IMAGE, ADVANCE compete in RHA runoff I
isy rnc rianner candidates Larry Koubsky and Eric
Staff Reporter Aspengrcn.
Charlie Hamilton and Paul Lud
According to election results re- dcn of TRUTH got 252 votes for
leased Thursday by the Residence president and vice president.
Hall Association Electoral Commis- Cindy Kirstinc, RHA election
sion, run-off elections will be held for commissioner, said RHA Bylaw X
several positions next Wednesday. states that RHA runoffs must be held
Since none of the three parly’s the same day as any runoffs for the
executive tickets got more than 50 Association of Students of the Uni
percent of the votes, a run-off elec- versity of Nebraska, which would be
tion must be held. The top two vote- Wednesday,
getters, ADVANCE and IMAGE, Thursday morning after votes
will be competing in the runoff. were counted, Kirstinc said the Elcc
The executive candidates of the toral Commission would challenge
IMAGE party, J. Mau Wicklcss and the bylaw in order to hold the election
Tim Thorson, received 362 votes later than Wednesday,
compared to 339 for ADVANCE But Thursday evening she said the
Computer virus infects
two university offices
By Brandon Loomis
Senior Reporter
A computer virus has infected at
least two University of Nebraska
Lincoln offices within the last week,
but sources in those two offices said
Thursday that the problems have
been corrected.
The virus hit computers in the
Interfraiernity Council office last
week, and was discovered at the
Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska this week.
Michael Ho, an ASUN senator
who helped solve the problem, said
viruses are self-replicating programs
that can damage data or programs
when introduced to a system. He said
the virus that hit the offices did no
permanent damage.
“It really w asn’t destructive,” Ho
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computer and make it beep.”
AS UN didn’t lose any data like
legislation or letters, Ho said, but
some programs were temporarily
damaged. Ho said some of the basic
graphics programs in the office that
were hit may still need work.
“It’s just like with any human
infection. It lakes a while to rebuild,”
he said.
Ho said he worked on the problem
with a virus-clearing program he got
from the Computing Resource Center
Thursdav.
The virus probably was not intro
duced on purpose, Ho said. Someone
probably just got hold of a bad pro
gram, he said.
Mary Ann Holland, secretary for
the IFC office, said she began experi
encing problems early last week, but
no data was destroyed.
“Some of the programs that nor
mally work didn’t work,” she said.
Paul Menter, computer support
specialist at the resource center, said
computer viruses are common on
college campuses, but UNL has had
relatively lew.
Menter said publicity about vi
ruses often makes computer users
paranoid. After a scare, many people
will normally contact him thinking
they have a virus, when they really
just can’t work their computers.
“The fear of the virus can be more
fatal than the virus,’’ Menter said.
P,-»H k'r.
ihc IFC executive council who
worked on the problem with Ho, said
the student body shouldn’t worry
about the virus. <
“The situation has been solved
and they don't need to know a damr
thing,” Krogh said.
Carol Farnham of the Computing
Resource Center said she also ha>
heard of problems in a lab at the
College of Business Administration,
but doesn’t know' the details.
Stan Siron, director of the CBA
lab. refused comment
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will include work on interpersonal
skills and goal setting, he said.
“They need to know where their
boundaries are in student govern
ment,’’ he said.
Hill said that every year some
senators quit mid-year because they
get upset with constant criticism from
the press and students.
“I hope we can minimize that,”
he said.
Hill said he was disappointed that
only 11.7 percent of students voted.
“It’s tough to gel students moti
vated,” he said.
Students don’t vote heavily in
stale and national elections, he said,
and it’s even harder to gel them to
participate in student government.
The low voter turnout is not neces
sarily reflective of student opinion,
even though some regents claim it is.
“I disagree with that,” he said.
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commission would not challenge the
bylaw, because there isn’t enough
time before Wednesday.
By next fall, Kirstine said, the
commission will “overhaul” the
bylaw to make it “more detailed.”
The commission will target the
section of Bylaw X that requires
candidates for executive positions
and hall presidents to get 50 percent
or more of the vote in order to win,
she said.
If the commission overhauls the
bylaw according to Kirsline’s plan,
these candidates would only need to
get a plurality of voters.
Kirstine said voter turnout
Wednesday was approximately
1,030, or nearly double that of last
year’s election.
Ahcl/Sandoz had the lowest voter
turnout, she said, while about 300
students voted at Harper/Schramm/
But at Burr and Fedde halls on
East campus, 50 percent of students
participated in the election, she said.
This was the highest of any residence
hall complex, Kirstine said.
She said these halls had the high
est percentage of turnout because
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both executive candidates from the
TRUTH party live there, as well as
the candidates for treasurer from the
IMAGE i.nd ADVANCE parties.
RHA also will hold a runoff elec
tion for treasurer.
Paula Tank of the IMAGE party
got 471 votes, while Karen Schimo
nitz of the ADVANCE party received
469.
Schirnonitz vSaid the close margin
“kind of surprises” her.
Tank said the margin was close
because both candidates were com
peting for the same voters from Burr
and Feddc halls.
Both candidates said they would
try to talk to more students on city
campus before the run-off election.
Other positions that will be de
cided by a runoff arc:
• Abel Hall president, between
Kelly Wadeof ADVANCEand Keith
Malo of IMAGE.
• Abcl/Sando/. Hall secretary, be
tween write-in candidates Ian Th
ompson and Brenda Thompson.
• Abcl/Sando/ Hall treasurer, be
tween write-in candidates Pat Me
nard, Garret Klicn, Todd Snyder and
Dan Koehler.
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