Last night we saw free speech in action. We devote 60 hours per week to this very same ideal, and it was overwhelming to see such a unified exercise of the First Amendment. Over 400 of our peers gathered to protest racial misunderstanding and misrepresentation in our community. Never has such a unified and effective protest taken place during our four years here at the University, and never before have we as a newspaper felt the enormous weight of our responsibility to protect the right to free speech so strongly.

As a newspaper we are guardians of that right — guardians for each and every student who flooded our offices last night, guardians for the Griot Society, and guardians for Anthony Dick and every opinion columnist on our staff, and guardians, ultimately, for you, our reader, and your own right to have your voice heard. Day in and day out our staff works as hard as it possibly can to live up to this ideal, by providing as fair and objective news coverage as possible, and by providing provocative opinions that inspire dialogue and communication in our community. And last night each and every protestor who entered the basement affirmed our convictions about the role of The Cavalier Daily in the University community. The freedom and ability to speak your mind should be treasured as one of your greatest possessions, and you should not hesitate to exercise it, especially if you feel your voice is not being heard.

We are a platform for your voice, and if you, the reader, feel your voice is not being heard, speak up. Speak loudly. Come down to our basement as often as you like, alone or with 400 of your peers. Come to write. Come to ask questions. Come to simply observe. Come because you care about your opinion, and come, ultimately, because you are part of a community of trust that requires open communication in order to survive.

Specifically, if you feel a community is being ignored, come to the basement and tell us about; while you are here learn more about The Cavalier Daily. We have no application process other than for the opinion page, anyone can do it, and we’ll even teach you how. If you feel our opinion page fails to be diverse and encompass all the viewpoints of our diverse community, tryout to be a columnist. The process is completely blind to race, creed or gender. In this process we hope to find and publish the universe of opinions that exists at the University, but this process fails when people from every walk of life don’t apply.

But you don’t have to be a member of our staff to contribute to the paper. Every day on the opinion page we run letters to the editor from students, faculty and others not on our staff. Our news department couldn’t survive if organizations around Grounds didn’t provide us with tips in the form of press releases and e-mails.

When all is said and done, however, the final burden is on us to take this information, take these contributors and contributions from our community and provide fair and balanced news reporting and accurate and diverse editorials. For 113 years we have been tasked with this role, and for the benefit of our community we will continue as a sounding board for the issues and news important to the University.

On a final note, because our responsibility for fair and balanced news coverage is so great, it is not possible for us to cover the protest last night on our front page. We were not objective observers, but rather participants in the event and would not be able to write a fair and comprehensive article.

Gone are the days when students were guaranteed classes uninterrupted by the intrusion of technology. Cell phones and pagers ringing in the middle of classes now are common occurrences. Walking down any sidewalk, you’re likely to encounter many students with cell phones pressed to their ears, overly absorbed in their conversations. And forget about enforcing proper noise levels at Clemons or Alderman libraries, because the quiet can be shattered by someone taking a call they just can’t miss.

University students live lives of seemingly constant interconnectedness and instant communication. But while we may believe that such incessant communication has brought us closer together, technology actually has a greater role in disrupting human contact than it does facilitating it, said Theodore Homyk, a lecturer in the biology department who teaches a first-year seminar in science fiction.

The introduction of modern conveniences such as the automobile and television had an enormous impact on the quality of social bonds, just by changing the amount of time that people spend with each other, Homyk said.

“Technology has a way of increasing instances of avoidance, and individualizing existence, so that people no longer want to adapt to the presence of others or be inconvenienced by them,” Homyk said. “For instance, most people don’t carpool because they consider their cars their private space, and most people don’t want be disturbed while watching their favorite television shows.”

Computers mark yet another encroachment on the time people spend on personal interaction, and Homyk and others claim it’s reasonable to say humans will one day spend more time interacting with their personal computers than they do with one another. Such a transformation may well occur as computers become more responsive and user friendly.

Homyk cites the case of a “computers in every classroom” policy in a Northern Virginia school system, where students may have had increased access to technology, but displayed decreased ability to resolve conflicts and form social bonds. Several sociological studies also have established a correlation between increased computer and Internet use with higher rates of depression and feelings of social isolation.

In the case of cell phones, the highly individualized nature of their use means they benefit only the one person engaged with the technology, and often inconvenience those around them.

