Health Center, unions
present eases to CFA
By Kim Sweet
Staff writer
The Committee for Fees
Allocation bypassed voting
Tuesday night after hearing from
Fund B users of student funds
instead.
The University Health Center
and Nebraska Unions were on the
agenda to present and answer ques
tions about budget requests for the
1999-2000 year.
Requesting no new increase for
the next year, University Health
Center Director Linda Hermann
said income brought in by services
that are separate from student fees
has helped to keep student fees
low.
But Hermann said it is unlikely
that future budgets will be present
ed without a fee increase, i
CFA postponed a vote on the
Nebraska Unions budget until next
Tuesday.
The committee questioned
Student Involvement Director
Marilyn Bugenhagen on different
aspects of student involvement,
which is included in the Nebraska
Unions budget.
Senator Jeff Woodford ques
tioned the purpose of programs
like Students Working Actively
Together, which promotes volun
teering.
Woodford also questioned
whether SWAT and other student
volunteer organizations on campus
competed against each other.
Bugenhagen said that SWAT
allows students to simply volun
teer, whereas student organizations
may require students to commit to
other activities.
Swanson said the program was
worthwhile and comes with a cost.
“When we use the word volun
teer, we connote that it comes with
out a cost,” Swanson said. “If you
are going to support volunteers and
volunteerism, it comes with a
cost.”
CFA will vote on the Fund B
users next Tuesday and will hear
the Campus Recreation Center’s
budget presentation next Thursday.
Government accuses Microsoft
of producing false video evidence
WASHINGTON (AP) - The gov
ernment accused Microsoft on Tuesday
of offering a false video as evidence
during a court demonstration by the
software company that purported to
show severe problems resulting from
the government’s efforts to modify the
company’s Windows 98 software.
“I believe from what I’ve seen here
is, they filmed the wrong system,” said
James Allchin, a senior vice president
and Microsoft’s top computer scientist.
He later added: “I’m not sure they
would do anything like that” to mislead
the judge.
In one of the most dramatic
moments of the antitrust trial against
giant Microsoft Corp., Justice
Department lawyer David Boies
stopped a video demonstration in mid
frame to show a subtle inconsistency:
the border showing the program’s name
was different in one part of the video
than in another.
On the video, Microsoft’s marketing
director, Yusuf Mehdi, tests a version of
Windows that the company said was
modified by the government to disable
its Internet functions.
The issue is important because the
government, as part of its lawsuit,
alleges that under federal “tying” laws,
Microsoft’s design forces consumers
who use Windows also to use its brows
er, discouraging them from using popu
lar rival software.
By showing that Microsoft’s
Internet software can be disabled, the
government hopes to show that the
company could be ordered to remove
the software from Windows without
harming it Microsoft refutes that
“It’s taking a very long time, howev
er - unusually long - to access that Web
site,” Mehdi said on the video. “Thatfc a
result of the performance degradation
that has occurred because of running
the (government) program.”
Boies charged - and Allchin agreed
- that the subtle change in the border,
called the title bar, indicated that
Microsoft’s test actually used a version
of Windows unaffected by the govern
ment’s modifications.
“This video you brought in here and
showed for the court, that you checked it
... and that’s just wrong, right?” Boies
snapped.
“In this particular case, I do not
think the (government) program had
been run,” Allchin conceded. But he
insisted that performance problems
exist: “I personally tested this, and I
know the problem exists.”
Hours later, Allchin testified that he
had been mistaken, and that his tests
were conducted properly on a modified
copy. Microsoft was unable to say why
the title bars were different
“How that name tag was removed,
we’re not specifically sure of right now,”
spokesman Tod Nielsen said.
Another Microsoft spokesman,
Mark Murray, accused the government
of “nit-picking on issues like video pro
duction rather than confronting the
facts.”
Boies said outside court there was
no evidence the demonstration was
deliberately altered, which he warned
would be “obstruction of justice, an out
rageous thing.”
“I’m not going to stand here and say
something nefarious went on,” Boies
said. “We don’t know.... Whether it was
deliberate or a result of incompetence,
the video was wrong.”
An outside expert, computer scien
tist Edward Felten of Princeton
University, testified previously that he
was able to disable Microsoft’s Internet
software included within Windows.
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