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Accused spy tells all
Speaker Wen Ho Lee tells students about his experiences with the FBI
By KATIE FLYNN
Staff Writer
Wen Ho Lee, who was accused of of spying on nuclear secrets, said Wednesday his encounters with the FBI were a three-year nightmare and advised journalists to be more accurate in their reporting. Lee survived imprisonment,false accusations and biased media coverage.
The FBI accused Lee, a nuclear weapons engineer from Los Alamos, NM, of committing espionage three years ago. The FBI arrested Lee for allegedly giving nuclear secrets to China after downloading classified files from his computer at work. He was arrested after moving to the United States from Taiwan, receiving a doctorate at Texas A&M University, and then working in a nuclear weapons lab as an engineer.
He was in solitary confinement for nine months and charged with 59 counts of espionage. Eventually a New Mexico Supreme Court judge
dropped 58 of the 59 charges after the government was unable to give adequate evidence of Lee’s guilt. Although the FBI has dropped charges regarding his ties to China, they still accuse him of downloading classified files, Lee said.
“I had lost my files (on the computer) so many times in the course of changing (computers) so I decided to download the files and put it on tape to protect them,” Lee told the Communication 310 class.
While in jail, Lee was kept in shackles in a cell with no windows.
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Cover to cover. Wen Ho Lee shows off his autobiography, “My Country Versus Me.”
USC honored for its students, academics
Recognition: The university is one of four schools commended for supportive faculty and public service
Copyright violations policy revisited
ISD: Notices of illegal downloads sent to students;
By SHERRY ANNE RUBIANO
Contributing Writer
Getting recognized as one of the four Truman Schplarship Honor Institutions for 2001 means much more to USC than hanging another plaque on the wall.
“It acknowledges the quality of our students and our academic programs geared toward public service and recognizes the time and effort of the many staff and faculty who support students in their pursuit of special opportunities,” said Margaret Harrington, the USC rep-
resentative for the Truman Scholarship program.
Along with Occidental College, the University of Kentucky and the U.S. Air Force Academy, USC was honored by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation for its continual promotion of the Truman Scholarship and the number of students who have received this award. Faculty, alumni and guests celebrated the honor at a reception
Wednesday night at the Faculty Center.
The mission of the foundation is to find and recognize college juniors with leadership potential who are committed to careers in the area of public service and give them financial support, leadership training and fellowship.
The foundation selects approximately 75 out of the 600 to 800 stu-
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USC officials cracking down
By DENISE OSHODI
Staff Writer
Resurgence in copyright infringement prompted USC to send e-mails to all students informing them that using the university network to share copyrighted files without permission was illegal.
“There was an increased number of communications from these security companies representing the recording industry, primarily, and some from the motion picture (industry) notifying the university of students who were downloading and illegally distributing (copyrighted material),” said Michael Jackson, vice president of Student Affairs.
Some students have been warned for using these programs since last semester.
“About four weeks into the school year, they sent me some e-mail that said something along the lines of that I violated spme sort of regulation,” said Christian Caravia, a freshman majoring in economics.
According to the USC Web account policy on the Information Services Division’s first-login page,
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Privacy
Policy
USC prohibits using its network to download copyrighted files through peer-to-peer services, such as Napster or Gnutella. The university's official position on this policy can be viewed at www.usc.edu/ isd/policies.
Past to present
March on. Kevin Marshall Pinkney, a freshman majoring in theater re-enacts Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech from the March on Washington in 1963. The
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Black Entertainment Theatrical Association, which was founded in 2002 to showcase the talents of non-theater students, sponsored the event.
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Enron crisis will not affect recruiting
By ROBB FERRIS
Staff Writer
Despite Arthur Andersen’s alleged involvement in the recent collapse of Enron, a Houston-based energy company, there will be little effect on the accounting firm’s close recruiting relationship with USC.
Andersen has been at the center of the controversy ever since the veracity of the audit it performed on the energy giant was questioned. The company was fired as Enron’s auditing service last week.
One of the five largest financial service firms in the world, Andersen recruits heavily at the Marshall School of Business and Leventhal School of Accounting. Dozens of USC alumni work at the Los Angeles branch and one professorship in the accounting school is named for the company.
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