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Volume V, Number I Mohtreat( N(\2B|!?7 September 17, 2004
WNC Repairs After
Frances, Braces for Ivan
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by April Heyward
Remnants of Hurricane Fran
ces dumped over 17.5 inches of
rain from Tuesday, September 7
to Thursday, September 9 in the
second most serious flooding in
Black Mormtain history.
Water rose in the creek caus
ing flooding in the ground floor
of McAlister gym Thursday,
September 9. In Howerton Hall,
the electrical system shut off and
the valves were flooded.
In Anderson Hall, a roof leak
resulted in a shortage of the fire
alarm system, causing alerts
every three minutes. Administra
tors shut down the system and it
was repaired Monday, Septem
ber 13.
Currently, repairs have cost
$3,600 with possible future
repairs raising the total to
$5,000.
Black Mountain Assistant
Town Manager, Ron Nalley,
explained that there were two
major breaks in the Black
Mountain water system, which
restricted 2,900 customers from
clean, running water starting on
Wednesday, September 8.
The Town of Montreat owns
and operates their own public
water system, which is distrib
uted from seven operating wells.
Therefore, residents were able to
maintain an adequate water
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The heavy rains from September 7-9 hindered the repair process to the Montreat Dam. Repairs will resume once the waters from hurricane Frances and Ivan
recede.
Campus-Wide Virus Scan
15,000 Infected Files
Zaps
by Steve Carter
At the begiiming of this
semester, in order to protect the
network from Internet viruses,
the Technology Department
scanned every on-campus
student’s personal computer and
equipped them with a free anti-
virus program.
Director of Computer Tech
nology, Tom McMurtry, and
six technology employees and
volunteers, oversaw this year’s
computer scan. The goal of this
team was to “make the [school’s]
system as safe as possible with as
little inconvenience as possible,”
McMurtry said.
“For the most part, [the pro
cess] went as well as it could.
We were very pleased with the
student body and their patience,”
McMurtry remarked
As far as efficiency is con
cerned, all but a few problem
atic computers were returned to
students within 2 weeks of being
dropped off. The technology
department is plaiming to evalu
ate the entire process before next
year in hopes of whittling that
time down to one week.
McMurtry noted that any com
puter that gave the department
trouble was set aside, because it
was “better to get 100 computers
back to students, than 20 because
“Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the
law tny servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the
right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever
you go- ”
-Joshua 1:7 MV
one gave us so much trouble.”
Last year, infected computers
attacked the network causing a
three-week system crash. This
semester, at least 15,000 infected
files were found, all with the
potential to spread to other
unprotected systems.
Student responses to the new
scanning requirements were
varied. Junior Lucas Fisher said,
“because of what happened last
year, it was needed. But I hope
that next year it will be better.”
Junior transfer L.C. Sheedy’s
computer was troublesome and
ended up having to be refor
matted. After the process was
over L.C. commented, “the tech
department should not take the
computers when we get here
because they don’t necessarily
know what they are doing with
everyone’s individual system.”
Out of the two hundred
machines scaimed, it is “possible
that one might have problems,”
says Network Administrator
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During the final seconds
of the conference opener
against Milligan College,
soccer player Jeremy Fore
man was trampled on by an
opposing player. Foreman
required eight stitches on the
top of his head. Montreat
won 1-0.