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Eastern Illinois University The Keep April 2003 4-18-2003 Daily Eastern News: April 18, 2003 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2003_apr Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: April 18, 2003" (2003). April. 14. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2003_apr/14 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 2003 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in April by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. "Thll the troth April 18, 2003 • F RI DA v and don't be afraid. • VO LUME 87 . NUMBER 138 THE DA ILYEASTERN NEWS . COM THE DAILY Eastern 2 Eastern's tennis teams hosts Eastern Kentucy In crucial OVC matches. EASTERN NEWS Page SA SPORTS Dean restgns,• takes job in Florida • Dean ofenrollment management, registar leaves after 77 years By Tim Martin CAMP US ED ITOR ''They made Frank Hohengarten is mean offer I a busy man at Eastern. Aside from working couldn't refuse. full-time as dean of enrollment manage­ It's as simple ment and registrar, Hohengarten teaches as that. " graduate student class­ es at night. -Frank Hohengarten He gave Eastern his resignation Thursday. Now he'll be a busy man at the University ofSouth Florida at St. Petersburg. !hey made me an offer I couldn't refuse," said Hohengarten, who's been employed at Eastern since 1992. "It's as simple as that. • The dean of enrollment management and regis­ trar has general responsibility for the overall super­ vision ofthe enrollment and other services provided by the offices of admissions, academic records and registration, the Eastern Web site said. Chuck Eberly, professor of counseling and devel­ opment, remembers attending Hohengarten's j ob Interview because he knew Hohengarten had a doc­ torate In higher education. After the Interview, Hohengarten was asked if he was Interested In teaching, which he was. Eberly offered the teaching position right away. Kit Morice, curator of education at the Tarble Arts Center, displays artwork to students Monday. "He's made an excellent contribution," Eberly said. "He was a practicing administrator and the stu­ dents benefited because they knew he was practic­ Ing his content every day." Because of Hohengarten's work ethic, the thing Morice's Tarble' s 'kit' for art Eberly said he will miss the most is the people: !hat's what makes Eastern a great place - the people." By John Hohenadel at Eastern. chance to get some More inside Carol Burris, Hohengarten's secretary, has STAFF WR ITER Morice attended Eastern and received work done. worked With him since his first day on the j ob. her bachelor's degree In 1986, and her Whether organiz­ + Find out "He was very easy to work with and he was very Throughout their lives, students have master's in 1988. ing workshops for more about good with the students, • she said. "He was very followed a daily routine and after college She then left town to acquire her mas­ kids, ordering sup­ the Tarble Arts Center. approachable. If I needed something or the students many jobs can become routine as well. ter of fine arts In studio art print making plies or hiring needed something, he was always available." However, as curator of education at the at Southern Illinois University at instructors, Morice is PageS Hohengarten received his bachelor's degree In Thrble Arts Center, Kit Morice never Edwardsville. always on the move. psychology from Drury College In Springfield, Mo.; finds herself falling into a routine. She moved back to Charleston and was She started off Monday placing ceram­ his master's degree In education administration and "I get to plan programs and then work a full-time bartender while substitute ics that children made In a special oven his doctorate In educational leadership from the on them, • Morice said. "I like the fact that teaching. called a kiln. University of1Wsa. I'm not working behind a desk all day. I In September 1993, she took the cura­ The oven was at 1,800 degrees when He held jobs In Missouri and Oklahoma before couldn't imagine staring at a computer tor position she holds today. she checked it. It may sound extreme, but coming to Eastern. And now he'll head to the screen for eight hours a day." "I always knew I would do something that's what it takes to sufficiently dry Sunshine State. Morice was born in a small town in With art, I just didn't know what," Morice ceramics, she said. "Florida has always been a place I have wanted to Kansas called Pittsburg, where she lived said. "I thought about being a veterinari­ Morice took a couple of phone calls go," Hohengarten said. until she was 5 years old. an, but I always came back to art. • regarding