Page 2 Porn downloads cripple network Zack Hample STJUT WRITER After receiving many com plaints last week from students who were unable to access the Internet and their Lotus Notes accounts, IT&S released an of ficial statement claiming that the problem is due to "under sexed perverts excessively viewing and downloading por M I Stuart Ringwalt, a junior, and Amanda Wheeler, a sophomore, help to clog the network by down loading full-length porn movies while' 'working'' at the circulation desk of the library. Week At Guilford Friday. .March 30th 1 p.m. Giant orgy (Founders Lobby) 5 p.m. Keg-stand contest, open to anyone over 12-years of age (a football suite in Bryan) G p.m. "Food" in the Cat 8 p.m. Union event that no one w ill attend Saturday, March 31st 1 p.m. Men's "Baseball " vs. A Much Better Team Nightlife NOTHING (nowhere) Sunday, April Ist 8 p.m. "The Simpsons" on FOX (your TV) Midnight Start writing the paper that is due in nine hours. 55 minutes (Bauman) Monday, April 2nd 7:30 p.m. The Ciuilfordiaii sponsors unlimited free -Guinness-beer-night-if-you-w rite a-semi-legible-article (Alisons room) Tuesday, April 3rd 8 p.m. Generic speaker on some issue of "vi tal importance (that new auditorium in Frank -- whatever it's called) Wednesday. April 4th 3:30 p.m. Weed nite, sponsored by Outdoors Club (The Pines) Thursday, April sth 7 p.m. - 12 a.m. Scrabble (who the hell would play Scrabble for five straight hours?!) 8 p.m. Coffeehouse, yet again, without coffee (Underground) 8 p.m. Singer/Actress Jennifer Lopez speaks on "Fat asses and how to cope with having one" (Puffy's bedroom) Snooze nographic material." Director of IT&S Rob Whitnell explained that "Guilford's crappy Internet con nection is slowing down because people are using Bauman to download full-length movies to their share-spaces and tapping into live webcasts from Mary Hobbs...to put it in perspective, the problem we faced with Napster was nothing compared to this." As a result, pro crastinators all over campus, crippled with the fear that they won't be able to do their last-minute online research, is sued a plea for help. IT&S and campus security responded promptly by institut ing a mandatory "buddy system," making it illegal to be in Bauman alone. ZACK HAMPLE The Goofordian I' m&E -iz I tk' jf Hp^B porn sites when she's rotswiphg Smart cards. Violators will face judicial charges and be forced to look at naked pictures of the women's rugby team. "We had to do this," said di rector of security Sylvia Chilcott. "I looked at the list of porn sites that people have vis ited, uh, as part of my job, of course, and, well, people are into some freaky [expletive deleted]." Chilcott mentioned a few of the popular sites, such as www.silentmeeti.ng orgy.com, www.kinky consensus.com, and www.barely-legal-petite shem ale-quaker cheerleaders.org. In addition, certain "ma ture/older" sites have been re ceiving hits, indicating that members of the faculty are also to blame. While the fight against porn continues, administrative sup port for porn on campus is steadily increasing because of nl i * I m * I rm* m *m m 1 . • Mr ' r** I ■ mm mm Greg Keener, office assistant fa student activities and events planning when he isn't looking up phone numbers or answering questions at the info desk, gawks at naked people. If you're as dumb as, say, the president of this country, we would like to kindly remind you that this is The Goofordian , not The GuUfordian . This, of course, means that all Goofordian ar ticles have no factual merit, and are simply an attempt to make you laugh. We intend no harm to anyone mentioned herein. By the way, if you had to read this in order to know that, you're an idiot. It's Serendipity: do you know where your substances are? ■, h( "• Si ■ Even Jeff Jeske, Guilfordian faculty advisor and English department professor, isn't always typing. March 30, 2001 the determined efforts of the director of cam pus ministries, Max Carter. "To hell with the first amendment," said Carter. "The issue is that porn is a funda mental part of a well rounded college expe rience. We should sup port it and be thankful that it is available ZACK HAMPLE there are starving kids in third-world countries who would kill for the chance to download porn." Carter's new committee, P.E.N.I.S. (Protecting the Enjoy ment of Nutritious Internet Sex), has already organized a take place in Boren Lounge next Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. "We must hold P.E.N.I.S. in the light," said Carter. But two recent scandals in volving porn have put a damper on the efforts of P.E.N.I.S. First, someone hacked into the Guilford web site and replaced all the links with shortcuts to free adult sites. Two days later, a group of pranksters stuffed titty pictures into the yearbook's campus candids box at the Info Desk. Director of the Career De- velopment Center Irene Harrington ex pressed her concern for this mischief when she said, "First we're a pot school, and now we're a porn school what will employers think when they see 'Guilford' on the resumes of our gradu ates?" ZACK HAMPLE panel dis cuss i on called "Porn & Quaker ism: Striv ing for a Healthy Coexist ence," which is open to the com mun i t y and will ZACK HAMPLE