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See Story, Page 6 Polls close at 7 p.m. BLUE EDITION Liked By Many, ^H The A Action Ads .... 9 Features 5 Announcements 2 Opinions 4 Cussed By Some, Comics 8 Police Beat ... .2 ...Read By Them All Crossword 8 Sports 6 Tuesday, March 3,1992 George-Anne Vol. 64 No. 36 ir 912/681-5246 Celebrating 65 years as Georgia Southern's Official Student Newspaper Georgia Southern University • Statesboro, GA 30460 NEWS BRIEFS Emory students plan protest over treatment of gays Burdett improving campus fire safety ATLANTA (AP) - Gay, lesbian and bisexual students Safety specialist replaces faulty extinguishers, sees other problems in campus buildings at Emory University plan a rally By Kevin Hudson Burdett now says he has Monday to protest the way the Managing Editor had all extinguishers, which older signs on campus point Two major factors leading to the problems at GSU were school handled complaints by In a campus-wide inspec- he and others found not oper- down dead-end corridors, noted by Burdett: Many two gay freshmen who say more tion, fire extinguishers in all able replaced or repaired. which used to be exits, he said. buildings here were built un- than 40 students threatened campus buildings, except res- He said over 40 fire extin- Another problem in der old fire codes which did and harassed them. idence halls, have been in- guishers were sent for main- several buildings was not deal with life safety and Dr. Robert W. Ethridge, spected and/or serviced in tenance the first day of the the past two weeks. corridors and exits obstructed the growth of the school. assistant vice president for inspections, and more have by displays or being used as About 90 percent of the equal opportunity programs at A George-Anne survey been sent since. published Feb. 11 indicated storage areas. The South buildings on campus were Emory, told Michael Norris and Residence halls are being that 67 percent of the 225 fire Building and the Foy Fine built, and are still under, the inspected by housing offi- Alfred Hilderbrand in a letter extinguishers inspected were Arts Building hallways were 1948 fire codes, said Burdett. cials, said Burdett. Inop- that their complaint was valid not up to standards estab- noted as particular problem "In the last 20 years, erable extinguishers found and that unspecified action had lished by the National Fire storage areas. tremendous strides have been been taken. Protection Association in those buildings will be re- "Vending Services were made in life safety for build- placed as needed. No students were expelled, (NFPA). very cooperative in moving a ings," he said. Jay Burdett Burdett said the biggest said Barbara Patterson, dean The survey was presented few machines that were ob- Burdett said he has seen problem he saw in many last month to Jay Burdett, structing some areas," said many things that should be of residence life. campus buildings was a lack GSU's new environmental Burdett. He said the Physical done to improve safety on mented as time and money Complaints filed with the of exit signs or exit signs in safety specialist. Plant officials have been campus. Plans to correct allow, and in order of impor- school's equal opportunity office improper locations. A few helpful also. those problems will be imple- tance. cited two students, one of them a sophomore adviser, for taunting and threatening the gay students. GSU computer operators take Norris, 18, and Hilderbrand, 19, said they had been studying at a table in a quick action against viruses dormitory in December. By Ken Ward 'We kissed for a brief mo- Staff Writer ment," Hilderbrand said. 'We Viruses and other types of didn't notice anyone was there destructive computer pro- until 40 to 50 mostly male stu- grams have become an in- dents were cheering and creasingly serious problem screaming things like, 'Die, in the computing world. faggot, die' and You all are going The threat of viruses has to go to hell.'" gotten a quick response from He said theyellingstudents both GSU's LRC and the had gathered in a nearby glass- Computer Center in the form walled corridor. of "anti-viral education." cording to Cheryl Claiborne, been 'logged-out.'" Claiborne Hilderbrand said the two Typically, a computer GSU's LRC department head. stated. "By "doing this, a stu- since have received threatening virus is a program that is po- "However, the LRC does not dent is clearing whatever the notes and prank calls. tentially dangerous to other have rampant problems with previous user has done. UGA football player charged programs. Like a biological viruses. Due to the fact that "Another way to avoid with credit card fraud virus that attacks and takes most of our IBM's don't have viruses is to write-protect a Georgia football player ac- over a human cell, a com- individual hard drives, they disk. With a 3.5 disk, open cused of trying to use a stolen puter virus contains a set of are almost totally protected the black sliding tab so that credit card at a discount store coded instructions that allow against viruses. you can see through the tiny was freed Wednesday on a it to "invade" a host, repro- "Basically, the only way a square opening; however, if $15,000 bond. duce and infect new hosts via student can get a virus from you write-protect, you cannot Willie Jennings, 20, a floppy disks. an LRC IBM is from student save more information to the starting defensive lineman for Viruses can be made to do data disk to student data disk until you close the tab the Bulldogs, was arrested ~K anything, and attack as spe- disk." again." Tuesday night outside a cific or as wide a range of To prevent viral infections Walmart store after Jennings, functions as a computer has. Claiborne also had some in the MAC's, the LRC has his roommate and another To name a few, they can advice for students who want installed two anti-virus pro- student tried to purchase goods Hallman cleans up slow the overall functions of to try to keep a virus off their grams: Virus RX, which is distributed free by Apple with the credit card, Athens- GSU third baseman Keith Hallman, a sophomore, had 7 RBI's a computer or destroy all the disks to begins with. 'When a students use the LRC, they Computer and Disinfectant, Clarke County police said. Sunday against South Carolina to lead the Eagles to a 13-8 upset stored information on a hard can lower the chances of get- which is also distributed free Police identified the others of the Gamecocks. (Photo by Neil Martin) drive. as Kenneth Leroi Cox, 20, and "I know there have been ting a virus on the IBM by by Northwestern University. Yolanda Maxie, 20, also a viruses on this campus," ac- making sure the system has University student. Each was charged with three counts of credit card fraud. Bush stops in Savannah, lashes out at congress, Buchanan Cox also was charged with tax and spend plan reaches credit card theft. By Michael Strong Staff Writer my desk, I'll veto it so fast it'll Witnesses said the three President George Bush make their heads spin." left the store when employees lashed out at Congress and Pat Bush also took an opportu- ran a check on the credit card. Buchanan as he spoke at a nity to step up his crusade Police met them in the parking rally on River Street in against protectionism. He lot. Savannah Sunday afternoon. mentioned several Georgia A search of the students' Over 17,000 people packed businesses such as Union car turned up merchandise River Street with an addi- Camp, Fort Howard Paper and from other Athens stores that tional 10,000 denied access to Savannah Foods as examples had been purchased with the the rally. of how American workers credit card, said police spokes- Bush stressed a lack of gov- have successfully competed woman Hilda Sorrow. ernment interference in against foreign competition. South Dakota University matters that should be deter- He added that the American Police file charges against 150 mined by parents such as worker would even up the VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) school, child care and volun- trade deficit, not protectionist - Eleven people were arrested tary prayer in school. He also policies. for allegedlyrunningabar from managed to take poke at 'We don't cut and run; we a house known by students as Buchanan in the process. compete," he said. "I put my "The Jungle" near the Univer- "To those who doubt what faith in the American worker; sity of South Dakota campus, makes this nation great we level the playing field, and the authorities said. say, America is first as long American worker will out- There were about 200 as we put the family first," he think, out-produce and out- people in the two-story house said.