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Columnist: Dignified death
is a human right
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Police program connects officers and students

By Dariush Shata

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There‘s more to a UK police officer than
just a uniform. said UK‘s assistant police
chief.

UK's Adopt-A-COPP (Campus Oriented
Police Program) program set out to build a
bond between officers and the community
they protect.

“Most of the time when (a student)
comes into contact with a law enforcement
officer, it is the first time and it is usually a
negative experience.“ said assistant chief
Stephanie Bastin. "We. the officers, want the
students to know that there is an individual
inside that uniform."

Bastin‘s crusade to improve the relation-
ship between officers and the community
started with an idea that was used at Florida

State University. The idea then took off at
UK 15 years ago in the fall semester of 1990
with a pilot program called Adopt-A-COPP.
which made a UK police officer a member of
a residence hall's staff.

In 1990. the experiment started with two
residence halls. one male hall and one fe-
male hall.

"When I suggested this program. people
laughed at it and scoffed at it." Bastin said.
“They said it would never work."

Fifteen years later, nobody is laughing.

In cooperation with Residence Life. each
of UK‘s 19 residence halls has its own officer
participating in the program and on average.
Bastin said; anywhere from 12 to 20 UK po-
lice officers volunteer for the program.

“This is not the kind of program that you
can mandate participation in." Bastin said.

“The officers have to want to participate."

And there is no shortage of participating
officers, Bastin said. Many officers take a
personal interest in students. including
Bastin herself.

“I have a son who is a student here. and I
have two daughters who will be attending
here. That puts me very close to the student
population," Bastin said. “Several of our of-
ficers are students here and some have sons
and daughters attending.

“We care very much.“ Bastin said. “I can
say without a doubt that every officer we
have here is a caring officer. They care about
students."

Josh Mainord, a communications sopho-
more in Haggin Hall. said his experience
with the program has been a pleasant one
and he feels very comfortable with the offi-

cer. David Alessi.

“He's just someone there to let us know
he can be there for us," Mainord said. “I just
realized what a nice guy he is. very sincere.
very helpful to deal with."

Anthony Ralph. associate director of
Residence Life. said officers gain a very deep
relationship with the students they get to
know.

“A police officer gets to know a particular
community very closely and actually be-
comes a part of the community in many re-
spects.“ Ralph said.

“This allows him or her to know the peo
ple in the community much better and be
seen as a friend and resource as much as an
authority figure."

()fficer Douglas Boortz. an officer for sev-

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Justin Jackson, an agricultural engineering sophomore, sharpens a blade from a mower in the Machine Shop yesterday.

Spring into Work

The UK biosystems and agricultural
engineering pre-professionals will work today and
tomorrow servicing old lawn mowers. For $25, the

group will change the oil, clean spark plugs,
sharpen blades and clean the lawn mowers,
including air filters. An additional $25 fee applies
for service and delivery. The group will work at its
shop on Stadium View Drive adjacent to the
K-Lot from 4:30 pm. to 8:30 pm.

Brian Luck. an agricultural
engineering senior, changes a
spark plug on a lawn mower
yesterday. The school's pre-
protessional group will contin-
ue to work through tomorrow.

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Man sues city
after scalp ing
arrests at Rupp

By Dariush Shata
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Lawyers representing a Paris. Ky. man have filed an
injunction asking to stop Lexington from enforcing the
ordinance that prohibits all ticket sales without a li-
cense around Rupp Arena.

The injunction is part of a lawsuit filed by Craig A.
Wilson. who was arrested .Ian. 4 for selling spare tickets
within the restricted area two blocks around Rupp Are-
na and the Lexington Civic Center.

He was arrested with two tickets and $40 in cash. He
pleaded guilty Jan. 6 under a plea agreement in ex-
change for the items seized during his arrest.

Thomas Cecil, an attorney from Mason. Mich. is
pursuing a similar case against the city of Detroit and
is working with Lexington attorney .lohn Helmuth to
represent Wilson.

“He (Wilson) wants to clear his name. and he wants
to change the (city's) policy." (‘ecil said. "I want to help
him do that."

Cecil and Helmuth are seeking to have the case certi—
fied as a class-action suit against the city

For the case to be certified. (‘ecil said multiple plain-
tiffs with similar circumstances and sufficient legal
representation must join the case,

As of yesterday. no one else had contacted Helmuth
or Cecil about joining in the case.

Cecil and Helmuth said the city is misapplying an or
dinance prohibiting all sales within two blocks of Rupp
Arena without a license and is meant to regulate ped-
dling and stop scalping.

“Peddling as an occupation implies you're in it for
profit." Cecil said.

Wilson was arrested for trying to sell two spare tick-
ets. valued at $22 each. for a total of 830.

"The primary issue down there. l think. is whether
the law is being misinterpreted." Cecil said.

Bruce Edwards. press secretary for Mayor Teresa
Isaac. said a city council committee has been formed to
meet with the department of public safety to consider
the matter. but no meeting date has been set.

“I don‘t know what effect it‘ll have. but I‘m sure it'll
have some." Edwards said.

Helmuth and (‘ecil graduated from the l'niyersity of
Louisville. and when llclmuth agreed to represent Wile
son. he contacted (‘ecil because of (‘ecil‘s similar case
against Detroit.

Both Michigan and Detroit have laws against scalp-
ing. and a city ordinante in Detroit prohibits selling
tickets to any entertainment event within one city block
of the venue.

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Analysts: Schiavo ruling
unlikely to favor parents

By Dana Milbank
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WASHINGTON Even with the intervention of Congress
and President Bush. Terri Schiavo‘s parents have only a slim
chance of convincing federal courts that their daughter
should be kept alive indefinitely: constitutional lawyers said
Monday.

Sunday's unusual action by Congress gave the parents of
Schiavo the right to sue in federal court over the withdrawal
of life support from their severely brain—damaged daughter—v
trumping the judgments of Florida courts and the wishes of
Schiavo‘s husband-guardian. Although the move raises a wide
range of complex constitutional questions. and could ulti-
mately require the Supreme Court's involvement. Schiavo‘s
parents face a daunting array of legal obstacles in convincing
federal courts to involve themselves in an area of state au-
thority.

“There are so many substantial hurdles that the case has
to get over that it's hard for them not to trip on one.“ said
Michael Dorf. a constitutional law professor at Columbia Uni-
versity. Alan Meisel. who directs the University of Pitts-
burgh‘s Center for Bioethics and Health Law. called it “very.
very unlikely" that Schiavo's parents will prevail.

The difficulty showed itself immediately Monday when

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en years at Florida State
University and an Adopt-A-
COPP participant at that
university said the experi-
ence is a positive one for all
involved. especially for offi-
cers.

“I‘ve always seemed to
get very good responses not
only from students but from
parents also. It kind of helps

with morale some." Boortz
said. “Those officers (in the
program) mostly stay with
their residence halls. so
that‘s telling me good
things.“

Boortz also said he‘s glad
the program helps students
see him as more than just a
badge and a gun.

"What officers never
want is the reputation fac»
tor." he said. “(It lets) them
get to know you as a per-
son."

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The only exceptions to
this ordinance are events
that take place at Joe
Louis Arena. but Cecil
said Detroit police mistak-
enly enforce the ordi-
nance there as well.

“They aggressively en-
force it up here." Cecil
said. He said more than
1,000 people have been

ticketed or arrested under
the ordinance in the past
three years.

However. in Detroit. vi-
olating the ordinance is a
misdemeanor. and police
usually only ticket viola-
tors. Cecil said. In Lex-
ington on the day Wilson
was arrested. 19 others
were arrested and taken
to the Lexington-Fayette
County Detention Center.

“They don’t do it like
the city of Lexington
where they put you in the
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downtown." he said.