“Cell phones divert people’s attention from their surroundings and other people around them — the obvious effect being that the importance and quality of interpersonal interaction is diminished,” Homyk said. “What people don’t realize is that so much communication depends on non-verbal cues such as body language and facial expressions. On the phone, you lose all that, and don’t get as much out of it.”

“Besides being rude, taking a call while someone else is with you sends a message to them that they are unimportant to you,” he said. “Firms have found they lose business if their representatives take calls while dealing with customers.”

Homyk also explained although computers and cell phones may increase the absolute amount of time we spend communicating with each other, communication anywhere, anytime devalues the act of communication itself.

Drawing an example from the highly technologizied society of modern Japan, sociologist Hisao Ishii published an entire book on the negative social impact of cell phones called “The Superficial Social Lives of Japan’s Mobile Phone Addicts.” In it, he details how students become dependent on cell phones to validate their social worth, calling each other not necessarily to have meaningful conversations, but simply to touch base and ensure they are not separated from one another. Not surprisingly, studies in Japan have correlated cell phone use with poor performance in school.

So what is all of this hyperconnectness and instantaneous communication leading toward? Eventually, the interface between the biological and the mechanical will blur to the point where both elements lose their distinction, said Rosalyn W. Berne, assistant professor in the Engineering School’s division of technology, culture and communication.

“The Internet in some ways foreshadows this loss of distinction — it’s a huge repository of information, but our interaction with it is still relatively remote in terms of interfacing,” Berne said. “In the future, our minds may directly connect to such information banks, and we will be unable to separate or distinguish ourselves from that information or from one another.”

He said such a change will have major implications for daily life.

“Once that happens, and life becomes more and more machine based, we will have to redefine ourselves as individuals and as a species,” he said.

Georgia Tech senior wide receiver Kerry Watkins has played the last three years in the shadow of legendary receiver Kelly Campbell. Despite already being in the top 10 in school history for career yardage, Watkins was not the number one target in an offense that featured Campbell, who ranks first in career yardage in school history. This year, Watkins broke out in a big way, stepping into the role of premier pass-catcher in a high-powered offense that led the ACC in passing yardage last year.

Watkins is the model of consistency, catching at least one pass in each of his last 23 games. Before this season started, he was number two to Campbell in career touchdowns already. With the injury of the Yellow Jackets’ top running back, Tony Hollings, Watkins and the rest of the receivers will have to step into a larger offensive role.

“When you are looking at our running back situation, [spreading the field] lends itself more to our personnel with our receivers,” Georgia Tech Coach Chan Gailey said.

The 5-foot-11, 189-pound Watkins proved he was ready for more wide-open offense with a nine-catch, 127-yard performance last week against Maryland. Still, the team is a faced with a two-game losing streak.

“We’ve definitely made some progress in practice this week,” Watkins said. “We’ve been making a lot of little, mental mistakes.”

Watkins began playing football in junior high school as a quarterback, and before his senior year in high school he was rated the No. three wide receiver in the nation, according to SuperPrep magazine. Watkins racked up 20 receiving touchdowns that year and also took three punt returns back for scores.

At Georgia Tech, Watkins seemed to take his game-breaking ability to the next level. Two years ago as a redshirt sophomore against North Carolina, Watkins came in on a punt block with the game tied. Watkins flew in and tackled the punter on the 12-yard line, setting up a go-ahead touchdown.

But that was only the second-best play of the season in the minds of most Georgia Tech fans. Trailing fourth-ranked Clemson by less than a touchdown with seven seconds left to play, Watkins made an acrobatic catch in the end zone after being knocked down.

The catch gave the Jackets a 31-28 victory.

Despite a 1-3 conference record, Watkins and the Yellow Jackets still feel they are in the ACC hunt.

The ACC race “is kind of a mystery,” Watkins said. “It’s hard to predict. We’ve just got to play to win each week.”

This week, Tech takes on a potent Virginia team that is on a six-game win streak. Last year, Watkins had the biggest game of his career against Virginia, totaling 161 yards on nine catches, although Virginia ended up winning with a last-minute touchdown.

The series is one of the tightest in the history of the conference, and Watkins is aware of the tension between the two teams. “It’s just been back and forth,” he said. “It’s almost like a rivalry game.”

Watkins is sure to make an impact against a Virginia defense that gives up an average of 228 passing yards a game, and it is likely that his big play potential will become a factor in the newest installment of a series marked by close games.

