Eastern Progress, Thursday

►What's for dinner? Find out what you can do to eat .The Eastern healthier — even from the con- fines o^rour residence hall room. Bl .easterip-ogress.com 11 n rl P>I~X\TCI tf^v Crosswalk, operations money top SGA agenda BY JENNIFER ROGERS Editor The Student Government Association passed a plan Tuesday that would shake up the parking scene on campus in hopes of alleviating problems with the Lancaster Avenue Parking Lot The SGA's proposal, passed unanimously and with less than five minutes of debate, is a recommendation to President Joanne Glasser. The proposal hinges on changing the Lancaster Lot from a general zone to residential lot and remov- ing the crosswalk. To compensate for that change, the Brockton Lot would become a commuter lot and the Powell East Lot would become a residential zone. In addition, the SGA recommended that a commuter parking lot be constructed in a yet-to-be deter- mined area. The SGA's proposal is a reaction to a Madison County grand jury report that labels the crosswalk Photos by Steve Richardson/Progress as one of Richmond's traffic problem areas. A series Above, Matt Moore, Kyle Kitty and Jason Ranz practice diving in Alumni coliseum; at right, Matt Moore takes the plunge into the AC pool. of accidents at the crosswalk last year left four peo- ple injured. In other business, the SGA gave away over $11,900 Tuesday night in organizational funding requests. After allocating $20,000 last week to help start Five cadets to train in Fort Bragg, N.C. renovations on the Powell Building, the $30,000 the SGA planned to give to student groups this semester BY LEE CASWEU. and the Virginia Military course this summer. at a seven-minute-per-mile pace. was cut by two-thirds. That left $15,640 and pocket Sports writer Institute, are the only schools in To be able to participate in pre- The pre-scuba course will take change to give to organizations for the remainder of the United States that have per- scuba, the cadets must be able to place in Fort Bragg, N.C. the semester, and the majority of that money was You are surrounded by deep, mission to enroll cadets in this swim 25 meters underwater with "I think we have a good chance allocated this week. cold and murky water. course. one breath; swim 1,000 meters on of getting into the course," said Funding requests which saw action included: You go under, try to swim back Master Sgt. Dean Barnhart, the surface in under 26 minutes; cadet Aaron Bragg, a junior from ■ Approval of $1,550 to the Art Education Student to the surface but you can't the instructor of the diver course, run 1.5 miles in under 10 minutes Radcliffe. "We've been working Association to attend a national conference in Miami because both your hands and feet was instrumental in bringing the and 30 seconds; do eight chin ups hard for almost two months now, Beach. are bound with restraints. course to Eastern Kentucky. He in under a minute; and perform 50 and we've already come a long ■ Tabling a motion for $2,000 to the Campus You try to think of a way to was already trained in special sit ups and 50 push ups in under way. We've already met and Ministry Association. The money was needed to survive, a way to get out of this forces combat diving. two minutes. exceeded a lot of the require- help fund a concert and service planned for Feb. 22. mess. The worst part of all is, you "The Combat Dive course All of these tasks must be per- ments." ■ Approval of $1,573.13 for uniforms to the volunteered for it requires that you have a combat formed with only a few minutes "What you get out of it Dancing Diamond Divaz, a 15-member group of The cadets enrolled in the diver there, and since I was between each set. depends on what you put into it," dancers who plan to perform at campus athletic Combat Diver Course here at already trained in combat diving Still sound easy? Bragg added. "We put a lot of events and high schools in the area. Eastern go through this scenario we got the slots," Barnhart said. This is what the cadets have to time into this program, swimming ■ Approval of $6,390 to the EKU Hockey Team to every weekday starting at 6 a.m. Five Eastern cadets are going be able to do to graduate from here twice a day and running on cover practice fees and home game expenses. The cadets enrolled in the through the rigorous training. pre-scuba: complete a 5A-meter the weekends; so therefore, we ■ Approval of $2,000 to Intervarsity and its sub- combat diver course are training Right now they are training for a sub-surface swim; a 3000-meter get a lot out of it" sidiary, the Collegiate Black and Christian to attend the Special Forces 10-day, pre-combat diving training ocean surface swim; demonstrate The cadets will continue their Association. The money will be used to fund a trip to Combat Diver Qualification course scheduled for March 11 that they are drown proof with training up to the day before they a conference in Gatlinburg. Course in Key West, Fla., this through March 22. hands and feet bound; tread water travel to Fort Bragg for pre-scuba. ■ Approval of $484 to the Korean American summer. The course will allow for The course generally referred for five minutes with their equip- Rigorous tests await them Student Association to fund its spring election meet- only 15 slots. to as "pre-scuba" must be com- ment and a 12-pound weight belt there to find out if these "Men of ing, a Korean food event and a trip to Abraham Eastern, along with Cal Poly pleted to be eligible to attend the on; and (oh, yeah) run nine miles Honor" have what it takes. Lincoln's birthplace. B&T funds in hands of legislature BY SARAH HEANEY Managing editor The governor's budget recom- FROM A BILL TO A BUILDING mendation announced on Jan. 22 has no money for any state build- When a new building is built at Eastern, the money ing projects. This left many faculty and staff must be provided by the Kentucky state legislature members at Eastern's College of and included in the state budget. The 2002-2004 Business and Technology won- budget is currently being considered in the House. dering what was going to happen to the planned business and technology center, which needs Council on Postsecondary Education around $31 million more to com- Fifteen-member board that plete the project coordinates change and Gina Vaile/Progress But university officials and the improvement in the state's postsecondary chair of the House Appropriations education system. House of Amanda Jones signs to her roommate Stephanie Martin. Jones' room is and Revenue Committee, are say- Representatives Senate specially equipped to meet her needs as a deaf student. ing don't count the building out yet College of Business and Governor Technology Dean Robert Rogow Paul Patton told CB & T staff and faculty via an e-mail memo last week that there Living on campus is $14 million in the bank for the Bill _a».Full -a*. Senate _► Full new building. He said architects ♦ House A&R Senate expect to break ground on Phase I wm Vote Committee Vote construction in late spring or early 'challenging' feat Appropriations summer. In the 2000 session, the General &Revenue Assembly gave Eastern $14 million Committee for deaf resident to begin Phase I on the new building. The business & technology If the Senate changes the House BY GINA VAILE er me. I'm used to living in a center would be located in an area version of the budget bid, it must News editor Makes budget Presents a budget hearing environment," Jones behind Keene Hall. be sent back to the House. recommedattons to plan to the said through an interpreter, Dean Rogow declined to com- If the House and Senate Amanda Jones does not know speaking of her twenty years as ment on what Phase I construction governor. This year legislature what it is like to hear the wind the only person in her household would include because he is wait- The governor cannot come to concurrence, no funding was it is sent to a conference committee rustle through the leaves, a who is deaf. ing on a report from the architec- recommended did not bird's sweet song or the voice of She speaks through sign lan- tural firm of Sherman, Carter, and for building projects. recommend any made up of representatives from her mother soothing her to guage. She spent two months Barnhart of Lexington. The report capital building both houses. If the compromise is sleep. She sits in class without this summer working with chil- on Phase I construction will be projects this year. accepted by both houses, it goes hearing a word her professor dren in Kyrgyzstan, a small done in a "month or two" Rogow utters. country near Afghanistan, teach- said Tuesday night. to the governor for approval or veto. It's not that she doesn't listen. ing them Russian Sign Language Jones listens with her eyes, she orRSL. See B&T. AS EuivYoong You/Progress studies each movement her They didn't believe I was in interpreter makes, each flash of college because that's not some- the photographer's camera and thing they see a lot.

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