Clarion 1993-12-03 Vol. 69 No. 07

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Friday/December 3/1993
The official student publication of Bethel College
Volume 69, No. 7
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Sharing Christmas Joy
Providing for the needy at Christmas means
giving of ourselves
Software pirateers are being watched
by Dirk Kingsley
News Editor
As Christmas approaches, one's
thoughts often turn to the needy. Christ's
birth was a gift of life to mankind, God
giving of himself to the world because His
people needed Him, Bethel Business students involved with Students in Free Enterprise, Adopt-A-Family participants and
shirt donors at the campus store are a few of
that they could provide for themselves. I
see this as a project that will get people
oriented towards being self-sufficient. It's
a part of doing community development
work and it's also an integration of faith.
Business students are using their business
skills to do outreach work."
Students in Free Enterprise is working
with inner-city junior-high youth from the
Hospitality House Boys and Girls Club, a
non-denominational Christian organiza-
Sophomore Laura Tobisch, President
speaking to inner city youth.
the members of the community that are
giving of themselves to others this holiday
season.
Students in Free Enterprise, an unofficial Bethel student club advised by Associate Professor of Business Leo Gabriel,
and led by Sophomore Laura Tobisch, has
set its goals on outreach and business.
"Most outreach work is centered around
providing food, clothing, shelter," said
Gabriel, "Certainly, if we can get people
who are lacking physical needs oriented
towards making their own money, then we
would not have to be about providing food,
clothing, and shelter. It would be things
Photo/Josh Freed
of Students in Free Enterprise
tion, helping them to create their own
company so they could design and sell their
own Christmas cards for a profit.
"We do have a fairly large group. We
have ten kids that we are working with now
and we were hoping for five—that's what
we thought would be realistic, but we have
ten," said Tobisch, President of Students in
Free Enterprise. She and the others hope to
expand to Easter and birthday cards, as
well as silk-screened T-shirts in the future.
The Christmas cards are being printed
at Camden Printworks, a printshop started
by inner-city youth under Tony Campolo.
please see Christmas Joy on page 9
by Josh Freed
Contributing Writer
Usually, when something gets stolen,
Bethel Security gets called. But if that
something is software, Mark Schneider
will be on the case.
Schneider is Bethel's Director of User
Services and the man who makes sure
nobody at Bethel is illegally pirating software. Schneider defines "software piracy"
as "the illegal copying of any commercial
software product." A commercial software
product is any computer program that one
would pay money for, according to
Schneider.
Federal laws against software piracy
are a lot tougher than many people realize,
Schneider said. The vocabulary of those
who work in this area now includes words
such as "raids," "tiplines," and "investigators." Judgments against those who use
software illegally can be as high as seven
figures.
Schneider described one scene of alleged
software piracy: he walked into the computer lab and saw eight different students
playing "Hellcats," an arcade-styled flight
combat simulation game. Schneider said
that one of the students may have paid for
the game, but "we all know they didn't all
pay for it." Although Schneider let this
incident go, it signifies the kind of problem
he is facing.
Another game that concerns Schneider
is called aMUD, or "Multi-User Dungeon."
Schneider says that game is a Dungeons
and Dragons-style role playing game that
some Bethel students have gotten involved
in.
"It involves casting spells and dealing
with demons, and that is not agood Christian
activity, even in play," said Schneider. "I
consider that to be the same thing as practicing a non-Christian religion on this
campus."
Schneider said that most of the people
he finds using software illegally are students, not faculty or administration. It's
not difficult for Schneider to find illegal
software use on a Bethel network computer.
Schneider says "we can track every keystroke" a student makes, meaning that
Schneider can find out where the software
came from (if you downloaded over a network computer) and where it goes (if you
took it home with you).
"If you're typing in the lab, I can come
in like a ghost and see what you *re doing."
Schneider says that from the computer in
his AC office, he can look at whatever you
have on your screen at that moment. That
includes text files, graphic images, and
your letter home to mom, although
Schneider is adamant that he "typically"
does not take advantage of this ability to
play Big Brother. "We're not trying to tum
this into the Spanish Inquisition," he said.
"We are strictly looking for violations of
the law, and violations of our ethics statement."
The "ethics statement" he refers to is a
document that outlines the sins that constitute a misuse of Bethel's computers.
The statement includes specific references
to the Minnesota law governing software
misuse. Students accused of misusing
software will be referred to Student Development.
Schneider says that one reason he is so
vigilant is that Bethel can get sued if a
student uses a Bethel computer to pirate
software. He says that federal laws governing software use have toughened dramatically in recent years to the point where
some companies have actually been raided
—physically, not electronically—because
of suspected software piracy. Schneider
says that "a conviction could cost Bethel
millions of dol lars." "We 'd be a very likely
target," he says, "A lot of people would like
to nail a Christian college."
Another infraction Schneider watches
for is computer pornography. Bethel is
hooked up to the Internet, a worldwide
computer network that distributes games,
provides a place for different computer
users to talk to each other via modem, and
has a large cache of pornography. A person
using a Bethel computer can "download"
this pornography from the Internet and
save it either on the Bethel computer or on
their own disk. Schneider knows what
many Internet pornography viewers do not
know: Internet publishes a list of the names
of those who have accessed the pornogra-
please see Pirateers on page 3
News 1
Features 4
The Arts 6
Sports 8
Opinions 11
Classifieds 12
-Bethel students spend semester in
Hollywood, Page 6
-Professsor Gregory A. Boyd says
"All Dance Is God's Dance" Page 11
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