Helmuth said he be-
lieves the law is missing
its target and is victimiz-
ing “otherwise law-abid-
ing citizens."

"What was the public
service of arresting peo-
ple like Craig Wilson?“
Helmuth said.

“How are we protect-
ing the public by arrest-
ing otherwise law-abiding
citizens? We don't believe
they should have been
held criminally liable."

Helmuth said they are

seeking a court date from
a judge. but it could take
some time and it isn't
likely the injunction will
be considered for at least
another three to four
weeks.

Despite the difficul-
ties. Cecil said they're
confident in their case.

“I wouldn‘t bring the
lawsuit unless I thought
it was right." Helmuth
said. “I'm an eternal opti-
mist."

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Schiavo

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lawyers for Schiavo's parents. Robert and
Mary Schindler. filed their request for an in-
junction in US. district court. They argued
that the federal court should rule that the
Florida judge's order to remove Schiavo‘s
feeding tube “violates and continues to vio-
late" her constitutional rights of religion and
due process. But that request is at odds with
the law signed early Monday by Bush direct-
ing the federal courts to consider the case de
novo wrwithout taking into account the state
court‘s findings.

The judge assigned to the case. James
Whittemore. expressed skepticism about the
Schindler's lawsuit. “1 think you‘d be hard
pressed to convince me that you have a sub.
stantial likelihood" of success. he said. de-
clining to give an immediate order to restore

the feeding tube.

The lawyers for the Schindlers need to
weave their way around some difficult
Supreme Court precedents. The 1990 Cruzan
case made clear that a person in a persistent
vegetative state had a constitutional right to
be removed from a feeding tube. In a 1997 rul-
ing. Chief Justice William Rehnquist af-
firmed that the Cruzan case assumed that
“the due process clause protects the tradition-
al right to refuse unwanted lifesaving med-
ical treatment." And in the 1995 Plaut ruling
written by Justice Antonin Scalia. the court
struck down an effort by Congress to direct
courts to reopen final judicial judgments.

Thus. even if the case goes to the
Supreme Court. some of the conservative jus-
tices who might have the most sympathy for
the Schindlers‘ claim have in the past sided
with the states on similar cases. “I don't
think the chance is much above zero" that
this will change now. said Bruce Fein. a con-
stitutional lawyer and columnist for the
Washington Times.

Article Three of the Constitution gives

Congress the authority to send a case to fed-
eral courts particularly if a person's constitu-
tional rights have been violated. But it is not
clear that Congress can dictate guardianship
rules to states. “I don't think any power Con-
gress has under the Commerce clause or oth-
er powers gives them the authority to make
federal guardianship laws." said Mary Cheh.
a law professor at George Washington Univer-
sity.

As to the substance of the Schindlers'
case. their lawyers cited Terri Schiavo’s
rights under the first and 14th amendments
and under the Religious Land Use and Insti-
tutionalized Persons Act of 1983. They said
the state trial judge denied her a fair trail and
did not make “reasonable accommodations to
Terri‘s sincerely-held religious beliefs."

Columbia‘s Dorf said these claims are
weak. He said due-process claims against a
judge are “very hard to win." The claim that
the judge violated her free exercise of reli-
gion. he said. is equally difficult to establish.
“You have to show that the government tar-
geted you because of your religion and did

not apply a general law or principle to you.“
he said. A better argument. Dorf said, would
be to assert that Schiavo‘s husband was
wrong to claim she is in a vegetative state and
that removing her feeding tube violates her
right to life. Even then. he said. "it’s very im-
plausible that they would win."

The Schindler‘s success may hinge on
their ability to disqualify the judgment of
Schiavo’s husband. Michael. Their complaint
Monday made some effort to do that. noting
that he "abandoned his marriage to Terri in
1995 by cohabiting with and having two chil-
dren by a woman other than his wife.”

But to convince the courts that Michael
Schiavo is acting in bad faith as her guardian
would require a federal court to reach a find-
ing on the medical evidence that is different
from the state court's.

