Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 29, 1991
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Antivirus programs treat infected disks
By Patricia Rojas
Kansan staff writer
Computer disks infected with viruses now can receive treatment at the Computer Center.
Herb Harris, assistant director of user services, said the center had purchased 500 copies of F-PROT, a package of antivirus programs. Students and faculty members have free access to the program.
The Novell server at the center was infected last week with the "Yankee Doodle" and the "Stone" viruses. The server was then compromised, and the system was hacked.
The Novell server is the network that supplies software to and connects the Zenith computers in the center.
Harris said many people had reported infected floppy disks this week.
"The telephone has been ringing and ringing off the hook," he said. "Most of the people who have called got into trouble."
Mickey Waxman, programmer of academic computer services, said people who detected a virus in their floppy disks were infected.
"The best thing to do is to turn off the computer and
The virus is removed from working memory when the computer is turned off. A virus in working memory has been detected.
restart the computer with a virus-free floppy disk," Waxman said.
the ability to meet any program, even when
A virus is not a complete program but a set of instructions that copies itself to a program, Waxman said.
The F-PROT package has about 21 different antivirus programs. Waxman said he would recommend the two basic ones to students who needed to get rid of the Stoned or the Yankee Doodle viruses.
He said one of these programs looked for viruses and interfered with the computer's operating system if it found one. This antivirus program stops an infected program. Another antivirus program inspects the programs in *P*.
/ Another antivirus program inspects the programs in the floppy disk, looks for viruses and destroys them.
Waxman said that a virus usually could be destroyed without damaging the other programs in the floppy disk. However, sometimes a virus can be destroyed only by wiping out an entire disk.
Senate approves allocations for 35 student organizations
ASK receives $32,906; four other groups denied financing
By Michael Christie
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate voted last night to approve the student organizations' budget for next year, with $71,059 allocated to 35 groups.
Associated Students of Kansas received $32,906 to cover the campus chapter's dues in the larger Board of Regents institutions' organization.
The other 34 organizations received a total of $83,153
each. There were only 1,000 each. Only three were allocated more than $4,000.
The Organization of Adult Knowledge Seekers is allocated $4,632. The organization's purpose is to address the special problems and needs of nontraditional students who have children who have children to those who commute to school.
KIOSK, a literary magazine that publishes student-submitted art, poetry and prose, was allocated $5,325. Disorientation, an alternative news publication, was allocated $4,200.
Based on the finance committee's recommendations, Senate voted to deny financing to four organizations: Voice, Helping Hands Childcare Cooperative,
Commuters Club and Consumer Affairs.
voice, a campus peace organization, was denied financing because it is a politically-based group, said Troy Radakovich, finance committee co-chairperson.
Senate does not normally finance those organizations, he said.
The other three groups were determined to be members of existing student organizations, Rada-kovich school.
Helping Hands has had a rather difficult time obtaining financing from Senate. Through a series of miscommunications, admitted by both Senate members and Helping Hands supporters, the organization has been unsuccessful in securing Senate allocations for next year.
Members of the group and supporters were present at last night's meeting.
Pam Jefferson, senator, said the issue of child care would not disappear.
Voters to decide if county should pay to widen 6th Street
"I would really hope that the issue of child care at KU is not dead in Senate," she said.
Bv Vanessa Fuhrmans
Kansan staff writer
The long road of debate over a Sixth Street construction project will come to an end April 2 when Douglas and Kirk bond a vote the red or green light.
A last-minute referendum on the ballot will ask voters to decide whether the county should release $493,750 in bonds to help pay for the widening of Sixth Street between Monterey viver and Wakarua Drive.
The bonds would match a state grant of $1,837,500 and the city's share of $494,750 to finance the construction. If the bonds are approved, the seven-month project would begin in October, 2016. McKenzie, county administrator.
The bond issue, however, originally was not intended to be decided in a referendum. Douglas County commissioners approved the bonds on August 26, then last month decided to put the bonds, instead, to a public vote.
'I have a problem when the government uses its authority and its public funds to try to influence the vote.
