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RAIN 6/13: Houston disaster, UT emails, Fed Hard-Drives



There are 20 stories in this posting.

Tuscaloosa News 6/12/01
'Schoolhouse door' speech given to state archives
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/stories/7174newsarchivedstorypage.html

by Dana Beyerle
MONTGOMERY - In the movie "Forrest Gump," the celluloid magic of Hollywood
put actor Tom Hanks in footage of Gov. George Wallace standing in a doorway
at the segregated University of Alabama on June 11, 1963, to block the
registration of two black students.


Washington Business Journal 6/11/01
Association to archive three centuries of yesterday's news
http://washington.bcentral.com/washington/stories/2001/06/11/daily7.html

The National Newspapers Association said today it plans to archive some
20,000 community newspapers dating back to the 1690s.
The Washington, D.C.-based trade group hired Cold North Wind, a Framingham,
Mass.-based company, to transfer the newspapers' archives, which are mostly
on microfiche film, into a digital format. The company will create an online
search engine called America's Chronicles.



Chattanooga Free-Times Press 6/12/01
Officials at UT withhold e-mails
http://www.timesfreepress.com/2001/jun/12jun01/webgilley.html

by Gary Tanner and Dorie Turner
University of Tennessee officials have withheld some e-mail sent between
former UT President J. Wade Gilley and administrator Pamela Reed, calling
the messages "personal" and therefore not public record.
But Ray Marcano, president of the Society of Professional Journalists, said
e-mails on a university computer system are public "no matter what the
content."



Click2Houston 6/11/01
Despite flooding, music will go on at symphony
Some records, instruments lost
http://click2houston.com/hou/news/stories/news-81458420010611-160626.html

HOUSTON, 5:43 p.m. CDT June 11, 2001 -- Eight feet of floodwater won't stop
the music at the Houston Symphony.
The symphony lost parts of its music library, computer servers and files,
some instruments and offices due to flooding from Tropical Storm Allison.



Birmingham News 6/12/01
Dixie history comes calling
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/?Jun2001/12-e418595b.html

by David White
MONTGOMERY - Annie Crenshaw, a historian who lives in Wetumpka, said she
thinks of her great-great-great-uncle William Albritton when she looks at a
Confederate battle flag recently brought from New England to the Alabama
archives.



Evansville Courier & Press 6/12/01
Second hacker goes after IU records
http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?/200106/12+iurecords061201_news
.html+20010612+news

Associated Press
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Indiana University officials say a hacker might have
accessed the personal records of up 1,900 people who filled out online
applications through two university Internet servers.
University technicians discovered the computer breach June 4 on two School
of Music servers, IU officials said Monday. A software flaw that permitted
the electronic intrusion has since been fixed.



Florida Today 6/12/01
Fingerprinting program finds 2,000 Florida doctors with record
http://www.floridatoday.com/news/local/stories/2001/jun/loc061201d.htm

Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A fingerprint check showed that about 2,000 of
Florida's 45,000 physicians have a criminal record - which several of them
lied about to the state.
Sixteen doctors have been fined $250 each by the Florida Board of Medicine
and required to take three hours of ethics training for lying about their
criminal histories when they provided information to a state-run Web site
where consumers can check physician's disciplinary records.



Government Executive 6/11/01
Defense Department to stop destroying used hard drives
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0601/061101h1.htm

by Shane Harris
The Defense Department has rescinded an order to destroy all unclassified
computer hard drives that leave Defense custody.
The directive, issued Thursday by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz
to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control,
Communications and Intelligence, will potentially make thousands of
computers available for donations to schools across the country.



Houston Chronicle 6/12/01
Lab animals drown; medical research lost
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/topstory/938112

by Eric Berger
Weekend flooding in labs beneath the Texas Medical Center killed more than
30,000 animals and destroyed what one official called an "incalculable"
amount of scientific research.
Rising water in Medical Center basements and local universities wiped out
federally funded research worth millions of dollars. Meticulously kept
computer data were fried into electronic oblivion. And some students lost
years' worth of their doctorate work.



Houston Chronicle 6/12/01
For theater district, an artistic nightmare
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/938098

Signs of calamity were everywhere Monday in Houston's downtown Theater
District as pumps noisily sucked brackish water from the lower levels of
Jones Hall, the Wortham Theater Center and the Alley Theatre.
Most of the city's key performing-arts organizations sustained massive
damage in weekend flooding that will affect upcoming programs and long-term
operations.
The theaters stunk as water contaminated by sewage, gasoline and debris
blocked arts staff members from their offices. All three facilities were
without electricity.



