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Teaching experience benefits city commissioner
BY STEPHANE FARLEY
stafley@kansan.com
KANSAN STATE WINTER
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Sue Hack was in one stall. Another woman sat in the stall next to hers. The woman had followed her into the bathroom and was ready to talk about city issues.
The woman struck up a conversation.
it was the strangest place someone has ever approached Hack about anything concerning Lawrence, she said.
Sue Hack has been making herself accessible to the citizens of Lawrence officially as a city commissioner since 2001. Hack also served as mayor from April 2002 until April 2003.
Hack thought she wanted to be an elementary school teacher when she came to the University of Kansas as a freshman in 1965. After taking a
She has taught in the Lawrence school system even longer.
couple of classes, she decided elementary education wasn't for her, she said.
She received her degree in education in 1970 and has been teaching junior high school students ever since.
One of Hack's favorite childhood memories is traveling with her family, she said. She said she and her siblings intentionally aggravated one another in the car, as children often do.
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"I don't know why my parents didn't dump us out on the side of the road." she said.
Hack said she was never in one place long enough to establish long-term friendships during her childhood.
"That's why Lawrence has been such a wonderful spot for me, because I've lived here longer than I've lived anywhere else," Hack said. "And the friendships I have here date back to college time."
Sue Hack at her home yesterday morning
Hack moved to Lawrence in July of 1971 to start teaching at
South Junior High School, 2734 Louisiana St. She has taught at all four junior high schools in Lawrence.
Aside from teaching English, she has also taught American history and government to students. Politics had always been
in the back of Hack's mind, she said.
"I remember studying the Constitution when i was in the seventh grade and thinking, 'I think I need to live in Washington, D.C.,' she said.
Sam Campbell, Lawrence resident, said he had known Hack since the late '60s when they met at the University. She has other's best interests at heart with whatever she does, he said.
"I think she's probably the most balanced commissioner we have." Campbell said.
Hack said she wanted to help businesses and people solve their conflicts by talking about
and she felt that wasn't hap-
When Hack first became a commissioner, she was a fulltime teacher. She taught part-time for the first year she was on the commission, but she didn't have enough time to continue teaching when she became mayor, she said, so she retired.
"If I could have done both, I would have," she said. "I don't know how people with full-time jobs do this job and do it well."
Despite the time commitment, Hack is the only commissioner who has announced she would
try for re-election in April 2005. Commissioner David Dunfield has said he would not run again, and Commissioner David Sclauner has not officially announced whether he would try for re-election. The terms of other two city commissioners, Mike Rundle and Dennis Highberger, will not expire until 2006.
Hack said teaching adolescents helped her develop some of the patience she needed to serve on the commission.
"You have to have a fairly thick skin," said Hack, the only commissioner to vote against the smoking ban last May. "People aren't always going to like what you do."
She said she threw up before the first couple of commission meetings she attended, but the problem got better.
Film industry joins fight against students' illegal file sharing
"There's always more work to be done," she said.
- Edited by Bill Cross
BY JONATHAN KEALING
jkealeng@kansan.com
KANSN'S STAFF WRITER
If it were not for the threat of lawsuits, Alex Melin would probably still be downloading movies.
But an e-mail that the Garden City junior received in 2002, during his second semester at the University of Kansas, halted his downloading activities.
KU Information Services notified him that he had been targeted by the Motion Picture Association of America. Individuals affiliated with the MPAA had nabbed his Internet protocol address as one that was illegally offering a movie up for download, he said.
In the e-mail, Melin was told to delete a copy of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which he
downloaded over the Kazaa peer-to-peer file-sharing network. If he had chosen to ignore the e-mail, he could have been sued.
Melin complied.
Last month, the MPAA and its international affiliate, the Motion Picture Association, began filing lawsuits against individuals who let others download copyrighted movies through file-sharing systems.
Fines can range from $30,000 to $150,000 per download, with the higher penalties for willful violations, according to U.S. copyright law.
Settlements in music-downloading suits have been for about $3,000 per person.
ResNet only intervenes in students' illegal download when an industry notifies it, like in Melin's case. said Allison Rose Lopez, public relations and marketing manager for KU Information Services.
Association of America sued two KU students earlier this year for downloading music, but no students have come forward so far saying they have been subpoenaed by the MPAA for downloading movies.
First, a student receives an email, which tells he or she to delete the offending material and take an online quiz on copyright and Internet laws.
until the individual files are deleted and another quiz is completed. Students must get perfect scores before their access is restored.
A three-step process is initi ed after ResNet has been notified.
The offender's port is shut off if the files are not deleted. Access won't be granted again
The RIAA, and now the MPAA, have switched to what are known as "John Doe" lawsuits. A John Doe suit is a lawsuit against an IP address. A subpoena is then issued to the address issuing Internet service provider, forcing it to release the user's name and contact information.
Lopez said a student would lose all access if he chose to download again.
The MPAA identifies violators with a process that was first used and legally tested by the RIAA in its effort to stem the illegal downloading of music.
Members of the MPAA have contracted with an undisclosed company to identify violators.
The company first connects to a peer-to-peer network, such as Kazaa, and searches for a particular movie title. It then obtains the IP address of whoever is offering the file for download and acquires a complete copy, according to an MPAA release.
Charter Communications, a cable and Internet provider in St. Louis, was recently subpoenaed by the MPAA.
The subpoena requested the names of 18 customers who the association said had violated copyright laws, Larry Christopher, vice president and senior counsel for litigation, said.
The industry files suit once this is accomplished.
Charter has taken an aggressive stance of its own in fighting previous subpoenaes. In the first lawsuits filed by the Recording
Industry Association of America, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was used in the RIAA's attempt to acquire the offenders' names. Charter and other companies filed lawsuits that attempted to block abuse of the DMCA. Christopher said.
But Frank Wiles, Sunflower Broadband's information technology manager, said that more lawsuits were inevitable.
Melin disagrees with the MPAA's actions even though his downloading is in the past. He said illegal downloading was a victimless crime that had received too much attention.
"There's not a single person the MPAA could go to and say 'the reason this person was fired is because you downloaded a movie,'" he said.
- Edited by Paige Worthy
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