The effort and performance had always been there. The victories were what the Virginia women’s soccer team had trouble finding throughout a futile conference campaign. The Cavaliers (8-5-2, 1-3 ACC) finally were able to put the pieces together and put one in the win column last night, however, when they defeated Duke 2-0 on a windy evening at Klöckner Stadium.

Junior goalkeeper Anne Abernethy notched her fourth shutout of the season, and senior forwards Darci Borski and Alyssa Benitez tallied a goal apiece as last-place Virginia won the battle of the ACC basement against the seventh-place Blue Devils (6-8-1, 1-3-1 ACC).

Last night’s win followed a closely fought defeat on Saturday at No. 2 North Carolina, where the Cavaliers led 1-0 with under 10 minutes left and still managed to lose 2-1. The two other conference losses for Virginia were also tight matches, a 1-0 shutout at the hands of Clemson and a 2-0 defeat against Maryland.

“I couldn’t be more proud of the kids. It’s been tough,” Virginia Coach Steve Swanson said. “We’ve been playing well, but unfortunately we’ve been maybe just a few chances away from winning. And it’s been frustrating because I think overall, the games that we’ve lost we’ve played pretty well.”

The game was evenly contested throughout the early part of the first half, with both teams getting chances but neither squad capitalizing.

With just under 14 minutes remaining, freshman midfielder Noelle Keselica connected with Benitez on a sharp pass inside the box. Surrounded by three Blue Devil defenders, Benitez managed to weave her way through the traffic and shoot one past the Duke goalkeeper to put Virginia up 1-0.

The goal was Benitez’s team-leading eighth tally of the season. It also was the 20th score off the bench for a Cavalier team that has scored a total of 38 goals on the season.

Virginia took the one-goal advantage into the locker room and never looked back. The defense continued to frustrate the Blue Devils in the second half and held them to only six shots for the night.

With less than 5 minutes left, Borski ran down a long pass from freshman midfielder Julie Napolitano and separated herself from the Duke defenders. She cashed in on a low shot to the right-hand corner and crushed any remaining Blue Devil hopes of coming back by doubling the Virginia lead to 2-0.

The second-half score moved Borski into ninth place all-time in goals scored in Virginia history. She has tallied 25 goals in her four years with the Cavaliers, and has six goals this season alone.

The first conference victory was crucial for a Virginia team that is running out of time. The squad only has three games left in the season — all ACC matchups — including No. 14 Wake Forest on the road on Saturday. Swanson expressed confidence in the team’s chances down the stretch.

“For the team to come back after a disappointing and really heartbreaking loss against a team we haven’t beat and to play like this is great,” Swanson said. “It gives us a lot of momentum.”

Virginia aims to keep this momentum going in the right direction against the Demon Deacons this weekend. The victory over the Blue Devils provided the Cavaliers with proof that they can translate their strong play into a win, even against nationally ranked Wake Forest.

“This win gave us a lot of confidence,” Borski said. “Now we know we can play with anybody, especially against North Carolina when we had them for 81 minutes and to beat Duke 2-0, it just gives us so much confidence.”

Men’s golf finishes
seventh at Duke Classic

The Virginia men’s golf team finished in seventh place at the Duke Golf Classic in Durham, N.C., which finished on Tuesday.

Augusta State shot a round-low 282 in the third round to take the team championship with a two-over 866. Duke was second with a 10-over 874, followed by Illinois with an 18-over 882. The Cavaliers shot their lowest round in the third round at 293 to finish with a 34-over 898.

Augusta State’s Oliver Wilson shot a four-under 68 to take individual medalist honors with a seven-under 209. Virginia Tech’s Brendon De Jonge finished second with a five-under 211, followed by Duke’s Mike Castleforte with a four-under 212.

Virginia was paced by senior Justin Goodhue with a four-over 220, good for a 13th-place tie. Senior Thomas Lee tied for 25th with a nine-over 225.

Women’s basketball team adds walk-on Kreager

Forward Kate Kreager has joined the Virginia women’s basketball team as a walk-on after an open tryout, Coach Debbie Ryan announced yesterday.

Kreager, a 6-foot-3 junior from Chantilly, Va., played for Xavier the past two seasons. She averaged 13.6 points per game and 5.3 rebounds per game last season, and finished ninth in the nation in field goal percentage. She was named to the Xavier Invitational All-Tournament Team.

As a freshman in 2000-01, Kreager was the only Musketeer rookie to see action in all 34 games and led Xavier in minutes played off the bench. She will sit out this season and practice with the team.

