April 1990 • Volume 3
Circulation • 1,425.000
SATURDAY CLASSES — PAGE 16
THE NEW FAB FOUR — PAGE 10
THE NATIONAL COLLEGE NEWSPAPER
Alcohol treatment
"God, grant me the courage to
change the things I can.” Recovering
alcohol abusers can get help at
Alcoholics Anonymous
Page 2
OPINIONS
Primal scream
An Indiana U. columnist suggests
banning a group of people who make
life intolerable— the rule followers.
Page <5
LIFE AND ART
Student television
The student host of Duke U.’s sports
interview show wants to tell viewers
what it's like to suffer a groin pull.
Page 8
SPECIAL REPORT
Gay rights
U examines an emerging minority
group and how college administrators
are responding to their concerns.
Page 14
You snooze, you lose
U. of Virginia students offer tips on
staying awake during boring and not
so-bonng classes
Page 18
More than 200 students involved
in drop/add computer fraud case
By Beth Kinnane
■ T he Daily Beacon
U. of Tennessee
Nineteen students have been suspend
ed from the U. of Tennessee, and 111 oth
ers are on probation after the Office of
Student Conduct determined they were
involved in a computer-aided registra
tion fraud case that was uncovered this
semester.
In all. 224 students were investigated
after university administrators discov
ered a group of students had obtained
access to a password that allowed them
to enter the drop add computer system.
The password was obtained from
someone who was authorized to enter
the system as part of their job, according
to Vice Chancellor Phi! Scheurer
Students then used the password to
add classes that might be full to then
schedules, or to drop classes after the
deadline
“Obviously, students were shopping
for classes that would ordinarily be
dosed to them." Scheurer said. "In the
opposite instance, those who used it to
drop classes were doing it, we re told, to
avoid the university drop deadline with
out penalty"
UT students who drop classes after
the deadline run do so only with the per
mission of their adviser and the dean
of their college and will have a W on
r
their records, indicating that they
withdrew from the class Drops done
before the deadline do not appear on
their records
Scheurcr said the tampering incident
began when a small number of student s
acquired the password to the university’s
computer system and circulated it dut
See FRAUD, page 2
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Computer
ABUSE
MARSnAU RAMSEY, THf DAK Y BEACON U Of TENNESSEE
Student convicted
of spreading virus
By Bob Pavlik
■ The Daily Orange
Syracuse U.
A computer virus that caused an
estimated $12 million in damages
was traced to Cornell graduate stu
dent Robert Morris, who was convict
ed in January of computer fraud and
See CONVICTED, page 12
Survey: Political activism to increase in the ’90s
By Chris Siegler and Steve Stayrock
■ The Daily Nexus
U. ot Calilornia. Santa Barbara
Today's college students show greater social concern, par
ticulariy on environmental issues, than students did in much
: of the 70s and ’80s, and tomorrow 's students will he even
more involved, according to a recent survey that involved 403
schools.
The study, conducted annually for 24 years by the Higher
Education Research Institute at V. of California, Los Angeles,
and the American Council on Education, questioned more than
200,000 freshmen. The latest statistics show increased direct
student involvement in demonstrations, along with greater
concern for the environment
The survey indicates a distinct tendency toward greater stu
dent activism in the future, said Robin Bailey, an assistant t
Survev Director Alexander W Astin ol' UCLA’s Graduate
School of Lducation.
Forty-four percent of students interviewed said influencm;’
“social values’’ was important to them, while 26 percent wen
involved in environmental cleanup programs.
In areas of activism, 36.7 percent said they participated u:
demonstrations in the year before they entered college, :
higher proportion than those who reported being active in
the late 1960s.
Sophomore publishes book
illustrating children’s struggle
By Liz Skinner
■ The GW Hatchet
George Washington U.
'My people have a custom.'’ she
begins. “When a friend goes away, we
give them a bracelet made of string for
them to remember us by."
She displays a stnng bracelet to the
camera “Thisisforyou.... remember me "
“The String Bracelet: Reflections of
and bv the Young People of Southeast
Asia" is George Washington U student
Kyle Farmbrys way of remembering
this little Southeast Asian girl and oth
ers who lived through brutal repression
in their countries and subsequently
came to America with hopes of building
new lives.
The book contains graphic descrip
tions of the teiTor these children faced
growing up in Cambodia. Laos and
Vietnam In one composition, a child
describes people being beaten to death
with sticks and bamboo because the sol
diers didn’t want to waste bullets.
Farmbry, a GW sophomore, began for
See STRUGGLE, page 4