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Mockingbird Ln. Dallas, Texas 75235 (214) 350-6166 1 -800-777-2874 TAIMU Italian Semester Spring 1931 Study and live at the TAMU Center “Santa Chiara,” in Castiglion Fiorentino INFORMATIONAL MEETINGS: Friday, April 27, 2:30-4:00 401 Rudder Tower FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT Study Abroad Office Study Abroad Office 161 Bizzell West, Phone: 845-0544 Have your 1989 Aggieland Students who have not picked up their 1989 Aggielands may do so at the English Annex from 8:30 to 4 p.m. A few extra yearbooks remain for sale at $25 for those who did not order one. AggieVision, A&M's video yearbook, is option 23! Police Beat The following incidents were reported to the Texas A&M University Police Department between April 11 and April 17. INDECENT EXPOSURE: • UPD officers were dispatched to investigate a report of Indecent Exposure at Wofford Cain Pool. Upon arrival the investigating officers were told the suspect was still in the pool and he was mastur bating. The officers appoached the suspect and observed that he was in the water in a crouched position with his swimming trucks pulled to the side and his penis exposed. The suspect was identified. Investigation continues. FIRE: • A small fire was started in a trash can in Nagle Hall when a cigarette was apparently dropped into a trash can ingniting a few small pieces of paper in the bottom of the container. The fire was confined to the metal trash can. The container was removed from the building to eliminate the smoke. DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED: • While stopped at the intersection of Wellborn Road and Joe Routt Blvd., an officer observed a red Pontiac which was following closely behind a white pickup flashing its low and high beam lights as if to attract the attention of the driver or the officer. As the vehicles passed the officer’s location, he no ticed the red Poniac had sustained severe damage to the rear and was operating with a deflated left rear tire. The officer pursued both vehicles and stopped the truck at the intersection of Wellborn Road and George Bush Drive. Investigation revealed the driver of the Ford truck had struck the Pontiac at the intersection of Villa Maria and Texas Avenue in Bryan and had fled the scene. The occupants of the red Pontiac and the pickup were identified. The occupants of the truck were intoxicated. The driver was charged with Driving While Intoxicated and the passenger was arrested and charged with Public Intoxication. The subsequent accident investi gation by the Bryan Police Department resulted in the filing of three additional traffic offenses against the truck occupants. Both were jailed at the Brazos County Jail. TRESPASS: • Officers were dispatched to the Southside Park ing Garage in reponse to a report of several subjects on the roof of the structure. Upon arrival, two sub jects were observed ascending the construction crane on the north side of the structure. They were re quested to return to the base of the crane. Once on the ground, they were identified, arrested and charged with Criminal Trespass. The subjects informed an officer that two other individuals decided not to climb the crane and had returned to their residence in Wells Hall prior to his arrival on the scene. When contacted, the other two men confirmed their involvement and were also jailed in the Brazos County Jail. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: • Two Physical Plant vehicles parked at the Com mons loading dock were covered with shaving cream. Investigation revealed the vehicles appar ently were caught in the cross fire of a shaving cream fight. • A room in Dormitory 5 was splashed with bleach from ceiling to floor. After soaking the room with bleach, the suspect placed a board with a notch over the door handle so that the room’s occupant could not leave. • Four windows Iff Keathley Hall were damaged. Each window was penetrated by a small round pro jectile slightly larger than a BB. • A pillow was set on fire on the roof of a 1979 Chevrolet parked in Parking Area 29. While at the scene, the owner of the vehicle approached the offi cers and said the pillow belonged to him. He did not know why the pillow was ignited or why it was on top of his vehicle. • The left driver side window of a 1987 Pontiac work that. have brar) crocc putei admi $9,0( (Con on Houston Street was shattered. The owner contacted and upon inspection of his vehicle, lie ported that nothing was removed from the intent,: • Someone scratched the hood of a 1985 Toij truck while it was parked in Parking Area 40 • Someone scratched the paint on a car parked Parking Area 5. DISORDERLY CONDUCT: • A woman said the operator of a 1983 Mertt cut in front of her while she was driving. She honked the horn on her motorcycle, andc, driver responded with verbal and visual obscr messages. A detective contacted the suspect who mitted having a verbal confrontation with woman, but declined to give any further informal!;, or discuss the accident. THEFT OF SERVICE: • Clothing was found in a clothes dryer been activated by an altered laundry ticket. Them; head who reported the theft said 13 altered laundryti; ets were found in the washers and dryers ternoon. The altered laundry tickets render then chines inoperable until maintenance worif remove them. BURGLARY OF A VEHICLE: • Two Texas A&M parking permits were moved from two vehicles. • An air filter cover and distibutor rotor weret moved from a 1983 Ford Mustang parked in Fai ing Area 56. • A distributor cap was stolen from a 1987 Fit Mustang parked in Parking Area 61. • During patrol of campus property, an observed the passenger’s side vent window damajK on a Ford truck parked in Parking Area40. Wlii waiting for the dispatch to notify the owner, owner walked up to the vehicle. He was unaware!, vehicle had been burglarized and discovered hish oneer AM/FM stereo, Realisitc 60 watt stereo qmS zer/booster and two Jensen speakers were