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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
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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
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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
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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,
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then leaving.
Also, Adair said some belie':
supernatural creatures like
and the Loch Ness Monster.
“It’d be great to go to LochN®
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go look for the guy.”
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psychokinesis was started byUriC‘
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form before an audience of
lists, he said, but not before on
magicians.
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levitation and out-of-body exitf
ences, Adair said.
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