Community Briefs
By Daily Bruin Staff
March 5, 1998 9:00 p.m.
Friday, March 6, 1998
Community Briefs
UC computers fall to mercy of hackers
A large volume of UC computers that run the Windows NT operating
system crashed on Tuesday afternoon after computer hackers flooded
campus networks with an Internet-based assault.
The crashes resulted in each computer having "the blue screen of
death," the blue screen accompanying Microsoft Windows’ "fatal
error" message.
The computer attack, named "Teardrop," was part of a nationwide
assault by hackers. Windows NT systems received an onslaught of
worthless data, forcing the computer to devote an increasing amount
of memory and processing power to the corrupt information leading
to the machine crashing.
According to several Internet postings, several educational
institutions were targeted in the attack, including UCLA, UC San
Diego, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of
Washington.
In a message to a UC Berkeley news group, university network
administrator Ken Lindahl wrote that a "remote host" or hacker was
intentionally attacking computers on the network. In response,
Lindahl blocked the host’s access to the network, which enabled the
computers to recover from the attack.
Artwork of all cultures toast Women’s Day
Various speakers, artists and musical performers of
international women celebrated International Women’s Day on
Thursday.
"There’s always been the focus of women being oppressed," said
Sanae Acid, program assistant at the International Student Center.
"We really tried to create a positive celebration of being a woman
in society."
The program included speaker Andrea Capachietti, a Humanitarian
Aid Advisor. She spoke on remarkable women she met in refugee camps
in Bosnia, showing a slide of a refugee Maria, an elderly woman in
a bus.
"This woman hitched for two days to see the Pope," Capachietti
said.
Capachietti’s team picked up Maria and helped her travel to her
destination. Capachietti said that refugees in Bosnia were housed
in a building that was formerly a mental asylum. Instead of
lamenting over their condition, women refugees gathered paint to
create murals on the walls of the asylum.
To complement the theme of the symposium, artwork of women and
created by women were propped against the walls of the room. Placed
in the center of the room was an alter piece with goddess imagery.
Other paintings were colorful depictions of nude women in oil
painting.
The symposium was sponsored by the Dashew International Student
Center, the Women’s Resource Center, the Women’s Studies program,
the Center for the Study of Women, and the Academic Advancement
Program.
Three Westwood cafes face health violations
Three Westwood restaurants were closed for health violations in
the month of January.
As reported Wednesday in the L.A. Times, the Yum Yum Garden on
Gayley Avenue was closed Jan. 6 and reopened Jan. 9 for vermin
infestation, failure to prevent entrance and harboring of vermin,
and lack of a potable water supply.
Noah’s New York Bagels on Lindbrook Avenue was closed Jan. 7 and
reopened Jan. 8 for tainted food and sewage-system failure.
The California Tea House, on Kinross Avenue was closed Jan. 29
and reopened Jan. 30 for contaminated food, and improper sanitizing
and storage of multi-use utensils.
The L.A. County Department of Public Health is responsible for
policing health codes and can shut down a restaurant when it
considers it as posing a threat to public health.
Compiled from Daily Bruin staff reports.