– Compiled by Chip Knighton

Despite a halftime deficit to an excited in-state rival, the Virginia men’s soccer team (9-5) defeated a very scrappy Old Dominion Monarch team 3-2 last night at Klöckner Stadium.

Old Dominion (6-6) started the scoring 37 minutes into the game when sophomore defender Brian Kluckman finished off the rebound from a Monarch corner kick. Virginia junior goalie David Comfort lost control of the ball in the air, dropping the ball into the middle of a crowd, where Kluckman scored.

A strong first-half performance from the Virginia defense, led by junior defender Matt Oliver, kept the game a 1-0 affair in Old Dominion’s favor.

The second half brought out a different team from the Virginia locker room. In the second minute of the second half, senior forward Ryan Gibbs sparked the Virginia comeback by gathering a loose ball and finding the back of the net. Gibbs dribbled straight toward the opposing goalie, who deflected the shot far left of the goal.

Gibbs then recovered the ball and shot it over a defender’s head into the net — at what seemed to be an impossible angle — tying the game at 1-1.

“I just wanted to strike it cleanly, and thank God I did,” Gibbs said.

Gibbs admitted that the shot was a tough angle even for him, but said he made sure it ended up in the right place. Gibbs started the Cavalier comeback with his goal, creating a deadlock at a goal apiece but the even score would not last long.

It took Virginia 18 more minutes to finally take its first lead of the game. Junior forward Alecko Eskandarian received a cross from Gibbs and took care of the rest, dribbling through the Monarch defense and unleashing a rifling shot that the keeper had no chance of saving.

But the Monarchs would not quit. Old Dominion quickly responded to the Virginia goal in the 68th minute. Junior forward Attila Vendegh collected a pass through the Virginia defense after a costly turnover by the Cavaliers. Vendegh then one-timed the shot into the lower corner of the net past a sprawling Comfort.

The Cavaliers put the game out of reach for the Monarchs in the 74th minute, when senior defender Jonathan Cole headed in the game winner off a corner kick from junior midfielder Jacob LeBlanc.

Cole said it “was just a matter of beating my man to the spot.”

Gelnovatch sees improvement in his team, but knows it still has the desire to win after the comeback victory.

“The second half was much better,” Gelnovatch said.

Gelnovatch was happy with the outcome of the game, but still acknowledged that the team had problems that needed to be addressed.

When asked whether or not he was concerned about the number of missed scoring opportunities, Gelnovatch said he had a strong idea of what needed to be done.

“I’m more concerned about giving up goals,” Gelnovatch said.

With its final three games against ranked opponents and a record hovering around .500, the field hockey team laid on its proverbial deathbed entering last night’s game at University Hall Turf Field. But lowly Townson (9-7) proved to be just the thing to treat the ailing Cavaliers.

Virginia (9-7) pounced quickly on the Tigers, scoring five goals before intermission. The Cavs opened the second half with many of their starters resting on the bench, and glided their way to a 5-1 victory.

“I felt we finished really well in the first half,” Virginia Coach Jessica Wilk said. “I thought we were doing a good job of following up our first shot with a second and third wave.”

The team’s seniors — who are playing the last home game of their careers this weekend — led the Cavaliers in all aspects of the game.

Steals by senior midfielder Kelli Hill led directly to the Cavaliers’ second and third goals. Rosemary Walker, a senior forward, scored the third goal of the game, effectively putting the game away.

Senior midfielder Cara Unterkofler individually blocked three of the Tigers’ short corner attempts, with the last stop leading to a goal by senior forward Katie Slocum.

Slocum, who is a team co-captain along with Unterkofler, was undoubtedly the offensive star of the game. She scored two goals, her third and fourth goals of the season, including the game-winner that came 22 minutes into the match.

“I thought she did a great job in terms of following up on rebounds,” Wilk said of Slocum. “Her nose for the cage was good today.”

For the first time this season, the Cavaliers were without their starting goalie, junior Emily White, who missed the game due to a concussion she suffered in practice Tuesday. Entering the game, White, who is second in the nation in saves and sixth in save percentage, had logged all but 26 minutes in the goal this season for Virginia.

Back-up goalie Logan Carr, however, played an excellent game in place of White. The sophomore keeper allowed only one goal while making seven saves and facing 18 Townson short corners.

“She was very calm and poised,” Wilk said of Carr. “She had very good decision making. I thought she played a great game.”

