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Vol. 86 No. 164 thedailyeasternnews.com Eastern“Tell the truth and don’tNews be afraid.” Mattoon Bagelfest set to begin this week Crops taking Jennifer Stoltz cert at 7pm. The Beautiful Bagel heat this Staff Writer Baby Contest at Cross County Mall also begins at 7pm. summer Claiming itself to be “Home Friday will be a full day with of the World’s Largest Bagel,” arts and crafts booths, a softball Alicia Choi Staff writer Mattoon will feature its annual tournament and the ever-popu- Bagelfest at Peterson Park this lar beer tent. The Bagelfest Throughout Charleston and weekend. Parade starts at 6pm, followed downstate Illinois, crops are Bagelfest was started 17 years by the entertainment for the looking distressed by the lack of ago by the Lender’s Bagel night. rainfall but it will take a few Company to introduce their Bright and early Saturday more weeks to determine the product and corporation to the morning is the Run for the damage caused by the drought. area. It has now become a three- Bagel at 7:30am at the YMCA. Dalias Price, the local weather day event that features activities Starting at 8am, there will be observer, said that temperatures and entertainment for all ages. the Opening Ceremonies for have been warmer than usual. This year’s events will feature the “Largest Bagel Breakfast in Temperatures have risen Marty Stuart as the headline the World Carnival.” about 3 degrees Fahrenheit above entertainment on Saturday and The rest of the day’s events the average temperature. Cyndi Thompson will be the will include various bands, a Price said this rise in temper- feature performer on Friday. softball tournament, queen con- ature is “pretty significant.” Thursday is when the fun test and talent competition. The Nighttime temperatures have starts featuring a Bagel Bonnet entertainment for the night lasts been cooler than last summer Contest at 2pm sponsored by from 8-11pm in the beer tent. Photo courtsey of www.mattoonillinois.org/bagelfest without any rainfall since June Pacesetters Beauty Salon. There General admission for the A young girl bites into a her bagel at last years Bagelfest. This years 16, 2002. The total rainfall for will also be carnival and food Stuart concert wil be $2 per Bagelfest will feature Marty Stuart as the headlining entertainment on the month of June was 2.9 inch- booths, plus a gospel music con- person. Saturday night at Peterson Park. es. During fall and spring, heavy rainfall was the norm in the Charleston area. As summer House advances O’Hare Regulatory group issues neared, the change in weather from heavy rainfall to a dry summer caused the drought, Price expansion measure safety goals for hospitals said. Price said that high tempera- takes office in January. Ryan is —Improving effectiveness of tures were are not the cause for WASHINGTON (AP) — not seeking re-election. CHICAGO (AP) — A hospi- communication between care- worry, but the lack of thunder- With House Speaker Dennis The next governor “has the tal regulatory agency on Tuesday givers. storms is a concern. He said that Hastert an active ally, supporters arbitrary veto power and (can) announced 11 mandatory patient —Improving safety of poten- the drought is “a real serious of expanding Chicago’s O’Hare chuck it out the window and say safety standards to reduce medical tially lethal medication. problem.” Farmers are worried International Airport won we’re going to keep the gridlock errors, including demanding better —Eliminating wrong-site and many crops are looking dis- House approval Tuesday of legis- in the Midwest in aviation,” said methods of correctly identifying surgeries. tressed. lation they say is crucial for their Lipinski, a Chicago Democrat. patients when giving blood tests or —Improving the safety of Many farmers are already pre- proposed $6 billion project. Under the House’s fast-track medication. using infusion pumps to adminis- dicting that the drought will hin- The House vote was 343-87 rules that limit debate and Implementing a process to ter intravenous medication. der crops and reduce yields, said in favor. amendments, the legislation mark body parts destined for —Improving the effectiveness Price. ‘I’m pleased we’ve cleared the requires a two-thirds majority to surgery and involving patients in of audible alarms signaling when a Crops planted early, particu- first hurdle to expanding the advance to the Senate, rather the process are also among the patient is in distress. larly corn crops, are doing con- capacity at O’Hare airport,” said than the simple majority typical- standards issued by the Joint Many of the standards are siderably well compared to crops Hastert, R-Ill, whose district ly required. Commission on Accreditation of already rules at hospitals nation- grown at a later date, said Jim includes part of Chicago’s sub- O’Hare supporters tried to Healthcare Organizations. wide, but the rules aren’t always Angel, a state climatologist at the urbs. “This is a necessary step use the special rules to their Starting in January, during followed, O’Leary said. Putting Illinois Water Survey. The water toward providing American trav- advantage on July 15 but were their routine visits to hospitals the group’s regulatory muscle reservoir in the soil has helped to elers relief from airport conges- shocked to come up short on a nationwide, investigators from the behind them should help reduce protect crops planted earlier this tion on the ground and in our 247-143 vote in favor of their accrediting group will check the error rate, he said. spring. The top two feet of soil skies.” bill. whether the standards are being Hospitals that lose accredita- have been the most affected by The measure would bar future That prompted congressional implemented or if other suitable tion risk also losing federal dollars. the drought, because that part of Illinois governors from blocking sponsors to huddle with Hastert patient safety methods