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By Nathan Olson
Kansan staff writer
While the Internet has been rendered impotent at Carnegie Mellon University, KU students can still log on to get off.
Last month, Carnegie Mellon, located in Pittsburgh, eliminated access to three pornographic newsgroups on Usenet News. News is one portion of the Internet and contains more than 3,500 topics of discussion, known as newsgroups.
The three newsgroups the university eliminated were "alt.binary.pict ures.erotic,a," "alt.binary.pictures.erotica." and "alt.binary.pictures.tasteless." The groups contained text files that, when properly decoded, showed pornographic pictures.
The university decided to eliminate the newsgroups because it feared that it could be held responsible for the contents of the newsgroups under Pennsylvania obscenity laws.
While a few other universities, such as Pennsylvania State University, have taken similar steps, KU has not. Bob Sloane, system software programmer and analyst for Academic Computing Services, said the newgroups containing encoded pictures had been available since June 1992.
"For a long time, we didn't carry them because of disk space," he said. "When we purchased a new hard disk, we added them."
Sloane said that his main concern when adding the newsgroups had been whether legal problems would arise with the distribution of copyrighted materials. Many of the pictures in the newsgroups are pictures scanned from pornographic magazines such as Playboy.
"The ones with picture files are very large, usually about one megabyte," he said. A megabyte is one million bytes.
Sloane said that he would not remove newsgroups based on their content, but he might if disk space became a problem. The disk is about 75 to 80 percent full.
After a discussion with the director of Academic Computing Services, Sloane said, it was decided that the University would not be liable, and the newsgroups were added.
"Right now, the groups aren't causing any problems," he said.
"Normal articles are perhaps one-henth of that." he said.
"People should be able to get what they want, regardless of what the university wants," he said.
Videthecharoen said that this was one example of how the Internet was losing its place as a forum for free expression.
The elimination of the newsgroups amounts to a form of censorship, said Jay Vidhecharoen, St. Louis sonhomore.
"It's really bad because we aren't getting the information we want," he said.
By David Wilson
Kansan staff writer
"In state after state, the Supreme Court has said that once resumes and vitae are sent in, they become public record," Montgomery told members of University Council yesterday after one member asked about the issue. "I know he disagrees, but he's confusing two laws."
John Montgomery, member of the Board of Regents and publisher of the Junction City Daily Union, said his colleague in the publishing business, Dolph Simons Jr., publisher of Lawrence Journal-World, was misinterpreting the law in his assertion that the names of the five finalists for University of Kansas chancellor should be kept secret.
Under the Kansas Open Meetings Act, meetings of public officials, including the Regents, are required to be open — except when officials are discussing personnel matters, such as the hiring of a chancellor.
"There's no question that we can go into executive session and interview these candidates in private," he said. "But our legal counsel's opinion is that these are public records."
But the resumes of applicants for the chancellor's position, Montgomery said, fall under the Kansas Open Records Act and must be released to news media.
In his "Saturday Column," which runs in the Journal-World, Simons has criticized the decision of the Regents to release the names of the finalists. Releasing the names of the finalists would make them appear unhappy with their current jobs, he says.
"No first-class university conducts a search in this manner," he said earlier this semester. "We're going to lose numerous individuals who don't want it known that they are out looking."
But refusing to release the names of the finalists would be a mistake, Montgomery said. If a news agency were to file a suit in response,
search committees in the future would be forced to release the names of all applicants — not just the finalists.
"If we test this in court, we wouldn't get by with releasing the names of the five," he said. "We'd have to release one's name."
According to an article published in Tuesday's Journal-World, Attorney General Bob Stephan said no law required the Regents to release the names of the finalists.
In the article, Stephan said the Legislature could pass a law to make the chancellor search process confidential.
Next weekend, the 17-member chancellor search committee will interview 12 of the 16 semifinalists for the chancellor's position. Four of the semifinalists already have been interviewed.
At a Dec. 7 meeting, the committee will choose five finalists and will submit their names to the Regents on Dec. 15. The Regents are expected to select a chancellor in January.
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