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- Journalism at its Finest
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- Bah. I say that to journalism when I read some of the shit they print
- and expect us to believe. In this case I have no doubt that 90% of who
- read the following article believed it. They don't know better, but a few
- of us who know the guys and actually took interest in what the hell really
- happened know that this article is complete bullshit. This was printed in
- the Texas Tech UD which is ditributed campus-wide and is basically free to
- the students. Read it through real quick.
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- TWO TECH SOPHOMORES FACING FRAUD CHARGES
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- Two Texas Tech Students face federal and state prosecution and a former Tech
- student faces federal charges for computer fraud after the Secret Service
- confiscated $5,000 of computer equipment and $20,000 of software Dec.15 on
- the second floor of Sneed Hall.
- Tech's Housing and Dining Services requested that one of the suspects
- move out of Sneed Hall because of rule violations detailed in the residence
- hall contract, Housing and Dining Director James Burkhalter said.
- According to the contract, the University reserves the right to cancel
- the contract when a student "disrupts the orderly administration and
- function of the university and any of its activities."
- "Any violation of the Code of Student Conduct and the housing policies
- require that the students face either a residence hall disciplinary
- committee or a university committee," Assistand Director of Housing and
- Dining Services LeQuice Lancaster said. "The hearings determine whether
- the students have behaved in a manner which requires removal from the
- residence hall."
- Secret Service Agent Dave Freriks said, "Computer fraud is going to
- become major target for government law enforcement. Although this was not a
- big raid for the Secret Service, it was signifigant for the west texas area.
- Computer fraud costs software companies about $500 million per year,
- Freriks said. A signifigant portion of computer hacking occurs at
- universities because students have time to work on computers and have access
- to computer networks, he said.
- "This problem is quite prevalent on university campuses." Freriks said.
- "In this case, the students just wanted the games and the progrms and couldn't
- afford them."
- The Secret Service investigation began in May when Tech's academic
- computing services could not use the computer system' disks because they were
- full.
- The two 21-year-old sophomores accessed Tech's mainframe computer by using
- account numbers giving to them by the Tech Library. The mainframe
- electronically transmitted a worldwide computer bulletin board that was used
- to request and receive pirated computer programs.
- The former Tech student used a campus organization's computer access code
- to enter the Tech system, said University News and Publications Assistant
- Director Steve Kauffman.
- The former student confessed to pirating $6,000 worth of software during
- summer 1992. He was expelled in July for misusing the Tech computer system.
- The students also used the computer to contact people in Belguim,
- Australia, and Israel, Freriks said. The students probably have been breaking
- into the computer system since Nov.1991, he said.
- According to "Computers, the Law, and You." an academic Computng Services
- publication, students are expected to use Tech computers ethically. Tech
- reserves the right to monitor all accounts to ensure the software and
- computer equipment are used properly.
- Copying , adapting, and electronically transmitting computer software if
- forbidden unless the purpose of the copies is archival, or the copier receives
- written permission from the copyright holder, the publication states.
- "Many network resources are provided by the U.S. Government," the
- publication states."Abuse of the system thus becomes a federal matter above
- and beyond simple professional ethics."
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- ARTICLE TITLE: TWO TECH SOPHOMORES FACING FRAUD CHARGES
- ARTICLE AUTHOR: SANDRA PULLEY
- PUBLICATION: UNIVERSITY DAILY
- DATE: THURSDAY, JANURARY 21, 1993
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- Ok. Harmless enough right? Well, one of the two sophomores they
- are talking about sorta wrote an article in response to it. He simply
- points out some of the mistakes of the article and corrects a few facts
- that were wrong. Read his reply.
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- Dear Editor:
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- I am writing in response to a front page article on
- Jan. 21 titled "Two Tech Sophomores Facing Fraud Charges,"
- written by Sandra Pulley. It disturbs me as to where some of
- Ms. Pulley's fact originate from.
- Ms. Pulley says that "the Secret Service confiscated
- $5000 of computer equipment and $20,000 of software Dec. 15
- on the second floor of Sneed Hall." First of all, the raid
- occurred on Monday, December 14th, not the 15th. Also, U.S.
- Department of the Treasury, Secret Service Resident Agent R.
- David Freriks said at the Dec. 15th press conference in the
- Lubbock Federal Building, that a dollar amount could not be
- placed on the confiscated equipment, the value of the
- software found, nor the actual loss to the software
- manufacturers. The Texas Tech Department for Police Services
- released a dollar amount of $3000 for the equipment
- confiscated. No dollar amount has been released for the
- value of the software, nor the loss to the software
- manufactures by any source other than the University Daily in
- the mentioned article. Also, all of the confiscations from
- the room in Sneed Hall were handled by the Texas Tech Police,
- not the Secret Service as stated in the article.
- Farther down in the article Housing and Dining Assistant
- Director LeQuice Lasater is quoted as saying, "`Any violation
- of the Code of Student Conduct and the housing policies
- require [sic] that a student face either a residence hall
- disciplinary hearing committee or a university committee.'"
- The student that was "requested to move out of Sneed Hall"
- was not given a hearing of any kind, so far, and was not
- "requested" to leave; his contract with Housing and Dining
- was terminated and he was given 72 hours to move off campus.
- The article states that the students received account
- numbers from the Tech Library. Granted that the Advanced
- Technology Learning Center (ATLC) is housed below the
- library, but they are an individual entity, not a part of the
- library. There are several other inaccuracies in the said
- article, but since the other mistakes were also made in the
- Associated Press story, according to the Houston Chronicle's
- Special Projects writer, Joe Abernathy, I will not bore you
- with the details.
- I do not mean to attack Sandra Pulley's abilities as a
- news writer, I just want her and the other UD writers to be a
- little more accurate and careful with their facts.
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- Ok. Simple, to the point, and factual. No prob right? Well, the
- UD decided it wouldn't print that for the following reasons according
- to the person who wrote the response to the article.
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- They refused the letter because I spent too much space "attacking the writer"
- and not enough "dealing with the facts" that were released in the article...
-
- Pardon me, but I did not put one bit of personal knowledge, I wrote that
- letter from the AP wire report, the press conference transcript, and the press
- releases from the school... (the same sources a reporter should use!!!) and
- I never used the numbers and facts that the prosecuting attorney have, or
- those that my lawyer and I have estimated... those are for private ears
- only... so I am kinda suspicious that the UD is afraid that I might ruin
- the credibility of an up and coming journalist... looks to me that maybe she
- has no credibility to be ruined...
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- In the journalists defence, she swears up and down that Freriks gave her
- those numbers, but he says he has given no information out, except at the
- press conferenc and the official press releases... so I am still
- wondering....
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- Ok. You ask why the hell I am writing this file? It is one word
- against the other? Hmm. Don't think so. I think that the reporter just
- needed an article and printed what s/he could to get it in on time and
- didn't bother too much with facts. If that is the case then you need to
- think about other papers. These college reporters are the ones that later
- grow up and write for the bigger papers, the shit your parents read. Now
- if those papers are full of people that don't bother with the facts too much
- then we have a serious problem. The paper wouldn't print the letter to the
- editor. Why? He is right. They are scared of getting a bad name. But why
- does it matter? It is a free paper and students will read it regardless of
- reputation most likely.
- It all begins here. Point of this file is to make you realize that
- newspapers and TV news shows might not be as factual as you think. They are
- just as biased as the people that write for them. Think about what you read
- and hear from them, and do NOT take things for fact all the time.
-
- -Dam
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- PS- We are behind you..."sophomores".
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