are in The standards say doctors and the soil is the most susceptible the expansion agreed to last last Thursday to map out a strat- place. Hospitals that aren’t follow- nurses should use at least two to water depletion, said Angel. December by Chicago Mayor egy to bring it to a second House ing suitable safety practices could methods of identifying patients Price noted the worry and Richard Daley and Gov. George vote. risk losing their accreditation. when taking blood samples or said, “Farming is a gambling Ryan. State law gives the gover- Another O’Hare bill is pend- “We get about 450 (pre- administering medication. They industry.” nor power to block expansion. ing in the Senate. It has stronger ventable) adverse event reports a should also verbally conduct a final Angel said that it would Supporters argue O’Hare language that encourages Federal year, either deaths or permanent verification process to confirm the take a couple more weeks to see expansion will reduce airport Aviation Administration loss of function,” but that’s only a correct patient and procedure. the extent of actual damage delays by about 80 percent and approval of a regional airport fraction of suspected medical Concentrated solutions of that the drought has caused. generate 195,000 jobs. Critics south of Chicago near Peotone. errors nationwide, said Dr. Dennis potentially deadly medication He said that the long-term counter it will create environ- Ryan supports passage of the O’Leary, president of the group, such as potassium chloride, used impact may not be so great, but mental and safety problems and House bill as a way to move leg- which accredits nearly 5,000 hos- to treat conditions including kid- the next few weeks could that the legislation is unconstitu- islation that might be amended pitals nationwide. ney disease, should be stored in change that. tional federal interference in a later but prefers the Senate ver- “We have to do everything we hospital pharmacies, not patient Angel predicted that there state matter. sion — sponsored by Sen. Dick can ... to get organizations to care units. Such medication would be no immediate relief to “This bill seeks to sidestep the Durbin, D-Ill. — because of its reduce the error rate,” he said. requires being carefully diluted cure the drought, but said, “The (Illinois) Legislature and have stronger Peotone language, The standards stem in part and measured but can be lethal if weather always surprises me.” Washington decide a local issue,” spokesman Dennis Culloton from an Institute of Medicine given full-strength, O’Leary And the weather did surprise said GOP Rep. Henry Hyde, a said. report in 1999 saying that medical said. Angel last night. With the leading expansion opponent Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., a errors contribute to more than 1 Intravenous infusion pumps heavy downpour that whose suburban Chicago district Chicago Democrat who supports million injuries and up to 98,000 should have a device that pre- Charleston received, crops were includes O’Hare. “This is a mas- the Peotone plan, objected to the deaths annually. vents too much medication from possibly damaged even more by sive transfer of power to House debate’s limit on amend- The standards are the group’s flowing freely into a patient’s the strong winds and pounding Congress.” ments that prevented him from first spelling out of specific aims bloodstream. Most lacking the rain. But if the crops can come Sponsoring Rep. William pushing for language similar to for patient safety. They list six devices are being discarded, but through, the rain would be sure Lipinski said the measure was the Senate bill. goals: some are still in use, he said. to help their growth. necessary because, without it, “Even if you agree with the —Improving the accuracy of O’Hare’s plans could be substance, you should be against patient identification. destroyed after the next governor the process,” he said. See HOSPITAL Page 3 See WEATHER Page 3 2 Wednesday, July 24, 2002 NewsThe Daily Eastern News ETheastern Daily Campus News forecast

The Daily Eastern News is published daily, Monday today through Friday, in Charleston, Ill., during fall and spring semesters and twice weekly during the summer term except during school 82û vacations or examinations, by the students of Eastern Illinois University. Subscription price: $38 per semes- 59û ter, $16 for summer only, $68 all year. The Daily Eastern News is a partly member of The Associated Press, which is entitled to exclusive use of all articles cloudy appearing in this paper. The editorials on Page 4 represent the majority opinion of the editorial board; all other opinion pieces are signed. The Daily Eastern News editorial and Thursday business offices are located in Buzzard Hall, Eastern Illinois University. Periodical postage paid at Charleston, IL 87û Geoff Wagner/ Photo editor 61920. ISSN 0894-1599. 68û Printed by Eastern Illinois University, Scouting Schools Charleston, IL 61920. Jonathan Wohlwend and Betty Wohlwend of Schaumburg talk with Assistant Director of Admissions Rita Postmaster: Send address changes to sunny The Daily Eastern News Pearson about transferring class credits to Eastern. Eastern’s open house, which took place last Friday, Buzzard Hall hosted tables from all department majors for potential students to visit and question professors about Eastern Illinois University what Eastern has to offer. Charleston, IL 61920. Friday Summer News Staff 89û Editor in chief...... Benjamin Tully* News editor ...... Benjamin Tully* Five Chicago dams to be removed Administration editor...... open 68û Photo editor...... Geoff Wagner* Campus editor...... Felicia Martinez* CHICAGO (AP) — Five cated process that involves vari- is the YWCA Dam on Brewster rain, Sports editor...... Erik Hall Chicago-area dams have been ous groups and includes the pub- Creek, a Fox tributary. The pro- Verge editor...... Matt Rennels storms Asst. design & graphics manager...Wendy