“1f the Florida courts are doing their jobs.
it‘s inconceivable the district court would
find anything different." Meisel said. “If
there had been a problem. somebody would
have caught it." The case has been in Florida
courts for 12 years.

There are so many substantial hurdles that the case has to get over that it’s hard for
them not to trip on one.”

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Hacktivism: nicer than it sounds

The Internet is a great.
open frontier of ideas and
knowledge that can be in-
stantly shared for the benefit
of all.

At least, that’s how it’s
supposed ’
to work.

In some
countries.
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Web sites the public can
view

Traditional activist tools
such as public protests, alter-
native newsletters and writ-
ing your senator really don‘t
work to persuade a totalitari-
an government to let you see
Web sites that present infor-
mation contrary to the state
agenda.

This leads one to think of
fighting fire with fire. I‘ve of-
ten found this idea to be trite
and a bit barbaric; fighting
information technology with
information technology. on
the other hand. is a pretty
handy notion, at least to a
terrible dork like me.

And that’s exactly what
“hacktivists” have been do-
ing for years. Hacktivism. a
term coined by the Cult of
the Dead Cow hacking collec-
tive, consists of organiza-
tions such as Peekabooty.
Hacktivismo and Freenet
that seek to use information
technology as a weapon for
freedom and change.

Peekabooty circumvents

government-imposed fire-
walls. thus allowing access to
otherwise restricted sites.
These government firewalls
are a bit different than the
one protecting your net-
worked PC. but the general
idea is the same.

Think of a nationwide fil-
ter that cross-references any
Web site you request to view
with a list of banned sites. If
the Web site you want isn’t
on the list. your request to
view the site is received and
the information is sent back
to your computer for your
viewing pleasure. However. if
your desired site is banned.
you’ll get an error message
and possibly a state-issued
warning.

These filters can also be
configured to “watch“ what
you‘re doing by analyzing
the types of data you‘re re-
ceiving and how much. It
sounds old-hat, but the Or-
wellian idea of Big Brother
is very real, especially in
China and Vietnam.

Hacktivismo, as de-
scribed on their Web site. “is
an international group of
hackers. human rights work-
ers, lawyers and artists“ that
believes privacy and access
to information are basic hu-
man rights. They’ve even
drafted an incredibly articu-
late manifesto on the issue.

Hacktivismo based their
manifesto on the Internation—
al Covenant on Civil and Po-
litical Rights as well as the
Universal Declaration of Hu-
man Rights. It shows that an
organization of people with
silly nicknames on the Inter-
net can be very. very serious.

The self-stated mission of
Hacktivismo is “to conduct

and publish scientific re-
search in the areas of infor-
mation technology. commu-
nications and electronic me-
dia; and. to assist (where pos-
sible) non-governmental or-
ganizations. social justice
groups and human rights en-
tities in the use of advanced
information technologies for
the furtherance of their
works."

In short. they want to
change the world with infor-
mation technology and have
unabashed fun doing it. But
this fun isn’t limited to uber-
elitist computer hackers.

The Freenet project seeks
to maintain freedom of
speech on the Internet in its
purest form: complete
anonymity for both the pro-
ducers and consumers of in-
formation. Using a decentral-
ized network. Freenet works
a lot like peer-to-peer pro-
grams you‘ve probably used,
such as Kazaa and Napster.

However, Freenet uses a
portion of your hard drive
and doesn’t allow you to de-
termine what’s kept there. or
even to know what it is.
Rather. content is kept or
deleted depending on its pop
ularity.

It also takes the idea of a
peer-to-peer network a step
further and. as noted on
their Web site. works as “an
Internet within the Inter-
net." Users can publish Web
sites (called freesites). use
message boards and distrib-
ute content all on the user-
created. decentralized net-
work.

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work is invulnerable to ma-
nipulation or systemic shut-
down.

