MONTREAT
COLLEGE
Volume XXIX, Number 12
ALETHEIA
Montreal College
Febuary28,1997
Crossroads Ignites Hope for Harmony
By Shellic Bowser
The Crossroads KickofFbegan Feb
ruary 18-20. The Crossroads challenge
is to give students the means by which
to find roads to the cross. Lori Salierno,
from Atlanta, Georgia, was the featured
speaker.
Salierno spoke of inspirational, heart
wrenching stories combined with laugh
ter and seriousness. The stories chal
lenged students and gave a real life look
into human nature.
Wednesday night was a special night
for many students. Salierno gave her
message and then offered a time for stu
dents to share. This sharing time con
sisted of students confessing intimate
things about their pasts, what they want
to do in the future, or just revealing what
was on their hearts. Students stayed in
the chapel into the early morning.
Alex Holt, a sophomore, reflected.
“It was great how time lost all concept
this week. No one complained when we
were in the chapel until 2:30am. It’s neat
how the whole campus is a lot brighter.”
All over campus, talk of the week’s
events were happening. Many classes
began with discussion of the messages.
“Lori was a very inspirational speaker,”
stated Robbie Francis, a freshman resi
dent in Davis. Adrienne Redman, a
sophomore, added, “It was an eye-open
ing experience and it made me realize
things about myself that I did not want
to admit.”
The week will also be followed up
by many Crossroad events held outside
of chapel services. A discussion of Larry
Crab’s book. Finding God, was held by
students John Cannon and Matt Draft.
Dr. Tisa Lewis will speak on the emo
tional intelligenee of Jesus. Darwin
Glassford and Tom Oxenreider held a
dialogue based on Mark’s gospel about
who Jesus is. An intereessory prayer
group was led by Jay Guffy. Jon Abel
held a praise and worship fellowship at
his house. Service projeets for Manna
Food Bank and Habitat for Humanity
also gave way to opportunities.
Two events recently added to the
Crossroads list are a discussion about re
lationships and a seminar for new and
rededicated Christians, both being held
by Ed Bonner. These groups will con
tinue to meet for four weeks and chapel
credit will be given for attendance.
Janelle Shafer, Anderson resident,
concluded, “This was one of the most
intense weeks I’ve ever had at Montreat.
For once, I thought Montreat worked
together and we weren’t separated into
cliques. For once, we came together as
one.”
Computers Ransacked by Virus
By Daryl Bryant
Recently, computer viruses infected
the computer lab, as well as, several
other computers on campus. The viruses
were spread by people using their disks
on infected machines. It is then trans
ferred to the disk and possibly on to ev
ery other computer used.
Computer Lab supervisor, Monty
Fountain, stated, “Two of the computers
that were infected by viruses were
cleaned and we found four more when
we came back later that day before the
computer lab opened at night. We had
cleaned all but three at the time. So all
the computers had a virus except for one.
Freshman Curtis Hughes, replied, “1
use the lab everyday for email or to
eheck for assignments from professors,
because of my frequent use the virus had
finally gotten on to my email disk and
destroyed it. So 1 had to buy a new disk
and I’ve heard that many students have
had the same problem. I also heard that
someone lost some pages of their thesis
and that some had even lost everything
off their disk.”
Fountain said, “A majority of the vi
ruses come from students’ own comput
ers. If someone uses a computer that’s
not in the computer lab the chanees that
they will end up with a virus is very high.”
Students need to be careful and
check their disks for any viruses.
The computer lab now has a tem
porary virus scan within the computers
and the disk can also be checked from a
virus scanner.
According to Computer Viruses
Research Lab found on the Internet,
there are about 13,000 different viruses
known, with about 6,000 active.
The viruses are a type of vandalism
that can destroy computer programs or
possibly damage the entire computer.
Just by opening and closing a document
could activate a virus. Another way to
activate a virus, found by CVRL, is the
use of an infected system or disk on a
eertain day or time of the month, but this
is not the only way to aetivate one.