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0 9 b ° Thursday, April 4, 1996 S o u t h e r n I l l i n o i s U n i v e r s i t y a t E dwardsville [00 «V\ ’ EASTER 0 06 .. l L O U 'E D t o w e a t h e r _ n r -TRIX?" Fri: Partly cloudy, 52/37° Sat: Mostly sunny, 53/36° .Sun: Partly cloudy, 49/32° 1 ALTON,Alesile EAST ST. LOUIS & EDWARDSVILLE A Quick Look Inside Modified parking proposal; graduated increase By Melanie Adams opinions and that the overall consensus leaving the university within this five 3/ Editorial Assistant News Editor was to spread the increase over a five year period,” Vanzo said. year period instead of a two year period. Overall, the increase will be $60 Editor in Chief Roy Students and faculty concerned with The council agreed. instead of the original $55. Vanzo the parking sticker increase may explained that the increase was Gilmore reminds us raised five dollars due to the interest get a break for next year if a Tentative increase spread under that there things that the school will incur moving it to project ' proposed by the five year plan if approved by BOT: more important chancellor’s council is approved by a five year, instead of a two year, than sports—PLUS the board of trustees on April 11. spread. •First year $20 increase The whole project—the Campus Comments Ken Neher, vice chancellor of administration, David Heth, proposed im provem ents a:nd the parking sticker increase—will go director of financial affairs and •Second year $ 1 5 increase before the board of trustees meeting Bob Vanzo, director of 9 / Soundwaves on April 11, when the BOT will look administration services, * were •Third year $ 1 O increase at the proposal and either give its requested by Chancellor Belck to 1 0 / Lifestyle approval or shoot down the speak with the student, faculty and •Fourth year $ 1 O increase proposal. Michelle Halvachs staff senates to allow them to voice “We are also requesting the looks at the history their concerns and incite on the president’s office to look into the proposed parking sticker •Fifth year $5 increase of SIUE’s mascot. feasibility of selling revenue bonds to increases, Vanzo said. pay for the project,” Vanzo said. “We “There was among the senates a Total increase amount : $60 are still in the planning stages. If the 11 / Photo Essay prevailing opinion that the work BOT gives their approval, we could needed to be done but that the two seriously move ahead with the years proposed in to raise taxes project at hand.” ‘Mil was said to be too steep,” Vanzo added. What this means to students, Vanzo Vanzo also mentioned that the $20 “The suggestion overall was to spread explained, is that instead of a $30 increase for the first year, if approved, is the increase throughout a longer five increase next year their will be only a assured and that the remaining increases year period instead.” $20 increase and in the following years over the following years will vary j; |k Vanzo said that Ken Neher, a the price will vary from $15 to $10 to $5. depending on the construction bids and member of the chancellor’s council, “The spread will make it more the interest rate the revenue bonds went to the council about the senates’ affordable for students who will be warrant at sale. The A lestle’s very own Leslie Hunche Famous poet reads literary works at SIUE has her work By David Weil readings. Roy also expressed her pleasure to be back at SIUE, spotlighted in a News Reporter her alma mater, for the reading. photo essay by “It’s wonderful to be here this morning, to be invited to read Jeremy Paschall. Darlene Roy read samples of her poetry on Wednesday, and to come back to the university,” said Roy. April 2, in the Lovejoy Library Auditorium as part of theMM Roy went on to read several examples of her original poetry, 1 2 / Sports 1996 Reading Series. The series is dedicated to exposing SIUE including the poem “Black Bridge Blues” that appeared on students to talented authors of diverse cultural background. Metro/Link trains and Bi-State buses. Roy’s poetry ranged from Tennis wins 5-2 “We are less interested in art for art’s sake. While that may the distinctly personal “Moving On,” written with her divorce in mind but relating to any time of moving on, to the more over University of be important, we want people who have something to say,” said Eugene Redmond, organizer of the 1996 Reading Series. political “Malcolm Morphesis,” an examination of the human Southern Indiana— Redmond opened the reading by welcoming students with power to change from within. “One of the things we can learn from ‘Malcolm’ is the fact AND softball the Swahili phrases “Habari gani,” which is a casual greeting, that we can change. We can come from nowhere to everywhere sweeps a