Ite *41v "Uit w One hundred three years of editorial freedom 1 .4~ .4. Jf, nnAbr Mcian-WdnsaApi 3,19 19 4 emcta a I I Bogus e-mail spreads fears of computer security By JAMES M. NASH DAILY STAFF REPORTER Vincent A. Krause awoke last Wednesday more than 100 e-mail messages on his computer. By early this week, the LSA senior had received about 1,000 messages - most of them angry denunciations of a racist e-mail note sent from Krause's account. He received an encoded program designed to jam his e- mail account, a half-hour long series of beeps, biblical passages and even a few salutes. Krause says he's the unwitting victim of a "Trojan Horse" that sent a bigoted note across the Internet, the global computer network. Officials investigating the message agree that Krause probably is innocent. The message - an assortment of racist jokes, a caricature and a "definition" of the word nigger - was entered from a University computing site late last Tuesday. It has sent shock waves through the University's Infor- mation Technology Division (ITD), which is investigating the incident. In an apparently unrelated incident the next day, Islamic Circle members received a brief e-mail message labeling them "God for- saken terrorists." The note was sent in the name of Jeremy S. Liss, a Business junior. Liss later wrote a note to Islamic Circle members disowning the original message. "Apparently, someone broke into my account and sent it," he wrote. "I assure all of you that I neither sent that message nor subscribe to those views." Liss apparently failed to sign off from his e-mail account after midnight April 6, allow- ing someone to sign on and send the message from his address, ITD officials said. The methods used to intercept Krause's password were more intricate. ITD investiga- tors said a skillful hacker loaded a program onto the computer where Krause was working last Sunday night. The program, a "Trojan Horse," captured the unignames and pass- words of an unknown number of users at the Michigan Union computing site. The bogus program asked computer users to enter their unigname and password when they logged in. Instead of displaying the pass- See E-MAIL, Page 2 To avoid security breaches in passwords, University computing officials suggest the following: U Never divulge your password to anyone. If , ibe hPIievPn uri a password has been compromised, change it immediately. If the computer behaves unusually while entering your password, contact a computer monitor. $6,000 lost from dorm accounts By JAMES R. CHO SILY STAFF REPORTER Nearly $6,000 in unpaid hall dues resulting from a lack of ac- countability has left staff mem- bers at Mary Markley searching for answers and residents wonder- ing if they will be able to CRISP into Fall classes. Residents living in campus housing are required to pay house 0 ues, which are used to support ormitory programs. The Univer- sity can prevent students from reg- istering if they do not pay the yearly $20 fee by placing a hold credit on their account. However, in an interview last night, Markley Council Advisor Terri Mucha said, "We have no control of hold credit. Housing will take care of it, but nothing Ojust will happen to anyone." This year, house dues-which are usually collected in the first two weeks of class and deposited to the University's Student Orga- nization Accounts Service (SOAS) See MARKLEY, Page 2 HE DOES IT HIS WAY Foreigners flee violence in Rwanda KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) - Amid the crash of mortar fire, French and Belgian paratroopers evacuated the last large group of foreign refugees yesterday as a major rebel force began pushing into Kigali from the north. With the advance of the rebels, tensions in the capital were extremely high. A trip through the outskirts gave the impression of an entire city primitively at arms. The roadsides were lined with Hutus, some dressed in new warm winter coats apparently looted from stores, others barefoot and armed with clubs, machetes, axes and makeshift spears and bows-in-arrow. "They are afraid of the rebels and I don't blame them," said Guy Steimes, a Belgian business executive. "The rebels call themselves the Rwandan Patriotic Front, but they'll probably start killing Hutus, just like the presidential guard killed Tutsis." A reporter saw six fresh corpses with slash wounds along a road from the airport. An estimated 20,000 people have been slain in a week of violence. Ten Belgian soldiers taking part in a U.N. peacekeeping operation died during the first day of fighting, which was sparked by a plane crash Wednesday at Kigali's airport that killed