University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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To Do Before Graduation K u mi XXX STAR ' j people in Peopli Park. 28. Learn lo drink coffee. 2? Donate spare change to a street person. 30 SKI Tahoe before a midter 31. Walk barefoot through Strawberry Creek. 32. Read all the bathroom graffiti. 33 Eat lunch on the steps Sproul. 34. Visit the Rose Garden. 35 Waicn E ECS majors carry pillows into Cory at 2 am. 36. Crash a frat party. 37. Experience dorm life. 38. Attend a Big Game. 39. Buy a tie-dye. 40. Visit the Bear ' s Lair. 41 Ea: a! BiQ ' -idie ' s live day a row. 42. Survive on macaroni cheese for a week. 43. Take a final without studying for it. 14 Change your major 7 times 45. Go to office hours with an intelligent question. 46. Go three weeks without doing laundry. 47 Visit Lawrence Hall of Science. 4d Cross campus without seeing any construction. 49. Get all your classes throt ACE. 50. Not be able to find your books in any bookstore. i ; you have done al leas! 45 of the above 50. you can confidently graduate knowing that you truly experienced Cat. FALL 11

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- Thinas You Have 1. Fall asleep on campus. 2. Watch a protest 3. Complete 120 units. 4. Listen to Stonie. 5. Get lost in Dwlnelle. 6. Break off with you high school sweethear 7. Stop calling home collect. 8. Spend your first summer in Berkeley. 9. Start your weekend on Thursday. 10. Visit your home town without visiting your parents. 11. Go to Cowell and not get any better. 12. Be sung about in Rich Starrs song. 13. Picnic in Tilden Park. 14. Declare a major. 15. Study cram in a cafe. 16. See the Bubble Lady. 17. Crash Jowitt ' s poly sci. 18. Meet one professor. 19. Pull an all-nighter. 20. Visit SF ' s Broadway. 21. Successfully dodge people with flyers on Sprout Plaza. 22. Camp out in a line to get a class. 23. Win a grade argument with a TA. 24. Spend less than an hour in any line. 25. Visit every building on campus. 26. Take a picture in front of your major ' s building. 10 FALL

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Breakthrough by Pamela Shadden I I il I ilit Options ll ' iiiiluii . l ' iinl I lint si. ' i -77 X .magine a society in which terrorists, instead of hijacking airplanes, captured peoples ' brains, obstructing all thinking abilities and even vaporizing precious memories. In today ' s world, computers have become the brains of society and industry and these imaginary terrorists are real. They have the power to destroy most of the world ' s vital information using a paralyzingly powerful weapon the computer virus. This device is called a virus because of its resemblance to viruses that attack human systems. A virus, a mere fragment of DMA with protein coat, tricks the gullible human cell into producing more viruses identical to the first. Once the cell is mass-producing its malevolent code, the virus can spread throughout the body until its host ' s defense mechanisms finally give up or wise up. Like the human cell, computers can also be tricked. A computer virus enters a computer through an infected diskette and instructs this new host to make copies of it. Then, in a process resembling the way disease radiates through the populace, the infected computer spreads copies of the virus to every healthy disk or computer with which it comes into contact. The virus travels rapidly because of the abundance of unsafe computer contact. Networks, in which many computers are linked together, allow the uncomplicated transmission of information. However, when a virus accompanies this information, an epidemic can result and a whole system can become sick. How serious are viral epidemics? Everyone knows some basic symptoms of biological viruses, but what happens when computers become infected? Virtually anything the creator of the virus wants can happen. The virus can take effect almost immediately or it can lie dormant for years. For example, on March 2, 1988, several thousand Macintosh users discovered their computers were harboring a virus when a universal message of peace accompanied by a drawing of the Planet Earth flashed onto their screens. Although this particular virus did no harm, many viruses cause complete chaos. Some viruses erase or alter data or programs. In a business, this can be devastating. Similar to a virus, a worm causes costly damage by overloading a system and forcing it down while the worm is removed This can waste valuable time and money. Because viruses have been springing up frequently, paranoia has resulted and many people have begun equipping their computers with vaccines. These vaccines prevent viruses from entering a system. Disinfection programs are also available for those already infected. As much damage as a virus can do, there is really no need for paranoia. At worst, if all computer data banks were destroyed, people could always resort to eating nuts and berries and living in caves after all of civilization has vanished. But for now, I ' ll just hope my computer doesn ' t contract a virus before I finish writing this story. Writing it by hand would be unthinkable! 12 FALL