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4 Friday, December 8, 2000 FBI Combats Cybercrime in Triangle By Cheri Melfi Staff Writer RALEIGH - N.C. FBI agents and representatives from a national security program launched anew system this week aimed at protecting Triangle busi nesses against cyberterrorism. The National Infragard Program began on Monday in Raleigh. The program, which has been in effect in Charlotte for about a year, is an Internet-based effort to provide compa nies with protection from computer intrusion and to keep data secure. “We hope to get well over 100 mem bers in the Research Triangle Park area,” Chris Swecker, FBI special agent for N.C. operations, said at a press conference last week. “Eventually, we want to involve membership throughout the state.” Swecker said Infragard members will receive security software and will have access to cyberterrorism information from intelligence agencies worldwide. There program will include a secure Web site where members can report cyber-attacks, find information about previous and recent intrusions, and look for ways to prevent them, Swecker said. Swecker said tight security is neces sary to prevent hackers from gaining Carolina Juniors &Seniors 'fk/- . .. Um network with UNC alumni? m L research the job/internship market? mil i'P: learn about various career fields? ALUMNI CAREER CONNECTIONS „ Spuusored by tlva c=eneigl Alumnt Association and the Senior Class Charlotte: December 20 New York: December 28 Washington, DC: January 4 Chapel Hill: January 23 Make the Carolina alumni NetWORK for you! To participate, call (919) 962-3582 or (919) 962-7054 *{?( pYjj or email careerconnection@unc.edu. w Register online at alumni.unc.edu. Registration deadline is December 15 COOL PEALSI Special Ski Program Announced For UNCC Chapel Hill Students. Faculty and Staff We are pleased to announce the establishment of a special UNC Chapel Hill Ski Program which is being made avail able by Winterplace Ski Resort, near Beckley, West Virginia. UNC Chapel Hill Students, Faculty and Staff wishing to take advantage of this special ski program must present their UNC Chapel Hill ID Card when purchasing lift tickets or renting ski equipment. SPECIAL PRICES ARE: ~ Weekdays, (Monday through Friday, Non Holiday) All Day Twilight Open to 10 pm 3 pm to 10 pm Lift Ticket $23.95 $21.95 Rental Equipment* $20.95 $17.95 Weekends and Holidays All Day Night Open to 10 pm 5 pm to 10 pm Lift Ticket $42.95 $25.95 Rental Equipment* $20.95 $16.95 * Rental Equipment includes skis, boots, and poles. 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For example, Swecker said the program could prevent a hostile foreign intelligence service from wreak ing havoc on local banking or telecom munications companies. “If these types of businesses shut down all at the same time, it would be a nation al threat," Swecker said. “And what’s scary is the attacker can be anyone from a 14-year-old in his basement working from a laptop to a hostile foreigner.” Doris Gardner, supervisory special agent for the N.C. computer crime squad, said there have been many attacks on companies already. She said that when one business suf fers an attack or intrusion, it has a neg ative impact on entire industries. “Infragard is not just the Web site,” Gardner said. “It’s also the networking. Many businesses rely on each other and are affected by one another, so when one shuts down, they all suffer.” Cyber-attacks are becoming increas ingly common, but only about 70 per cent of intrusions are being reported, Swecker said. He said businesses could save them selves a great deal of trouble if more SNOWPHONE 800 258-3 1 27 University & City attacks were reported. “There are many common elements to a lot of attacks, and they don’t just affect one business,” Swecker said. “If we get early warning signals, we can help design some things to combat the virus and get information about it.” He added that according to a recent survey, three out of 700 businesses reported about S2OO million in losses because of cybercrime. Since the program’s installment in Charlotte about a year ago, Swecker said the number of incidents reported in North Carolina has increased. “Our goal is to create a national and international