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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2008
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BY LUKE MORRIS
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The Web site works much like YouTube, the world's most popular video Web site. Users who register with the Web site can post their own videos for anyone who visits the Web site to see. Also like YouTube, the site allows users to add other users as friends, gather videos into a playlist, and join groups with other users. Sweat said these features were added to make the site a social networking tool.
A new Web site has emerged with hopes of becoming the top source for college videos, but some videos on the site may have been posted illegally.
"We're trying to provide an atmosphere for college fans to express themselves as freely as they can," Theumiversitytube.com president Ashley Sweat said. "We feel we're providing a place to do that through video."
Sweat said that he wanted the site to encompass all types of college-related videos.
Theuniversitytube.com was started in November and has already expanded to compile Internet videos for 124 universities, each with its own Web page.
One of the users has posted televised broadcasts of Kansas athletic events on the Web site. The user, 13Hawk, has posted games from this year and previous years, including the 2008 Orange Bowl and Kansas men's basketball game against Marquette in the 2003 Final Four.
"In the future we want frats on campus and drama clubs on campus posting their event and plays." Sweat said. "And marketing students can post their marketing videos from class and share those with other schools."
But for the time being, sports-related videos dominate most universities' Web pages. Videos on the University of Kansas' page include the Rock Chalk Chant in Allen Fieldhouse and a Kansas State fan singing "Tm a lajahawk" after losing a bet on the 2007 Sunflower Showdown football game. Many universities' sites have videos taken from ESPN.com. The videos are clips from various ESPN television programs that the network allows users to post online using embed codes.
The user, who asked not to be named for fear of legal ramifications, said that he did it for friends who couldn't see the game in other parts of the world.
Associate athletics director Jim Marchiony said that Kansas didn't own the rights to any of the posted games, but said that he didn't like the idea of the video being posted online without
"I did it for my wife's friend who's stationed in Iraq and for family in Colorado who are out of the range for the KU games," the user said.
A representative from CBS said that the network would look further into the possible legal problems with the Web site. Representatives from ESPN and the Big 12 Conference did not return phone calls from The Kansan.
He claimed that copyright laws extended to rebroadcasting the games for personal gain. He said that he was fine because he didn't receive anything for posting the games online.
Michael Hoefflich, professor of law, said that even though Hawk13 didn't gain anything from posting the videos, he still violated copyright laws.
"It may be stretching the laws a bit, but I'll be fine" he said.
proper consent from the owners.
"I don't know if they have licenses for this, but if they don't, that's bad," Marchiony said. "I don't like to see people's property being used for purposes that they have not approved of. I just think there's something inherently wrong with that."
Sweat said that he was seeking advice to make sure that the Web site was following copyright laws, but he personally felt the site was doing nothing wrong.
According to Theuniversitytube, com's user code of conduct, users are not allowed to post "illegal or unauthorized copies of copyrighted work." The policy also says that users are responsible for the material they post.
Hoefflich said that it was doubtful that the terms in the code of conduct would keep Theuniversitytube.com legally safe.
"We're not out to break laws," Sweat said. "The whole premise behind the network is to provide a clean atmosphere for university fans to express themselves."
—Edited by Matt Hirschfeld
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KANSAS
Grass is getting greener for Greensburg Town to begin environmentally-conscious construction next month
BY JENNIFER TORLINE editor@kansan.com
A group of 22 KU students will help rebuild a greener Greensburg. The project is a part of a Discovery Channel documentary that is filming in the western Kansas town that was obliterated in May by a tornado.
The students are expected to arrive in Greensburg in March. Filming has been ongoing for several months and the series is tentatively scheduled to appear next fall, Ballard said.
The 13-part series, titled "Eco-Town," is being produced by actor Leonardo DiCaprio's company, Appian Way Productions, said Chris Ballard, the treasurer for the Greensburg Center for the Arts. Ballard said that the documentary would depict the rebuilding of Greensburg as the world's first environmentally-friendly town.
