"There's Chuck," Eric told Lori, just loudly enough for her boss, Dr. Vandecar, to overhear. "Let's go say hello."

Charles Zalewski was the political science professor who had been named interim university president after the retirement, under dubious circumstances, of his predecessor. He was a big fan of increasing technology in academia and so he and Eric had had long discussions about the campus computer network, even before the WYRM virus had become such a problem. Eric ...