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Show ·· U T I N y Muller justifies billboard in Sall Lake City Muller said the main reason U.C.S.P. is spending funds on publicity i for the students' behalf. "Not too many people are aware this group even exists or that they have such a strong voice UU students and their student fees helped foot the on the state level; we want people to be bill for a billboard promoting a group of student leaders able to identify faces and understand from across Utah. Th.is has at least one SUU tudent where they can go to voice concerns and concerned about such an appropriation of funds. advocate i ues," he said. "The billboard Last week, thejournal received an anonymous letter was my idea, good or bad, I will take th from a rudent voicing concern over a billboard located credit. If students are really concerned in downtown aJt lake City. The billboard (pictured), about this decision: they can come see contajns a photograph of the 11 collegiate student body me and I wiJJ give them l 5 cents out of presidents from aero the state of cah, representing a my pocket." group called the Utah Council of tuderubody Tuesday, Muller and .C. ·_p were Presidents (U.C. .P.) and was pa.id in aJt Lake City lobbyjng for fi e for by the collaboration of items they agreed were the mosr tudem fee from ea h important i ue co college of the l 1 institutions. students: keeping tuition El cted inJune, UU affordable, increase in financial udent Body Pre ident aid, protection of tudent Trelon Muller ervcs as the privacy, increased library president of the Utah re ources and base technology cudent Association (U. • .A.), which · a council that funding. "A legislative analyst represents tab's 100,000 ugge ted a tuition increase of college tudents on a tate four percent, we are actively level, namely at the tate fighting co keep the increase legislature. U.C. .P. is the below three percent," said executive council of U.S.A Muller. "We have asked for wWch presents issues to the a $1.5 million financial aid legislature. increase and a $1 .2 "We have become the most 10rnotiflg, proactive group the legislature has ite Ci'Y P 5wclef1.ts· million library funding ifl satt L~0 college increase, both of which are seen in many years," said Muller. "We feel that representation of the illt,otlfd 'S t oo,O looking very prospective." srudents at a state level is very 11of a bents {Jfl1tl Muller said that the publicity is achieving its goal: 10 important, and have been working ttie erec~ ti ·1 epres tudents are becoming aware of the group, what it over time to make our voices heard." to1Ala1 11 ts 1,(IJliC billboard represents, and how to voice concerns. Since June, U.C.S.P. has worked to and printing of "We're a group that is 100,000 votes strong. That 15 ceflts presicle identify student concerns and launched eaO' pa~eflt so"1:Y .P posters," said Muller. represents a lot of manpower to get things done. Until a state·wide awareness campaign. V u,cle11-ts cil of S "Each of the student body presidents · now, the legislature has thought us to be a bunch of "The campaign was designed to bring sV ~tah cou'fl. agreed to use student fee money to1>ay for this kids playing in the sand, but we are not," said Muller. awareness of the Utab Intercollegiate venture because of the long.term benefits of this "We are here, active, and want to be ta.ken seriously in As.sociation, of which U.S.A and U.C.S.P council's actions." o rder to protect the interests of higher education." are subgroups," said Muller. "This group exists to work on behalf of the students to provide a voice at the legislature and Board of Regents, where decisions are made daily that affect the lives of college students." The billboard was part of this awareness campaign, costing the council $7,000. "We did utilize student fees from each of the colleges. Collectively, tudents paid 15 cents toward the By VERONICA GARNER S1iNIOR SfAFF WRITER 1 • • a .I Student_arrested on 18 counts of hacking First SUUan taken into custody in connection with computer fraud being held in jail on $90, 000 bail By DAVE BARRATI ASSOCIATE EDITOR An SUU tudent remains in custody at the Iron County·Utah tate Correctional Facilties awaiting arraignment in connection with 18 counts of computer fraud, more commonly known as "hacking." Joseph Brian Engh, a 19-year-old computer science major from Salt Lake City, is being held on $90,000 bail after being taken into custody by SUU ecurity Friday night in his Juniper Hall doan room. Of the 18 charges he faces, each is a third-degree felony carrying a maximum punishment of $5,000 and five years in prison. Engh 's preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 9 at 1 :30 p .m. in the Iron County 5th District Court, located at 40 N. 100 E. Cedar City. SUU Security ChiefJim Turner said Officer Rick Brown arrested Engh following an investigation that (~ ' ' had been ongoing for the past several weeks. uwe felt we had to do something to shut him down, " Turner said. Campus Security tarted the investigation after the information technology def»rtment informed it of some suspicious activities on school computers. Security is still investigating the incident to find out the type of hacking that occurred and how grades and other forms of sensitive material may have been affected. Turner said he could not ay which computers were hacked into because security is still working to obtain that information. Turner is in charge of the investigation, but said that Brown has taken technology training, so he is "handling the bulk of everything." Additional charges could be brought against Engh when the investigation is completed. Students who notice anything suspicious about their accounts, such as missing or altered documents, should contact Turner or Brown in the Security Office (room ST 172) or call them at 586-7793. All srudents with accounts on the campus server hould change their passwords, according to officials. "All the victims are students, and we want co protect our students. I would guess there's 5,000 accounts," Turner said. uu you haven't changed your password since the em ter began, you need'to change it again," he added. Assistants in the computer labs can help students who don't know how to change their passwords. This is the first time at UU that a student has been arrested on charges of computer fraud, Turner said. He said that security officers have dealt with minor problems before, such as complaints about students looking at Internet porn sites, but Turner said, "nothing where security has been breached." . I• |