miss POSSIBLE BURGLARY OF A VEHICLE: • A radio was removed from the dashboardofi 1981 Datsun in Parking Area 50. The owner contacted and said he had not removed the ra He also said that he would not report to the scenes otherwise cooperate with the investigation at time. He said he would check his vehicle the nexidn and then file the report. PUBLIC INTOXICATION/CRIMINAL CHIEF: • An officer saw a subject break a window besnit the west entrance to Moore Hall. The investigalii; officer identified the subject, arrested andcharfi him with Public Intoxication and Criminal Miscliifl He was jailed in the Brazos Countyjail. TERRORISTIC THREAT: • A woman reported that she had been ened by someone. The woman said she believestka the suspect knows who removed some money frou her vehicle and had asked him to return it. HARASSMENT: • Seven students reported receiving harass! phone calls. MISDEMEANOR THEFT: • Four bicycles were stolen from campus. • A framed doctoral diploma from Texas AS was stolen from 156 Bizzell Hall. • A wallet and a set of drawing pens were stol from a backpack left unattended in the lobbyoftk Richardson Building. • A Nikon FE camera, 50 millimeter lens and) kon camera strap were stolen from a room in a Memorial Student Center. u? • A College Station man had picked upanabat doned bicycle from the north side of campus. Ht stated that because there was no lock onthebicydt he decided to take it and put it to use. Thesin| speed blue Sears bicycle was confiscated a in storage pending contact by the owner. MINOR IN POSSESSION: • A minor was issued a citation for Minor in Pos session of Alcohol at the Research Park. Computing Services Center offers hints to fend off viruses By KEVIN M. HAMM Of The Battalion Staff Bill Hobson of the Computing Services Center recommends stu dents take the following precautions to help stop computer viruses from spreading: • Scan hard disks often with anti virus scanning programs. • Scan all new disks before use, especially ones in which the origin is unknown. • Always have a backup of system on floppy disks. • Be wary of “freeware” and “shareware” programs, such as those downloaded from bulletin boards; scan before use, and use on a floppy- only machine first if possible. • Use write-protect tabs on floppy diskettes whenever possible. • Never assume commercial software is safe. Brad Epps of the Academic Com puting Center said people interested in getting anti-virus programs should go to the Graphics Lab in Teague Research Center or the ACC in the Blocker Building and ask about the virus-protection prograims available. There are two programs: F- PROT from Iceland and a package Virus (Continued from page 1) of programs from McAfee Asso ciates. It is up to the student to regis ter the programs with the author or company. F-PROT costs $15 to register, and the price for the McAfee package va ries depending on the number of programs used. Registration allows students to receive updated versions of programs. Hobson said the only way to com bat viruses is for computer users to protect themselves. “We all joke about ‘safe comput ing,’ but that’s what it really boils down to,” he said. • A virus cannot appear byi self; it must be written. • A write-protected diskettea not become infected. • Not all viruses are harali some only cause minor damages side-effect. • A virus cannot infect a® puter unless it is booted from an: fected diskette or an infected f gram is run; reading data infected diskette cannot causeant fection. • A virus cannot attach il data files and, therefore, cannoi spread through them. Ironically, one of the first dir mented viruses occurred at Tfl A&M. In 1981 an undergradi wrote a virus and experimented*' it on his own collection of diskette The purpose of the expert was to write a virus that t cupy no memory or disk space, would spread to other j without doing any damage, attempt proved successful, lost interest in the experiment 1983. Scientist (Continued from page 3) like planets or the moon, he said. People are not familiar with these objects, he said, and they look mys terious. So some believe that Earth has been visited by sp spaceships. “There are, of course, all kinds of claims the government covered it up,” he said. “My goodness, they couldn’t even cover up Watergate.” One of Adair’s favorite UFO sto ries is about a man who believed in UFOs. One day in his cornfield he found scorched corn mashed down in a radial shape. The man heralded this as proof of a visit from a flying saucer. “Two years ago,” Adair said, “his brother-in-law finally confessed.” But the original man still clings to his belief in a spaceship landing. Another question to ask is why would anybody visit Earth, he said. “Since we have no indication of life anywhere else in the universe, it says something about life being rare,” Adair said. Scientists cannot positively prove that aliens have not visited Earth, he said. “(But) there is no evidence any where in the world to prove they ha ve,” he said. Chariots of the Gods is another belief that was common several years ago, Adair said. This has to do with the theory of aliens visiting Earth, building huge structures such as the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge and monoliths, the Easter Island then leaving. Also, Adair said some belie': supernatural creatures like and the Loch Ness Monster. “It’d be great to go to LochN® he said. “If they’d just fund me, go look for the guy.” In the 1970s, the whole ids psychokinesis was started byUriC‘ ler, Adair said. Geller woul form before an audience of lists, he said, but not before on magicians. “He was a great magician," said. Finally, there are the ideasofsi levitation and out-of-body exitf ences, Adair said. “I have these all the time,”he's “I call them dreams.” (Con dents aches mem But 1 of en tore: TI balan concc sides ably I ciatec An speak said some able i throu “T our p been succe to A& Ma cal of ing 1 word: dons said. 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