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Lef s say you're an idealistic student
who wants to protest some perceived
wrong. What do you do? Start a strike?
Hold a sit-in? Bum something symbolic?
Nah, this is the 90s, and those options
are so low-tech!
To get attention these days, all you
really need is a web page and an e-mail
address.
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of campus radio station WUSC have
chosen to take. If you are interested in
the continuing controversy surrounding
the dismissal of students hum the station,
you can now read about it on the World
Wide Web.
The Justice on Campus Project, which
bills itself as "an informal online
collaboration of writers, students and
persons concerned with free speech on
campus," has taken up the ex-WUSC
students' cause. It has created a web
page concerning the controversy that
can be found at
http://5oc.mit.edu/carolina.html.
The web page,based out of
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, gives a synopsis
of the situation from the
U9C students' point of view,
as well as featuring links to
more information about the
dispute and pages dealing ^B?|||
with censorship issues.
As a computer columnist, HjrJHjj
I have no interest in whether Hfldl
the students nr the TTSf!
administration are right or fECWMJJ
wrong in this dispute. I do, Marc LaF
however, find the idea of an
on-line protest intriguing.
No longer are aggrieved citizens
relegated to picket signs and fliers to
send their message to the masses. The
WUSC protest is an example of how the
internet and the medium of the world
wide web are changing our society. The
common man or woman can now have
as much of a voice as the highest official.
People from around the world can read
about contentious issues and even send
e-mail to the participants if they wish.
Whether the ex-WUSC students are
right or wrong, they are to be
congratulated for making effective use
of a new medium.
They have found a direct and
inexpensive way to draw attention to
their cause, a method that is sure to be
duplicated by others in coming years.
One complaint: The Justice on
Campus pages feature e-mail links for
President John Palms, spokeswoman
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But, the officials I spoke with said they
were never notified that their e-mail
addresses were being linked.
It has put these people in the position
of receiving potentially hostile messages
without knowing their source.
Creating an e-mail link to someone
that will likely result in hostile messages
and not at least notifying them of it has
a disturbing vigilante quality. People
should be able to disagree (or protest)
without being disagreeable.
Personality. On a less controversial
note, I wanted to share with my readers
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an iniei eaiing weo sue i nave enjoyea
for some time. Users who point their
web browsers to
http://sunsite.unc.edu/jembin/mb.pl can
take a 70-question test to determine
their personality type.
The test, called the Keirsey
Temperament Sorter, scores results
according to the Meyere-Briggs system.
Meyers-Briggs, which has been used as
a personality test for decades, scores
your personality on four
different scales: Extrovert
vs. Introvert, Intuitive vs.
Sensing, Feeling vs.
Thinking and Judging vs.
Perceptive.
The results are
computed instantly, and
you can know not only your
personality type but also
joflf c the famous people and
J/UfDLC fictitious characters who
'ountain share it. I mvself am an
ESTd ? an Extroverted,
Sensing, Thinking, Judging
person. This means I have the same
personality type as disgraced former
Sen. Bob Packwood. Gosh, my female
readership may never look at me the
same way again!
A correction: In last weeks column,
I said development of OpenDoc for
Windows was being handled by Novell.
It turns out that Apple's OpenDoc FAQ
is in need of updating. Novell has dropped
its development of OpenDoc, and it will
be left to IBM to take the reigns.
Marc LaFountain, a journalism senior,
can be e-mailed at lafiyuntain-jnardSl9c.edu.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. ?Vince Gil
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