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Fresh Another women’s sport may TUESDAY Eastern Illinois University be added to help conform Charleston, Ill. 61920 September 23, 1997 with Title IX regulations fruit Vol. 83, No. 22 The Farmer’s Market offers 12 pages students a chance to buy fresh PAGE fruit and vegetables News 12 PAGE 3 “Tell the truth and don’t be afraid” Carman Hall fire causes evacuation Fire officials estimate damage will cost Eastern up to $10,000 By RACHEAL CARRUTHERS registration informational meeting Staff editor that was taking place in the lobby. “We came upstairs and smelled Carman Hall residents were smoke, like two seconds after we forced out of their homes for got up there, then we saw smoke approximately 45 minutes coming out of 404,” Watts said. Monday night because of an Watts and Milbern then began electrical fire in the north tower. knocking on other doors to tell The fire, which started shortly other residents there was a fire before 8:55 p.m. in room 404, and they needed to evacuate. forced all 900 residents to “They didn’t believe me that evacuate from the hall while fire there was a fire because I’m fighters from three fire engines always joking around about stuff and an emergency rescue vehicle and they thought I was joking contained the fire. again,” Watts said. “It was an electrical fire Milbern said she was worried contained to one room,” said the single resident of room 404 Charleston Fire Department was in her room so she banged on Battalion Chief Keith Malcolm. her door too, but the resident was An overloaded outlet seemed to not inside. be the cause of the fire, he said. For the residents who were Jackie Watts, a Carman Hall inside, the evacuation was an resident who lives in room 403, inconvenience. and fourth floor resident Melissa “Everyone was doing SHERYL SUE SIDWELL/Photo editor Milbern discovered the fire after homework or getting ready to go A group of Carman Hall residents stand on the edge of Edgar Drive Monday night waiting for fire fighters to returning from a freshman spring See FIRE page 2 extinguish the electrical fire started in room 404 of the residence hall. WEIU radio back to full time Kokomo Joe’s strives Buzzard Hall for feel of Las Vegas renovations limit By MANDY MILCAREK Staff writer In Las Vegas, everyone TV to part time is a performer.We A restaurant in Mattoon is trying never had any trouble looking By SCOTT BOEHMER to liven up their atmosphere with a “ for entertainment.” Campus editor unique kind of entertainment. Kokomo Joe’s Restaurant, 516 – Joe Kimery, WEIU-TV and Radio are both Piatt, has a “casually-elegant dining owner of Kokomo Joe’s back with at least limited atmosphere” and features pasta, Restaurant amounts of operation after ribs, seafood, steaks and fine wine, having their local programming said owner Joe Kimery. townspeople as employees, he said. interrupted by the Buzzard Hall Kimery is currently interviewing In Las Vegas, if an ad was placed renovations. entertainers including palm readers, in the paper more than 150 people The radio portion of WEIU is jugglers, magicians and card trick would show up for the job, he said. expecting to resume full-time dealers to perform for diners to But here, people are slowly programming by October, said create a fun-filled atmosphere. answering the ad. Station Manager Joe Heumann. “This idea (of entertainment) is “In Las Vegas, everyone is a “We have a lot of students just starting to get off the ground,” performer. We never had any who would like to see us expand ANNA BETZELBERGER/Associate photo editor Kimery said. “We recently have trouble looking for entertainment,” our hours and go full time and Scott Cisek, a senior speech communication major, watches as Annie brought in an old-time piano player Kimery said. (also) see us get into the studio Morgan, a junior Art major, cues up a CD for the next song Monday and the customers really enjoyed More than two weeks ago, with the better equipment, but night at the WEIU-FM radio station. that.” Kimery placed the ad and only two they just have to be patient,” Kimery is hoping to have people have responded. Heumann said. station has resumed filming but the wiring of the student Lynch’s Colloquium, Panther production room and master different kinds of entertainment This has delayed the start of Heumann said WEIU-FM did every night of the week. Kokomo’s new atmosphere and not broadcast at all from July to Country and EIU Country control room still needs to be “We are open for ideas for our theme because Kimery would like late January 1997 because of shows, which could not be completed, Heumann said. The entertainment. We want customers to have a complete line-up of safety concerns from the filmed between March and station is temporarily to have a good time at our entertainers to have a diversified construction. Currently it is August 1997 because of work on broadcasting from an area that restaurant,” he said. week for restaurant patrons. broadcasting from 8 a.m. to 8 its studio. will eventually be used as a His experiences in the Kokomo Joe’s has a banquet p.m. Monday through Friday and Eisenhour said the station recording studio. entertainment field stems from his room that seats 20 to 60 people. noon to 6 p.m. Saturdays and resumed its local news Heumann said some of the prior restaurant in Las Vegas, Joe’s “We are taking reservations for Sundays. programming Sept. 2 after it had “alternative” programming Windy City Pub. (Eastern’s) Family Weekend, and “(The renovation) should have been cut off in August 1996. typically broadcast by the radio Kimery wanted to wait until hope to have plenty of been done a long time ago, but Heumann said full-time station has been cut slightly, but students returned back to school entertainment for everyone,” he now we’re relieved it’s getting programming for the radio still is being broadcast. Perez before he placed an employment ad said. done more than (we’re) excited,” station is 8 a.m. to midnight said classical and jazz for the positions in The Daily Anyone with a unique talent can said David Perez, jazz director Monday through Saturday and programming has been less hurt Eastern News. apply at Kokomo Joe’s between 10 for WEIU-FM. noon to midnight Sunday. by the renovation. Waiting for school to start would a.m. and noon on weekdays, or for John Eisenhour, the station Most of the renovation work “The jazz show has been cut allow him to interview and hire a more information, call Kimery at manager for WEIU-TV, said the for WEIU-FM’s studios is done, See WEIU page 2 mixture of students and 235-1455. 2 Tuesday,September 23, 1997 The Daily Eastern News Clinton says he stayed legal in accepting donations NEW YORK (AP) – President Clinton Republicans are calling for an independent report. He said he would cooperate with donations from the White House. declared Monday that he and Vice President counsel to investigate the matter. Attorney investigators “however I can to establish the Some Republicans have threatened to ini- Al Gore “intended to be firmly within the General Janet Reno has begun a 30-day facts,” but remained “absolutely certain” that tiate impeachment proceedings against Reno letter of the law” while seeking donations in review of Clinton’s activity, a step already he and Gore did not intend to seek contribu- if she fails to act. their 1996 re-election campaign. taken for Gore, who has admitted making tions illegally. “It seems to me if you had an independent “I believed then and I believe now that some calls from the White House. “I am absolutely positive that we intended person looking at the whole thing, that would what we did was legal,” Clinton told The New York Times reported Monday to be firmly within the letter of the law when be the way to go,” Michael Madigan, GOP reporters in New York, where he was that Justice Department investigators have we were out there campaigning and raising counsel for the Senate Governmental Affairs addressing the United Nations. documents showing that Clinton was urged funds, as we should have been doing,” Committee, told CNN. A federal law prohibits seeking political to place as many as 40 calls to wealthy con- Clinton said. “We had to do that.” The 30- Meanwhile on Monday, Harold Ickes, the donations from a federal office. It is not clear tributors from the White House, and most of day review is the first step toward seeking an president’s former deputy chief of staff and a whether that law extends to the president and the people on a call list made large donations independent counsel. GOP congressional key figure in the fund-raising controversy, vice president, or whether Clinton actually to the Democratic Party. leaders argue that Reno should seek one on was questioned in private by investigators made any calls from the White House. Clinton would not comment on that the mere possibility that Clinton solicited for the committee. Overnight visitors only a dream JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – The in neighboring Alabama and with desk clerks. right to have overnight visitors Louisiana have similar bans, Residence hall directors can of the opposite sex is but a though it is common for univer- give warnings, impose a $25 fine dream to students in the dormito- sities across the country to allow or revoke visiting privileges to ries at the University of overnight visitors of the opposite violators. Housing Director Jim Mississippi. sex, especially on weekends. Anderson said the number of A new policy allowing “sleep- Ole Miss dorm residents voted citations varies by dorm and the overs” on weekends was sched- overwhelmingly Sept. 2 to allow school has not kept any campus- uled to take effect last weekend 1,200 upperclassmen to have wide numbers. but was scrapped by university guests of the opposite sex in Ole Miss student President officials amid complaints from their rooms from noon Friday to Calvin Thigpen of Jackson said parents, state lawmakers and midnight Sunday. The idea came that if the change had gone religious leaders. from a student survey last fall. through, students “wouldn’t “They caught somebody In vetoing the change, College always have to look at the watch sleeping on that one. That’s bad, Board members said that it vio- as to when to get downstairs” bad, bad policy,” said state Sen. lates a state policy against coed before the curfew. Hillman Frazier. “We’re still the dorms and that proper channels “What couldn’t happen in 12 Bible Belt. Some things are a no- had not been followed. or 13 hours that could in 24 no in our state, especially when Ole Miss allows guests in hours?” he said. “It’s embarrass- it deals with state tax dollars.” dorms from noon until 10 p.m. ing that the immediate associa- No college in Mississippi allows weekdays and noon until 1 a.m. tion is sleepovers and sex.” men and women to share dorm on weekends. Students must Many lawmakers opposed the rooms overnight. Public colleges check their guests in and out plan.