“I just stuck to the basics,” Carr said. “Stick to your game plan and to the basics, and you can’t go wrong.”

Though this win helps the Cavaliers’ record, the toughest stretch of the season lies ahead for Virginia. Virginia faces off against No. 4 Wake Forest this Sunday for the team’s final home game of the season.

The next week, the Cavaliers travel to Durham, N.C., to play No. 12 Duke and No. 2 Michigan. The Cavaliers’ NCAA tournament hopes lie entirely in the outcome of those games.

“All the rest of our games are really clutch and important,” Slocum said. “We basically have to win all of the games if we want to make the NCAA tournament.”

With their season hanging in the balance, the Cavaliers will test their 7-1 home record against Wake on Sunday. It’s a game they must win.

In the upcoming Nov. 5 elections, Charlottesville voters will cast their vote on a “Palm Pilot on steroids.”

That is how David Beirne, director of public affairs for Houston, Texas described the eSlate voting units, a new electronic voting system that replaces the outdated punch card system.

Houston has successfully used the eSlate in America’s third largest county since November 2001.

Charlottesville voters will be using eSlate for the second time this November. The city used eSlate on a trial basis for the May 5 city council elections.

Unlike old voting systems, the eSlate complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act, ensuring private voting for people who need assistance, Charlottesville Voter Registrar Sheri Iachetta said.

The eSlate resembles a large Palm Pilot, with a screen that presents the voter’s choices and a simple control pad. As with the punch card system, it can be collapsed into a suitcase-sized case.

In the eSlate system, voters obtain a random ID number from a booth at the election site, which allows the voter to gain access to one of the several eSlate units at the polls.

By manipulating the system’s selection wheel, the voter then highlights election choices and presses a button to vote.

A summary screen finally appears, allowing the voter to make any changes before they hit a large red button to finalize their choices.

As in Houston, Charlottesville’s implementation of eSlate marks a departure from punch cards voting. But according to Iachetta, the change is not a reaction to the Florida debacle of 2000.

In February 2000, Charlottesville invited four vendors to display their systems. Texas-based Hart InterCivic’s eSlate was selected for its ability to facilitate private handicapped voting, Iachetta said.

The system includes adaptive devices that enable the blind, parapalegics and the paralyzed to vote with privacy.

Even Christopher Reeve could cast a secret ballot with the system, Iachetta said.

“There is a sip and puff, like a straw, device where one would sip to move among selections, and then blow to make a choice,” she said.

Hart InterCivic representative Bill Stotesbury explained that the selection wheel, in lieu of a touchscreen-based system, provides a more accurate voting interface.

“Touchscreens have problems with calibration,” Stotesbury said.

He said problems with touch screen accuracy were some of the greatest difficulties experienced last year in Florida’s statewide legislative elections, where new electronic voting had been implemented.

In case a recount is necessary, the system stores voting records in three different locations, Stotesbury said.

Individual ballots will be stored in eSlate units, as well as in internal memory and in a removable PC card on a central server at each voting location.

Charlottesville invested $202,050 in the electronic system, Iachetta said.

The eSlate units, which cost $3,000 each, are being funded by a city loan of $52,000, and the city’s sale of its old punch card machines to Virginia Beach for $25,000.

Iachetta said the city hopes to recover 90 percent of its cost from the federal government through the Federal Election Reform Act, which President George W. Bush is expected to sign soon.

Though 80 percent of Charlottesville voters in a May exit survey expressed approval of the new system, Politics Prof. Larry J. Sabato remains wary of unilateral investment in these machines.

Sabato said the punch card devices work very well if maintained properly, but he worries about electronic voting being oversold and proving difficult for those lacking experience with technology.

“New voting machines are nice,” Sabato said. “But there is no substitute for civic education and well-run elections.”

In response to budget cuts mandated by Gov. Mark R. Warner, Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore’s office announced 51 layoffs last Friday.

The cutbacks amount to a 20 percent reduction in the workforce and include the elimination of 10 lawyers and 41 support staff positions. The attorney general’s office now employs 229 people, a reduction of 56 positions from the beginning of the year.

Kilgore spokesman Randy Davis said these cuts will save $2.48 million annually, a 15 percent budget reduction. Warner has estimated that to meet the new budget, 91 jobs within the attorney general’s office would need to be cut, but various cost-saving measures have allowed the office to retain more personnel.