Korea Herald 6/13/01
Lawmaker finds record on massacre of 8,500 civilians
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2001/06/13/200106130035.asp

By Hwang Jang-jin
A lawmaker yesterday called for a thorough probe into an alleged massacre of
civilians by the South Korean military and police around the 1950-53 Korean
War period.
Rep. Jeon Kap-kil of the ruling Millennium Democratic Party made the demand
in a parliamentary floor speech a day after he unveiled a 1960 parliamentary
report that found that more than 8,500 innocent people were slain in
southern provinces.



Montreal Gazette 6/12/01
Teens hoped 'clean slate'
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/pages/010612/5018141.html]

In their zeal to wipe out their school disciplinary files, two teenagers
ended up razing at least half of their high school in January, a Quebec
Youth Court was told yesterday.
"There was a goal," crown prosecutor Marie-Claude Bourassa told Judge Claude
Melancon in referring to the older of the two. "He was fed up with school."
"His intent was to destroy his academic and disciplinary records, not burn
down the school," defence lawyer Yves Bastien said on behalf of his
16-year-old client. "He didn't show up with a gas can."


New York Times 6/12/01
Birth control, from 'womb veils' to Lysol
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/12/health/12BOOK.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Annette Fuentes
In 1992, Dr. Andrea Tone was finishing her dissertation at Emory University
in Atlanta and volunteering at the Feminist Women's Health Center. While her
academic labors focused on the history of industry, her work at the clinic
provided an entirely different kind of food for thought, and eventually for
research.



Orlando Sentinel 6/12/01
Senator: Preserve firearms records
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-dyer061201.story?coll=orl%2Dne
ws%2Dheadlines

by Doris Bloodsworth
State Sen. Buddy Dyer said Monday he plans to introduce a bill in the next
legislative session to stop firearm records from being deleted from a new
statewide pawnshop database.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Tim Moore has said his
agency would purge gun-record information from the newly created database
after 48 hours because he thought state law required him to do so.



The Ledger 6/12/01
Obituary: Otye Bly, 100, FSC Librarian
http://www.theledger.com/local/obituaries/12oday.htm

ATLANTA -- Mrs. Otye B. Bly began working as a librarian at Florida Southern
College in 1926, holding several other librarian titles before she returned
to the college in 1958.
The retired librarian died of pneumonia Friday (June 8, 2001) in Atlanta.
She was 100.



Tampa Tribune 6/11/01
Judge upholds law sealing Earnhardt autopsy photos
http://www.tampatrib.com/FloridaMetro/MGAVOB91VNC.html

by Mike Branom
Associated Press
A judge on Monday upheld a new Florida law that was crafted to seal autopsy
photos of racing legend Dale Earnhardt, rejecting arguments that it unfairly
prevented access to public information.
Circuit Judge Joseph Will said the law was ``valid and constitutional'' in
upholding the law passed by the Florida Legislature in March. The law makes
it a felony to release autopsy photos without a judge's permission.



The Anniston Star 6/12/01
Wallace's 'schoolhouse door' speech given to Alabama archives
http://www.annistonstar.com/news/news_20010612_2766.html

Associated Press
For years, the rather routine-looking four-page document sat in a box with
other mementos of his late mother at Al Steineker's home in Montgomery.
The signed original copy of the speech Gov. George Wallace gave in the
schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama got pulled out occasionally
for Steineker's children to use in fourth-grade history projects.



The Manila Times 6/12/01
Bro. Andrew's 'Expedition' case shelved, sent to Senate archives
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2001/jun/13/top_stories/20010613top9.htm
l

by John Anthony Concepcion
Here's one sensational graft case that senators will no longer try to
resolve.
The Senate Blue Ribbon committee decided to indefinitely suspend its inquiry
into the controversial purchase of 24 luxury vehicles, mostly American cars,
worth P24 million bought for the use of education department officials.

The next two stories are more related to disaster planning then to records
and archives. They point out some of the things that one must be aware of
when preparing a disaster plan.

Houston Chronicle 6/12/01
Power failures force hospitals to scramble
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/storm2001/937274

by Dale Lezon
Medical Center hospitals still without electrical power on Sunday scrambled
to care for patients, transferring some and discharging others.
Such flood-related power outages could have been avoided, hospital officials
acknowledge, if power sources were located above ground instead of in
basements.


Houston Chronicle 6/12/01
Elevation discrepancy contributed to flooding
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/storm2001/938032

by Todd Ackerman
Flood preparedness measures for the Texas Medical Center, one of the hardest
hit areas in the city, were based on erroneous information about the area's
elevation that left it more vulnerable to Allison's destruction, according
to the center's president.
Richard Wainerdi said Monday that officials only confirmed through NASA
three months ago that the area has subsided three to four feet during the
past two decades. He said the lower elevation undermined the center's
efforts to provide water protection at least a foot above the level of
1976's catastrophic flooding caused by torrential rainfall.


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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