WEIU from page one that much of an impact because been used to play older record- of training for students working ANNA BETZELBERGER/Associate photo editor we play jazz seven days a ings. at the stations. week,” Perez said. Heumann, Eisenhour and “It was tough on everyone and Bookworm The jazz programming was Perez said one of the challenges you really feel bad for students Karen Franklin, a graduate student in historical administration, looks effected when the station lost the of having local programming who didn’t have that year of at books at Textbook Rental Services during the used book sale use of its turntables that had temporarily off the air was a lack experience,” Eisenhour said. Monday morning.

FIRE from page one Slaughterhouse proposal out (when the fire alarm sound- floors. ed),” said Chrissy Neri, a freshman Initial estimates indicate the business major. damage will be between $5,000 bogged with complaints Several other residents also and $10,000, Malcolm said. RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – A slaughterhouses report few, if were upset about having to evacu- “Compared to the last fire (the proposal to build a laboratory any, protests about the research ate. damage) was small,” Malcolm and classroom that include a that goes on inside. Students sat or stood on the said. slaughterhouse at North Carolina That’s true from the school west side of Ninth Street for about Malcolm was referring to the State University is getting that slaughters the most animals, 45 minutes before Arson Specialist Aug. 29 fire that was intentionally bogged down with neighbors’ Texas A&M – where the slaugh- Paul Cottingham told them it was set in the stairwell of the south concerns and activists’ com- terhouse is near the school cafe- safe to return to their rooms. tower of Carman Hall. plaints. teria – to the University of Students were allowed back into According to an article in the “Dumb ideas come and go Georgia – where the steel outline their rooms at about 9:45 p.m. Sept. 2 edition of The Daily around the Triangle, but the win- of the meat science technology with warnings from resident assis- Eastern News, more than 30 stu- ner in recent years has to be the center just went up on east cam- tants for those students who live dents had to evacuate the building request by NCSU to construct a pus. on the third, fourth and fifth floors because someone had set several SHERYL SUE SIDWELL/Photo editor slaughterhouse adjacent to the At Oklahoma State University, to be careful of broken glass. The newspapers on fire in the stairwell. The window of room 404 in vet school ...,” began one weekly it’s difficult to tell a slaughter- glass was broken by fire fighters No major damages were reported Carman Hall is illuminated as fire newspaper’s editorial. house lies behind the Georgian trying to gain access to the and no injuries resulted from the fighters check the fire damage Across the country, more than archway of the new agricultural portable fire extinguishers on those August fire. Monday night. 20 land-grant universities with building. The Daily Eastern News

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Anna Betzelberger The Daily Eastern News Tuesday, September 23,1997 3 New senate members want to get involved with Eastern By MATT ADRIAN Student government editor I believe it’s important for students to take an active role in issues that concern them.” Many of the newly appointed Monica Wellenkamp, senate members said they became “ junior health studies major involved with Student Government because they wanted to take a more Student Government to insure that major, said he wants to get students active role at Eastern. students are properly represented. more involved in going to the foot- Eight new senate members were “By being in senate I wanted to ball games beyond tailgating. He seated at last week’s senate meet- get involved, and have a say on also said he wanted to help find the ing. what goes on around the campus,” best proposal for students concern- “I’ve been at Eastern for three said Mike Hansen, a freshman mar- ing the career services seminar. years ... I decided I wanted to play keting/finance major. Noel Koller, a senior finance a more active role,” said Brian Hansen said he is concerned with major and theater arts minor, and Nolen, a junior political science the state of the residence halls. He Patrick Kennell, a senior political major and pre-law minor. Nolen said in Carmen Hall the computer science major, were not able avail- said he wants to concentrate on labs are always packed, and there able for comment. issues that concern students like are no soap dispensers in the bath- The eight senate members were parking and tuition hikes. rooms. picked from a field of 18 “I’m just looking out for students Brandon Cronk, a sophomore applicants, said Student Senate interests,” Joe Kienzler,a sopho- speech pathology major, said he Speaker Erin Weed. The 18 appli- more public relations major said. thinks that being a senate member cants were interviewed by a com- “I believe it’s important for stu- is one of the best ways to be mittee made up of the various com- dents to take an active role in issues involved with the university. He mittee chairs, she said. that concern them,” Monica added that being a senate member “They are very highly experi- Wellenkamp, junior health studies allows him to represent students not enced and level headed,” Weed major. involved with Student Government. said. The appointed senate mem- Wellenkamp said she wants to Cronk said he wants to help with bers will serve a half term, and the keep lines of communication open campus recycling and parking. seats will be up for election during between the administration and Mark Ahern, a senior finance the fall student body elections. Farmer’s market provides food alternative for Charleston area By SARA ALBRIGHT “When the weather is nice, we have a lot of people Staff writer come out,” Campbell said. Campbell said he notices more students going to the Local residents and Eastern students can receive market after the fall semester starts. fresh fruits and vegetables right off the farm just by One Eastern student has taken advantage of the fresh taking a stroll to the Charleston Square. produce found at the square. Every Wednesday local vendors sell a variety of per- “I go to the Farmer’s Market when I get a chance to ishables at Farmer’s Market from fruits, vegetables, get fresh fruit because the grocery stores usually don’t ANNA BETZELBERGER/Associate photo editor flowers, baked goods and honey. have good produce,” said Kerrianne Milem, a senior Farmer’s Market manager, Kim Campbell, said its a secondary education major. Sandblaster small market with five to 14 vendors participating each Campbell said students aren’t aware of the Farmer’s Jeff Martin, a sophomore computer management major, serves a vol- Wednesday. Market because of the hours. The stands are open from leyball to members of the Delta Chi fraternity Monday afternoon Farmer’s Market will be open until the last 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. behind the Delta Chi fraternity house. The members are practicing for Wednesday in October, but it depends on the weather, Free coffee is offered to early risers who stop by the the Sigma Kappa Sandblast this coming weekend. Campbell said. market to shop. State task force to publicize BGC holds informational meeting terminally ill patients’ rights SPRINGFIELD (AP) – Department of Public Health. are Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa offer,” Brinker said. Terminally ill patients in Illinois The task force, made up of Fraternity forum Alpha Psi, Omega Psi Phi, Phi The dates for individual frater- have many options for directing four senators and four health and Beta Sigma and Beta Phi Pi. The nities and sororities’ rushes vary their care but often do not under- ethics experts, is exploring possi- exposes students sororities are Delta Sigma Theta, and are set by their national stand their legal rights, doctors ble changes to Illinois laws that Zeta Phi Beta and Sigma Gamma offices, Brinker said. to many options and health care advocates told a affect the terminally ill. Sen. Rho. “We’re expecting maybe 200 By SCOTT BOEHMER state task force Monday. John Maitland, R-Bloomington, The rush differs from the people to come (to the informa- Campus editor Witnesses encouraged the said the committee will issue a Panhellenic Council and tional), but as far as rushing we’re Senate’s Task Force on Comfort report to senators sometime next Interfraternity Council rush not sure (how many will rush),” The eight members of the Black Care for the Terminally Ill to year. because BGC groups do not have Carman said. Greek Council will hold an infor- launch a statewide public aware- Witnesses agreed that the an extended search process for The informational also will fea- mational rush for potential mem- ness campaign on laws dealing state’s laws are good, but that new members. The BGC has only ture displays set up by the differ- bers at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the with health care as patients patients and doctors often don’t one informational meeting when ent fraternities, chapter representa- Grand Ballroom of the Martin approach death. take advantage of them. all BGC groups attend. tives, a fashion show and mini- Luther King Jr. University Union. “Even though the laws exist, They pointed to three options Each of the fraternities and step show, Brinker said. The fourth annual rush will give I’m not sure the public under- that allow patients to prepare for sororities also will have week-long “They’ll show different aspects the BGC organizations at Eastern stands how to use them,” said care ahead of time – living wills, individual rushes, after which they of greek life and be able to talk to a forum for presenting information Deanna Seward Mool, chief powers of attorney for health care will decide how many new mem- members up close and personal,” to students who might be interest- counsel for the Illinois and health surrogates. ed in joining them, said Dannica bers they want to invite to join, Brinker said. Carman, BGC rush coordinator. said Ceci Brinker, assistant direc- A dance is scheduled to follow Carman said this is a good tor of Student Life/Multicultural the rush at 10 p.m. in the Grand Correction opportunity for students to see Affairs. Ballroom of the Union. There will “Informational gives them a be a $2 charge, or $1 for students A cutline in Monday’s edition of The Daily Eastern News incorrect- greek members up close and see ly stated the number of people who attended a comedy group perfor- how their organization works. chance to look at all the rush (par- who attended the informational ticipants) and what they have to rush. mance this weekend. More than 200 people attended the event. The fraternities involved in rush The News regrets the error.