pair from and “Njeme,” a positive response. Redmond went on to give involving everything and everybody,” said Roy. Fontbonne some brief highlights of Roy’s career as a writer. In addition to her own work, Roy read a poem from local College—PLUS Roy’s writing has appeared in Black American Literature writer Henry Dumas called “Play Ebony, Play Ivory.” Roy also Track takes it to Forum, Literati Chicago, American Poetry Anthology and read a poem by Redmond titled “Carryover,” a tribute to the the outdoors— Break Word With the World. Roy also serves as associate editor power of the residents of E. St. Louis—past, present, and of Drumvoices Review and has had her poetry displayed in over future. ALSO baseball fifty MetroLink trains and Bi-State buses as part of the Redmond then thanked Roy and the audience before wins one. MetroLink/Art Transit program. inviting everyone to have punch and cookies outside the “Darlene Roy is a major figure in the literary, cultural, and auditorium. 1 5 / Comics educational rebirth of this region,” said Redmond. Roy was the third of four scheduled writers in the 1996 Roy continued the theme of culture by greeting students Reading Series. The final author will be poet and critic Michael 1 6 / Classifieds with the Swahili greeting “Ire Ashe,” before beginning her Castro of River Styx magazine. i n brief Lesbian seeks custody Dinosaur egg fetches $4,800 Dog and 40 cats taken from Man accused of raping two Edwardsville council OKs bond • A lesbian has asked a • A 100 million-year-old home girls • Residents of the Steinmeier judge to give her custody of dinosaur egg fetched $4,800 at • An animal rights group • A 20-year-old East St. Woods subdivision are closer a child born to a woman she an Easter charity sale in rounded up about 40 cats and Louis, man is jailed under to getting relief from the claims was once her lover. Vienna, Austria. The a dog from an elderly woman $250,000 bail for allegedly flooding problems that the grapefruit size egg, which The lesbian says she has who could no longer care for raping the 5 and 7-year-old spring rains usually bring.The carried a tarbosaurus, was City Council on Tuesday raised the child, now almost them. Alice Schuetz, assistant daughters of friends in found this century in China’s approved an ordinance 3, from the time he was 2 or director of the Alton Area Belleville. Edward T. Henan province beside the authorizing the issuing of up 3-days-old until last June, Animal Aid Association, said skeleton of an adult dinosaur. Williams faces five separate to $400,000 in sewage when she returned him to his The tarbosaurus was an Asian the cats and dog were taken sexual assault charges revenue bonds to help finance mother under threat of relative of Tyrannosaurus from the home and will be put following his arrest by three sewer projects including prosecution. Rex. under adoption. Belleville Police. one in Steinmeier Woods. Page 2 T h''e Alesile Thursday, April 4, 1996 Letters to the editor policy: News Around the World Editor-Brian Walsh Please submit letters Assistant-Melanie Adams State and Local--------------------------------------- typewritten in 500 words or Photo less. Please include phone Editor-Jeremy Paschall Teen hacker accused of security breach number and signature. Assistant-Vacant • A St. Louis teen-ager arrested last week near Philadelphia on computer fraud We reserve the right to Lifestyle charges is more than just a kid with a hobby—and far more dangerous, federal Editor-Darryl Howlett authorities say. edit letters to the editor. Assistant-Vacant Christopher Schanot, 19, of High Ridge, Mo., is a computer genius who “hacked” Letters to the editor will not Sports his way into the computers of some of the nation’s largest companies, causing security be printed anonymously Editor-Eli Savoie breaches that forced at least one company to spend thousands of dollars fixing. except under extreme Assistant-Todd Spann Authorities have linked him to a group of hackers called the Internet Liberation circumstances. Copy Editors Front and say he’s capable of seizing control of virtually any computer and wreaking Chief-Lindsay Wright Kerri Sorensen havoc. The Alestle is a member of the Illinois College Press Shawna Thomas Production Assistant National____________________________________________ Association. Lesley Hunsche The name Alestle is an Advertising Department Marriage request rejected by deacon acronym derived from the Sales Manager-Matt Larson • An all-white church that backed down from an attempt to remove a mixed-race names of the three campus Todd Volz baby from its cemetery is refusing to marry the child’s parents or let them join the locations of SIUE: Alton, Jeremy Reece church, the family said Tuesday.