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November 8, 2002 N “Tell the truth FRIDAY and don’t be afraid.” VOLUME 87, NUMBER 54 THEDAILYEASTERNNEWS.COM Opposite directions Football team is excelling and is currently ranked sixth in the nation and will go up against Tennessee-Martin this weekend Page 16 SECTION Six students perform at open mic SIU officials By Tim Martin ACTIVITIES EDITOR The on stage portion of the six partic- file unfair ipants of the Expose Yourself open mic Thursday night at the 7th Street Underground of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union, was only a fraction of their performance. labor There was the guitarist who you knew was on the brink of something special. There was the shy, but accomplished poet performing on stage for the first practices time, and there was the two-man band, only a few months from their creation, N with hopes of longevity. University officials say the faculty Andy Morisseau, a junior history union is not barganing in good faith major, has been playing the guitar for four years and has traveled across the By Caitlin Prendergast country. ADMINISTRATION EDITOR “I have played in Missouri and a cou- ple places in Illinois,” he said. “I have As faculty contract negotiations heat up at been as far south as Georgia and as far Eastern, other universities in Illinois are facing sim- north as Ohio. It is what I want to do and ilar hard times. I enjoy it a lot.” Southern Illinois University in Carbondale filed an Now Morrisseau plays when given the unfair labor practice charge against the faculty opportunity. He has played at Friend’s, union last Friday. Marty’s and Up-Towners. He can’t University officials contacted the Illinois explain his love for his music. Educational Labor Relations Board with the com- “I don’t know how to explain it,” he plaint against the SIUC Faculty Association of the said. “It’s like this invisible hands makes Illinois Education Association/National Education me want to do it. I couldn’t quit if I want- Association union. ed to.” SIUC’s complaint charged the 688-member faculty Mark Vanis, a graduate student of union with failing to bargain in good faith, bringing mathematics, recited his poetry on stage up issues that have already been settled and threat- for the first time. ening to strike over irrelevant issues. “I have kept my poetry to myself,” he The union is bargaining for a 21 percent raise over said. “I got a little bit of confidence from the next three years, and has said SIUC faculty having some of my work published.” salaries are 28 percent below the national average. Vanis has had a few of his poems pub- SIUC officials said they want to make progress, lished in print and audio from a Web site but the current budget and economic conditions with- he submitted them to. in the university and the state of Illinois make the “Nervousness is what drives me. I live COLIN MCAULIFFE/PHOTO EDITOR request unfeasible at this time. for the adrenaline,” Vanis said. “My University officials also have said, compared to poetry is the drug of my own choice.” Andy Morisseau, a junior history major, performs some of his own songs during the peer institutions and other state schools, SIUC facul- Eli Hamel and Jim Markunas, fellow Black Student Union Expose Yourself open mic night, Thursday in the 7th Street ty salaries are just below average. freshman, created a band named Underground in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. “We understand that faculty at the University of “Fadproof” and appeared on stage Illinois have not received a raise this fiscal year,” together for the first time Thursday. “The name is not what is important; artistic expression across to the audi- said SIU attorney Mark Brittingham. “We under- The two formed their band one day what’s important is the music,” he said. ence. stand the same is true for the faculty at Northern when Hamel was playing on the front University Board main stage coordi- “Poetry is just like any other art form. Illinois University, Eastern Illinois University, steps of a residence hall. nator, Katie Strejc, said she was disap- It’s how you interpret it. Don’t focus on Illinois State University, Western Illinois University “I was playing outside when day and pointed of the turnout that never exceed- the words; focus on what it means to and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.” Jim came up to me and talked me into ed 30 people, but there were plans in the you,” Vanis said. Both groups reached a standstill in the bargaining joining his band,” Hamel said. future to hold another one. She blamed The open mic was sponsored by the process on Oct. 4 after 27 meetings and 200 