Tuesday at Last Chance Deal ... The Daily Eastern News Bacon Cheeseburger w/fries $2.49 is your door $1.50 Icy $1.00 16oz Drafts to the EIU Only $19.00 Bottles (Icehouse) Rent til May 98 community Free Delivery HOT10¢ Chicken Wings HOT 1-800-811-1953 The Daily Eastern News Cougill should take lesson from Carbondale astern’s bar-entry age is 21. was hiked. EWe all know it, and we all “After raising This is not to say that Eastern realize it’s not going to change the bar-entry age hasn’t tried to offer students while Dan Cougill is presiding as more choices. The University Charleston’s mayor. to 21 for just a Board offers students a variety of Opinion But contrary to popular belief, year, Carbondale choices for weekend entertain- on mostly Mayor Cougill’s part, a officials decided ment. And the implementation of majority of students don’t abide the student-produced “Coffee KATIE VANA they were limit- page by his so-called “image-improv- Talk” in the Gregg Triad has ing” law. Regular columnist ing students’ proven to be a success. But Every week, Charleston police activities.” Charleston hasn’t done anything. Editorials are the opinion of the Editorial Board. officers cite a number of students But hey ... according to Mayor Columns are the opinion of the author. with illegal consumption of alco- Cougill, Eastern is no longer hol by a minor and fine popular watering holes with sales known as a party school but an academic school, so where of alcohol to a minor. is the problem? Tuesday, September 23, 1997 Recently, Carbondale, the home of a Southern Illinois “I think it’s great that we don’t have a party-school University campus, lowered its bar-entry age to 19. image,” Cougill said. PAGE 4 This caused a huge light bulb to pop up over Eastern’s This is where I think Mayor Cougill has been led astray. campus ... maybe, possibly, would Mayor Cougill ever Eastern has not lost its reputation as a party school ... stu- lower Charleston’s bar-entry age? dents just had to rethink their plan of action. Just to reiterate the comment made by Mayor Cougill in I wonder if the mayor drives around town on any given Friday’s edition of the The Daily Easter News: not in his weekend night and notices the abundance of house and One slip of the finger lifetime. apartment parties. It’s become a pretty repetitive statement, really. Cougill Or, does the mayor see the police reports on students thinks raising the bar-entry age at Eastern from 19 to 21 in being cited in bars every weekend. and annoyed police 1994 has made Charleston and Eastern a better place to Eastern students have found ways around the raised bar- live. entry age. Sometimes these alternatives prove successful, He said area parents and students’ parents have had other times not, but the intent to “party” is always there. might be at your door nothing but good things to say about the change. The I think the mayor would be hard pressed to find a state ver since students returned to Charleston last funny thing is Cougill never mentioned if the students university that wasn’t considered a “party school.” Emonth, the 911 dispatch center has been were happy. Mayor Cougill needs to take a look at what the flooded with calls. However, only a small portion It’s been a dead issue for a for a few years now, but with Carbondale officials have done and what effects it has had Carbondale’s recent actions, Eastern is once again ques- on the university and the community. They have given stu- of these have been true emergencies. tioning the local bar-entry age. dents a legal atmosphere to go out in and have a good The rest have mostly been students in residence After raising the age to 21 for just a year, Carbondale time. Carbondale officials found that bars were a safer halls trying to dial 9-1 then the area code for long- city officials rethought their decision and decided they place for students to be. distance calls and accidentally pressing 9-1-1. were limiting students’ activities with the restriction. So, after failing to provide the students bar-alternative The number of misdialed phone calls totaled Carbondale City Manager Jeff Doherty said people were entertainment and pushing them to find their own forms of concerned that there wasn’t enough for students to do on weekend entertainment, maybe the mayor should look at 185 during the first weekend students came back the weekends. other avenues of change to make Eastern and Charleston a to Eastern for the fall Hmmm ... sounds familiar. better place to be. semester, and the misdials In 1994, Mayor Cougill was also concerned about bar Editorial have only declined slight- alternatives in Charleston. But unlike Carbondale, where – Katie Vana is a weekly columnist and editor in chief ly since then. concerns were turned into actions, Charleston has offered for The Daily Eastern News. Her e-mail address is students no additional bar alternatives since the entry age [email protected]. When many students realize they have called 911, they hang up. The dispatchers have to treat every call like an emergency, so they have to call back each person who hangs up. If no one picks up the phone or the line is busy, the dispatchers send a squad car out. So if you do accidentally call 911, don’t hang up, unless of course you want a couple police officers banging on your door in a matter of minutes. Instead, stay on the line and tell them you made a mistake. No punishment – just a thank you for not hanging up and making them call you back. Toni Niles, acting director of the agency that administers 911 service to Coles County, said her office is understaffed, and having to re-call as many as 185 people isn’t helping matters any. The dispatchers have to waste a lot of valuable time calling people back and even sending out police officers to the campus when they might be needed for actual emergencies. Another reason for the misdials is because the University Police Department has changed its non-emergency phone number. The old number is now an emergency line to the 911 dispatch center. The new number, 581-3213, is the non-emergency number. Unfortunately, students are used to the old Athletes like Jordan attentions from the legitimate prob- University Police number and until a new campus your turn lems facing a democratic society to whether a rich man deserves what phone book is circulated, which won’t happen divert America’s mind unwarranted can simply look into he has. until November, the misdials will continue. And from things that matter the history of Nike, where you will Matthew J. Cotter of course, freshmen who don’t have a campus To the editor: find ample evidence. But that effort history graduate student phone book are likely to dig up their friends’ It is interesting to see that an oth- may prevent you from watching phone books from last year. A lot of old campus erwise democratic medium has “Sportscenter.” books are still laying around with the old number. become the forum for personal It is also interesting to debate Letter policy attacks. The emotionally charged over a man who literally could care Students need to pay attention to which buttons “discussion” over whether or not less about these letters’ authors. The Daily Eastern News accepts they are pushing when dialing long distance and Michael Jordan “deserves” his mil- Jordan is neither a philanthropist letters to the editor addressing local, avoid wasting the dispatchers’ and police officers’ lions is further evidence that issues nor a humanitarian; he is, however, state, national and international time. such as athletes and sporting events a man who has more money than he issues. preoccupy most of our lives and will ever need, and very few people They should be less than 250 divert attention from things that either do not have a problem with words and include the author’s matter. that, or they are too busy venerating name, telephone number and today’s quote One thing that matters is Jordan’s him. address. Students must indicate their (and he is not alone in this regard) But America’s love affair with year in school and major. Faculty, Mistakes are always paid for in casual- open dismissal of the fact that the celebrity and wealth in the hands of administration and staff should indi- ties and troops are quick to sense any corporation he works for exploits fewer and fewer people and corpo- cate their position and department. blunder made by their commanders. child labor; he just works for them, rations will persist, as long as we Letters whose authors cannot be ver- “ and what they do outside of signing think that Jordan, the talented cor- ified will not be printed. –Dwight D. Eisenhower his exorbitant paycheck is none of porate shill, is the greatest man Depending on space constraints, his business. alive. One may only hope that edu- we may have to edit your letter, so U.S. president (1890-1969) Those who feel this criticism is cation has done more than divert our keep it as concise as possible.

