THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2007
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Software keeps a Christian eye on porn addicts
Covenant Eyes tracks Web addresses informs a friend of questionable sites
BY SARAH NEFF
sneff@kansan.com
It can start with a simple click on a link. Suddenly, a window pop up on your computer screen with photos and videos of naked people in various sexual positions.
Some people close the window and don't think anything of it. For others, it opens the door to pornography addiction.
Campus Crusade for Christ offers a voluntary solution to pornography addiction. The computer program, Covenant Eyes, installs itself on the computer, then tracks all the URLs the addict visits. The program sends a report to a friend the addict chooses as an accountability partner. All questionable sites are highlighted in red. The program also includes a panic button, which blocks Internet access until the addict calls customer support.
The addict pays a monthly fee to use the program, but the organization offers a discount for students. The person cannot take the Covenant Eyes program off the computer without the permission of the accountability partner.
One Dallas junior said he had been looking at pornography online since high school. He said he started using the program about a year ago after he realized his behavior conflicted with his Christian beliefs. "I just wanted some accountability," he said.
Chaz Stele, Lawrence resi
udent and former University of Kansas student, plays accountability partner for five students at the University. He said he had struggled with pornography addiction for about six years before he found the Covenant Eyes program.
"I realized I had a problem long before I became a Christian," Stele said. "I had a really bad conscience, and I thought it was morally wrong to look at women fornicating with men on the Internet. Then I met some guys in Campus Crusade for Christ that introduced me to the program."
Stele said a friend volunteered to be his accountability partner and called him weekly. Together, they figured out the triggers that provoked him to look at pornography and eventually, he overcame his addiction.
Stele said overcoming his addiction made him want to help others with their addictions.
He said he had several methods to help his friends through their addictions. In addition to weekly phone calls and counseling sessions, Steele said, he sometimes has the addicted friend write a Bible verse on a note card to look at while walking around on campus. That way, the friend can have something to look at rather than staring lustfully at girls.
For more information about Campus Crusade for Christ and the Covenant Eyes program, visit www.kucru.com/resources.
—Edited by Tara Smith
TELEVISION
Strike forces late-night shows to air reruns
BY GARY GENTILE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES - Americans may be getting more sleep after Hollywood writers went on strike Monday and forced the nation's late-night talk shows to start airing runs.
NBC said "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" would immediately air repeats. Still, Leno made an appearance at the Burbank studio, arriving on a motorcycle to visit strikers walking a picket line.
CBS said "The Late Show with David Letterman" would also offer repeats all week. The list of casualties included every other major late-night show.
Members of the Writers Guild of America picket NBC headquarters in New York on Monday. Film and TV writers to put down their pens and take up picket signs after last-ditch talks failed to avert a strike.
The first strike by Hollywood writers in nearly 20 years got under way with noisy pickets on both coasts after last-minute negotiations on Sunday failed to produce a deal on payments to writers from shows offered on the Internet.
Nick Counter, chief negotiator for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, said he expected a long standoff.
"From our standpoint, we made every good faith effort to negotiate a deal, and they went on strike." he
said. "At some point, conversations will take place. But not now."
The strike will not immediately
impact production of movies or prime-time TV programs. Most studios have stockpiled dozens of movies
scripts, and TV shows have enough scripts or completed shows in hand to last until early next year.
》 NASA
Shuttle to fly over Midwest before landing
BY MARCIA DUNN ASSOCIATED PRESS
On the ride home Wednesday, the space shuttle will make the first coast-to-coast re-entry since Columbia shattered in the sky over Texas in 2003 and sent tens of thousands of pounds of wreckage raining
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Shuttle Discovery's astronauts surveyed the wings of their ship Monday to ensure a safe descent over the American heartland after leaving the international space station.
down on at least two states.
Discovery was not supposed to re-enter over the entire United States
re-enter over the entire United States — just Florida after zooming up from the southwest over Central America and the Caribbean. But that original plan would have entailed a pre-dawn landing, and shuttle commander Pamela Melroy preferred a safer, easier touchdown in daylight, said shuttle program manager Wayne Hale.
This 15-day mission is longer than most — and more stressful, too, with the astronauts' impromptu repair to
the torn solar wing at the space station. As a result, crew fatigue must be considered. Hale said.
Discovery's new path will have it descending early Wednesday afternoon over the Canadian coast and the Pacific Northwest, down across the Midwest and the South, and on into Florida.
"For an undamaged orbiter — and we'll confirm that it's undamaged — this constitutes a very minimal and deemed to be a safe risk to Fly over the middle of the United States," Hale said.
The thorough inspection used the same laser- and camera-tipped boom that two weeks ago found Discovery's heat shield to be free of any significant launch damage. Monday's check was for any strikes by micrometeorites or space junk in orbit.
Engineers will review this late data into Tuesday, and only then will mission managers give Discovery the green light to come home.
Shuttle Atlantis, meanwhile, is being prepped for launch as early as Dec. 6 to the space station.
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