hours of Markunas said the band’s name was late advertising on the event’s poor University Board in conjunction with labor talks when the faculty requested a federal created while he sat in class one day, but turnout. the Black Student Union and the Omega mediator to aid in negotiations, the Daily Egyptian did not want the name to distract. Each performer hoped to get their Psi Phi Fraternity. student newspaper reported. Cable on campus still fuzzy NMediacom working to upgrade system as on and off-campus residents go without cable., upgrades are expected to be finished by mid-December By Melissa Nielsen on-campus. “Sometimes the picture couple of weeks ago, lately it hasn’t CAMPUS EDITOR would be just awful. It wasn’t even been that bad.” worth watching. The movie channel Mark Hudson, director or housing Many students were watching less was just blue screen for the longest and dining, said if any on-campus stu- television last week because of com- time.” dents are still having problems they plications with the cable service, but Most students experienced what should cease by the end of the week as as Mediacom finishes construction, they called a “fuzzy” picture. crews finish up construction on on-campus students are experiencing “Its been fuzzy. It was fuzzy for a Eastern’s cable line near Buzzard fewer problems while cable service is few days in a row, but now it’s fine,” Hall. still pooroff campus. Travis White, a math secondary edu- Though Mediacom does have a set Mediacom started construction to cation major, said. deadline for finishing the construction upgrade their system two months ago, Anna Lee, a senior speech commu- affecting off-campus areas, Copland installing a new system of cable nications major who lives off campus, was unsure of that date at press time. wiring throughout Charleston, said however, is still dealing with the incon- Mediacom needs the city to approve Bill Copland, general manager of veniences of her bad cable connection permits and negotiate a franchise Mediacom. The company is replacing two or three times a week. agreement, giving them the right to coax cable with a fiber optic line that “It’s like not having any cable; you work within the city. He said he hopes will provide better service and recep- turn it on and it’s a gray screen with the entire Charleston area will be 90 tion to costumers. fuzz,” Lee said. percent completed by mid-December. The construction has caused poor “It s a little irritating if I have 30 The new cable wiring will not only cable service on and off campus. Most minutes of freedom, and I want to just affect quality on campus, Hudson on-campus students said they experi- sit around and watch TV.” said, but will make cable more reli- enced the most problems last week, The cut-outs and poor pictures are able. Campus cable will no longer be and reception improved earlier this sporadic, off-campus students said. affected by city problems. week. However, off campus students “We experienced some of that. “We’ll almost be run like we’re our STEPHEN HAAS/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER said certain channels still come in (Wednesday) it cut out for a little. I’m own town,” he said. After watching fuzzy television shows for the past several days, Jessie fuzzy and cut out. not going to wait around ‘till it comes Upgrades will not affect on-campus Huls, freshman undecided major, and Callie Phelps, freshman biology “It was really bad. It was cutting out back on,” said Bobby Ewan, a senior cable rates because the university has major, watch a much clearer “Will and Grace” Thursday night in Phelps’ a lot at first,” said Erin Alderson, a industrial technology major who lives contracted rates through a different room. The cable is now fixed on campus, and off-campus customer serv- sophomore English major, who lives off-campus. “It was more frequent a company, he said. ice will be fixed soon. REVIEW THIS ON THE VERGE OF THE WEEKEND Rockers Empyrean dazzle on latest album Friday, November 8, 2002 Arlington Heights natives, Empyrean, to unleash ‘uplifting’ Section B music at Green Party benefit. Page 7B PHOTOS COURTESY OF JEREMY PELZER The campus Green Party will try to raise funds for its organization with Saturday’s Greenfest as well as bringing life into the local music scene By Karen Kirr President Jeremy Pelzer, said the political support for the Green “General apathy has prevented Green Party wants the spotlight to be ASSOCIATE VERGE EDITOR planning of the event was spear- Party prior to the election was not music from getting outside the focused on primarily, not politics or headed a few months ago by the the group’s main purpose in organ- bars,” Bryan said.