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Page 6 NEWS Baylor officials trying to combat computer crimes WACO, Texas — Tommy Roberson is used to seeing shocked faces. As the network security ad ministrator for Baylor Univer sity’s computer systems, he has confronted dozens of students about computer crimes they have committed. Although some of them try to deny what they have done, most are so surprised they have been caught that they do not even try to come up with an excuse, Roberson said. “Most of them are so shocked that they ’fess up right away,” he said. “For some of them, it may have been six months since they did it and they thought they had gotten fi Most of them are so shocked that they 'fess up right away. ” — Tommy Roberson Baylor University network security administrator away with it. But there are very few cases that we can’t solve.” Computer crimes have be come more prevalent in all sec tors of society in recent years, with college students increas ingly becoming both perpetra tors and victims, according to national studies. Locally, McLennan Commu nity College and Texas State Technical College have each had one student arrested for com mitting a computer crime dur ing the past three years. At Baylor, multiple students have been arrested during that same time period, with officials from the Secret Service and the FBI participating in some of the cases. Jim Doak, chief of Baylor’s Department of Public Safety, said campus computer crimes have become enough of a concern for him to send an officer to a com puter crimes school recendy. It was the first time any of the department’s officers had received specialized training about the issue, he said. The most common type of computer crime at Baylor is probably copyright violation, Roberson said. That usually oc curs when students access or share copyrighted material, such as video or music files. However, the university does not actively seek out those sorts of violations because of time and privacy constraints, he said. The university most often in vestigates students accessing or storing illegal pornography, Doak said. Students accessing other peo ple’s e-mail accounts or chang ing their passwords also happens fairly often, he said. The university has handled some more serious cases as well. One of them involved a student who stole another students iden tity and used the victim’s credit card to rack up thousands of dol lars in purchases, Doak said. T he department has also in vestigated several incidents of students sending others harass ing or threatening messages. In addition, the university has been asked to help outside law en forcement agencies, such as the Secret Service and the FBI, solve computer crimes involving Bay lor students, Roberson said. Although he said he could not release the details of the in vestigations for privacy rea sons, he said the cases typically involved Baylor students who victimized someone outside the university while using Baylors computers or network. Neither Doak nor Roberson could say exactly how many Bay lor students have been arrested for computer crimes. They said it is difficult to determine because of the way records are set up. There is not a separate cate gory for computer crimes, for example, harassment by e-mail and harassment in person would be classified the same way. However, Roberson said he has testified at three trials in volving computer crimes com mitted by Baylor students dur ing the past five years. father fcefore police " SYRACI ther stat oys, kill in hot and k istraugh utside a I Police s lunged at jphen the> ■light in a ■ly's home if the chil STUART VILLANUEVA/Tm£ Rauamu Dr. Michael Sweatt tends tropical lillies in the pond behind the floriculture greenhouse on Wednesday after noon. The lillies must be kept trim to allow the fish that live in the pond to eat from the water's surface. Bob Dole recovers after surgery CLEVELAND (AP) — Bob Dole, the 1996 Republican presidential candidate, under went an ex perimental procedure Wednesday to treat an aneurysm in his main blood vessel. Dole, 77, was in recov- by late morning at the DOLE ery Cleveland Clinic after the treatment for an abdominal aortic aneurysm, the clinic said. He was likely to remain at the clinic until the end of the week. His wife, Elizabeth, and daughter were with him. He had originally scheduled the procedure for Thursday but moved it ahead a day, hos pital spokeswoman Marion Moseley said. “He maintained his sense of humor throughout,” said Dr. Kenneth Ouriel, one of three surgeons on the team. T he aneurysm was detected two or three years ago, Dole spokesman Doug MacKinnon said. An aneurysm is a bulge on a blood vessel. In the aorta, aneurysms can burst and kill nearly instantly. The traditional treatment involves an abdominal incision. In Dole’s case, doctors thread ed a sleeve-shaped graft into the aorta to reinforce the blood vessel. T he less-invasive, experi mental device is awaitinggov- eminent approval. Dole elected to have ike graft after a routine checkup it, early June, Mac Kin non said Dole, who represented Kansas in Congress asarepre- sentative and senator formore than three decades, nomrorts for the Washington Milling firm of Verner, Lipfen,i>® ( hard, McPherson and Hi Sons R, died ir /ear-old / aut stable The motl a/as not re Sgt. De lother ar rday. Her neighbor forced the home, wf single sho The off tified until ers wheth justified, practice af Sacked sa Bus dri charge Admissions Continued from Page 7 will be the setup of the system at Texas