Let your voice be heard. E-mail us at [email protected] The Daily Eastern News Tuesday, September 23,1997 5 ‘Doing God’s work’ lands man 12 years in jail Toothbrush PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A nizations and some of the coun- ones. “I never intended to defraud or man who said he suffered delu- try’s wealthiest philanthopists – Through tears, Bennett said to hurt anyone. The benefactors used as tool sions that he was doing God’s including Christian colleges, Ivy hallucinations and a drive to were real to me at that time,” said work got 12 years in prison League universities, museums “change the world for the glory Bennett, who said he was suicidal Monday for running the biggest and major charities – to entrust a of God” led to his actions at New after the 1995 collapse of New in jailbreak charity scam in U.S. history. total of $354 million of their Era. Era. “This is a very sad day for money to him by promising to “The dream became a need, The judge gave a lighter sen- NEW ULM, Minn. (AP) – A 16- someone who rose to such influ- double it in six months with the need became obsession, the tence than the 24{ years sought year-old boy escaped from a juve- ence and promise,” U.S. District matching contributions from obsession became fantasy and the by prosecutors because of nile detention center by holding a Judge Edmund V. Ludwig told other rich people who wanted to fantasy a delusion,” he said. Bennett’s years of charity work sharpened toothbrush to a jailer’s 60-year-old John Bennett Jr., remain anonymous. Bennett also siphoned $7 mil- before establishing New Era and throat and attacked a man with a head of the now-defunct There were no such anony- lion into private businesses and his cooperation after the collapse. golf club before being recaptured Foundation for New Era mous benefactors, however. The personal accounts, using some of With his help – and the return of Monday, police say. Philanthropy. foundation was a pyramid the cash to buy an expensive $1.5 million – authorities reduced The teen-ager, whose name was The charismatic former drug scheme that shuffled money from home, a luxury car and first-class charities’ losses from $100 mil- not released, had been at the deten- counselor got 500 nonprofit orga- newer participants to the earlier travel for his family. lion to $20 million. tion center on attempted murder charges for allegedly shooting a police officer at a high school Sept. EPA pushes for stricter air-quality rules 11. The officer was grazed in the forehead. MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) – Decades power plants from Illinois to West Virginia. industries gone, the air meets federal stan- Investigators said the student had ago coal-burning industrial plants filled the air Two plants south of Moundsville and a third dards and she and other local residents don’t apparently gone to the school to kill with soot along this stretch of the Ohio River 25 miles upriver belong to the Ohio-based pay much attention to the power plant. someone or take hostages. Valley. Now some of the industry is gone, and American Electric Power Co. Together, last But others do, saying the wind-borne emis- On Sunday night, the boy held a the air here is clean. year, they released 91,000 tons of a smog- sions cause them problems. sharpened toothbrush to a jailer’s But just south of town, at a bend of the causing chemical – more than the emissions “Our air quality is greatly affected by throat and demanded her car keys, river, a smokestack nearly as tall as the from power plants in all of New England and Midwest polluters, something over which we but the woman had taken her bicy- Empire State Building is suspected of causing New Jersey combined. have no control,” complains Vermont Gov. cle to work that day, police Sgt. Erv problems for people hundreds of miles away. The stacks were designed specifically to Howard Dean, echoing views of governors Weinkauf said. The teen-ager got The Environmental Protection Agency, pos- keep from polluting the Ohio River Valley, from Maine to Delaware. another worker to let him out, sibly by the end of the week, is expected to and on that front they have succeeded. After years of study and interstate squab- released the jailer and ran off. demand tougher pollution controls in 25 states Moundsville resident Gloria Stiles, a server bling, Vermont and seven other Northeast Early Monday, police said, the east of the Mississippi. The goal is to reduce at Bob’s Lunch, remembers when local indus- states demanded last month that the EPA take boy hit a man in the face with a golf interstate pollution; the primary target will be tries created so much pollution she couldn’t action to curb the pollution from 40 of the club in the victim’s garage as he the tall stacks of more than 40 coal-burning keep her car clean. Now, with most of the largest Midwest coal-burning power plants. was heading to work. New Releases on Sale Today CD $12.88 CS $8.38

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White House spokeswoman After leaving active duty, Jones If confirmed by the Senate, Julia Payne said Monday she got a law degree from the Jones would be the first black Air couldn’t comment on Clinton’s University of Miami and won elec- Force secretary. plans. tion to the Florida Legislature in Jones, 42, graduated from the Jones also wouldn’t comment. “I 1990. Air Force Academy and served don’t want to preempt the president He spent two years in the state seven years in the Air Force, where of the United States,” he said. House of Representatives before he was an F-4 Phantom pilot. He is The current secretary, Sheila winning election to the state now a lieutenant colonel in the Air Widnall, the first woman to hold Senate. Poshard considering gasoline tax SPRINGFIELD, (AP) – While investment in our infrastructure “Today in Canada gasoline is not formally proposing an so we can accommodate the about $3.46 a gallon; in Europe, increase in the state’s 19-cent-a- goods and services that we need it’s well over $4 a gallon; in gallon gasoline tax, Democratic to move about the state,” he America, it averages $1.29 a gubernatorial candidate Glenn said. gallon,” he said. Poshard made a case for one The comments made by the “And yet we are a trillion Monday and said he was Southern Illinois congressman dollars in arrears of just basic reviewing the idea. came during a luncheon address service transportation needs in ANNA BETZELBERGER/Associate Photo editor “I’m taking a look at the to the Illinois Society of this country.” Poshard said he means of our transportation sys- Association Executives in which favors “pay as you go” and is Things aren’t what they seam tem with respect to perhaps an he pointedly reminded the audi- against borrowing more money Melissa McCamish, a senior theater major, works on a costume for “A increase in the gasoline tax ... ence that gasoline prices are rel- on the backs of children to pay Raisin in the Sun” Monday night in the costume room in the Fine Arts because we have to have it as an atively low. for transportation needs. Building. Halfway-house escapee suspected of beating babysitter STANWOOD, Wash. (AP) – A said John Stephen Jones, the girl’s 8, were asleep and not harmed. friend’s apartment in Stanwood, a Monday. teen-age boy who had escaped father. “She didn’t deserve to David Dodge, 17, of nearby rural community about 40 miles Ashley was found unconscious from a halfway house was arrest- die.” Ashley Jones was attacked Camano Island, was arrested north of Seattle. when the adults returned home to ed on suspicion of beating a 12- late Saturday, apparently during a Sunday night on a fugitive war- Police said witnesses’ descrip- the middle-class neighborhood year-old girl to death while she burglary, said sheriff’s rant for escaping Friday from a tions led them to arrest Dodge in early Sunday morning. She was was baby-sitting five children at a spokeswoman Jan Jorgensen. It halfway house in the Seattle area the slaying. pronounced dead at a hospital. neighbor’s home. was not immediately known where he had been serving time Dodge was jailed as an adult Ashley suffered head injuries and “She was like a flower, and it’s whether she had been sexually for theft. for investigation of first-degree had been “very, very brutally like somebody stomped on her,” assaulted. The children, ages 2 to He was taken into custody at a murder. Bail was set at $1 million beaten,” Jorgensen said. The Daily Eastern News Tuesday, September 23,1997 7 Burgers have ‘steak’ in American culture LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – So a Neb., with peanut butter and hamburger can kill you. So what? bacon; the five-pound “Family This, fellow Americans, is One Burger” in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Nation, Under God, Indivisible, designed to serve 10 to 12 people. with burgers and ketchup for all. Since the 1940s, hamburgers And if you think that some itty have been America’s favorite food, bitty bacteria are going to change according to Nation’s Restaurant all that, well, you’re a Quarter News. There were 5.4 billion ham- Pounder short of a full load. burgers/cheeseburgers served in “There’s something about eating commercial restaurants in 1996, a big bite of hamburger,” said Sam that is up 3.8 percent from the pre- Ross, former manager of King’s vious year. Drive In, a Lincoln, Neb., fast food Ross said burger sales make up restaurant dating back to the 1960s. 75 percent of King’s business – KATHERINE THOMAS/Staff photographer “It’s something you can chow about 300 burgers a day. Kaskaskia transfers down on.” There’s the “Sunshine He said business did not slow Andy Bass, a senior physical education major with teacher certification, and Tom Reed, a senior biological Burger” in San Francisco, served even with the E. coli contamination sciences major with teacher certification, talk to D. Rennie Minton, a counselor specialist from Kaskaskia with sprouts, scallions and avoca- scare that led