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Safety, cost impact int’l recruiting by Cindy Yee THE CHRONICLE
The University has stepped up its efforts over the last decade to create an internationally diverse student body, but safety concerns and financial constraints continue to keep admissions officers out of the Middle East and Africa. Christoph Guttentag, director of undergraduate admissions, said the University continues to receive applications from regions where admissions officers are unable to travel, but that he still hopes to be
able to send admissions officers into underrepresented areas such as the Middle East and Africa in the future. “We obviously have a strong interest in creating a diverse student body and creating diversity within the group of international students as well,” Guttentag said. “But with limited resources, we want to recruit in areas where we think we’re going to get the greatest benefit from our presence.” At this point, Africa is not one such area, as the continent is too vast and cost-
ly to navigate to make undergraduate recruitment feasible, said Phyllis Supple, the admissions officer in charge of international recruitment. “It’s an expensive place to travel around,” she said. Supple added that the University is not sending recruitment officers to the Middle East due to “volatile travel conditions.” “When we were moving up to a point where it looked viable financially to go to SEE INTERNATIONAL ON PAGE 8
Ewing aims for small, strong council by
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He added: “I’m not some kind of college student who’s downloaded thousands and thousands of things. It isn’t like I’m trying to broadcast these things anywhere.” Another defendant, Lisa Schamis of New York, said her Internet provider warned her two months ago thatrecord industry lawyers had asked for her name and address, but she said she had no idea she might be sued. She acknowledged downloading “lots” of music over file-sharing networks. “This is ridiculous,” said Schamis, 26. “People like me who did this, I didn’t understand it was illegal.” “I can understand why the music indus-
sumed the chair of Arts and Sciences Council during a time of great change both for the council and for the Arts and Sciences faculty in general. Ewing highlighted several structural changes currently being explored that will give the council a stronger campus voice, which she said has been lacking in the past. ‘There is a perception out there that the council does not do much,” she said. The first step in increasing the effectiveness and strength of the council, Ewing said, will be, ironically, to reduce its size. “As happens in large organizations, individual members feel that the success of the council doesn’t really rest on their individual participation,” Ewing said.
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WASHINGTON The music industry’s largest trade group filed 261 copyright lawsuits across the country Monday against Internet users who trade songs online, an aggressive campaign to discourage piracy through fears of expensive civil penalties or setdements. The Recording Industry Association of America warned it ultimately may file thousands of cases. Its first round was aimed at what it described as “major offenders” illegally distributing on average more than 1,000 copyrighted music files each. Durwood Pickle, 71, of Richardson, Texas, said his teenage grandchildren downloaded music onto his computer during their visits to his home. He said his grown son had explained the situation in an email to the recording industry association. “I didn’t do it, and I don’t feel like I’m responsible,” Pickle said. “It’s been stopped now, I guarantee you that.” Pickle, who was unaware he was being sued until contacted by The Associated Press, said he rarely uses the computer in his home. “I’m not a computer-type person,” Pickle said. ‘They come in and get on the computer. How do I get out of this? Dadgum it, got to get a lawyer on this.” Yale University professor Timothy Davis, who also was among those named in the lawsuits, said he will stop sharing music files immediately. He said he downloaded about 500 songs from others on the Internet before his Internet provider notified him about the music industry’s interest in his activities. “I’ve been pretending it was going to go away,” said Davis, who teaches pho-
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New Arts and Sciences Council Chair Katherine Ewing plans to shrink thesize of the council.