Page 6 The Behrend Beacon aroundStudentr ram g t it is piracy by Elise Ackerman But Halderman managed to stop the software play the CD in their cars. Halderman in an interview. Knight Ridder Newspapers from installing itself on his PC. BMG, a Bertelsmann subsidiary, and other mu- "This technology is going to end up in the hall "In practice, many users who try to copy the sic companies have sought to discourage mass of fame beside the previous Sony technology that A Princeton University student has found he can disc will succeed without even noticing that it's copying by taking 261 people to court last month was famously defeated by drawing on the CD with defeat a highly touted computer program to pre- protected, and all others can bypass the protec- for sharing songs without permission and have a felt-tipped pen," wrote Edward Felton, vent music piracy with the stroke of a single key: tions with as little as a single key stroke," he wrote. threatened other lawsuits. Halderman's adviser, who publishes a Web log, "Shift." Nathaniel Brown. a BMG spokesman, admit- SunnComm protested that Halderman made cir- "Freedom to Tinker." A Princeton professor, Felton In a paper posted on his Web site on Monday, ted the restrictions could he bypassed by a deter- cumyenting their software sound too easy, and that was threatened by the Recording Industry Asso graduate student John Halderman, 22, said he got mined consumer. But he likened the software, they knew about the loophole already. ciation of America in 2001 when he sought to pub around restrictions built into the CD "Cumin' From made by Swint 'oinni Technologies, to a "speed Halderman's paper could be considered a viola- lish research on vulnerabilities in digital Where I'm From," by Anthony Hamilton, a soul- hump" that would deter ordinary consumers from tion of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a watermarking technology. ful R&B artist. The CD, released by BMG's Arista casually making multiple illegal copies. controversial law that prohibits making devices Jacobs said he had no intention of suing Records last month, was heavily promoted as the "It's not going to stop a hacker or someone who that circumvent copy-prevention measures, said Halderman under the act, and that the student first to use copy management technology. Soft- wants to mass copy," he said. Peter Jacobs, president of the Phoenix, Ariz., corn- should spend his time researching something more ware included on the CD limited consumers to Brown said the company chose to use the tech- pany. worthwhile. He said, "This just isn't one of the burning only three regular copies or to sending nology anyway because it "offers a new level of "I don't see how telling people to press the shift weighty issues of the world." promotional copies that timed out after 10 days. playability" - which means consumers can now key can be a circumventive device." said any college freshmen must play catch-up Even as the number of students taking upper-level math courses soars at high schools, a stubborn demographic continues to plague higher education: remedial enrollments. In 1999-2000, 35.5 percent of all first- and second-year undergradu- ate students reported taking some sort of remedial college course, ac cording to a study by the National Center for Education Statistics, an arm of the U.S. Department of Education. And, for nearly three-fourths of those students, one of those classes was math, the study found. In addition, only four in 10 high school seniors in the 2002-'O3 class who took the ACT received a score that indicated they were ready for college-level algebra, the college admissions test company reported this year. Critics use such figures as an indictment of high school instruction, that the schools do such a poor job of preparing their graduates that the colleges are forced to take care of the problem. But college officials are not sure that's the case. The dichotomy between increasing achievement levels in high school and the need for remediation in college shows a disconnect between the two systems, said Michael Kirst, a Stanford University education professor who co-authored a study on the issue earlier this year. The problem is that colleges have different expectations for incom ing freshmen than states have for their high school graduates. and most high school students don't know that, he said. 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Today, 40 percent to 50 percent of the college's students are placed in developmental math courses, according to Webb. There are many causes for that figure, he said. Some students don't test well, some haven't taken a math course in years and are returning to edu cation after several years in the work world, and some took the state's minimum two-year math requirement in high school. "There's a lot of reasons for this," Webb said, "A lot of people like to blame it on the high school. 'Oh, they're not teaching the students the right thing.' But I'm not sure that's true." In the meantime, the Madison technical college also is looking to bridge that divide, which Kirst complained is keeping some students from achiev ing their college dream. Over the summer, the school co-hosted a daylong school-to-careers conference for high school teachers to explain the tech nical college's math expectations. 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