Brown and White Vol. 97 no. 12

              clothing food and some of the checks john stole were in his posses sion when he was found according to police he took 600 in cash and 4,000 in checks i love my son likins said he was out there in the streets l wanted to get him out of an environment where his life was in danger even if it meant putting him in jail i know prison is not a safe place we don't have any good choices left he added university police found john at 6:19 p.m thursday in the likins resid ence on campus after he tripped a silent alarm said airgood gombosi set john's preliminary likins son charged with theft lu president reflects on drug problems bycarounewest brown and white editor in chief and erica crespi brown and white asst news editor the youngest son of lehigh presi dent peter likins was arrested oct 19 for burgulary theft by unlawful taking criminal trespass and receiving stolen property after allegedly stealing money from his family home accord ing to police hearing on oct 27 at 10:30 a.m a public defender will handle john's case according to gombosi university police chief eugene dax and lt edward shupp will be han dling the case for the prosecution although known in high school as a pennsylvania state wrestling cham pion john has had a history of person al problems centering around his drug addiction since his senior year according to likins the first signs of drug use started when the likins found a marijuana pipe in john's jacket despite agree ments with his parents to stop using drugs john soon started to use coca see likins page 4 john likins 21 one of likins six adopted children was arraigned thursday by district magistrate john gombosi and was sent to northampton county prison gombosi set bail at 10,000 john who has been using cocaine since 1986 was reported missing wed nesday by likins after he did not return home for several days accord ing to glenn airgood university spok esman likins said he is pressing charges for the theft of the cash and checks which were his daughter's wedding gifts in hopes that his son would enter a long-term drug rehabilitation pro gram under the judge's discretion stabler attracts new performers byjohnmasonis brown and white news writer entertainment at stabler athletic and convocation center is increasing this fall as evidenced by perform ances last week by barry manilow great white and tesla and the upcoming richard marx and 10,000 manincs shows yet the question remains on the lehigh campus why haven't there been many popular bookings after speaking with stabler's director of events richard fritz the answer seems to be simple since 1979 stabler has held a total of 160-170 concerts that is an average of 17 concerts per year but recently very few groups are on tour fritz said according to fritz the concerts at stabler have two major obstacles that must be surpassed before a show can be scheduled first stabler is susceptible to availability if no popular bands are touring the east coast then stabler see stabler page 7 b&w photo by wendy bronfin jack russel lead singer of great white sings to the audience at stabler arena friday night computer virus could threaten lu by clarke rogers brown and white news writer a computer virus known as the data crime columbus day and oct 13th virus has been detected on a national level but has not yet affected lchigh's computer systems according to timothy foley computing center associate director the virus found to affect ibm-pcs and its compatibles has been coined the oct 13 virus because it was pro grammed to activate on any given day after oct 12 although some computer viruses are harmless and are only nuisances to systems this newly detected virus is destructive because it was created to remove all hard disk control information mak ing its data completely use less to the user although only 10 cases have been reported in the united states precautions must be taken against virus contam ination because the damage is severe and irreparable in a computer system the virus programs can replicate and transfer them selves from system to system via contaminated floppy disks foley explained that stu public microcomputing sites foley said there is no limit as to how quickly or how far the viruses can spread since lehigh has been plagued with computer vir uses in the past the university warns against these damag ing activities in the student handbook according to the university regulations stated in the hand book it is a felony punish able by fine of up to 15,000 and imprisonment of up to seven years for any person to access alter or damage any computer system network program or data base dents can do several things to protect their computer equip ment he said students should back up all data use their own data disks and should not share or accept programs from unknown or unauthor ized sources foley said that one can obta in an ibm program from the computing center which scans for the three branches of the new virus as well as 25 other ms-dos viruses the virus scanning pro gram has been used on the more than 1,000 disks held at the computing center's the brown and white vol 97 no 12 tuesday october 24 1989 lehigh university inside news new crime reporting legislation proposed page 3 arts & leisure club 31 holds car ribean night page 15 sports ruggers take buck nell page 23