network to get all infor mation in and get it back out and edu cate businesses,” Swecker said. But the program’s success is depen dent on individual companies, not the FBI, said Don McArthur, N.C. FBI spe cial agent and head of Infragard in Raleigh. “The private industry makes this work, not (the FBI),” McArthur said. “We’ll sponsor the program and help out with it, but there will be a board of directors to regulate it." But Swecker said businesses that want to join must first go through an extensive background check. Infragard membership is not open to individuals. The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. Bj i i i ON VIDEOCASSETTE AND DVD mm an mm turn witu: rmwsimw wk; stsrmTmwomsmmmmmarsmminm- — The locally-owned video alternative with the area's best ■■■■■■■l selection of independent films. I u- * . FRANKLIN ST: 967-9248 1 Wj?]! CHAPEL HILL on Elliott Road, 929-4584 IJ Ueo ■ TIMBERLYNE: 929-7634 CARRBORO: next to Cat's Cradle, 932-1945 Congratulation/ Oliver Wheeler Of Phi Gamma Delta on winning the Delta Zeta /exif Leq/Conte/t! Thank you also to all of our Fall 2000 participants Alpha Tau Omega (1) Steve Jones Beta Theta Pi (3) Jay Kemey Wes Sheffield John Spaziano Chi Phi (2) Daniel Strowe Trevor Wommack Chi Psl (2) Walter Anderson J. B. Lykes Delta Kappa Epsilon (4) Luke Foster Jase Glenn Dominick Smith Matt White Delta Sigma Phi (4) Antoine Bailliard Craig Brehmer Matt Ledwith Aaron Smith Delta Upsilon (5) Mike Browne Gary Ellsworth Jared Jitzer Mac Price Rickie Williams Kappa Alpha (3) Taylor Fitts Justin Lewis John Wright Kappa Sigma (3) Brian Anderson Garrett Ball Alan DeMatteis Lambda Chi Alpha (3) Heath Honbarrier Jody Mills Alex Raddis Phi Delta Theta (1) Matt Nowell Phi Gamma Delta (9) Mike Brown Will Culp Bryan Darch Graham Farless Breck Gibbs Hal Holton Vic Ogbum Jonathan Swope Oliver Wheeler Pi Kappa Alpha (3) Nathan Calloway Will Shertin Drew Youngblood Pi Kappa Phi (2) Jason Grogan Will Tatum Also, special thanks to Top of the Hill for donating the first place prize. Advocacy Groups File Suit Against Hog Corporations By Allison Mitchener Staff Writer Frustrations with the government’s efforts to control the corporate hog industry have prompted advocacy groups like the Sierra Club to file suit against several hog companies - starting with those in North Carolina. Fifteen of the nation’s most prominent law firms will represent the groups in class action, civil action and nuisance lawsuits. The first state targeted by the suits is North Carolina, which is one of the nation’s largest hog-producing states. N.C. farmers are allowed to deposit hog waste in large open-air lagoons, which some say are unsanitary and damage the environment. But hog company officials said they are not intimidated by the environmentalists’ efforts and believe the case will fail. At a Wednesday press conference in Washington D.C., Water Keeper Alliance president Robert F. Kennedyjr. said the federal Environmental Protection Agency and state govern ment’s failure to regulate the hog indus try has provoked the recent legal action. Pi Lambda Phi (3) Brad Jenkins Randy Lawrence Wilson Matheson Sigma Alpha Epsilon (4) Hunt Bowers Jason Glei Lee Patterson John Tomkins Sigma Chi (2) Davis Berg y Stewart Patch Sigma Nu (2) Drew Branham Josh Harms Sigma Phi Epsilon (4) Eli Griffis Brad Jones Andrew Osterday Jeff Sears Tau Epsilon Phi (4) Sean Busher Zach Deason Steve Loose Justin Ritter Zeta Psi (3) Alexis Elder Andy Linn Justin Watts Kennedy said the agency has had problems enforcing the standards set by the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts ever since the EPA’s budget was cut in half by Congress in 1995. “The only hope of civilizing this industry is to confront them direedy,” he said in a telephone press conference. “The private bar is the only place that citizens can go for redress.” Kennedy added that each law firm suing the hog industry has donated $50,000 to aid in the legal actions. He said the lawsuits will attempt to make hog manure lagoons illegal, require the industry to pay fines and penalties and force the industry to rem edy any environmental damage. North Carolina recendy entered into contracts with Smithfield Foods and Premium Standard, the country’s top two pork