the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi. Six Belgian civilians and at least three French also have been killed. The dispute really is decades-long, reflecting the enmity between the Hutus who dominate the government and comprise 90 percent of the country's 8.5 million people and the Tutsis, who make up 9 percent of the population. Two rebel battallions of about 500 soldiers each pushed into Kigali late yesterday and had the airport nearly sur- rounded. One group moved east and then south of the airport, as the other tried to cut off the main road running west from the airport to the city. They hadn't succeeded by nightfall, said Col. Marc Emonts-Gast, a Belgian military spokesperson. Mortar and recoil-less rifle blasts shook the airport all afternoon. The airport has been turned into an operating base for French and Belgian troops, as well as journalists. French TV journalists slept last night on conveyor belts at the international check-in desk. In a rather untraditional performance, William Vankampen blasts out Frank Sinatra's "My Way" in German in competition for the International Festival's singing contest, held yesterday in room 2011 in the Modern Languages Building. i i MSA secedes from student lobbying group i By RONNIE GLASSBERG DAILY STAFF REPORTER Breaking a 10-year alliance, the Michi- gan Student Assembly voted 24 to 9 last night to withdraw from the Michigan Col- legiate Coalition (MCC). Founded in 1984, MCC serves to rep- sent the interests of students in Michi- an to the state government. MSA also voted to terminate its mem- bership with the United States Student Association (USSA), of which MSA is a member through its relationship with MCC. MSA pays $25,000 annually for its membership in MCC. "We would hope that MSA would re- join MCC because working as a coalition students can achieve anything," said MCC Chair Kellye Roberts, in a phone inter- view last night from Lansing. Support to withdraw came after MCC Gov. Conan Smith, MSA's representative to MCC, reversed his position. During his campaign for MSA vice president last month, Smith was a strong supporter of MCC. Smith lost a bid for MCC chair last weekend, but said his loss was not the reason for his switch in position. "MCC has proven not to be a viable organiza- tion," Smith said. But Roberts said the needs of the Uni- versity can be met through MCC. "No one can dispute the fact that MCC is an effective student lobby," she said. "Students across the state have the same needs - access to higher education." At the MCC convention, MSA del- egates proposed a new constitution, which was delayed until the next convention. "We really believed we had the votes to change MCC," Smith said. MSA provides more than one-third of MCC's $70,000 budget and received nine of the 40 votes at the convention. The funding for MCC was initiated See MCC, Page 2 WHO: Polk Wagner, moderator, and public participants A WHAT: The Student Policy on Alcohol and Other Drugs} WHEN, WHERE: tonight in the Michigan Union Crofoot Room and tomorrow night in the Michigan Union Baits Room. TIME: 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. 1?blic sessions to discuss latest drsi ns]a of proposed alcohol policyd''X Law student aearns Pulitzer for fiscal story By DAVID SHEPARDSON DAILY NEWS EDITOR A 32-year-old University student won a Pulitizer Prize for best investigative reporting yesterday. First-year Law student Jim Mitzelfeld, in a story he wrote with Eric Freedman of The Detroit News, won the prize for beat reporting for their articles that disclosed spending abuses in the Michigan House Fiscal Agency. After the News' series revealed that at least $1.8 million had been misappropriated, 10 Coppola has something to SHOUT about By MICHELLE LEE THOMPSON DAILY STAFF REPORTER Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning this term, Brian Coppola lectures about organic chem- istry in Room 1800 of the Chemistry Building to students who take Chem 215. Tonight, however, Coppola will deliver his "Ideal Last Lecture" in Rackam Auditorium to all the Uni- versity students and faculty who can get a seat. Coppola said his lecture, titled, "How a Chemist Used Psy- chology to Fix an Engine," will focus AP PHOTO Friends congratulate Mitzelfeld (r) yesterday. "I've had a great experience in Law school since September," he said. "But it's certainly tempting to back to journalism. Who knows?" Among other winners of 1994 Pulitzer Prizes: The Beacon Journal of Akron, Ohio, won the By ZACHARY M. RAIMI DAILY STAFF REPORTER chance to offer input. "The policy is for stu- dents; it covers them. Every student has an