Winet targeted for removal in the com- lic in the decision-making ject will cost $88,700. Sales manager...... Wendy Winet ing months, a series of efforts process.” This winter, work will begin Promotions manager...... Wendy Winet aimed at everything from fish The first of the removals will on the removal of the Hoffman Business manager...... Betsy Mellott Saturday Assistant business manager...... Amanda Payne health to boater safety to flood begin in September at the Batavia Dam, the largest dam on the Des Student business manager...... Luke Kramer control. Dam on the Fox River. Its Plaines River. The structure has 89û Editorial adviser and Each dam removal is the result removal will make the water been blamed for several deaths Publications adviser ...... John Ryan Press supervisor...... Johnny Bough of lengthy study and planning, above the dam more fish-friendly because water below it churns up 70û Subscriptions manager...... Valerie Jany said Steve Pescitelli, a stream by creating islands and allowing a powerful “keeper wave” that biologist with the Illinois for shallow, fast-moving water, causes boats to turn over. rain, Department of Natural said John Duerr, who heads the Also set for removal this win- storms Night staff/summer Resources, adding that the sched- Kane County Forest Preserve ter are the Armitage Avenue Layout chief...... Erica Foltz uling of five projects around the District. Dam, the next dam upstream same time is coincidental. The cost of the project will be from the Hoffman, and the Sunday News layout...... Geoff Wagner “The whole idea or movement between $750,000 and $1 mil- Fairbanks Road Dam, the next toward dam removal has been lion. It will be funded by the one downstream. All three block 91û kind of building over the last five Empress Casino, which is paying the movement of fish and boaters. Sports layout...... Erik Hall years in the nation and in $500,000 a year for 12 years The combined cost of removing 70û Illinois,” Pescitelli said. “It just because its gangway crosses a them is $2.5 million to $3 million happens that five are coming to forest preserve district bike path. with money from county, state rain, Photo night editor...... Geoff Wagner fruition at this time. It’s a compli- Set for removal in the late fall and federal sources. storms

Copy editors...... Ryan Navel ...... Jennifer Stoltz Abducted Philadelphia Anti-smoking pills Sports copy editor...... Ryan Navel girl found alive,unharmed also work for blacks News night editor ...... Erica Foltz PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 7- unless he received a $150,000 ran- CHICAGO (AP) — Anti-smoking American Medical Association. Verge editor...... Matt Rennels year-old girl who authorities said som, police said. pills that have helped some whites Zyban maker GlaxoSmithKline had been abducted from in front of During one of the calls, shortly kick the habit also work for blacks, provided the pills, but funding for her home was found Tuesday before midnight, police said the who suffer disproportionately from the study came from the National To reach us night, nearly 24 hours after her kidnappers put Erica on the phone the effects of smoking, a study sug- Cancer Institute. By foot: The Daily Eastern News disappearance, and appeared to be and allowed her to speak briefly gests. Expanding access to such med- is located in the south end of unharmed, police said. with her grandmother. Zyban, an anti-depressant ication through programs such as Buzzard Hall, which is at Seventh Sgt. Keith Brown said the girl, Earlier Tuesday, police had said known generically as bupropion Medicare and Medicaid “may be a Street and Garfield Avenue next to Erica Pratt, was with police they were seeking to question two and approved for helping people wise investment to reduce some of the Tarble Arts Center and across Tuesday night. Brown said she men who know the girl’s family. It stop smoking, was more effective the health disparities that exist in the street from the Life Science had been found at a home in the wasn’t immediately clear late than a dummy pill in the study of the United States,” said the Building. city but that he had few other Tuesday if authorities were still 600 adult black smokers. researchers, led by Dr. Jasjit details. searching for the men. Researchers at University of Ahluwalia. By phone: (217) 581-2812 Erica was playing with her 5- Residents said many adults in Kansas said the findings are signif- Black men are at least 50 per- By fax: (217) 581-2923 year-old sister in front of their the neighborhood were down the icant because blacks have higher cent more likely than white men to grandmother’s rowhouse Monday street at a block party at the time rates of smoking-related disease get lung cancer, and they have a By mail: evening when two men drove up, of the abduction. The area is pock- and deaths than whites. higher lung cancer death rate — The Daily Eastern News called her by name and dragged marked with abandoned buildings After seven weeks of treatment, 100.8 deaths per 100,000 compared Buzzard Hall her into their car as she screamed and roamed at night by drug deal- 36 percent of Zyban users had quit with 70.1 per 100,000 for white Eastern Illinois University and resisted, police said. ers. compared with 19 percent of the men, according to government Charleston, IL 61920 Less than 20 minutes later, Erica’s mother, Serena Gillis, placebo group. Both groups also data. Also, blacks tend to smoke Erica’s grandmother received the had pleaded for her safe return. By e-mail: participated in eight sessions led by cigarette brands with higher levels first of at least six calls from a man “Do not harm her,” Gillis said. black counselors. of tar and nicotine. Editor in chief Ben Tully who threatened to kill the girl “She’s just beginning her life.” [email protected] Quit rates dropped after partici- In an accompanying editorial, News editor Erica Foltz pants used up their seven-week Dr. Neal Benowitz of the [email protected] A supply of pills, but at 26 weeks University of California at San Campus editor Felicia Martinez V E T S rates were still higher among Francisco called the results promis- [email protected] D I E Zyban users, 21 percent versus ing but said they probably cannot Verge editor Matt Rennels R 13.7 percent. be applied to all black smokers. [email protected] The quit rates at 26 weeks were The use of black counselors and slightly lower than rates found in ethnically sensitive counseling two studies of mostly white smok- materials probably contributed sig- IN THE ers — 27 percent and 35 percent. nificantly to the results and are DDEENN The study appears in resources not available to many Wednesday’s Journal of the smokers, he said. Wednesday, July 24, 2002 3 NewsThe Daily Eastern News

