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Sept. 28, 2000 NEWS BRIEFS Copyrights byte The debate over Napster has finally hit home. As President Judith Rodin considers the recent anti-Napster request made by attorneys for recording artists Metallica and Dr. Dre, Penn students and faculty met Sept. 12 to discuss NapsterÕs morality and practicality. Panelists discussed the logistics of information security (Dave Millar, chief information security officer), intellectual property issues (Law School Assistant Professor Polk Wagner), the moral indignance of student musicians (Adam Alalouf [CÕ04]) and the frank anonymity of Napster users (Penn ACLU representative Arshad Hasan [CÕ03]). While audience members complained of the music industryÕs outmoded dominance, panelists stressed the serious business of copyright infringement. Goh to Penn In the latest chapter on the continuing relationship between Singapore and Penn, Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong visited campus Sept. 14 to observe life sciences research at Penn and to discuss potential partnerships between Penn and Singapore. Goh spoke with Penn biotech experts in a closed meeting and later toured a genetics research laboratory. Other Singapore connections from the recent past: President Rodin visited the city-state last summer; University Trustee Jon Huntsman (CÕ87) is the former U.S. ambassador to Singapore; and the number of Singaporean Penn students has doubled in the past five years. Wistar cleared Research presented at a Royal Society symposium in London Sept. 11 has effectively put to rest the theory that AIDS may have been introduced into humans via a contaminated oral polio vaccine developed at the Wistar Institute. The theory, which received wide exposure in Edward HooperÕs book ÒThe River,Ó was refuted by lab tests on samples of WistarÕs late-1950s oral polio vaccine that showed no traces of chimpanzee cells or the simian version of the virus that causes AIDS.