Brown and White Vol. 99 no. 21

              the brown and white v01.98 n0.21 > 215)758-4181 tuesday november 24 1987 taylor stadium stripped bynickchini brown and white news writer demolition of taylor stadium scheduled to begin yesterday began prematurely after saturday's football game when parts of the 74 year-old structure were cut hacked chiseled and torn apart students and alumni were breaking down doors ripping away bleachers and even attack ing ushers for their uniforms the stadium was barren after the game junior karl thunberg walked through the stadium late saturday evening he said the entrance was torn down and i walked right in all the gates around the stadium had been torn down twisted pieces of aluminum from the bleachers were reflecting distorted light there was a desolate feeling seeing everyth ing destroyed the lehigh letters under the press box were gone the turf was in clusters in some places it was like seeing the remnants of a huge party after everyone had gone it made you think of the generations of people cheering in the stadium and all the good times that went on the goal posts made of two by fours were torn down with 11 seconds remaining in the game psi upsilon fraternity obtained a 10-foot section of goal post one group of sigma nu fraternity brothers carrying a piece back to their house were intercepted by members of sigma chi fratern ity sophomore jay fetterman of sigma nu said sigma phi and sigep foughtover a 7-foot piece all the way to chandler-tjllmann and were then joined by delta upsilon then the police came and took the piece from the students alpha tau omega fraternity retrieved a 10 foot section of the crossbar phi sigma kappa fraternity and alpha sigma phi fraternity brothers were fighting in the streets of beth lehem for a piece of the goal post taylor college residents fought off many houses for their 6-foot piece of the goal post aluminum bleachers were torn apart and the wooden gates were plowed down by a mob of 20 to 30 students banners turf and signs were all fair game for souvenir hunters concrete slabs with scat numbers were chisel ed away the american flag and section banners were down by the third quarter of the game sophomore sandi kongsiri an usher at the game said we were told to take off our hats and usher vests a minute or two before the game was over because in the past they would try to take our uniforms linderman re-opened by teresa kent brown and white news editor linderman library which was closed for part of last week was re-opened saturday and is expected to remain open through finals the library was closed because a sealant being used on the roof leaked in and was causing some library workers to become ill according to thomas verbonitz director of risk management there are no longer air contaminants in linderman he added that air samples taken in the library showed levels of the contaminant at far below what is considered allowable by federal stan dards reserve materials which were moved to e.w fairchild-martindale library will pro bably remain there until after the holidays according to olive stengel head of circula tion services piisl§w : b&w photo by jen o'brien jclear weather thursday brought almost 600 turkey trotters to the annual race eric williams assistant modern languages professor won for faculty 14:40 representing zeta psi tim mcwilliams 90 finished first for upperclassmen 15:32 dos flu infects system by teresa kent brown and white news editor a corrupted version of ms-dos which has the effect of a virus and eventually destroys disks has been planted in the lehigh computer system according to warnings sent to all network users this weekend according to kevin weiner systems programming manag er the virus affects the command.com part of ms-dos which controls the execution of other programs weiner said the virus looks for another copy of com mand.com on other disks inserted in a machine started with an infected disk when it finds an uninfected disk it copies itself infecting the disk after it has copied itself four times he said it destroys the disk it is on once the virus has destroyed the information on a disk it cannot be recovered according to the server warning almost every disk at the public sites has been infected and users should assume they have infected disks hard drives can also be affected by the virus a program has been developed to fix infected disks and protect them from reinfection this program called fix can be downloaded from the network server directions are included users may also take their disks to the consulting desk to have them checked and corrected talk asseses media coverage of chernoby by jim benson brown and white news writer for the most part the media was very conservative in their coverage of chcrnobyl.they made more reassur ing statements than alarming ones said carole gorney associate journal ism professor journalism department chairman sharon friedman and gorney expressed their disappointment about the coverage during their lec ture risk and radiation media cov erage of chernobyl wednesday in university center room 306 the talk was an analysis of the media coverage by several major u.s newspapers and television networks of radiation emanating from cher nobyl during the accident and wheth er or not radiation coverage had improved since the three mile island incident the newspapers studied were the new york times the philadel phia inquirer the washington post the wall street journal and the allentown morning call the networks were nbc cbs and abc they the media did not do as well as we had hoped friedman said she said the major problem was the media did not provide enough radiation cov erage what they did do was ok but they didn't do cnough-at all friedman and gorney said more radiation coverage is needed since people do not understand radiation and thus fear it more than any other modern technological development they said people want to be able to judge for themselves when they are in danger of radiation in orderto do this they need precise and complete explanations from the media about radiation all too often they said the media used terms like high or low or used vague television graphics to des cribe radiation levels instead of defin ing these levels and explaining if it would harm them they said these terms might have been used by the soviet and eastern european govern ments to avoid panic what gorncy and friedman said they found particularly disappointing was just 31 of the 394 articles they studied explained how different radia tion levels affect human beings there was actually more coverage of the effects of radiation on food and water rather than on people gorney said on the positive side they said more background information on radiation was used in the coverage of chernobyl than in the coverage of three mile see virus page 3 see chernobyl page 3