become common, Price said. Weather The highest temperature reached this summer was 98 from Page 1 Fahrenheit on July 9, 2002. The hottest temperature ever recorded in the Charleston area was 110 Temperatures have remained on July 15, 1936 with the Illinois quite steady this summer with no state’s temperature reaching 115. record heat waves so far. In that year, the months of June Temperatures are expected to and July had consecutive days rise to 90 degrees and eventually, of 100 and over temperatures. 100 degree temperatures could

Still, he said, they are only a Hospital starting point. “These are the minimum,” from Page 1 Barach said. “These are not the maximum we can do.” Hospitals need to improve Finally, he said, hospitals their reporting systems to should routinely make sure include close-call incidents, he alarms such as those on heart said. Barach also wants to see monitors really work. Too often, more training through simulation the alarms sound when there’s no and a shift in training and cre- emergency and hospital workers dentialing from individuals to risk ignoring them when there’s teams. Geoff Wagner/ Photo editor a true crisis, O’Leary said. “I think this is an interim The new standards are neces- process and it’s evolving,” Marching the band sary, argued Dr. Paul Barach, an Barach said. “I think we need to Kelly Bergren, a junior at Elmwood Park High School in Elmwood, Ill. oversees the Elmwood Park High assistant professor at the be prepared for the constant School band as they practice marching drills. The band is having its camp on Eastern’s campus this sum- University of Chicago Hospitals’ updating of these. Nothing here mer to practice and improve their performing skills. Center for Patient Safety. is fixed in stone.” Pope arrives in Canada for week of World Youth Day festivities John Paul thanked Toronto for welcoming who say the journey may be too much. While from 170 countries for activities that include TORONTO (AP) — With tens of thou- the nearly 200,000 pilgrims registered for concerned about John Paul’s health, those catechism classes with bishops, social service, sands of young Catholic pilgrims waiting, World Youth Day, calling the event crucial for close to him say he is energized by the annual a welcoming ceremony with the pope, re- Pope John Paul II arrived Tuesday for a week preserving hope in the young. gathering of Catholic youth, whom he consid- enacting the stations of the cross along a of World Youth Day festivities with those he “Too many lives begin and end without ers “the future and hope of the Church and downtown boulevard, and an all-night vigil calls the future of his church. joy, without hope,” he said. ... Young people humanity.” followed by the final Mass on Sunday. The frail pope, making his 97th foreign trip are coming together to commit themselves, in This year’s World Youth Day comes at a Canadians who saw the pope during his as the most-traveled pontiff in history, began the strength of their faith in Jesus Christ, to the time of conflict around the world, from the last major visit, in 1984, will see a vastly dif- his 11-day journey that proceeds to great cause of peace and human solidarity.” Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States ferent man this time. He suffers from the Guatemala and Mexico with a show of deter- A line of people then greeted the pope, and subsequent war in Afghanistan to contin- symptoms of Parkinson’s disease — slurred mination — he walked down the stairs from including 21-year-old Timothy Pippy of uing strife in the Middle East. The Catholic speech and trembling hands — and hip and the Alitalia MD-11 jet instead of riding a lift Mississauga, Ontario, disabled by a crippling church also faces sex scandals in the United knee ailments that make it difficult for him to as in recent trips. syndrome but still able to kiss the pontiff’s States. stand or walk. Bareheaded after a stiff wind blew off his ring. John Paul, though, seems undeterred by John Paul will spend his first three days in skull cap, John Paul waved to the crowd of “My son received a papal blessing and the the likelihood it will be the most lightly Canada on Strawberry Island to rest and get dignitaries before starting to descend, one step holy father touched his cheek. I think I can attended World Youth Day since he initiated over his jet lag. A golf cart will drive him at a time, with the help of a cane in his right live out my days on that,” said Pippy’s moth- the event in the mid-1980s. Millions attended around the 40-acre (16-hecare) island, and hand and an aide holding his left arm. the city. er, Linda. similar events in the past in Rome, Paris and organizers say he might take a boat ride. Prime Minister Jean Chretien and other After the ceremony, John Paul boarded a Manila, Philippines, compared to the 200,000 His first World Youth Day event is at a Canadian and church dignitaries greeted the helicopter and headed for a few days’ rest at a registered so far for the one in Toronto. welcoming ceremony Thursday in downtown pope at the bottom, and he climbed a moving Catholic retreat on remote Strawberry Island Vatican Radio