to the recall of 25 College, to see how they are doing as community college transfer students at Eastern. do; the “Jiffy Burger” in Lincoln, million pounds of ground beef. Relatives of 1994 airplane-crash victims get settlement CHICAGO (AP) – American Airlines compensate you for the loss that you piecemeal in 35 other deaths and were tional pain that they have suffered. and seven other companies agreed have suffered.” The agreement settled 26 not disclosed until now, attorneys said. “This was a sad day – it brought all Monday to pay a $110 million settlement lawsuits covering the death of 27 passen- They said damages remain unsettled in that back,” said Kim Collins, 36, of to relatives of some of the 68 people gers and crew members aboard American two lawsuits arising from six crash Pittsburgh. Her sister, flight attendant killed in 1994 when an American Eagle Eagle flight 4184, which crashed near the deaths. Sandi Modaff, died in the crash. flight plunged into an Indiana field. farming community of Roselawn, Ind., Relatives of those who died in the The National Transportation Safety “We are terribly sorry that this hap- on Oct. 31, 1994, as the French-built crash said the settlement – which came Board determined in July 1996 that the pened,” airline attorney Anton Valukas ATR-72 out of Indianapolis lumbered moments before opening arguments were plane had developed ice on its wings and told relatives, some dabbing at their eyes through cold and drizzle toward Chicago. to begin in the lawsuit – was fair. But went into an “uncommanded roll,” then in the hushed courtroom. “We can never Settlements already have been paid they said nothing could erase the emo- dropped swiftly from the sky. Astronaut set for fourth mission despite Mir troubles CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) “It won’t change until the pro- noxious leaks over the past seven wrote in a June 29 letter to NASA’s main computer went down yet – An unwavering NASA began the gram has asked us to delay the months. top safety official, four days after a again; the three-man crew quickly countdown Monday for putting launch,” said shuttle test director Even a former Johnson Space cargo ship plowed into Mir. replaced a part. What’s more, a car- another American on Mir despite John Guidi. Center safety director, Charles Leaders of the House Science bon-dioxide removal system mal- more problems on the ramshackle NASA senior managers awaited Harlan, has said NASA senior Committee have urged NASA to functioned and a mysterious brown Russian outpost, including a falter- one last safety report, from Gemini managers “should have the guts” to call off Wolf’s Mir mission. He is cloud appeared outside the space ing computer that could prevent a and Apollo astronaut Thomas admit enough is enough if the risks supposed to replace Michael Foale, station. docking in space. Stafford, before clearing Atlantis continue to mount. who has been up there since May. That central computer must be Few shuttle missions have been for flight and astronaut David Wolf “NASA management has accept- Committee leaders have said the working for Atlantis to dock. It is so contested from within. for a four-month stay aboard Mir. ed a different standard for human shuttle should take up supplies, but needed to orient the station in the The shuttle launch team tried to NASA inspector general Roberta safety for the Phase 1 shuttle-Mir no more astronauts to live on Mir. proper rendezvous position; a last- focus on the job at hand – preparing Gross has questioned Mir’s safety program than it has been willing to Monday’s rash of trouble merely minute failure like the one on Atlantis and its last-minute load for following a raging fire, crippling accept for either the shuttle or the bolsters their argument. Monday would prevent a safe a Thursday night liftoff. collision, computer crashes and international space station,” Harlan Mir’s patched and repatched linkup.

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The One of the most gratifying But more than anything, the goal is to eventually win the moments from him came in the PITTSBURGH (AP) – Jason Schmidt limited St. Louis to four hits Tampa Bay Buccaneers are trying Super Bowl, not merely win first quarter when he returned to over seven innings and started Pittsburgh’s two-run fifth inning with a to keep the team’s best start in 18 enough games to make the play- the game after taking a hit in the double, leading the Pirates past the Cardinals 3-1 Monday night. years, as well as the attention it’s offs. left knee and leaving the field for Mark McGwire, who leads the majors with 54 homers, was 0-for-4 received, in perspective. The fast start has rekindled fan one play. with two strikeouts and finished the series 1-for-15. He is 0-for-12 since The Bucs haven’t finished with support and attracted national The record crowd of 73,314 at homering in the fifth inning Friday night. a winning record or earned a post- media attention. However Dungy Houlihan’s Stadium gave him a Until the Pirates’ series, McGwire had not gone more than two games season berth since 1982, and is confident the team will be able huge ovation, the first time Tampa without homering this month. He must hit seven homers in the Cardinals’ coach Tony Dungy and his players to retain its focus. Bay fans have really embraced final six games to match Roger Maris’ record of 61 homers in 1961. are doing everything they can to “I really think we’ve got the him in four seasons. The Pirates outscored the Cardinals 27-4 to win the final three games avoid mention of the “p” word in type of team where it’s not going “I would hope it’s because of of the four-game series and take the season series 9-3, a turnaround from assessing the club’s 4-0 record. to be that big of a deal,” said the perseverance, not necessarily a year ago when St. Louis won 10 of 13. Sunday night’s 31-21 victory Dungy, who held the team togeth- because I’ve played decent a few But the Pirates’ recent surge – they have won six of eight since Kevin over the Miami Dolphins was the er a year ago in the wake of a 1-8 games,” Dilfer said. Young angrily challenged his teammates on Sept. 14 to get back in the fifth straight for Tampa Bay, dat- start. Since then, the Bucs are 9-2. “That’s what I want people to race – may have come too late. ing back to 1996, equaling a fran- “I think we’ve got enough guys see and be happy for me and cheer Houston retained its 3 1/2-game lead in the NL Central and reduced its chise record set in 1979 when the left from that 0-5 and 1-8 that about. ... I think what I appreciate magic number to three by beating Cincinnati 6-3 earlier in the day. Bucs won their first five games on understand it’s a long journey and most is they’ve seen that I’ve Schmidt (10-8) became the fourth Pirates’ pitcher to win at least 10 the way to an appearance in the that there’s not a big difference allowed the criticism, hard times games – two more have nine wins – by limiting the Cardinals to one run NFC championship game. between the top teams and the and adversity to make me better.” on four hits, striking out four and walking five. “I think it’s still a little too early bottom teams, that the reason Dilfer’s numbers this season – The walks constantly kept him in trouble, but he benefited from two to be talking about the playoffs. we’ve gotten here is because we eight touchdowns passes vs. one double plays and an inning-ending strikeout of Gary Gaetti in the sixth But that is something that I have work hard.” interception – were exactly the with a run in and runners on second and third. talked about with our players,” Defense has carried the team opposite (eight interceptions, one Schmidt, batting only .094, helped himself by looping a leadoff double said Dungy, whose even tempera- through much of the stretch of TD pass) during Tampa Bay’s first down the left-field line off Matt Morris – the Cardinals’ fourth consecu- ment has set the tone for the way success that began the middle of four games – all losses – in 1996. tive rookie starter – with one out in the fifth. the players have handled success. last season. But without injured “I think he’s more relaxed now, Turner Ward’s double scored Schmidt, and Mark Smith followed with “We talk about winning cham- defensive starters Warren Sapp Dungy said. a run-scoring single. Ward was 7-for-16 with three homers, seven RBIs pionships. We talk about winning and Rufus Porter against the “I think he has more confidence and seven runs scored in the series. playoff-type games. We’ll talk Dolphins, the offense rose to the in our total team – our defense, Pittsburgh had scored in the second on Shawon Dunston’s leadoff dou- today about letting Miami score at occasion. special teams, the offensive guys ble and Jose Guillen’s RBI single. the end of the game, and how Trent Dilfer raised his quarter- playing around him – that he Ray Lankford had a run-scoring double in the Cardinals’ sixth, but when you’re in a tight playoff back rating to an NFL-leading doesn’t have to do the spectacular only after Delino DeShields was ruled safe at third on Phil Plantier’s one- game or you’re in a big game, 112.0 by throwing for 248 yards things by himself. The spectacular out single. you’re not going to be able to and a career-high four touch- things are going to come in the Golden Gopher star, who quit school, will play in Greece MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – After being sus- in the winter or after the first of the year ted of intending to cause harm, another mis- then allowed me to play the conference sea- pended and quitting school, Minnesota bas- when his team has its first break. demeanor. son,” James said. “If they had made that ketball star Courtney James is headed to a James said he will be paid a base James also was accused in two separate decision, I would definitely have stayed in professional basketball job in Greece. $300,000 salary, receive a new car and free cases of threatening women, although no school