A U.S. Senator is planning legislation to restrict student access to pornographic websites in schools receiving federal funding for Internet services.Under the 1996 Telecommunications Act, revenues generated from telecommunications carriers are intended to connect schools and libraries to the Internet.The FCC agreed to provide $625 million in subsidies to schools and libraries for the first half of 1998, Associated Press reports said.Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., chairman of the Senate committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, plans to introduce a bill which will restrict what kinds of material schools receiving these funds can have access to.Despite this proposed legislation, Ohio State should not be affected.OSU does not receive any direct federal money for Internet services, said Bob Kalal, director of University Technology Services.UTS receives its money for public labs, classroom equipment and computing labs from OSU’s general fund.UTS also charges OSU departments like the registrar’s office for services such as programing, he said.A person cannot speculate what type of effect such a plan could have on OSU until an actual bill is written up, Kalal said.Students viewing smutty material in the public computing labs on campus has not been a problem so far this year, said Pat Hall, director of Student Judicial Affairs.”I have been here since October and I haven’t had a complaint yet,” Hall said.The 1996 Telecommunications Act tried to restrict students’ access to pornographic material on the Internet and that specific part of the act was struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional.