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A6 Tl IF. SUN, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 4. 2005 NATION. Womens' panties 'hunted' by UVic voyeur PRIVACY I Police say peeping thong website not breaking law BY SARAH SCHMIDT obscenity." David Clode, head of student services at UVic, said the school can do nothing about the website because the shots of womens derrieres are being taken in public places on campus and the site can't be traced to a member of the university community- Clode added: "This person is clearly working as though people are not aware of what he's doing, although as somebody pointed out to me, how can you not be aware that you're not being revealing?" Referring to the students being photographed, he said: "Their choice of attire is their choice.

I can't image that you don't know what the effect is of how you dress." Joanna Groves, chairwoman of the student union, said the administration should have informed students about a photographer or photographers trolling the campus for candid shots of female students. "It's just a violation of someone's privacy," Groves said. "It's like taking a picture up someone's skirt in a public place. It's going to make women feel unsafe. I think it's reasonable for the administration to inform women so they can be at least on guard that someone might be around them trying to take those kind of pictures." Liss Jeffrey, director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, said the website is a case of technology catching up with our voyeuristic culture.

"As (Marshall) McLuhan said so many years ago, this is a society of the manhunt. This is a surveillance society. It's not about Big Brother. It's about Big Brothers and Big Sisters everywhere." Bill C-2, legislation to amend the Criminal Code currently before Par- cumstances that give rise to a reasonable expectation of privacy, where that is done for a sexual purpose." But Const. John Price, spokesman for the local police department serv-ing the UVic community, said because the campus pictures are snapped in public places, the proposed law would not apply.

"Although it would probably be an affront to a group of people within society, it is not a criminal act. If they were photos of women in a bathroom stall or through a bedroom window, where there is a strong expectation of privacy, then yes, it would be a criminal matter." Legal issues aside, Ottawa-based author and media critic Shari Gray-don, said the website is a disturbing cultural artifact. It denies womens' humanity by creating images focused on particular body parts, she said. "Although the fashion statement that combines low-riding pants and thong underwear would seem designed to attract viewer attention to the underwear that's often exposed, the images are being taken without the womens' knowledge. "The images are being captured and disseminated surreptitiously, and their use on the website alongside the words 'hunted victims' is particularly creepy and unfortunate," said Graydon, author of In Your Face: The Culture of Beauty and You.

The website domain is registered to a Jeff Smith, who lists a local address not far from the UVic campus as his residence. The phone number provided to the Internet provider is not in service. Smith, listed as both the administrative and technical contact for the website, did not respond to an e-mail request for an interview. CanWest News Service A disturbing hunting season is open at the University of Victoria. An online database of revealing photos of female students secretly photographed on campus, posted under the heading "Hunting season is open," has been growing since September 2003.

The administration learned about the website www.peepingthong.com a few weeks ago when a member of the university community complained, but didn't inform students of its existence. The most recent submission of a "victim" to the "Hunted T-bars" section of the site was posted Thursday. The pictures, taken from behind at various public areas on campus, including the campus bar, library and student centre, focus on female students' buttocks and thong underwear. The young women are usually sitting. Visitors are asked to rate each picture and provide commentary.

Comments include: "I wouldn't hesitate" and brb (be right The photos are being taken with either camera phones or digital cameras. Cellphone cameras, a technological craze popular among young people, have been banned in some campus athletic facilities and private gyms in Canada over fears people would surreptitiously snap revealing photos. Saudi Arabia's highest religious authority has barred the gadget outright, blaming the cellphone with a built-in camera for "spreading hi imm i ,1, i if I ECKEHARD SCHULZASSOCIATED PRESS A cellphone with a built-in camera may be behind the website of a UVic stalker taking surreptitious snaps of female students' exposed thongs. liament, includes the creation of "an proposed law makes it an offence to offence of voyeurism and the distrib- "surreptitiously observe or make a ution of voyeuristic material." The visual recording of a person in cir Partial-pancreas donation a diabetes cure MAN OF THE SHROUD Exhibit International Symposium On the History, Science and Significance of the Shroud of Turin. An ecumenical event" Free Admission Feb.

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A Japanese mother had her pancreas removed so its islet cells, which produce insulin, could be inserted into the liver BY SUSAN RUTTAN EDMONTON Karen Zabinski wouldn't hesitate to give up half her pancreas to cure her daughter's diabetes. "How could you not, to save your child's quality of life?" the mother of 12-year-old Rebecca said in an interview Thursday. Zabinski and other parents of severely diabetic children are ecstatic at the news the first islet cell transplantation of her severely diabetic 27-year-old daughter. Mother and daughter are fine. Living-donor transplants will happen in Edmonton "in the near future," Shapiro said.

Once the process begins here, family members of people with type 1 diabetes will be able to donate half a pancreas, if they pass the screening procedures. The islet cell transplant isn't done on young children, who must wait until adulthood. Edmonton Journal Is this the face of Christ? it i I i fit I I Dr. D. Scavone, Historian, Indiana; Dr.

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