and completed my education.” James James, who played for the Golden rent for an apartment. He also will be paid charges were filed. One of those women said he deserved to be punished. Gophers in the NCAA Final Four in March, $1,000 for every game the team wins plus taped a conversation with coach Clem “But honestly, I think the punishment was decided to leave school after the university $20,000 more if the team finishes in the top Haskins last summer in which the coach said a little severe,” he said. suspended him Saturday. He was convicted eight. she should have gone to him first before the Men’s athletic director Mark Dienhart in August in a domestic assault case. The 6-foot-9 sophomore forward was police. Excerpts of that conversation were said James was given a chance to come back James said he has a seven-month deal in arrested in April, two weeks after the played on a local television station. to school and get his academic and social Greece. But he may have to return to the Gophers lost to Kentucky in the national James, a starter who averaged 8.4 points life in order. United States because he is scheduled to be semifinals. He was accused of hitting his and 7.2 rebounds, was not critical of the uni- “Given the difficulty he has had both aca- sentenced Oct. 7. girlfriend in the face with an address book. versity’s decision to suspend him. demically and otherwise, I think this shows His attorney, Jerry Strauss, said he will He was convicted on one misdemeanor “I wish they would have chosen to sus- where his priorities are right now,” Dienhart ask the judge to defer sentencing until later count of intending to cause fear and acquit- pend me for the nonconference season and said. The Daily Eastern News classifiedadvertising It pays to advertise in the Daily MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM BY MIKE PETERS Eastern News 10 Tuesday, September 23, 1997 The Daily Eastern News Panthers to pack bags for next two games Simpkins By MATT WILSON and edged Tech 35-27. Staff writer Spoo said the coaches are hard at work looking at film and preparing the team for Sports Network traded to The Panther football team came out of this weekend. Normal with a 25-14 victory over Illinois Currently, Southeast Missouri has a 0-1 Division I-AA Poll State on Saturday, but now they have two conference record and a 1-2 overall record. conference road games in the next two The Indians lost to Murray State 17-3 in The top 25 teams in the Sports Network Warriors weekends. Cape Girardeau, Mo. over the weekend. Division I-AA football poll, records The road trip continues Saturday when “I’ll worry about SEMO when we get to through Sept. 22 and previous ranking. Eastern travels to Cookeville, Tenn. to face it, right now I’m worried about Tennessee In deal, Bulls get Tennessee Tech and finishes the following Tech,” Spoo said. Scott Burrell for Saturday at Southeast Missouri. Spoo said he hopes to see the team 1. Montana 2-0 1 “We got our road trip started off on a pos- improve in certain aspects of its game in the 2. Youngstown State 3-0 5 reserve forward itive note, before the ISU game we had lost next two weeks. 3. Western Kentucky 4-0 6 three straight road games,” Panther head “I hope to see a consistent performance, at 4. Villanova 3-0 10 CHICAGO (AP) – Reserve coach Bob Spoo said. least from an interworking point of view,” 5. Northern Arizona 2-1 7 forward Dickey Simpkins is “They have two more road games left and he said. “I also hope we work hard and 6. Appalachian State 1-1 9 on his way to the Golden I expect the team to play well. Going on the improve our performance because we had 7. Troy State 2-1 2 State Warriors, traded by the road should not bother the team, it should some situations Saturday that at some point 8. Western Illinois 3-1 4 Bulls on Monday for for- bring them closer together.” will catch up to us and might cost us the 9. William and Mary 3-1 3 ward-guard Scott Burrell. Spoo gave one main reason why these game. 10. Delaware 2-1 11 Burrell 26, was traded to next games are so important. “I hope we get better as a team and be at 11. McNeese State 3-0 16 Golden State last season by “Since these next two weeks are confer- our best.” 12. Florida A&M 3-0 15 the Charlotte Hornets. He ence games, it is crucial that we win them Spoo said there was one certain aspect of 13. Southern University 4-0 13 was the Hornets’ first-round because we’ve got to win conference the Panther game on Saturday that he was 14. E. Tennessee State 2-1 14 draft pick in 1993. games,” he said. “If we don’t, it doesn’t put not pleased with. 15. Nicholls State 2-1 25 Simpkins, 25, was the us out of it, but it certainly doesn’t help.” “We have to start cutting down on our 16. Eastern Illinois* 3-1 19 Bulls’ first-round draft pick Senior Panther quarterback Mike Simpson penalties and we have to play smarter,” he 17. Stephen F. Austin 2-1 17 in 1994. In the 1996/97 sea- said the win over ISU will help the team’s said. “We can’t commit penalties that take us 18. Furman 1-1 18 son he played an average of confidence level for the next two games. out of scoring drives like we did Saturday.” 19. Jackson State 3-1 8 eight minutes a game, usual- “Offensively, it shows us where we can For the Panthers to win this weekend, 20. Georgia Southern 2-1 20 ly backing up Dennis Rod- be, we had over 500 yards of offense and Simpson said the team will need to do the 21. Eastern Washington 3-0 21 man. 100 yards in penalties, so that tells us what same things offensively and defensively that 22. Chattanooga 2-0 22 Bulls vice president Jerry would happen without the penalties,” he they did against Illinois State. 23. Northern Iowa 1-2 12 Krause said that Burrell’s said. “Defensively, we have a world of con- He said the team can’t be penalized as 24. Northwestern State 1-1 23 “versatility, defensive skills fidence.” often as they were against the Redbirds. 25. James Madison 2-1 NR and toughness should be an The game against Eastern will be Tech’s Even though the trip the team has to take asset to our team. At the first conference game of the season and they in the next two weeks is much longer than same time, we traded a quali- enter with a 1-1 record after defeating the trip to Normal, Spoo said it shouldn’t stop to go get food and be together as a ty player and person in Dick- Samford 14-7 over the weekend. affect the team. team, then we travel the rest of the dis- ey Simpkins.” Last year, the Panthers went to Cookeville “The way we do trips is we take a midway tance,” he said. “I’m not unhappy with the Albert’s sodomy trial underway Bears ‘mired’ in slow start LAKE FOREST (AP) – One newspaper “We’ve got the people and the game By the Associated Press hotel “and the relationship took off rapidly. It headline asked Monday if the Chicago plan. We got to execute. was a sexual relationship from almost the Bears’ defense, once the trademark of the Two-for-13 on third downs won’t pro- Marv Albert ignored a woman’s dignity in very beginning.” But Trodden said the rela- proud franchise, had become “The duce wins. It’s that simple.” No one, says his “ego-centered quest for sexual gratifica- tionship was not intense and the two would Milquetoasts of the Midway.” The offense coach Dave Wannstedt, is more disappoint- tion,” a prosecutor said today as opening go two or three months at a time without see- is struggling, as well. Quarterback Rick ed than he is. arguments began in the sportscaster’s ing each other because of Albert’s job. Mirer is trying to learn on the job, top “It’s frustrating, you put so much effort sodomy trial. Earlier in the day, a jury of seven women receiver Curtis Conway is out with a bro- and time into it. You want to see the “On February 12, a coarse and crude abuse and five men was seated to hear the trial, ken collarbone and the offensive line is progress,” he said. of a human being took place, and it took assuring a judge and attorneys they could missing two injured starters. “It’s really difficult to take a step back- place at the hands of that man, and it took handle graphic testimony about violent sex. Sound bad for the Bears, off to their first ward. Offensively now we’ve done that. place and was accomplished by his physical The trial is expected to last about a week. 0-4 start since 1969? Just wait. It could and We’ve got to get it going.” Wannstedt is domination of a 41-year-old woman,” The defense opening statement was to fol- probably will get worse. This Sunday they taking the heat, for his past personnel deci- Commonwealth’s Attorney Richard Trodden low Trodden’s. Perhaps opening a window play in Dallas. sions and for his conservative game plan told jurors. into the defense strategy, Albert’s lawyer Roy The Bears have been outscored 128-58 Sunday, devised to take some pressure off He called the accuser “a woman who had Black this morning asked about 20 potential in their four losses, were penalized nine Mirer. That criticism is something he been his lover, a woman who had been his jurors if any had ever seen the movie “Fatal times Sunday in a 31-3 loss to New expects. friend for 10 years, a woman who had cared Attraction.” The film is about an obsessed England, allowed Mirer to be sacked five “From what everybody tells me, from for him and a woman whose human dignity woman who refused to let go of a failed love times, yielded 402 yards to the Pats and Jimmy Johnson to Mike Ditka, everybody he chose to ignore ... in his ego-centered affair and stalked her ex-lover. failed on 11 of 13 third-down conversions. you talk to about it, it’s part of the job,” quest for sexual gratification.” He said the Opening arguments began after a closed “We haven’t score a touchdown in a Wannstedt said. “You have to deal with it.” two met in 1986 when the accuser was a tele- hearing on how much of the accuser’s sexual while. We’re trying not to press,” Mirer The Bears held a players-only meeting phone operator at the Miami Airport Hilton past would be admitted into evidence. said Monday. after Sunday’s loss.

