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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.
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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
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said. An aneurysm is a bulge on
a blood vessel. In the aorta,
aneurysms can burst and kill
nearly instantly.
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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.
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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.
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school is one of several events
the ExpLORE students have
attended this week. Others in
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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
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bo charger 1 Ve been wantit
for awhile?” Grade: D-
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