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Eastern Illinois University The Keep September 2003 9-11-2003 Daily Eastern News: September 11, 2003 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2003_sep Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: September 11, 2003" (2003). September. 8. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2003_sep/8 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 2003 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in September by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. September 11, 2003 N “Tell the truth THURSDAY and don’t be afraid.” VOLUME 87, NUMBER 14 THEDAILYEASTERNNEWS.COM Defense wins championships Or, at least, that’s what Panther football is betting on this season. Page 1B FALL SPORTS GUIDE Eastern plans nothing for 9/11 anniversary Kevin Sampier place, said More inside “We felt it was more appropriate Illinois Champaign and Illinois programs for the remembrance of STUDENT GOVERNMENT EDITOR Shirley N to have a memorial at 10 year State University. the 9/11 occurrence,” she said. Stewart, vice Remembering increments for that event so peo- Eastern’s meeting to plan for Last year’s program included a Eastern does not plan to hold a president for the events of ple don’t fall back into that sense of Thursday was composed of the power point video presentation and memorial service Thursday for the Student Sept. 11 depression,” Stewart said. “We directors in charge of financial aid, singing by Eastern chorus mem- anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, Affairs. Pages 6-7 don’t want to forget it but we do health services, the counseling bers, while on the day of the event, choosing instead to hold memorials “We talked need to move forward.” center, housing, textbook rental, students and campus ministry on a five or 10 year basis. about it at the Other Illinois universities opted judicial affairs, career services, prayed in the South Quad, Stewart After a meeting with several staff meeting,” Stewart said. “The to hold a memorial service, with legal services and the chief of said. university administrators, it was consensus was we had done major events planned at Southern Illinois police, Stewart said. Even though Eastern won’t hold decided that no plans to commem- events in the past and it was impor- University, Northern Illinois “They’re the ones, for the past a formal service, Stewart encour- orate the anniversary would take tant for people to move forward. University, the University of two years, who have coordinated SEE PLANS N Page 6A File sharing will be slowed by ITS software By Colin McAuliffe STAFF WRITER With the recording industry cracking down harder nationally on file sharing users, Eastern students are being warned about the dangers of file sharing. The university and Information Technology Services are taking precautions to hinder and slow down file sharing. “ITS, in partnership with Housing and Dining Services, is doing its part in educating students about ills of file sharing and the deleterious effects it has on the network,” said Chat Chatterji, an ITS vice president. The music industry sued 261 people Monday for swapping. ITS and housing services have posted flyers in labs and dorms and have asked Resident Assistants to spread the word, said Chatterji. The posters state warnings about file sharing. Mark Hudson, director of Housing and Dining, said many students don’t know they are file sharing. Many people using music file sharing programs don’t read the policy and just click the ‘I accept’ button. DAILY EASTERN NEWS PHOTO BY STEPHEN HAAS File sharing slows down the network, Hudson said. Beth Fehrenbacher, senior at Charleston High School, shops for new music at Positively 4th Street Records Wednesday night. Record sales are down because of online file sharing programs. SEE SOFTWARE N Page 9A Hencken remembers tragic day in history By Avian Carrasquillo finishing breakfast and turned on MANAGING EDITOR the radio once in the car. “We turned the radio on to see On the infamous day of Sept. 11, what we could hear, and we got a 2001 while a nation was in a state of station and someone was saying I shock, a rookie university presi- can’t believe this the north tower dent just 41 days into his term was has just fallen, and I just thought faced with the unexpected task of ‘Oh my God!’,” he said. “So we got uniting a campus community. back to campus and found a TV sta- Two years later, interim tion over near Pemberton Hall President Lou Hencken’s remem- because that was the closest place bers how his day unfolded and how we could find downstairs in the Eastern banded together when it basement in the TV room. There needed to most. were 15 – 20 students all sitting “I told my children I know exact- without saying a word, just glued ly where I was when John Kennedy to the TV set.” was killed, and they could never Hencken said he and university understand because they weren’t administrators called an emer- alive then and they don’t know how gency management meeting after it gripped the country,” Hencken deciding that in a time of crisis, said. “ 9/11 was something that lit- what people want to see most are erally gripped the country, so I their leaders. know where I was, I know what I “So what we did was we met with did; I will always remember that the editorial board of The Daily day.” Eastern News (ITALICS), we met Hencken said before the attacks with people from WEIU. We on the World Trade Center, he walked around the campus, we never thought such destruction were very visible, we planned an could happen in the United States. event that evening in the (union) “Every time you would turn on Grand Ballroom, but I think we the news and you would see a ter- were all in a state of shock going rorist would attack somewhere, in through it.” DAILY EASTERN NEWS PHOTO BY STEPHEN HAAS most cases being Israel or some- Hencken said he and others Interim President Lou Hencken walks through the North Quad Wednesday afternoon. Hencken recalled feeling where else in the middle east or started thinking what could be the need to walk around campus and be accessible to students on the day of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Europe, and we were sort of done to avoid terrorist attacks at immune to this,” he said. “Well I that such things are possible. realization.” ‘Did you hear that an airplane just Eastern. think I felt how a lot of Americans Americans I don’t think tolerate He said he heard the news of the hit one of the towers of the World “The world changed,” he said. felt; that we were immune to this. being stopped on the road and hav- Sept. 11 attacks over breakfast Trade Center?’ What I thought of at “When we were debating whether “Then all of a sudden it changed ing our cars checked for bombs. with Charleston Mayor Dan the time was that maybe a small or not to cancel classes we thought our feeling of security and we real- We lived in a very free society 9/11 Cougill. plane had hit it,” he said. about the students’ best interest. ized that the free society we live in suddenly brought everything to “The waitress came up and said, Hencken said they were close to SEE HENCKEN N Page 7A Today Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Mostly sunny Partly cloudy Thunderstorms Few Showers Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Thursday, 85º 63º 84º 65º 81º 63º 75º 58º 71º 52º 74º 53º 75º 54º September 11, 2003 HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW Teacher of Year to grow passion for education N Presentation intended already this to motivate future year, Morrison teachers hopes he can By Nicole Nicolas teach many STAFF WRITER others what he has Dave Morrison, a music learned and band teacher at Mt. through his Dave Morrison Prospect High School, won teaching Illinois teacher of year and experiences. “It meant a lot, will lecture at Eastern “Finding we were able to Thursday. your passion share something we couldn’t say “His presentation is intend- and beauty of with words.” ed to motivate all those who what you’re have chosen teaching,” said doing is real- elementary education instruc- ly the core message (of the tor Judy Barford. lecture),” Morrison said. Music will also be part of The Prospect High School Morrison’s speech. Morrison band has won several travels all over Illinois to give awards and has traveled all presentations during his over the United States to award year, speaking to com- play. munity groups, K-12, school He explained it is not all the faculty, college faculty and to awards that are his great anyone else who invites him to achievements, but the chance speak. he has given to his students to According to the Illinois play various places. Morrison State Board of Education, a said one of his great achieve- teacher must demonstrate ments is helping to produce excellence in his or her duties, “magical moments” through concern for children, leader- music. One of these was when ship to inspire others to his band got a chance to play achieve and go beyond what in the Macy’s Thanksgiving would be expected as part of Day Parade in New York and his or her normal duties to at Ground Zero in New York become teacher of the year.