell universities, the University of Vermont, The State University of New York at Albany and Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute.
A "Great Lakes" version debuted Feb. 8 with students from Albion College and Bradley, Eastern Michigan, Illinois State and Oakland universities. Two weeks later, students from a few schools in Florida - the universities of Central Florida, Florida and Miami and Florida State University - popped up. Company reps say they eventually want everyone to see the private lives of students in the West as well. "It doesn't interest me in the slightest," said Kerin Black, 21, a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London. "My life is too busy to watch what other people do at home."
Or don't do. During the site's first week online, daytime viewers were hard pressed to find any of the students - who have assumed aliases and are generally referred to as "Web Dormers" - in their rooms.
To give voyeurs something to look at, the students trained their cameras' lenses on piles of clothes, messy desks, and, in one case, a white wall.
Believe it or not, that's the beauty of it all, said Allison Mahoney, marketing manager for College Web. People who want to know more about what college is really like - particularly high school students - can get a better idea by checking out the new site, where Web Dormers "chat" with viewers on a regular basis and post journal entries about their ups and downs. ("I got back with my girlfriend. Hopefully it will work out this time," one entry from a Web Dormer calling himself "Dog Boy" states.)
And if that's not enough, visitors to the site can learn from each other by participating in chat rooms that are available even when none of the students on camera are home, Mahoney said. College Press Exchange, 1999
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UCO gets off on the right foot
By James Gutzmer Sports4Woi
UCO men's and women's tennis teams got their official start last week. The women faced Cameron at the Edmond Racquet Club on March 5. The men played March 6 against Cowley County College at the Edmond Raquet Club.
The UCO women dominated Cameron winning 8-1. UCO won all of their singles matches and lost only one doubles match.
Jana Vnouckova defeated her opponent 6-2, 6-1 in straight sets. She was followed by Michaela Perlikova who won 6-0, 6-0.
Marina Erchova won the next match 6-1, 6-1 and Sharon Lauver won 6-1, 3-6, 6-0.
Letica Lozada and Jill Woodard finished out the singles matches winning 6-4, 6-3 and 6-2, 6-2 respectively.
In doubles competition Vnouckova and Perlikova won their match 8-2. The UCO team of Erchova and Lauver lost a tight match 9-7 to break the UCO streak. However, Lozada and Woodard came back to win the final match of the day 8-1.
The UCO men fared the same as the women on Saturday. The Bronchos defeated Cowley County Junior College 8-1, losing only one doubles match.
Pablo Mayorga started the matches with a win 6-3,6-2 He was followed by Aldo Zerega who dominated 6-0, 6- 1
Karl Levanat won his match 6-1, 6-4 and Bobby Armstrong defeated this CCJC opponent 6-2, 6-1.
Michael Jones and Adam Clayton finished off single competition 6-1, 7-5 and 6-3, 5-3.
In Doubles action Levanat and Armstrong dropped the first match 8-6, but Mayoga and Zerega won theirs 8-2. Jones and Clayton finished off CCJC with an 8-4 win.
The Bronchos will be back in action today at 2:00 p.m. against Truman State at the Broncho Tennis Courts. UCO Broncho tennis teams found alive and well in 1999
— Staff photo by Negeen Sobhani
Michael Jones leaves the ground to return the ball in doubles competition on Friday.
By James Gutzmer SportsEditor
UCO tennis teams are looking good for the upcoming 1999 season despite the loss of a twotime national champion on the men's side and some newcomers on the women's side of the courts.
The UCO men lost Charl Bornman, a four time AllAmerican and two-time national champion, to graduation. However, the Bronchos are still setting their sights on a fourth straight trip to the NCAA Division II national tournament in May.
UCO is returning a pair of seniors this year. Karl Levanat and Bobby Armstrong will lead UCO.
Armstrong is a four year starter at UCO with a winning record of 19-9 in singles and 20- 11 in doubles last year.
Levanat is two-time doubles All-American who teamed up with Bornman for a 29-5 record.
UCO men return four starters from last season Armstrong, Levanat, Aldo Zerega, and Michael Jones.
Zererga had a 19-7 record last season in singles and a 21-10 record in doubles.
The Bronchos also picked up freshman Adam Clayton from Sydney, Australia, Pablo Mayorga from Bogata, Colombia, and Zulkarnain Lim from P. Siantar, Indonesia.
The UCO women's team will be lead by two veteran players and bolstered by two new faces in hope for a return trip to nationals.
— Staff photo by Negeen Sobhani
Karl Levanat returns the ball in doubles competition. The UCO men's team opened their season last week.
The Bronchos are returning four starters this season. UCO are returning All-American Jana Vnouckova, who is ranked as one of the top players in the country. The Bronchos also return Sharon Lauver, Michaela Perlikova, and Leticia Lovada,
Perlikova was a doubles AllAmerican last year, teaming with Vnouckova for a 17-3 record and she was 13-5 in singles play.
Lauver had a 23-13 record in singles and a 23-9 in doubles. Lozada went 19-9 in singles and 14-3 in doubles last season.
The Bronchos boast two new players in 1999. Marina Erchova, a freshman from Moscow, Russia and Jill Woodard a junior college transfer from Burleson, Texas will be key players for the Bronchos.
UCO opened their season this past weekend with dominating performances by both the men and women.
Francis Baxter will coach the Bronchos for the 29th straight seasonfor the men and 19th for the women. Baxter has led both teams to the NCAA Division II national tournament last year, with the men advancing to the quarterfinals. UCO's women won their first ever Lone Star Conference title.