acknowledged Monday that Toronto. He meets privately with Chretien platform to ride to the welcoming ceremony in Lake Simcoe, 50 miles north of the city. this year’s low attendance is attributed partly and other political figures on Saturday before in a hangar a few hundred yards away. In the streets of Toronto, flag-waving, to the uncertainties of travel after the Sept. 11 joining the pilgrims at their nighttime vigil In opening remarks delivered in English chanting bands of pilgrims visited the Lake terror attacks and the sex abuse scandals that north of the city. The Sunday Mass is at the and French, John Paul note Canada’s Ontario waterfront and other tourist sites have shaken the American church since same site. Christian roots from the first French settlers in before heading to the Exhibition Place fair- January. Police promise heightened but unobtrusive the 16th century as a bedrock of its humani- grounds to watch the airport arrival on a large World Youth Day activities started security, with thousands of officers from tarian values today. screen. Tuesday with pilgrims arriving by plane, train, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Toronto “The core of your heritage is the spiritual Preparations that began two years ago automobile and on foot. city force on duty. and transcendent vision of life based on were nearly completed Monday. A 160-foot “It’s amazing to be with youths who don’t Groups calling for church reform and Christian revelation which gave vital impetus cross towers over the site of the final Mass, speak your language, even though they share stronger church action against sexual abuse by to your development as a free, democratic and near a field hospital covering nearly 2 1/2 the same faith,” said Geoffrey Bilovus of priests are holding an alternative conference caring society, recognized throughout the square miles. Montreal, whose family hosted Romanian to raise issues such as women priests, repro- world as a champion of human rights and Frail and stooped, the 82-year-old pontiff visitors over the weekend. ductive health and the response to the sex human dignity,” he said. departed Rome against the advice of aides The pilgrims, aged 16 to 35, are coming scandals. When Location Matters... 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The only time that the show Now in the past year, MTV has MTV not come up is remotely good is when a expanded its horizons to include with anything totally obnoxious, rude guy is page shows like Flipped, Diary, set up with the princess-like, that is actually Taildaters, and even Sorority spoiled brat girl. That makes Life. Can the people at MTV Erica Foltz interesting?” for some interesting verbal Wednesday, July 24, 2002 not come up with anything that Columnist fighting and comebacks and the is acually interesting? ever mounting awkward I still somehow find myself silence. Page 4 tuning in every Monday night at 9:30pm for Sorority Life. I My favorite reality show of all on MTV has to be The don’t watch do to interest though, I watch because of the Real World. As much as I try to protest it and get away laughter factor. I always find myself laughing at how much from it, I keep getting sucked in. It is pretty sad for me to the “sisters of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi” worry about what say that I did not miss one episode. The same elements per- this pledge is dancing like or where that pledge was at two tained to the Chicago season as did every season since the Moving Takes in the morning. first that took place in New York. There is always the clas- The rules alone are enough to get anyone watching irri- sic hook-up element. And who can forget the fighting tated. One rule states that no boys can be in the house after roommates element. My favorite one of all though that has 11pm. Are we ten-year-olds here or what? No, they are just just popped up within the last five or so seasons has to be preparation under the control of people who believe that image is the one guy bringing a big group of girls home. everything. It never fails that there is one guy who will bring home a Everything is always hush-hush and the behind-the-back group of girls and then the rest of the roommates will gripe as well. If there is a problem within the sorority, it always about people invading their house and that the girls are all If you have been here all summer, you are probably ready up to the pledgemaster to deal with it. The other people just bimbos. to pack it in and relax for a while. cannot suck it up and confront the person themselves. No matter what city the shows take place in or what the If you are moving you should keep in mind a few tips to Better yet though, there is also Road Rules to fill in as show actually invloves, MTV has found a way to bring in make sure you will receive your security deposit. another original MTV reality show. I wonder who came up the viewers with their shows. Its just too bad that the target- The best thing to do is get an early start on packing and with the great idea to throw six people in a Winnebago and ed audience for the shows usually averages in the 12-16 age cleaning you’re apartment. make them drive around doing misions. At least in the last range. If you’re thinking you can get everything packed and couple seasons MTV decided that if a mission was failed, a Is it just me or is there something wrong with this pic- moved in one day you’re kidding yourself. player would be voted off. There’s only one problem with ture? I guess using the same old elements over and over has For instance, if you have an August, 1 move–out date you this season, THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANYBODY to work for a least a few more years. should start cleaning your house or apartment now. KICKED OFF YET!!!!! The only thing close to interesting on the show is how There is nothing worse than having the move date come four of the Road Rulers have hooked up already. But then Erica Foltz is a Physical Education with Teacher Certification about and to be looking down at a floor full of clothes and there is Shane, who pouts constantly because there is not major and a columnist for The Daily Eastern News. Her e-mail disheveled papers. somebody on the show for him to hook up with. And who address is [email protected] Columns are the opinion of the About the money Think of it as a race can forget fun, loveable Sarah who wimps out or just plain author. Cleaning your former home against time, you want as much properly can help garuntee done prior to the move that you a returned security can before you wake up on moving day. deposit. Get everything packed War on the streets: cars vs. feet and moved into one room to leave the other rooms cleared By Bianca Robinson-Daily Illini are more cars than ever on campus. for extensive cleaning. Guest View Doesn't that say some- Everything in the apartment or house should be cleaned. raffic. This word has recently thing? Start in the kitchen, cleaning everything from the inside of become synonymous with It should say that people like using It's enough to make a driver just the refrigerator and stove to the counter tops and sink. construction. And this sum- them. want to run people right over. Make sure the bathroom tiles are cleaned and the shower mertime construction is tak- Even with the rise of gas prices, T But we never do. Not because it's and sink. ing its toll on all of us — pedestrians we still drive our cars. Nothing is illegal, but out of courtesy. Perhaps if The intent is not to be some anal-retentive clean freak, it and drivers alike. stopping us. And why should we we can do the right thing and be is mainly an issue of the almighty dollar. But this isn't about the construc- park our cars farther from campus? courteous, pedestrians can do the Next, you should by a small can of paint that matches tion. It's about this new stressful rela- We still have to pay outrageous fees same. your apartment as best you can. tionship we pedestrians and drivers for passes or the meters or face hav- I won't place all the blame on the Try bringing a small chip of the wall to the hardware have. ing our cars towed and ticketed. pedestrians. If only the University store so they can make the best match possible. I am not a pedestrian. Sure I have The Green Street businesses are could come up with some type of sys- By a small tub of instant plaster and fill in any wholes in to walk from my car to the buildings suffering and were right to worry tem to direct traffic so drivers and the wall. to get to my classes, but that is the about the effect of the construction pedestrians (and bikers) could all co- Clean all the walls down and paint the scuffs that won’t extent of my walking. I will drive on their establishments. exist peacefully. Oh, I forgot, "walk" come out. around a block 62 times, or at least for I don't care how many signs I see and "don't walk" signals have already Also, get your roommates to contribute to renting a rug half an hour, until I find a parking that say "All Campustown been invented. cleaner from the hardware store and clean your carpets. space close enough to my destination. Businesses Are Open." I don't want And I should let the cat out of the This could cost a total of $50, but it’s better than losing Call it lazy, but it comes in handy. to walk through all the dust and dirt. bag and say the corner of Wright and hundreds as a result of not cleaning at all. When the thunderstorms roll in By having a car, I don't have to deal Chalmers is a bad idea. Two opposite Most landlords will tell you that people who don’t clean and everyone else has to walk around with the allergies and dirty clothes. lanes of traffic turning onto one street their apartments when they move out don’t get their security with water sloshing in their sandals, I Not to mention all the machinery where one has a stop sign and the deposits back. am only a few feet from my nice, dry that's around. If those men and other doesn't is ridiculous and con- car. women have to wear hard hats and fusing. But, as a driver, I've noticed some- what not, why should I go through When exactly are the pedestrians thing. People (pedestrians) have lost unprotected? Today’s quote supposed to pedester? (Pedester is an their minds. They cross streets in the The answer is that I shouldn't have actual word). They usually have to middle of the block. They cross at the to. I could just go on Prospect or stop in the middle of the street to intersections whenever they please. someplace else. accommodate both lanes of traffic. “ And this is with no regard for the It was hard enough for me to shop Land is immortal for it harbors the mysteries of It's even worse when groups try car that may not have a stop sign. in Campustown before because of the crossing all at once — lingering creation. Sometimes, there is even a continuous lack of convenient parking; it's pretty together in the center lane, waiting Anwar al–Sadat 1918–1981 stream of people flowing through the much impossible for me to do it now. for a chance to go. streets, as if the cars don't belong I really feel sorry for the businesses Maybe I'm the only person to notice there. and hope they make it through. this. If you're a pedestrian who didn't Actually, I hope we all make it, I know the University says a more realize this was a problem, then now because right now it's nuts. pedestrian-friendly campus is better you do. For drivers, all the different And the little smiley face on the for everyone and that it's what we all street closings and changes of direc- signs don't help, it's almost like they're want. tions and parking meters that cannot laughing at us. It's only a matter of Well, I don't and it's not better for The editorial is the majority opinion of The Daily Eastern News accommodate four-hour classes are time before we see who gets the last ” me. And the truth is that now there editorial board. annoying enough. laugh.