Unfortunately, there are
some pitfalls to this. While
important and otherwise un-
available political treatises
and philosophical writings
exist on the network, they
share it with such evils as
child pornography and car-
bomb designs.

Freenet's FAQ answers
this: “While most people
wish that child pornography
and terrorism did not exist.
humanity should not be de-
prived of their freedom to
communicate just because of
how a very small number of
people might misuse that
freedom."

I tend to agree with that
sentiment. With the recent
talk of “dangerous blogs"
and “terrorist Web sites,“ we
may very well be on our way
to a national firewall de-
signed to protect us from
dangerous. destabilizing
ideas.

People are often voluntar-
ily blinded in the interest of
security and safety. but how
can freedom thrive when dia-
logue breaks down and
leaves only a simultaneous
and cacophonic monologue?
It can’t. Thank God for geeks.

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Can you still call it a film if it's digital?

By William Weir
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For Arnold Gorlick.
there's something special
about the ritual of loading
film into a projector and
showing it for audiences at
the movie theater he owns in
Madison. Conn. "There‘s
something about the lore of
having rolls of film the
canisters and sprockets and
emulsion," he said as patrons
left a recent showing of Hotel
Rwanda. “There‘s a psycho-
logical comfort to it. But not
to the people born into the
new technology“

For about l00 years. we‘ve
been watching movies pretty
much the same way -~ cellu-
loid film projected onto the
big screen. But most agree.
whether they like it or not.
that digital technology will
change that.

Instead of handling.
splicing. reeling and unreel-
ing rolls of 35mm film in
large canisters. theater work-
ers would prepare the
evening's screenings with a
few keystrokes on a comput-
er. The movies would be com-
pressed into computer files
and would either be sent to
theaters on encoded DVDs or
beamed from a computer via
satellite or fiber-optic cables.

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through is not a question of
capability n the technology
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“When I first saw a digital
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than a few years.

Studios. on the other
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Digital movies have im-
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grain and texture to film that
you wouldn't have with digi-
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it. our biggest patron base is
teenagers. and teenagers
know digital and love digital
technology. It‘s definitely
coming. and it will happen.“

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Scalper mounting wrong legal response

warning for the first time they speed. or for
issuing a ticket for going seven miles over
the speed limit ~ while menial. these ac-
tions are still illegal.

Wilson's lawsuit is an attempt to rework
the scalping law -— a law this board also
finds to have faults. (The fact that it’s illegal
to sell items below their ticket value. which
is what Wilson did. is ridiculous.) And we
applaud Wilson for questioning a law. but
suing the city isn’t the correct avenue to
take. Talk to urban county council mem-
bers and local legislators. Bring, the issue
up in an urban county council meeting.
Send letters to the editors of local newspa-
pers. Start an issue group. This avenue only
wastes time and money.

Wilson said his lawyers felt this issue
would be resolved quickly. We hope the
lawyer is right. Though the scalping sting
misused resources. so does this lawsuit.

scalpers in the act. Wilson even pleaded gality
guilty to the act. This board does contend that the energy
Scalping does not go against anyone‘s expended on this scalping “sting" by the po-
freedom of speech. The lice could have been bet-
police were not telling ter used. but that does
Wilson what he could or not change the fact that
could not say ~ they scalping is illegal. Pro-
were citing him for an il- fessional scalpers. in par-
legal business transac- ticular. gouge prices to
tion. sometimes hundreds of
As for Wilson‘s com- dollars over the ticketed
ment in yesterday's Ker- value and exploit fan af-
nel that he wasn't aware fection for the team.
of the law. the law is We understand ar-
broadcasted over the resting someone v with-
loudspeakers at Rupp out warning 7 who isn't
Arena on repeat prior to a professional scalper
each game. The law also goes a bit overboard. but
scrolls across the marquis outside Rupp you can't sue the police for showing a lack
Arena. Rupp Arena does an admirable job of generosity and compassion. This is like
of spreading the word about scalping’s ille- suing the police for not giving a motorist a