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UIS Community loses
student, friend
The UIS community was shocked to
hear of the death of student Will Rogers on Saturday, February 28,
2004.
Will, 26, was born November
16, 1977 in Chicago and attended Central before coming to UIS. He
graduated from UIS with a criminal justice major, and was working on
a second degree. He was actively involved on campus as a resident
assistant, shuttle driver, snow removal crew member, and cleaning
crew member. Will aspired to be a police officer.
Friends, colleagues, and
administrators all described Will as full of life, fun-loving, and a
go-getter.
“Ever since I came to campus,
Will was always right by my side,” said Barbara Wheatly, a colleague
and friend of Will’s. “Whenever I needed something—needed to
talk—he was always there.”
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File-Sharing a thing of
the past
During the February 1, 2004 Superbowl
commercial for iTunes, file-sharing lovers made a bold statement:
“We are going to continue to download music off of the internet.”
The Recording Industry Association of America tried to scare off
internet users from using peer-to-peer file-sharing programs to
download songs off the internet with a swift strike of lawsuits last
year. Since then, the number of users of file-sharing programs has
dropped, yet some users say they will continue to download.
According to PCWorld Magazine,
 ”The
number of U.S. Internet users downloading music files from
peer-to-peer networks has significantly dropped in recent months.”
PCWorld cited a study conducted by the Pew Internet and American
Life Project that found that the
percentage of Americans claiming to download music from the Internet
fell from 29 percent, or about 35 million people, in May of last
year to 14 percent, or 18 million people, in December.
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New viruses may hit campus
As technology advances, human
productivity increases. However, there come moments when problems
in that technology can make life more difficult. Today, computer
viruses and worms can cause entire networks to go awry.
A computer virus or worm is
essentially a program that gets into a computer and causes various
problems. These troubles may consist of the computer slowing down
as well as much more critical dilemmas such as an entire hard drive
being erased.
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