“This is all that is necessary to meet the 15 percent cuts,” Davis said.

Kilgore established travel restrictions over the summer in order to meet a 7 percent budget reduction that he voluntarily instituted at the beginning of the year, Davis said.

Kilgore also reorganized his office’s payroll, using federal grants to pay the salaries of some employees. Five positions left vacant from recent retirements are left unfilled.

Although the attorney general employs an “at will” workforce, meaning workers are not entitled to state severance pay, the laid-off employees will receive five weeks of salary from the attorney general’s office in addition to state payment for unused leave time.

Politics Prof. Larry J. Sabato said the long-term effect of these cuts remains to be seen.

“Clearly, this is going to affect what they do,” Sabato said. “They won’t be able to offer some of the services that they once performed.”

Kilgore spokesman Tim Murtaugh echoed Sabato’s statement, but emphasized that the attorney general’s office will “continue to get it done” despite the layoffs.

The attorney general’s office provides legal advice and representation to Warner and defends the constitutionality of Virginia laws when they are challenged in court.

“We are bound by law to provide services to government institutions such as state universities,” Murtaugh said. “Cuts will come in areas not directly related to our constitutional and legal duties.”

Although the attorney general’s office received the maximum 15 percent reduction that state law authorized Warner to implement, Davis said that the cuts were done “in as equitable and fair of a manner as possible,” and said the decision was not politically motivated.

“The attorney general’s office will do everything it can to help the state balance its budget,” Davis added.

The layoffs come as agencies across the state are cutting jobs and services in an effort to meet budget cuts. Overall, $858 million must be trimmed from this year’s budget, which amounts to an estimated 1,837 layoffs.

Many of these reductions are in addition to previous cuts that have left positions across the state unfilled. More cuts could follow once the budget goes to the General Assembly in January.

It is unclear how long the current budget conditions will last, Sabato said.

“When the money starts to flow again and the economy gets better, the question always becomes, do you restore the cuts or does the money go elsewhere?” he said.

New regulations forcing radio stations to pay for Web broadcasts went into effect this week, causing many college radio broadcasters to stop playing music over the Internet.

The rules from the Library of Congress’ Copyright Office charge radio broadcasters $500 a year for each year they have been broadcasting over the Web since 1998.

The money will go to SoundExchange, a coalition of recording artists and record labels that seeks to collect royalties for copyrighted materials broadcast on the Web.

The Copyright Office regulations also charge Internet radio providers two cents for each 100 listeners to each song they broadcast and establish a minimum annual fee of $500, though compliance temporarily has been waived, pending Congressional action.

As a result of these regulations, 70 college radio stations have stopped broadcasting over the Internet, the New York Times reported this week.

The University’s radio station, WTJU 91.1 FM, does not broadcast over the Internet.

The station’s general manager, Charles Taylor III, said WTJU decided not to broadcast over the Internet because he anticipated this ruling.

“We had been waiting on this,” Taylor said. “Some stations decided to risk it.”

Recording industry officials had sought to broker a deal with radio stations to establish new broadcasting rules, a spokesperson for the Recording Industry Association of America said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“24-7 these negotiations were going on,” the spokesperson said. “Concessions were made on both sides.”

The two sides reached a deal, but Congress has not yet approved this agreement, which is why the regulations governing payments on future broadcasting have not yet gone into effect, the spokesperson said.

The House approved the measure, but the Senate has not yet acted on it.

The new charges for radio Web broadcasters come from a 1998 law known as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

After this law passed, the recording industry entered into arbitration hearings with the representatives of radio stations to determine the exact fees, Assoc. Law Prof. Thomas Nachbar said.

These arbitration hearings generated the new Copyright Office rules.

Taylor said he would like to broadcast over the Web, and that alumni have requested Web broadcasting, but that he will not immediately be able to do so because of the ruling.

“It’s really not a financial issue,” Taylor said. “It’s a paperwork issue.”

The task of maintaining lists of every song the station plays and how many people listen to each song on the Internet currently prevents WTJU from broadcasting over the Internet, he said.

Taylor said he sympathizes with the desire for artists to be paid for their work, but he does not think the current rules will achieve this goal because most of the benefits will go to record companies.

“I totally support paying royalties to musicians,” he said. “This really feels more like people with a lot of money trying to get more.”

The RIAA spokesperson disagreed, saying the money from the regulations will go to SoundExchange. “50 percent of SoundExchange’s members are artists,” the spokesperson said.