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Although Utah State University doesn't have a specific pohcy regarding Internet pornography, sections of the student code cover the distribution of pornography and the viewing of
The university does not use any type of filtering software. ''Viewing adult material in the privacy of your campus apartment is not something we try to block or monitor," he said. "Nobody at the front desk of the [residence hall] ensures that nobody carries a copy of a kiddie porn magazine into their room. Likewise, we're not monitoring the network lines into the rooms." James Nye of the USU Pohce Department said he hasn't heard of any reports of students violating the student code by viewing pornography in a computer lab. Nye did deal with a firsttime case last year of a student running a pornographic Web site from his residence hall room on campus. Tyler Zesiger, 20, will go to trial in January 2001 for 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second degree felony. Each count carries a possible fine 0£$10,000 and up to 15years in jail. A Logan City Pohce officer ran across Zesiger's site last year while investigating another pornography case. The officer found child pornography on the site and traced it to the USU server. "It was a coincidence that it
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Bob Bayn, manager of academic services for Computer Services, said Computer Services rehes entirely on university pohcies and state laws. In most of the student access computer labs, students will see a sticker on the computers that makes a reference to the student code, Article V, Section 3, where it prohibits creating an offensive learning environment. "That is our basis for the claim that students can't look at porn in the labs and our basis for requesting that they stop or leave," Bayn said. "(That is also) our basis for referring the problem to official university disciphnary procedures if anyone persists." Students can view pornography within the privacy of their own rooms, Bayn said.
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was a USU student," Nye said. Nye said Zesiger owned the Web site, but was using the USU server as a backbone. Anyone could send him material and he edited what he found offensive, Nye said. Editing that offensive material was Zesiger's reason for running the site, Nye said. "He wanted to edit material (such as child pornography) that was offensive to him," Nye said. "But we found images of obvious children involved in sexual intercourse." In an interview, Zesiger explained bow he created the site and why, Nye said. "He was cooperative," Nye said. "He still doesn't think he's done anything wrong. He really thought he was doing the pubhc a service." Zesiger was immediately expelled from USU. Zesiger's case is one of the first in Utah involving a pornographic site on a university server, Nye said. The attorney general's office recently formed a task force to attack the problem. "This is something the college communities are aware of and are getting geared up on," Nye said. Dallin Phillips, campus judicial officer, is usually one of the first to hear about any violation of student code relating to pornography. He said he sees four or five cases-each
TIDS STICKER, found on most computers in open access labs, warns students against displaying offensive material, including pornography./ Joe Rowley photo
year, and that pornography is not a big problem at USU. Phillips will make a referral to the counsehng center ifhe sees that the individual has a problem with pornography. "I have done more than one referral for counsehng, " he said. "It's usually an obsessivecompulsive behavior." After receiving counsehng, the individual is required to report back to Phillips. He said counsehng has helped in every case he has dealt with. One student Phillips dealt with unintentionally sent a pornographic e-mail to a USU staff member.
"The student sent a pornographic e-mail to a buddy and was one digit off on the e-mail address," Phillips said. "It went to a staff person on campus." The staff member brought it to Phillips' attention and the student was put on probation. "It would have been more severe if it had been intentionai" Phillips said. "The message was obviously to a friend ." Because sending pornographic material can cross the hnes into sexual harassment, Phillips said the Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity office can get involved in some cases.
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For more than 2 5 years, communication professor Michael S. Sweeney has dreamed of meeting television journahst Walter Cronkite. On Nov. 14, Sweeney's dream will come true. Sweeney has been asked by The Museum of Television & Radio to participate in a seminar in New York City entitled "The World War II Generation: A United Front." The other panel members are Cronkite and Richard Hottelet, a CBS News foreign correspondent during World War II. The seminar will be broadcast to more than 200 colleges and universities throughout the United States. Sweeney was selected for the panel because he is an e:q>ert on World War II journalism. "I think they found out about my book being prepared for/ublication and that convince them I'd be an
Children's House forced to move JAMES JENKL"IS
Staff Writer
The future construction of the new heating plant behind the Spectrum will force both of the Utah State University Children's Houses to relocate; to where, no one knows. "University Planning has already looked for another place, but there isn't one, " said Linda Gilgen, director of the Children's House. The fust Children's House is non-operational, as they were expecting to renovate, but with the pending construction, they moved entirely out. The Children's House is sponsored by Student Services and provides child care, though faculty and staff members are low priority. Students with young children who need to
attend classes can enroll their children in either a half- or full-day program, whereas traditional child care centers prefer full-time placements. The Children's House is accredited through the National Assocation for the Education of Young Children, one of 20 child care facilities in the state of Utah to receive such accreditation and one of two in Cache Valley. Preschool age and half-~ay kindergarten children can interact with other children and have personal contact with the teachers, who are mostly graduates of USU and student teachers because of their low teacher/child ratio of one to six. "The children really receive a good education in our program," Gilgen said. However, the majority of
children on campus are not yet preschool age, said Connie Schultz, coordinator of Child Care Resource and Referral. Most are infants. Lack of space and the design of the Children's Houses make accepting children under 3 impossible. Gilgen said there are waiting hsts for both the older and younger children. With their accreditation in the space allowed, the House is only allowed to enroll 28 children per hour. If the other House was operationai it would allow 2 2 more children. It has 70 enrolled now throughout the full day. Funding for the House comes mostly from tuition ►SEE CHILDREN
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appropriate source," Sweeney said. Sweeney's book, to be published in January 2001, is called "Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II." Sweeney has published previously on both journalism and censorship in World War II, topics he said he enjoys researching. "When you do research, you should always do something you love," he said. Journalists are fun to write about, Sweeney said, and censorship was his dissertation topic when he got his doctorate from the E.W . Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. "No one hkes censorship," he said. "I liked writing about it because I thought it was done really well during World War II." All of Sweener's hard work and research wil pay off when he meets Cronkite and again when his book is published.
"When I get a hard copy (of the book), it will be the biggest day of all," he said. Sweeney said meeting Cronkite is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. "When I got the invitation, I ran around the office singing show tunes," he said. As the editor of his high school paper in Lincoln, Neb., in 1975, Sweeney wrote an article entitled "Is that the way it is, Walter?" The article was an imaginary conversation with Cronkite in which Sweeney was an old war friend. "Some of my friends said, 'Gee, do you really know Walter Cronkite~'" be said. "It won't be an imaginary conversation now." Is Sweeney nervous about meeting someone he has admired for so long? "Hell, yes," he said. "Who wouldn't be? I respect him tremendously. It's kind of like ►SEE WALTER
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Parking structure plans not flnal, in the works BRIAN CARTER
Staff Writer
somewhere. Consultants on campus are making suggestions," Johnson said. "The site may be changed if the student recreation center goes through." Darrell Hart, vice president for Administrative Services, said the heating plant remains a problem. He said the state did not provide funding to remove the current heating plant when the new one is complete. "Funds were taken out of the heating plant project for its demolition," Hart said. 'We'll find a way to remove it, though. "
A new parking structure is coming, but with the building site and source of funding still up in the air, plans aren't concrete yet . "The structure is kind of in limbo because we don't know where it will be built yet," said Teresa Johnson, manager of Parking Services. The structure was originally planned to be built where the current heating plant is located. Questions on its location remain unanswered, and it is not being planned for a specific loca►SEE PARKING tion, Johnson said. Page 3 "It is going to be built