Brown and White Vol. 99 no. 36

              the brown and white vol 99 no 36 tuesday march 10 1992 lehigh university emergency escort service implemented harassment of graduate student by pipe-wielding youths seen as last straw by marc j goldstein news editor the large number of recent harassment and assault cases oflehigh studentsprompted the formation of an escort service friday the service which will be staffed by lehigh security guards and will be available between the hours of 7 p.m and 4 a.m was created the day after a male graduate student was harassed while walking from wawa to whitaker laboratory four youths harassed the student by throwing a metal pipe at him said john smeaton dean of students the graduate student ran to the physics building where he called the lehigh police according to smeaton lehigh police arrested four youths and charged three with harassment and disorderly conduct and one with just harassment the four were also issued no trespass warrants for the lehigh campus smeaton said that lehigh police chief eugene dax called him thursday night about the incident friday morning the decision was made to begin the escort service the service will respond to calls to the lehigh police a security guard will trans port students and staff m a lehigh vehicle because of the number of incidents that have been taking place over the past few weeks we felt the need to move forward with something that we have been talking about with various people smeaton said smeaton said that the escort service , which was heavily publicized m posters around campus and a message on the network server on friday is intended to be a backup to the transportation systems already m place mainly the tracs vans the escort service is the formalization of a lehigh police policy that already existed smeaton said lehigh police were always available m an emergency situation to pro vide transportation if a student felt threatened smeaton said that although the escort service takes care of the immediate concern the service will be evaluated by a group of students and administrators m the future smeaton said approximately 20 students took advantage of the service this weekend the additional costs of the new system are outweighed by the safety concerns of the students smeaton said the goal that we have is to make people aware of the fact that these sort or things can happen and what they can do to minimize the likelihood of it happening to them smeaton said he added there is always a trade-off between convenience and security one has to make the judgment about how much in convenience one is willing to put up with to be that much more secure michelangelo scare ends few infected by josh zeman news writer the dreaded computer virus michaelangelo came to life as predicted last friday but apparently its bark was worse than its byte across the united states there were scattered reports of the virus infecting and destroying data m computer systems apparently there were only dozeas of reports of the virus many from personal computer users who did not take the necessary precautions to safeguard their data now that the scare is over previously panicked computer users are trying to discover who is to blame for the creating the virus warnings about the michaelangelo computer program which was designed to crash the personal computers of international business corporations and compatible ma chines set off an international scare forcing many computer users to seek anti viral programs unfortunately lehigh was not immune to the virus binod taterway senior user consultant at the computing center said there was only one report of a user who m an attempt to beat the virus set her computer's internal clock forward one day however she did so on march 5 and m changing the date to march 6 activated the virus we also found quite a few infected disks taterway said lehigh along with many other colleges across the country was at great risk because of a large public access network a virus is usually passed on to other computers through infected floppy disks the virus attaches itself to a program with no harm to the program's structure and every tiling appears to run normally but the virus which is m the program propagates every time it is copied the more copying the faster the spread of the infection when activated the virus deletes all information stored m the computer the virus is called michaelangelo because its anonymous programmer designed it to activate on the artist's 517 th birthday b&w photo by jason stanford the lehigh men's basketball season and ncaa tournament hopes came to an end sunday night in a 96-84 loss to fordham see page 20 what you need to know about cancer page 7