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The Computer Center is an intellectual and technological nerve center. BUT, it still has its share of unnerving and unusual occurrences.
Cedarholm said that because the Computer Center was open 24 hours a day, it attracted not only unique individuals, but also unique crimes.
The wildest crime Cedarholm had heard of happened about two years ago when someone broke into the customer service area and stole two computers.
The computers were found in men's restroom on the main floor of the building, Cedarholm said. The bathroom had been vandalized with feces.
"I don't know what they had planned to do with them," Cedarholm said. "But they spread feces all over the walls and floors, but not on the computers." that he hadn't been working when it
Cedarholm said that he hadn't been working when the feces were found. During the weekends, custodians don't work so the Computer Center had to hire people to clean up the mess.
Cedarholm said that the strange people and extraordinary crimes confused him. There are a lot of strange people who work on these
y crimes confused him.
"There are a lot of strange people who work on those computers day and night," he said.
"They must have a lot of free time, so they do a lot of strange things."
But Barker said that political paranoia wasn't the only highlight of his Computer Center job. He pointed to a man in the corner of the lab.
"There's a guy out there. He's got a beard, and he wears a skirt," Barker said.
tart," Barker said. The man wearing a floor-length skirt was printing out page after page of jargon. Duffy, Glenn.
after page of jargon.
Becky Duffy, Olathe junior, couldn't help but look up when he walked by her computer.
he walked by her computer. He's just so bizarre," Duffy said. "He wears a plaid full length skirt, and he just walks around."
length skirt, and he just walks around. Renee Rosen, Lawrence senior and customer assistant at the Computer Center, said that everybody used the computers but students had priority.
ers, but students had priority. She said she didn't think anyone posed a problem at the center." she said
"Pretty much anyone can use the computers," she said. "Sure there're people who hang out here who are different, but they keep to themselves. I don't think it's a problem."
But the out-of-the-ordinary can take on many shapes at the center.
the ordinary can take on new shapes at the center.
When a foreign exchange student complained that the computer next to her was moaning, Coby Cedarholm, Overland Park senior and former employee of the Computer Center, rushed to humble with keys to calm the erotic audio file on the screen.
In the erotic audio file on the computer, "This woman came up to me and said the computer next to her was making funny noise," Cedarholm said. "She could hardly speak English, so it was hard to understand her."
But when Cedarholm approached the computer he understood what she had been trying to tell him.
"There was a man and a woman, and they were extolling the virtues of each other's body parts." Cedaraholm said. "It was like they had on a clip from a porno. There was moaning all over the place." Cedaraholm said that someone had hid the audio file in the
audio file in the computer. "It only played when someone started the computer," he said. "It was on a bunch of machines."
Cedarholm said that someone had hidden the audio file in the computer. It only played when someone start-
A man in a skirt paces as he waits for his term paper to print. The strident sound of sex blares from a computer. Government secrets are revealed on another computer.
are invested on another computer. In the daytime, the Computer Center looks like an ordinary computer lab, but when the sun goes down,the excitement in the Computer Center heats up. For the employees,working at the Heating
ment in the Computer Center heats up. For the employees,working at the Computer Center is more than just a job;it's an adventure. Andy Barker.Wichita junior,buddy's thoughtful thinker.
Andy Barker, Wichita junior, hadn't thought that he would deal with an imaginary CIA conspiracy when he applied for a job at the Computer Center. Then he met the elderly woman with broken glasses. "She had figured out how to run the country."
country woman with broken glasses.
"She had figured out how to run the country or some-
thing, and all of this information was on her disks."
Barker said. "She thought the government stole them.
She kept coming up to the window and asking if we had
found her disks. She's completely nuts."
"It was like they had on a clip from a porno. There was moaning all over the place."
Weird topics
In October, a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justice ordered a 30-day suspension for attorney Donald Hachey of Athol. A female former divorce client had angered Hachey by
desturing in court that he had sexually assaulted her 21-year-old daughter. Immediately after being acquitted, Hachey returned the client's divorce files, severely urine-stained. Hachey said lack of space forced him to keep the files beside the urinal in his office, and they might have been splattered once or twice. A bar association committee, which had sent the papers to the state police lab for testing, said the linear patterns of the stains resulted from a direct hit.
Five teen-age boys living in the Silverdale Workhouse correctional facility in Chattanooga, Tenn., were charged with attempted escape in November after they were discovered by guards in an attic. However, the boys said they were not there to escape. They pointed out the loose floorboards that, when removed, offered an overhead view of the showers in the women's wing of the Workhouse.
Mark Spotz, denying at his Clearfield County, Pa., trial in September that he
killed his brother (the first of four spree killings with which he was charged): "He didn't die until he got to the hospital. In my mind, killing someone is talking a life willfully. I didn't do that. I shot my brother, and he died. I didn't kill him."
A photo in the third issue of the new magazine Oneworld had black bars over model Julianne's breasts, while a photo of the Asian model Zhing topless appeared without bars. According to a magazine representative in December, the decision was dictated
by Oneworld's printer, who said Zhing's breasts weren't big enough to be offensive.
Gary Wigle, 48, in court in North Bay, Ontario, in July to answer a year-old charge that he left the scene of an accident, acknowledged that he didn't stop and admitted that he kept driving for three miles. However, he said the only reason he didn't stop was that the car he hit began to chase him, and he was three miles down the road before he felt safe enough to stop.
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