the city council meeting on Eberly said he is excited for Hohengarten. She came to Charleston In the late The Thrble Arts Center is closed to the "It's a tremendous career boost, • Eberly said. 1960s, and her father taught psychology public on Mondays, which gives Morice a SEE KIT +Page 5 Overestimation of funds results in university audit By John Chambers contributions by $33,000, according "We do not have any concerns could have j ust done a better j ob oversight, • the report stated. "The ADM INISTRATION EDITOR to a report by state Auditor General about future funding because the in estimating." university disagreed with our find­ William Holland. federal officer for this grant is sat­ The university estimated the Ings because it believed the esti­ Eastern was audited The university didn't overesti­ isfied, as we are, that Eastern met amount oftime employees would be mates used had no impact, nor did Wednesday for overestimating mate the amount, said Mary Bower, all federal guidelines under the working on the grant, instead of they result In questioned cost." the university's contribution assistant to the dean of the College grant," Bower said. using detailed records kept by the Eastern had over $8.7 million toward a federal grant. of Education and Professional All university grants are audited employees of actual time spent, invested in computer hardware Grant funds of $304,000 were Studies. every year, she said. according to Holland's report. and about 3,000 users had access given to Eastern in June 2000 to "The grant was not overestimat­ The grant audited this week, A faculty stipend of $4,000 was to "administrative computing train teachers on computers ed," she said. "Our estimate of the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers reported In the contribution, but the resources." through May 31 of last year. EIU expenditures was Incorrect, to Use Technology, had a report employee's task was not for the The report recommended According to federal guidelines, but Eastern did meet the federal due last April. But, "the grant same purpose as the grant, accord­ Eastern enforce security controls the university was required to con­ requirement for the university con­ period actually ran through May, Ing to the report. In the university computer systems tribute that amount Into teaching tribution." so we had to use estimates," Jeff "According to university person­ and networks, and indicated efforts. The audit will not affect monies Cooley, vice president for busi­ nel who prepared the report, the Eastern has responded by correct­ However, Eastern overestimated for future grants. ness affairs, said Wednesday. "We above miscalculations were due to Ing the network issues. REVIEW THIS ON THE VERGE OF THE WEE KEND Black Label Society THE DAILY Zakk Wylde again performs a pletho­ EASTERN NEWS ra of Instruments on his new album Friday, April1 8, 2003 "The Blessed Hellride.• Section B ***~ Page 78 PHOTO BY PEGGY SIROTA Counting Crows and Sixpense None the Richer add up to big numbers at Lantz Arena By BenT~ner and eventually to Eastern. were the duo's forte prior to include the group's hits and of Sheryl Crow, Matthew Sweet VERGE ED ITOR Counting Crows proved too adding the rest of the original favorite album cuts. and producer Steve Lillywhite musically diverse and persistent lineup. "We're still a band but I like to (Talking Heads, The Pogues, Counting Crows are what they to allow themselves to slip quietly Vickery said It was clear to him think of us as an orchestra If you Dave Matthews Band) . Durltz are - a college bar and coffee back to the coffee houses and right after the band's first tour will, • Vickery said. "We like to made time to record the album house band that made It big. small clubs the band had been that Counting Crows could be the play a set that flows. It varies, after helping out on Ryan Adams' After the seven-piece from the performing at in 1992. Instead, guys' profession. sometimes we won't play every "Gold" and Adams returned the California Bay Area opened for "August" also produced another "It was always a dream to be in single but we don't mind playing favor by co-writing "Butterfly In Bob Dylan In the early '90s, they hit, "Round Here," and a number a good band which I could fully the crowd favorites. • Reverse." were far from unknown but they of other quality album cuts mak­ concentrate," Vickery said. "On Counting Crows' latest effort, Vickery said the band has been sure weren't hangln' with the Ing the band a household name the same token though, there real­ "Hard Candy," was released last through Illinois before, calling It Joneses yet.

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