PROPOSALS from page 12 affairs; Morgan Olsen, vice president for “We are working with (the volleyball fee increase. “I don’t think it’s unrealistic to say that business affairs and Jill Nilsen, special program) to have out of state scholarships “On all of the items, we would like to do five years from now we could get a half a assistant to the president. if (Ralston) felt that is what she needed to them by increasing the budgets gradually million dollars (from the Panther Club),” The first objective is to enhance the recruit. She prefers to stay in state,” Polca over the next several years,” he said. he said. number of scholarships awarded to athlet- said. Secondly, funding would come from the Hencken said the more graduates that ics. The cost of this project is $100,000. The National Collegiate Athletic Association. Eastern has means the more money the Women’s basketball currently has the proposed funding for this objective will “When you give more scholarships the university gets from the alums in dona- maximum number of scholarships avail- come from an $8.75 increase in grant-in- NCAA gives you more money,” Hencken tions. able, 15. Volleyball can have up to 12 in- aid fee per semester. said. If these graduates are interested in a cer- state scholarships. “Currently there is no “We think that that will go a long way,” He said the majority of the money for tain sport, then more contributions are need for out of state scholarships on the Hencken said. the projects, however, would come from offered. Also, he said, winning teams bring team, but the money is available for head There are three areas the funding for the the Panther Club fund raising drive. Last in more money and the more money that coach Betty Ralston if she needs it,” Polca proposed projects will come from. Part of year donations totaled between $180,000 comes in, the more competitive it can make said. the money would come from the student and $230,000. the teams.

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Men’s soccer team will travel SPIKERS from page 12 in the five games. Meleah Cutler, “They blocked great. (Tech) prob- Kim Blackwell and Gen Ramos ably set a school record for block- played in all the games combining ing,” Ralston said. to South Bend to face Irish for a total of 62 digs, 20 kills, seven Sophomore middle hitter Diane By DREW GRANGER we’re not finishing. That’s our Leading Notre Dame is senior sets, two blocks and a service ace. Seng recorded one solo block and Staff writer problem. Once one of us puts one forward Ryan Turner. He scored Cutler had 41 kill attempts and 10 block assists for Tennessee Tech. in, then we’ll get going.” five goals and had assisted on four, came down with 10 kills. Junior Mandi Miller led the As the men’s soccer team travels Senior forward Dave LaFrance making him the teams second lead- “I was very frustrated,” Cutler Eaglettes in digs with 36, while to Notre Dame Tuesday for a 7:30 agreed with Ospina. He said the ing scorer last season. said. “They were really pepped up.” adding 12 kills on the offensive side. p.m. match, it will take with it a team needs to get out to a lead early Notre Dame’s goalkeeper, junior Shrader said she was upset about Senior outside hitter Rachel seven-game losing streak. to take pressure off the defense. Greg Velho has posted a goals- the inconsistency of the team. Melchiorre led the offense with 22 In the game, the Panthers will Scoring an early goal may be against average of 1.16 this season “No one played consistent. We kills, helping Tech reach a total of 73 face a Fighting Irish team that made more important than normal for and he has four shutouts. just never could get over that kills. the second round of the NCAA Eastern as Notre Dame is 0-2-1 The main flaw in the Panthers’ hump,” Shrader said. “I think we Ralston said she was expecting tournament last season. when they allow a goal. When they game, according to McClements is need to really work hard in practice the Lady Eaglettes to come out The Irish are 3-2-2 this season shutout the opposition, the Irish are consistency. with our attitude.” strong. while the Panthers are 0-7. 3-0-1. “We’re playing a man down and Ralston said it’s important to “They exploited our weaknesses,” Eastern’s losing record appears to The task may be a difficult for it looks like were dominating the eliminate having to go five games in she said. come from a lack of goal scoring. the Panther backs because Notre game,” he said. “When we’re even, a match. Eastern had a disappointing The Panthers have out shot the Dame has scored more than half its we should be all over them, but “(We’ve got to) play smarter and defensive showing. The Lady competition so far this season, but goals in the first half and are we’re not. At times we were, but get leads and hold them,” she said. Panthers gathered up only six team have only managed six goals in outscoring the opposition 15-9. then at times we’re not. The consis- “We don’t finish very well. We’re blocks and Lorri Sommer had the their seven games. The Irish have been pushing the tency is not there.” not very consistent right now. I don’t only solo block among her team- Senior forward Henry Ospina attack a little too hard at times as is Both Ospina and LaFrance were know why,” said senior setter Kara mates. said the Eastern defense is strong shown by their 20 offsides penal- optimistic about the outcome of Harper. “We’ve got to pick up on defense; and shoulders a part of the blame ties. tonight’s game. Tech had just come off a road loss especially the right side,” Ralston for the skid. McClements said the team will “I think we can play with any- to Southeast Missouri State. said. Offensively, the Panthers “We don’t have a problem with be ready to face Notre Dame, body,” Ospina said. “I think this “You know you can’t go 0-2 on recorded 74 kills. Sommer led with our defense,” he said. “Our defense despite their slide. team is excellent, I really do. The any conference weekend,” Ralston 24, while Shrader recorded 14 and might make mistakes, but they’re “I think anytime you’re playing other night (Thursday), how we said. both Blackwell and Cutler each had not crucial. At the beginning of the an opponent that is nationally played against Dayton, we played Defense won the game for the 10. year it was crucial. ranked, or has been nationally excellent. We can play with the best Lady Eaglettes as they recorded 20 Harper had 50 set attempts, while “Now it’s a matter of attacking. ranked, you’re going to get up for of them, it’s just a matter of finish- total blocks compared to Eastern’s sophomore setter Cari Stuchly The ball gets up to the forwards and it,” he said. ing.” six. added 11.