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Send letters to the editor via e-mail to [email protected] Wednesday, July 24, 2002 On The Verge of the weekend 5 Climbing up the vines, German artist displays his work in Chicago reaching for the rock!! Elisabeth Sun Filling staff writer Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, You Germany. He studied art from ‘51-’56 at the Academy of Fine In Arts in Dresden and left East Germany in ‘61 for the with West. He continued studying at the Institute of Art is Duesseldorf from ‘61 until ‘63. Matt Rennels The Institure of Art in Chicago is currently exhibit- ing his works, about 200, which just arrived from the Metropolitan Museum from New York City. Most of his paintings are black, white and grey and Where’s my rock and roll? have come close to the top of the remind me of photographs, therefore his style is called A question that I ask every sum- charts, although they all maintain ‘photo realism’, because the works resemble photos. mer might finally have an answer steady rides at the lower half of the In the first moment, they seem like blurry pictures, thanks to summers and summers charts. where the photographer did not focus, but they are where rock and roll is almost Each time one of these true rock actually painted. His ideasderive from snapshot photo entirely absent. and roll bands break into the main- albums, but he also did abstract paintings. So, what is rock and roll to me? stream they widen the door that The tall paintings portray his unique style of differ- It’s that kid at the Kid Rock show, much more. ent layers of paint and scraping. Some of his art can be pumping metal in the air to the For the past few weeks a hard seen as “German Pop Art” and he is one of the most spectacle of strippers and midgets, rocking Aussie band called The influential artists in avantgarde. as he mouths the words of Vines has had a video directed by The ‘48 Portraits’, which are in black and white dis- ‘Bawitdaba’ like it were the Pledge Roman Coppola in rotation as playing philosophers, writers or scientists but no politi- of Allegiance. much as Ja Rule or Pink. Their cians, were very impressive. They even borrowed from No, not really. To me rock and debut album with the Nirvana- my hometown Cologne in the modern art ‘Museum roll is the music that you feel puls- esque first single ‘Get Free’ is hit- Ludwig’. A painting of his daughter Betty, who is lying Go ahead and give it a lot of thought what these ing deep inside you, burning to get ting stores this week. on the floor, is one of my favorite ones. candles are portraying... out. Nevermind what the girls in I’m looking forward to seeing This exhibition will be in Chicago until September photo courtesy of Elisabeth Sun the front row want to hear, you’re how it charts. As I mentioned none 18 on North Michigan Avenue and will move to the going to play what you want - that’s of these rock acts have really hit the Auditorium: Art and the Nazi past in Postwar West Museum of Modern Art in San Fransisco and then to Germany. The other one will be August 21, Art and rock and roll. charts too hard, they have all Washington D.C. Is there any band that fits this seeped into their success. So will Critic with him will be Benjamin Buchloh in the There will also be two lectures with him on August Morton Auditorium. rock criteria in the mainstream The Vines hit the top of the charts? 2 at DePaul University with Adolf Eichman in the Price that’ll make the cut on your baby If they do will that mean they are sister’s ‘NOW 12’ compilation? better than their predecessors who There has been a recent surge in widened their door? Alt rock act Wilco has film made narrat- retro rock as bands such as The Good music is finally filitrating Strokes and the White Stripes have into the mainstream. Whether it’s ing their struggle to release record been filling radio station’s playlists. like Fred Durst trying to hide his NEW YORK (AP) — First-time director Sam Jones David Fricke of Rolling Stone magazine, whom In the latter half of last year the acne or Ted Williams putting on a thought he was making a film about the rock band Jones said became the conscience of the film, says Big Apple’s Strokes posted a buzz sweater, it is finally inevitable. Wilco’s music. Wilco just figured they were making an Reprise’s decision illustrates how record companies are that knocked on the music indus- All the rock and roll industry album. increasingly blind to artistic quality in their quest for try’s door begging for more rock needs is another Nirvana or Kurt What they ended up with was a tale that speaks to profits. and roll. Cobain to open the floodgates since both the squalid state of the recording industry and the Yet Reprise actually does Wilco a giant favor by And the music world has lis- the door was previously only ultimately redemptive power of music. releasing the band from its contract while letting it keep tened. The door has been entered cracked open. The film, named after the Wilco song “I Am Trying the album to sell to someone else. by Swedish punk act The Hives and Will The Vines be this band? I to Break Your Heart,” follows the making of the album Ironically, Wilco was signed and “Yankee Hotel The White Stripes creeped in with a don’t think so. But it’s likely they “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,” a brittle, emotionally edgy Foxtrot” was released by Nonesuch Records, a corpo- catchy two minute song on top of a will at least bridge the gap between departure from the alt-country of Wilco’s previous rate cousin of Reprise in AOL Time Warner’s music snazzy Lego video. indy rock and mainstream radio. work. The band’s record company rejected the album division. So the same company paid for the record These bands certainly aren’t So, like a Scorpion, they all are as uncommercial, but critics raved when it was released twice. smashing a whole through the gonna rock you like a hurricane. in April and it is about to become Wilco’s biggest-sell- The standoff arguably helped both Wilco and Jones industry’s wall as none of them ing record ever. more than it hurt. Sounds like a perfect movie plot, eh? Before the album’s release, Wilco acted contrary to “I certainly couldn’t look into a crystal ball and find music business wisdom by making the album available Upcoming Releases: all the stuff that was going to happen,” Jones said. to fans for free on its Web site. Ultimately, it seems His initial goal was to document the creative those fans — and more — also bought the disc when it process of a quality rock band during its most fertile became available. Tuesday, July 23 period. Wilco was a good match, particularly since they “It hurt when they said they didn’t like our