Shortly after the commission approved the bonds, John Swift, Lawrence graduate student, filed a petition demanding a public vote with more than the 754 required signatures.
"Although the petition was invalid, the commissioners thought it represented a desire that county residents
- Tim Miller associate professor of religious studies
wanted to put this to a vote," McKenzie said.
Meanwhile, a brochure issued this week by the county explaining the bond issue has drawn criticism. Opponents of the bond issue charge that the county's $5,000 to produce and send to Douglas County voters, is biased.
"The ironic thing is that the vote was designed to give taxpayers a choice. Swift said, "Every bit of information we need to convince people to vote 'yes.'"
Tim Miller, associate professor of religious studies, said he questioned the use of public funds to produce the brochure.
"I have a problem when the government uses its authority and its public funds to try to influence the vote," he said.
McKenzie said that if the bonds were not approved, the city and county could lose the state grant, delaying the project.
The race is on
Brett Campbell, 8; Brandi Heim, 7; and Dyan Schehrer, 8; all of Eudora, search out candy and prize eggs during Eudora's Easter egg hunt. The hunt took place Saturday and was sponsored by the Eudora Recreation Commission. This Sunday, the Lawrence
Parks and Recreation Commission, in conjunction with radio station KLWN 1320, will provide an Easter egg hunt for children ages 3 to 8. The hunt will begin at 2 p.m. at South Park, 12th and Massachusetts streets.
Mascot heads to Indy to cheer for Jayhawks
Kansan staff writer
By Sarah Davis
Tomorrow, the Jawhays will have a 6-foot-6 man on the court who will never score a point, never get a win and never hit a three-pointer.
But he still will help to bring the crowd to its feet.
The Jawhayk, KU's mascot, will be on hand during the Final Four to cheer for the Hawks in their game against the North Carolina Tar Heels.
Mark Montgomery, Wichita senior, left at 5 a.m. today to help represent the Captain as the captain of the mascot
squad, he said it was his privilege to be the only KU mascot to go to Indianapolis.
"It'll be a great time and easily one of my best memories," said Montgomery, who has been a mascot for three years. "I got to go to (the Final Four) in 1988 as a fan, and now I get to go as a mascot. To be a mascot takes a lot of work, but 90 percent is pure fun."
Kathy MacNaughton, Overland
Kathy junior is one of four Baby Jay
students in the program.
And part of being a Jayhawk mascot is encouraging the crowd to have fun
years. She said she liked seeing the enthusiasm she created in people.
"You put in a lot of hard work, but so much of the time people make up for it in the way they respond to the Jayhawk," she said. "We call being a mascot a 'license to be crazy' because no one can see who you are. I feel like I put a lot of me into Baby Jay."
Bill Early. St. Louis senior, is one of the four Jawahr macs. He was with the basketball team in Charlottesville, C., when the team beat Arkansas.
"I like being a mascot because I'm a person who doesn't like to just sit
and watch the game," he said.
He said he definitely had that sensation when everyone rushed on the court after the Jahawks' victory against Arkansas.
"It was just great because I almost felt like a player," Early said. "I was giving them high fives."
But being a KU mascot is more than just getting a close seat at a basketball game. The students have to balance their schedules with those of sports teams. They are required to play on every sport at least once a year. They also visit hospitals and attend parades and alumni events.
And they have to get used to sweating.
The 6-foot-6 Jayhawk costume weighs 20 pounds and on a typical day, the temperature inside can reach more than 100 degrees.
"It's kind of like doing aerobics
with a pack on your back." Early
said.
Even with two sets each, the costumes must be replaced almost every year because of damage caused by children and enthusiastic fans. The Jayhawk costume costs $2,000 and Baby Jay's costume $1,000.
Because seeing through the slit in the costume's beak sometimes is
difficult, the mascots get used to feeling their way around.
Montgomery said he remembered a dizzying experience of his own last year. He was at a Kansas State basketball game playing with Willie the Wildcat when a K-State fan came across the court and tackled him.
"I figured I was going to get doggled, so I just curled up," he said. But he said being a mascot was well worth it.
"The mascot has the freedom to do just about anything at the games," he said. "It's pretty much like recess is for little kids."