producers. Together the com panies control 75 percent of the hog industry in the state. The contracts require the companies to donate millions of dollars to a trust funding N.C. State University techno logical research for environmental improvement and development. Duke Chapel Approves Same-Sex Union Rites By Sally Francis Staff Writer Duke University recendy opened the doors of its chapel for same-sex couples, a decision deemed necessary by some and immoral by others in the universi ty community. The new policy, allowing same-sex couples to celebrate their union, will take effect immediately and might strain rela tionships with some of the religous groups that worship at Duke Chapel. Ordained clergy permitted to do so by their religions can perform the same sex ceremonies, allowing rituals that before were permitted only in the Duke Gardens to now take,place in the chapel. Duke Chapel’s policy has never before permitted 'same-sex unions. A campus committee, composed of faculty, staff, alumni, trustees, adminis trators and students concluded that Duke Chapel was a university facility not asso ciated with any particular faith. But 20 different religions worship at Duke Chapel - including the United Methodist Church, which has a 162-year relationship with the chapel. The United Methodist “Book of Discipline” prohibits its clergy from conducting same-sex unions and main tains that marriage is only valid when it is between one man and one woman. Bishop Marion Edwards wrote in a response to the announcement | \ Hills f /• v HI f• 1 p * # r m * • • . ;T His is nos gafnt \;'A i.v . \lv.\ ■■ 'T\LITTLt:n'! 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Consolidated Consolidated CARMINE 15 PARK PUCE It MISSKMVAIUT CINEMAS RALEIGH GRAND CROSSROADS 20 SSOI Mantk Spring Rd. 9525 Chapel Hill M 2lo9Avent (wry Road M. & Hwy. 70 1400 lU S t 878-8778 <Bi-9686 856411! 226-2000 226-2000 Qllif Daily Star Hppl Sierra Club representative Scott Dye harshly criticized the corporate hog industry at the conference. “They are renegades and outlaws,” Dye said. “They have ignored the laws and will continue to do so, until we civ ilize this industry and return a litde bit of sanity to rural America.” But Smithfield Foods spokesman Jerry Hotstetter said the comments are similar to ones Kennedy made in North Carolina earlier this year. “It was noth ing new from our perspective," he said. But Hotstetter said the company was not scared by the advocacy groups’ team of legal talent. “We’ve already said that their lawsuits were without merit.” Hotstetter cited a Thursday New York Times article that quoted Phil Carlton to support his comments. Carlton is a former N.C. associate jus tice currently representing Smithfield Foods in the lawsuits. In the article, Carlton criticized the legitimacy of the lawsuits claiming that they were improp erly filed and stretched state law. The State <S National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. But the Methodist community is par tially divided on the issue of same-sex unions. “Some Methodists support same-sex unions, but the Methodist Church does not,” said Meredith Barnes, student pastor of Duke’s Methodist Wesley Foundation. The Same-Sex Unions at Duke Chapel Committee, which began meet ing in October, was aware of the Methodist Church’s beliefs and long standing relationship with the universi ty community, said Episcopalian chap lain, Rev. Anne Hodges-Copple, chair woman of the committee. “The Chapel is not an institution of the Methodist Church,” Hodges-Copple said. “There is a history of a relationship, but the (Methodist) Church is not affiliated with the school in a governing way.” Karen Krahulik, director of Duke University’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Center said the overall response from the university communi ty has been positive. Krahulik said the LGBT community feels that allowing same-sex unions in the chapel is a fitting step toward a more inclusive campus. Although the unions will be recog nized by some religious groups, they will still be prohibited by N.C. law, which bans marriages between individuals of the same gender. The State <8 National Editor can be reached atstntdesk@unc.edu.
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