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NEWSPAPER
THE UNIVERSITY
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
January 31, 2000 Vol. CXXXIX, No. 13
ISO to block illegal MP3 distributor
Technology: Officials say using ResNct to obtain music files slows network, has legal repercussions
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By BRENDAN LOY
Staff Writer
Citing concerns about potential copyright violations and an overall effort to reduce ethernet bandwidth usage, USC's Information Services Division is likely to block access to Napster, a program which allows Internet users to share and download MP3 music files, said Phil Reese, ISD executive director of the infrastructure core.
The shutdown is likely to happen sometime in the next week or so, Reese said. The decision to block Nupster has not been officially made yet, but several other colleges — Oregon State, Northwestern und Oxford universities among them — have already taken the step, and USC is likely to follow suit, he said.
"I have a feeling, given how many other schools have already tipped their hat...that it’s going to be, from a legal perspective, (that) we have to block that site,” Reese said. “So we'll end up just blocking that site, (and) you won’t be able to go to that IP address. And that’ll just happen."
Napster users share the MP3 files on their own hard drives while they are online, and are given access to the MP3s of other online users. Many of the MP3s which arc available on Napster are illegal because they are copyrighted songs, copied from CDs without permission by individual users. However, Napster officially disclaims responsibility for the legality or illegality of the songs being shared by its users.
‘Thousands of MP3 files have been authorized for distribution on the internet by copyright owners; however, Napster users should understand that M P3 files may have been created or distributed without copyright owner authorization,” reads a statement on the Napster login screen. “Neither the MP3 file format nor the Napster software indicates whether a particular MP3 file has been authorized for copying or distribution. Copying or distributing unauthorized MP3 files may violate United States and/or foreign copyright laws. Compliance with copyright law remains your responsibility.”
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Day allows students to volunteer in surrounding community
Event Friends and Neighbors gives opportunity to help in 14 locations, including homeless shelters, schools
By MEREDITH COOPER
Student Senate Writer
Student Senate participated for the first time with the Volunteer Center’s Friends and Neighbors Day on Saturday, which gave USC students an opportunity to help the surrounding community at 14 locations.
Volunteer locations included local schools, homeless shelters and a community theater. They participated in a variety of community service activities
—	including painting, gardening and
cleaning.
In addition to it being the first year of Senate’s involvement, it was also the first time students from the community came to USC. About 120 sixth-, seventh-and eighth-graders from Watts came to participate in leadership and service workshops.
This is the fifth year Friends and Neighbors Day has taken place, and the third during the spring semester. When it‘started, it was a fall activity, but the Volunteer Center decided to recreate the event during the spring in as well. This spring, they decided to make the spring event as large as the fall one.
Three hundred USC students were expected to participate, with another 200 to 300 community members included as well. The numbers were not as expected, with about 220 stu-
dent volunteers and another 150 community members.
“Not as many people came as I was expecting, but the turnout was great in that all the projects had really great service,” said Tim Mechlinski, student coordinator of the event and a senior majoring in French and sociology. “I’m really happy with the turnout because this was the first time we tried to make the spring event the size of the fall event, and it was bigger than in past years.”
In addition to individual students, about six campus organizations were involved as groups, including the USC Helenes, who helped paint murals for ARTSCorpLA, a community arts park and the Trojan Knights, who painted a local school.
“Friends and Neighbors Day is good if you want to be involved with
the community without a huge time commitment,” said Anthony Gomes, Senate director of Community Outreach and a junior majoring in broadcast journalism.
To attract students, the Volunteer Center gave fliers to Resident Advisors in addition to sending e-mails and phoning those who participated in the past.
The three-hour community service-project consisted of breakfast when the volunteers arrived, followed by signups, during which people chose the activity in which they wanted to participate. They then either walked or took a bus to one of the 14 locations. When the activities were finished, the volunteers returned to school for lunch.
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‘Where the glory is’
By GRACE LEE
Staff Writer
When Tom Lopez dies, he want his remains to be scattered throughout the Coliseum, where his ghost will trip USC rivals trying to score a touchdown.
If Lopez sounds like an ’SC grad pining for his college days, he isn’t. The self-described “ultimate Trojan” never attended USC.
Nevertheless, Lopez made it to the semi-finals of an online Fan of the Century essay contest by revealing his hopes for a Trojan afterlife.
“I made my family and friends promise me under oath that when I
Though he never went to USC, essay contest finalist calls himself ‘ultimate Trojan'
die, my body would be cremated and stored in a Trojan football helmet so that during halftime at the next football game," Lopez wrote in his essay. They would run onto the sacred Trojan empire battlefield and sprinkle my ashes over the site where the glory is.”
Lopez entered the essay contest sponsored by FANSonly Network, a network provider for university athletic departments, after reading
about it in the online Daily Trojan. FANSonly viewers cast their votes on the internet. “I wanted to represent the school in my own little way," Lopez said. I didn’t care about winning."
Although Lopez attended UC Riverside for financial reasons and graduated in 1988 with a health science degree, he’s been a Trojan in spirit all his life.
“I was born a Trojan," he said. “My father and uncle were all Trojans. The first family member to got to USC was a cousin, who graduated and I have another cousin there now who’s in the band. I want my children to go there some day.”
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Strong support. Tom Lope/, with son Markus, graduated from UC Riverside but wants his ashes scattered throughout the Coliseum.