The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, October 16, 1996, Page 3, Image 3
Two viruses infect geology lab By Erin Schulte Senior Reporter The computers in the geology labs are hungry, and they want to eat your files. Students who open Word or Excel files on the computers there risk being unable to reopen any files on their disks, the geology depart ment announced late last week. Carol Dicks, a staff assistant for the department of geology, said the department is working on curing the virus. Information Services comput ing staff members are working with virus-detecting software to find in fected documents and debug them before they become a problem, she said. So far, Dicks said she has seen two different viruses: One turns normal documents into templates with an auto-close function; the other puts password protection on documents. Dicks said Information Services computing looked up information about the virus on the Internet and found out the password was “help.” Anyone having trouble getting into a document should try that pass word. The department has also fig ured out a way to open the templates and delete the auto-close, she said. “Instead of being a disaster, it’s more or a nuge nuisance, dicks said. No students have lost entire documents yet, Dicks said. The virus was probably picked up from documents downloaded from the World Wide Web. Viruses can be transmitted between comput ers on campus, so students should watch for similar problems and alert computer lab staff if they see any thing. The virus has also been seen in the Sandoz computer lab and in several businesses around Ne braska. A virus protection program will be developed and installed on cam pus computers soon, Dicks said, but she was unsure of an exact date. ASUN to vote to help involvement office By Tasha E. Kelter Staff Reporter ASUN senators at tonight’s meet ing will vote on a bill that supports as sisting the Student Involvement Office in promoting its new project — a Stu dent Organization Orientation. The role of the Association of the Students of the University of Nebraska will primarily be to inform student or ganizations of the orientation, which will be next fall. ASUN senators are required to at tend various student organization meet ings throughout the year. Senators can relay information about the orientation there, ASUN president Eric Marintzer saia. “They’ll support and assist us as we plan and implement the project,” said Kim Hobson, student organization con sultant for the SIO. Marintzer said there would be no penalties for organizations that do not choose to participate in the orientation. “We want to make sure that there’s no negative ramifications should they choose not to participate,” he said. “Student organizations shouldn’t be mandated to do lots of different things.” Also tonight, senators will vote on the Outstanding Educator legislation, which was delayed last week because of a technicality. ASUN will operate a booth and give a short presentation on running effective meetings at the University Leadership Conference on Saturday ir the Nebraska Union. Registration be gins at 8:30 a.m. Marintzer also reported that Will iam Merrit, student body president oi Grambling State University in Louisi ana, visited UNL last weekend Marintzer said Merrit was impressed by the hospitality he was shown by stu dents and faculty. “This is a direct reflection on the students and the university as a whole,’ Marintzer said. “I’m really proud.” Report lists options to attract vacationers TOURISM from page 1 Industry Development Plan. The industry’s value has increased by nearly 500 percent over the past 20 years, making tourism the state’s third largest industry, the plan said. Agriculture and manufacturing rank first and second. The plan identifies 1-80 traffic as a key asset to the tourism development. Anthony Dworak, coordinator of the plan, said more than 60 percent of visits to Nebraska tourist attractions are made on impulse. Nebraska is a “pass-through state,” Dworak said. People travel through Nebraska on their way to a different destination. “We’ve got to be realistic that we Dental record helps police \ identify body i IDENTIFIED from page 1 : around 110 W. Q Street. Investigators do not know where or how True was employed, Wagner said. Lincoln police contacted True at least once in the past three years, Wagner said. He .would not say why they contacted her. Investigators narrowed the victim’s identity down from 65 possible leads called in from across the state, Wagner said. Dental records were used to con firm True’s identity, Wagner said. Of ficers then notified True’s sisters in Fremont and Omaha Tuesday, Wagner ‘ said. 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The plan made several recommen dations to divert this new traffic from the interstate and onto other Nebraska byways. But it is difficult to predict whicl attractions will convince tourists t< leave the highway, Dworak said. For example, Carhenge, Nebraska’: mockery of Stonehenge, brings mor< than 1>500,000 annually to Alliance. I was privately constructed using oh cars during six families’ reunions ii 1987. The attraction would have beei laughed out of a public tourism plan ning meeting, he said. But Carhengi now is so successful that people drivi more than 80 miles off of 1-80 to se< the half-buried vehicles. The Carhenge project proves tha tourism planning must remain flexibl and responsive to the interests of tour ists, Dworak said. “We realize that the best ideas ma; still be out there.” Ann's Electrolysis Center fPermanent^JJair l^emovaf . -^permanent ^odution to a (J3otl\erAome Jf^robHem Private Entrance • Offstreet Parking • Men & Women Medically Approved 13 Years Experience Ann Cheek Licensed A 77_QQfi>i Electrologist ^ * OPO^X /y*ASh**"’ jj This guy just came ■ £i e SERTOMA I Greeks work to meet fire code criteria FIRE from page 1 University campus on Oct. 5. No one was hurt in the fire, but the house, built in 1929, suffered heavy damage. Schoen said while houses showed improvement, he still had the same bad feeling about what could happen at a house if a fire were to break out. “If we had a fire in certain houses, it would be ugly,” he said. Inspectors find the chronic viola tions in certain houses frustrating, Schoen said, and things won’t change until disaster strikes. Fire codes were made around a theory, he said, called the “catastrophic theory of reform.” It means that soci ety tolerates something until life is lost or property destroyed. “If we had a fire here, there’d be crap coming down everywhere,” he said. ‘“Why wasn’t this up to code? You’d better fix this.’ “But because there hasn’t been a major catastrophe, we’ve allowed (problems) to exist.” But Griesen said tragedies at other universities have an effect on UNL. “It’s impossible to have these na tional tragedies and not respond lo cally,” he said. And there has been some local re sponse, Schoen said. Violations that once were practically a given — such as smoke detectors with dead batteries —were almost nonexistent in the last inspection. And that, he said, is encouraging. “Slowly, things are starting to come around.” MjiMM All You Care To Eat o&Pjrw I Original Sauce Spaghetti & Two ■ Slices Garlic Cheese Bread Mm Offer good for Lunch or ■■:W — BE Dinner-Mon., Tues., and Wed. only. 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