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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 
  
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." 
 
 
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: 
 
     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... 
 
    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 
 
PS- We are behind you..."sophomores".  
 
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