A&M-Galveston. Snowden said the system is called a workforce because it has a triggering process that informs counselors reviewing prospective students for admission that the application is complete. She said this will speed up A&M’s response to prospective students. A&M President Dr. Ray M. Bowen said having a strong information system is cru cial for A&M to be competitive with other schools. He also said he wants A&M to set the standard for imaging systems. Other A&M officials agree. “We believe that we will have the finest information retrieval system in the country,” said Joseph Estrada, assistant provost foreii- rollment. “We [believe] that other schools will come to Texas A&M to learn howthti can do this at their own schools.” Snowden said A&M’s system will he unique because it is built from the newest and most efficient technology. One such technological innovation is a scanner a paper feeder that can scan up to 60pages per minute. Teachers o i s It i p Directory Catfioftc (PresByterian St. Mary’s Catholic Center 603 Church Avenue in Northgate (979)846-5717 www.aqaiecatholic.org Pastoral Team Rev. Michael J. Sis, Pastor Rev. David A. 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(no Aggie Class in the summer only) fax: (979) 696-4334 www.covenantpresbyterian.org Continued from Page 7 Galvan has attended the con ference for two years and said that, this year, the conference has improved. “This year, the conference is smaller,” Galvan said, “and we get to be more personal.” Anshawna General, a 16- year-old junior from Houston who also has attended both years, said this year’s confer ence is much better because the high schoolers are allowed to participate in other activities involving the University, like going to the Student Recre ation Center and Memorial Student Center. “It’s a (great) experience to see a new college and to expand my knowledge on the teaching pro fession,” she said. “My mom teaches, my grandma teaches and a bunch of my other family members teach — so that’s why I’m thinking about it.” General said her personal ex periences and the conference have helped shape her thoughts on teaching. “As a. teacher, you’re sup posed to make your students feel like they can do whatever you try to teach them,” she said. The trip to the elementary school is one of several events the ExpLORE students have attended this week. Others in clude personal interaction with some of A&M’s education ma- FAIRPL The drive that overt mit of a n carrying f from Min Sunday oi less drivin A 17-ye in critical and three serious co passengei minor inju urday niql The bi teen-ager Burnsville, ed to Fror na Vista w the road near the f Kenosh off the ro olice saic of Education has been an excel lent learning experience. Lillard said the primary It- son she has learned from i Quake conference is that teachingre| SPOKA quires a lot of patience. Nodamat “I’ve always known that ported fn takes a lot of patience,” shesai- quakes tt “But then I heard the [pant Spokane, talk about student teaching Jf| The q h(>w its so draining.” 1 0:45 p.i She said the potential trife Saturday, tions of teaching are very scat patcher fc but she is still looking forward! ty Fire De getting into the classroom, The se “Being there for that onek| puakes str and seeing how you’ve touch* none their lives — that makes it® ° ve ^ worth it,” Lillard said. “leaf ed to brie jors. Stephanie Lillard, a 17-year- old high school senior from Dallas, said getting to know A&M’s campus and talking to a student panel widiin the College w-nt" chimneys ‘ , . broken di Evaluations will be given ^ ^ g the high school students afr yyy the conference to help theL causing n versify improve the program(i damage i future ExpLORE students, area but c Fast Christum First Christian Church 900 South Ennis, Bryan 823-5451 Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 10:45 a.m. Robert D. Chandler, Minister 1 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN \v 1 CHURCH y/ /I It* 1 Helping Aggies grow in faith 1 New Summer Hours: 1 Sunday School 9:00 a.m. a Worship 10:00 a.m. f 1100 Carter Creek Parkway www.fpcbryan.org Continued from Page 3 T he movie did manage to further support the stereo types of Asians, Hispanics and African Americans in the race scenes. The acting, the storyline and the overall feel of the movie is not nec essarily screaming, “block buster smash,” although it is just fun to watch this movie if one has $7 to waste. The Fast and the Furious may remind one of the movie Point Break, except it replaces surfboards with high-dollar imported cars. After the movie, be prepared to hear everyone who just got out of the theater revving his or her engines. Besides that, the movie can make one ponder: “Should! spend my hard-earned moff ey on that air intake and tuf bo charger 1 Ve been wantit for awhile?” Grade: D- — Di/jo Ran 'EpiscopaC United fbietfiodist St. Thomas Episcopal 906 George Bush Dr. • College Station, TX 696-1726 Summer services - 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. Next door to Canterbury House, the Episopal Student Center A&M United Methodist 417 University Dr. (on Northgate) • 846-8731 Church at 8:50 & 11:00 College Sunday School 9:45 Sr. Pastor Dr. Jerry Neff am-umc.org Summers are cool at First Baptist Brya Sundays: 9:30 a.m. 10:50 a.m. 5:45 p.m. College Bible Study Worship Service Worship & Fellowships Class of 20051 We have a special class for you this summer! Sundays, 9:30 a.m. Located on Texas Ave., 4 miles North of Univ. Drive • www.fbcbryan.org