FOOTBALL from page 12 142.7, while Tennessee State’s Leon Murray 145.4 rating Jackson State took the biggest drop in record, while Murray State is even at 2-2 and Tennessee Tech leads the conference. polls, moving from No. 8 to the No. 19 spot is 1-1. Three teams are still in search of their first win: The performances Simpson has put up the last three games previously occupied by the Panthers. Eastern Kentucky, Middle Tennessee State (0-2) and and especially against Illinois State comes as no surprise to On the other hand, Nicholls State had the Tennessee-Martin (0-3). Spoo. biggest jump as they went from No. 25 to Tennessee-Martin’s winless record stems from the inability “In the first game against Western, he didn’t perform up to No. 15. to do two important things – score and defend. In the three our expectations,” Spoo said. “I think the expectations are Nothing but the best: games played, they have given up 111 points, while only rather high and they will continue to be.” Football The Panther offense leads the OVC in scoring 20. notebook Simpson said his goals for the rest of the season are simple. rushing (221 yards per game), total offense However, last weekend the Skyhawks did manage to put “To keep my percentage up and throw a lot more touch- (394.5 ypg) and is tied with Tennessee State on a scoring assault, of sorts, as they put 14 points on the downs,” he said. “Those are things that help make the team in scoring offense at 27 points per game. board in their 27-14 loss to Southwest Missouri State. win.” Individually, sophomore tailback Jabarey McDavid is Oh nooooo.... Spoo said one of the things that make Simpson successful perched atop the conference with 94.5 yards per game. Coming into the season, Eastern Kentucky was picked to is his size and mentality. The 539 yards Eastern’s offense ran up against Illinois finish second in the OVC behind the Panthers and were also “He’s tough minded, which simply means that if some- State on Saturday is the most by an OVC team this year. in the Sports Network Division I-AA top 25. thing does go wrong, he deals with it in a positive way,” Spoo However, leading the conference in offensive categories is Where are they now? In fifth place with an 0-3 record. said. not what Spoo is concerned with. The team is ranked sixth in total offense with 308 yards per We’re movin’ on up...... “I don’t worry about those kind of things,” Spoo said. “I game and fifth in scoring offense with 18.7 points per game. After having their return to the top 10 halted last week by just worry about winning games. Their defense isn’t exactly tearing up the gridiron either. remaining at No. 19 in the Sports Network Division I-AA poll, “It’s not whether we score a lot of points, it’s whether we The Colonel rush defense brings up the rear in the OVC, giv- the Panthers move up three slots to No. 16. For the second win the game.” ing up 271.7 yards per game on the ground. week in a row, Eastern is the lone OVC representative in the And the losers are: poll. The Panthers are the only OVC team with a winning -Compiled by Chad Merda ΣΚ • ΣΚ ¥ΣΚ • ΣΚ ¥ΣΚ • ΣΚ ¥ΣΚ ¥ΣΚ Congratulations to the women of ΣΚ ΣΚ Sigma Kappa on making 1st in grades • • for five semesters in a row. ΣΚ 4.0 ΣΚ

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It Pays to Advertise in the Daily Eastern News! TUESDAY The Daily Eastern News 12 September 23, 1997 Sports New women’s sport may be added Editors note: This is one story of a three part lation, requires that all facilities for men and sports and women’s sports must be treated series examining gender equity proposals at women be equal. equally.” Eastern. “This is not something that is a nice plan This semester women make up 57 percent CHAD MERDA that we would like to do, it’s something that of the campus. For the 1997-98 school year a By DENISE RENFRO we have to do. We must meet gender equity. projected 42 percent of the athletes are Associate sports editor Sports editor We must satisfy the law,” Hencken said. women. The number of female athletes is 48 “Our eventual goal is that all our women’s percent to 52 percent over the last three years, In an attempt to conform with gender equity sports will reach the maximum number of said Deborah Polca, associate athletic director. An 0-7 start just laws, Eastern has begun to consult different scholarships allowed by the NCAA.” At the Administrative Fall Forum Thursday groups about proposals to form a new Hencken said he is in negotiations with the the President’s Council released its plan for isn’t getting off women’s sport and look into areas that need Office of Civil Rights to help plan out what 1998 which included three different proposals additional funding to meet gender equity laws. needs to be done to increase gender equity. to meet gender equity laws. on the right foot Funding for these programs may come from The money allotted for each sport is only a The proposals include increasing the num- So far in this young sports sea- a hike in student fees, according to vice presi- portion of what is involved in conforming to ber of scholarships for women’s sports, adding son, there is one Panther team that dent for student affairs Lou Hencken. He and Title IX requirements. Locker rooms and another women’s team and increasing funding really sticks out. No, it’s not the top other members of the President’s Council will dressing rooms, equipment, scholarships and for women’s athletics to comply with gender 25 ranked football team, and no, it’s meet with athletic directors, students, staff, funding are all factored into gender equity. equity. not the volleyball team that’s ranked coaches and the Intercollegiate Athletic Board “This is something we should be wanting to The president’s council is made of No. 8 in their district. in order to determine what types of projects do anyway. (The law) is not an excuse. It’s Hencken; Eastern President David Jorns; The team would be the men’s need to be done. just the right thing to do,” Hencken said. “The Terry Weidner, vice president for academic Gender equity laws, such as Title IX legis- bottom line is that the law states that men’s soccer squad. The only problem is See PROPOSALS page 10 the reason they stick out is not a good one. In seven games, they have yet to win – that’s 0-7. Zero wins, zilch, Lady Panthers fall in five games to Tech nada. This season they’ve had more yellow and red cards issued against By JASON COLET them than goals scored. Staff writer Pretty rough indeed, but hey, they haven’t played a conference match The Lady Panther volleyball yet, so a spot in the Missouri Valley team suffered its fourth loss in four Conference playoffs is still a distinct matches, the latest to Tennessee possibility. Tech. The loss dropped Eastern’s If they win all the rest of their record to 7-6. games, head coach Tim The Lady Panthers started the McClements and his team can still match with two wins, 15-9 and 16- finish with an 11-7 record. 14, but lost the last three games by Many teams in the past have scores of 15-13, 15-12, 15-13. started out poorly and managed to Senior middle hitter Monica bounce back. Shrader said the loss was tough to For example, take the 1995 men’s take, as the Panthers dropped the soccer team. Under former head final three games of the match, coach Troy Fabiano, the Panthers after capturing the first two. started out the season 2-7 and “It’s tough to lose our first con- fought their way back to a 5-12 sea- ference match at home,” Shrader son record. Oh, that’s a losing said. record – bad example. Eastern head coach Betty How about the 1997 Chicago Ralston said that although her team Cubs? They had the worst start in one the second game, it was costly National League history, and look at in that substitutions were frequently them now. Wait a minute, they’re used. currently in last place. Another bad “What hurt us was coming back example. and winning that second game,” In any case, we all can’t forget Ralston said. “(We had) too much about last year’s volleyball squad. inconsistency out on the floor. I had The Lady Panthers started out 0-4 IKUYA KURATA/Staff photographer to use up all my subs.” and went 3-8 before they turned it Tiffannie Bosley, a junior midfielder/defenseman, tries to keep the ball away from a Middle Tennessee play- Eight Lady Panthers saw action around to finish 21-15 and placed er on Sept. 13 at home. See SPIKERS page 11 second in the Ohio Valley Conference tournament. But that’s volleyball, not soccer. So, it looks as though the soccer Simpson third Panther to nab OVC honor team is going to need a minor mira- For the third week in a row, the cle to salvage the season. Here are Panther football team finds one of some suggestions on how to pull it its players atop the Ohio Valley off: Conference with Player of the ■ Pray – a lot. Week honors. This time it is senior It appears as though some divine quarterback Mike Simpson. intervention is necessary if the sea- “It’s a nice reflection on the son is going to be saved. team because it says that other peo- ■ Pull a fast one and bring back for- ple are doing nice things too,” mer Panther goalie Mark Simpson Simpson said. “Overall, I was and call him Ryan Waguespack. happy with the play of the whole Simpson currently plays Major team.” League Soccer for the D.C. United Against Illinois State, Simpson squad. connected on 20-of-31 passes for Although he is injured and not 264 yards and two touchdowns. playing for the United, he can still “It is a nice reward for a fine prove to be a bigger force than any performance,” Panther head coach of the current Panthers. Bob Spoo said. “We had a lot of ■ Contact Michigan and get some good performances Saturday and tips on how to recruit. he is fortunate to have been chosen. At least then the focus can be on What’s more important is that we possible recruiting violations instead won the game and I expect to see of the poor record. that kind of effort every week.” ■ Steal all the balls before the game. In the last three games, Simpson If the officials and the other team has completed 74 percent of his can’t find any balls to play with, passes. He is second in pass effi- then they certainly can’t beat you. ciency in the OVC with a rating of IKUYA KURATA/Staff photographer Either way, men’s soccer is going Senior quarterback Mike Simpson (left) and sophomore defensive back Antwan Perry watch as the Panthers to be in for a long season. See FOOTBALL page 11 successfully complete a two-point conversion Saturday against Illinois State University.