"I hope it's really focused on the efforts of rebuilding," said Sarah Boedeker, an Edwardsville, Ill., architecture graduate student. "It's good to show that KU is educating people about things that are really important."
Architecture graduate students in Studio 804, a program led by Dan Rockhill professor architecture, are designing and constructing a sustainable building that they hope will be used as a fine arts center.
"We saw it as an opportunity to help a neighborhood in Kansas rebuild," said Jenny Kevitt, a Victoria architecture graduate student.
Members of Studio 804 started planning on Jan. 3 and set a goal for the building to become certified according to the Leadership in
LEED certified buildings use recyclable materials such as bamboo cabinets and, in this case, reclaimed wood from the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant southeast of Lawrence. The fine arts center will include environmentally-friendly systems such as solar panels, a wind turbine and a gutter system that recaptures storm water. The building will also have grass on the roof, which acts as insulation.
Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system.
"The environmentally-friendly systems provide an opportunity for us to showcase what can be done to buildings that will help us be responsible citizens," said Ballard.
When the students deconstructed the Sunflower Plant building on Jan. 9, several filmmakers taped and interviewed students for the documentary.
"I've always thought that if I was interviewed on camera, I would be really nervous," Kivett said. "But I'm just telling them what is going on in my life."
This week, students will begin constructing the fine arts building in Lawrence. They will build it in seven pieces that will be shipped to Greensburg. The students will spend a month in Greensburg putting it together on site.
The students hope to have the building completed by May 4, the one-year anniversary of the tornado.
"I hope that it will help us to build a better town," Ballard said, "a better area and a better world through providing a positive example."
Edited by Matt Hirschfeld
WORLD
Tension mounts as more Iraqi civilians are killed
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military faced complaints Tuesday from its Sunni allies over claims that more civilians had been killed by American
forces — amplifying tensions as the Pentagon tries to calm anger over an airstrike last week that claimed innocent lives.
The latest deaths occurred when U.S. soldiers — acting on tips —
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stormed a squat, mud-brick house in the village of Adwar, 10 miles south of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit. The area is home to many former members of Saddam's regime, and has been the frequent site of American raids.
But Iraqi police, relatives and neighbors said a couple and their 19-year-old son were shot to death in their beds.
The U.S. military said a gunbattle broke out after the troops came under small-arms fire by two suspected terrorists. It acknowledged a woman was killed and a child was wounded, but said it was not clear who shot them. Two other men were killed and the military described them as insurgents.
Americans against al-Qaida in Iraq. The mistaken shootings threaten to jeopardize the fragile relationship between the Americans and their new Sunni partners.
The killings illustrate the increasing difficulty in identifying the enemy as the nature of the U.S.-led war in Iraq has changed. Many former insurgents and tribal leaders have joined forces with the
It was the second time in as many days that the U.S. military conceded involvement in the death of Iraqi civilians, On Monday, the military said it had accidentally killed nine Iraqi civilians, including a child, in an airstrike Saturday targeting al-Qaida in Iraq south of Baghdad.
American and Iraqi commanders say the Sunni uprising has helped drive al-Qaida from the belts around Baghdad and forced extremists to hunt for new havens in northern Iraq. As areas have been cleared, more evidence of the brutality of the terror network has been uncovered
U. S.-backed tribesmen discovered about 50 bodies Tuesday in a mass grave in a former al-Qaida stronghold of Jazeerah near Lake Tharthar, northwest of Baghdad where hundreds of bodies have been unearthed in recent months, said Col. Mazin Younis Hussein, commander of a Samarra police unit.
A suicide bomber also struck the convoy of a sheik working with U.S. forces Tuesday in Taji, 12 miles north of Baghdad, killing two, police and the sheik said.
In a separate development, a new Iraqi flag — without the three green stars of Saddam Hussein's ousted Baath party — was hoisted Tuesday over the Iraqi Cabinet building in Baghdad in a symbolic break with the past.