February 17, 2004

News

Civic service pays tuition
Delynn Bodine
Contributing Writer

MCC students will have more than $400,000 in scholarship money available to them from the federal government. Although the money is not officially in the college’s hands yet, it will be soon, according to MCC Director of the Center for Service Learning Duane Oakes.
Individual awards range from $1,000 to $2,362 for hours of service given to the community and are directly available to any student who enrolls in the AmeriCorps UCAN Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico Serve Program.

9-11 attacks call teacher to combat
Sheila Snodgrass
Contributing Writer

Hal Engstrom was an ordinary schoolteacher at Cordova Middle School, teaching sixth grade language arts.
He loved his career, knowing that he was contributing to society by educating America’s youth. But on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, America fell under attack and Engstrom knew that there was more he had to do.
“ Are you sure you’re doing enough to help America?” he asked himself regularly. Each time, he knew that he had to take action.
Despite already being in his 30s, Engstrom decided to enlist in the Army to defend his country.

E-mail caution prevents worm
Maria Khan
Contributing Writer

A new computer worm called MyDoom is circulating in the United States and abroad.
This virus looks like a regular e-mail message but is actually a program that spreads itself and installs a program that leaves an open door to infected computers.
What worries Microsoft program technicians is that MyDoom is an example of a new breed of professionally created worms that are difficult to detect and can move a lot faster.