record,” weren’t so popular that their fame would be an obsta- Tweedy said. “But we went out on tour and nobody cle. canceled our shows. Our tour was basically sold out. Boyz II Men - ‘Full Circle’ (Arista) Wilco agreed to participate largely because leader People came to the shows and sang all of the songs, and Jeff Tweedy believes in doing as much as possible to not one of them had to pay a penny for it. That felt disrupt the typical recording process. The effort to feed good, actually.” O-Town - ‘O2’ (J) creativity by taking musicians out of their comfort zone It also helped build the album’s legend. When it is apparent simply from the sound of “Yankee Hotel eventually came out, critics already predisposed to lik- Public Enemy - ‘Revolverlution’ Foxtrot,” Wilco’s fourth album. ing Wilco’s music had another reason to support it — At one point in the movie, Tweedy urges his col- to strike a blow for art over commerce. leagues to take chances with his songs. “There’s no rea- Rolling Stone called it a masterpiece. The album Tuesday, July 30 son at all not to destroy it,” he says. “We made it. It’s debuted at No. 13 in Billboard, Wilco’s highest chart ours to destroy.” position ever. The band speaks, with naivete in retrospect, about “I never thought that we were soldiers for some Bone Thugs N’ Harmony - ‘Thug World Order’ how Reprise Records trusted them to follow their cause or felt interested in advancing the idea of us (Ruthless) muse. being some integrity-filled noble warriors or the vic- During recording sessions, tensions between tims of some cruel, cold situation,” Tweedy said. Tweedy and bandmate Jay Bennett rise to the point “Part of it is because we ended up in a situation Def Leppard - ‘X’ (Island) where Bennett leaves the band. In a passage reminis- much better than the one we were in,” he said. “Also, cent of the Beatles’ “Let it Be” movie, the film shows we never were fearful of not having a record deal. The an agonizingly elliptical argument between the two most upsetting thing during the process was knowing Filter - ‘ The Amalyamut’ (Reprise) men that ends with Tweedy leaving the room to vomit. that somebody hated our record, just on a visceral When Reprise rejected the finished album, Wilco level.” Linkin Park - ‘Reanimation’ (Warner Bros) refused to change it. Tweedy said in a later interview While it wasn’t the story he was originally interest- that he never doubted the work. ed in telling, Jones said the album’s saga may bring the “I knew that I felt better about it than any record film a wider audience. Silverchair - ‘Diorama’ (Atlantic) we’ve ever made,” he said. “We were excited and sur- The attention has made it easier for him to distribute prised by our record. It was a real gut, intuitive feeling the film. Wilco appeared this month at a party to cele- that this was something really good.” brate its release. Nobody from Reprise talked to Jones about its deci- Without the struggle over the album’s release, sion. Although the filmmaker tries to play it safe, that “there probably would have been more footage of us makes it easy for the record company to fall into the making a record, and it probably wouldn’t have been as role of villain during the movie. interesting,” Tweedy said. “Who knows?” 6 Classifiedadvertising Wednesday, July 24, 2002 The Daily Eastern News

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CLEVELAND (AP) — Danys Baez Posada went down in a heap and laid three home runs lost his shutout bid in the ninth inning Tuesday sprawled out in the dirt near home plate as night, but led the Cleveland Indians to a 9-3 Pettitte fielded Bradley’s slow tapper and — By JAY LINDSAY Chicago White Sox on June 26, win over the New York Yankees, who also lost unaware that his catcher was hurt — made a Associated Press Writer 1999. All-Star catcher Jorge Posada to a freak injury. desperate backhand throw home. Johnny Damon led off Baez (8-7) was three outs away from Posada remained motionless on the BOSTON (AP) — with a home run off Tanyon his first career shutout and complete game ground as two runs scored on the play and Nomar Garciaparra homered Sturtze, Lou Merloni singled and when the Yankees scored three times. Pettitte was charged with a throwing error. three times on his 29th birthday, Garciaparra homered over the Posada was cut on the left ear when Yankees trainer Steve Donohue, man- connecting twice in a 10-run third Green Monster, connecting on a struck by Milton Bradley’s backswing in the ager Joe Torre and several of Posada’s team- inning and then hitting a grand 3-0 pitch. fifth inning. Posada, who didn’t lose conscious- mates rushed to his aid. slam in the fourth inning of Manny Ramirez home- ness, was taken to Fairview Hospital for stitch- When he was rolled onto his back, Boston’s game against Tampa Bay red just inside the right-field foul es. Posada had blood trickling from the cut on his on Tuesday. pole, Trot Nixon hit a two-run In the seventh inning, Bradley, this ear. He was helped to the Yankees dugout and It was the second three- double for a 6-4 lead, Doug time batting left-handed, also conked substi- replaced by Widger. homer game for Garciaparra, who Mirabelli hit an RBI double and tute catcher Chris Widger on the helmet with The Indians went ahead 9-0 in the had eight RBIs. He also did it Damon chased Sturtze with a his bat. Widger was uninjured. eighth on Gutierrez’s two-run single and sec- against Seattle on May 10, 1999. run-scoring single that made it 8- Ricky Gutierrez went 4-for-5 with two ond baseman Alfonso Soriano’s throwing error. He became the first major league 4. RBIs and rookie Earl Snyder drove in two runs Snyder’s two-run single helped the player to homer three times on his Brandon Backe relieved for the Indians, who chased Andy Pettitte (4-4) Indians open a 3-0 lead in the first off Pettitte. birthday, according to the Elias and retired Lou Merloni on a after five innings. Snyder came in with a .179 average. Sports Bureau, baseball’s statisti- popup. Garciaparra followed with Baez limited the AL’s best-hitting team Notes:: Gutierrez is batting .382 (34- cian. another two-run homer over the to six hits in eight-plus innings. He walked for-87) in his last 23 games. ... SS Omar Garciaparra became the Green Monster, hitting the first one, struck out four and pitched into the ninth Vizquel took a hit away from Jason Giambi in third Red Sox player to homer pitch. for the first time in 20 career starts. the fourth with a diving stop on the outfield twice in one inning, the first since Garciaparra added his Baez is in his first season as a starter grass — near second. The Indians shifted three Ellis Burks against Cleveland on fourth career grand slam in the after pitching as a setup man during his rookie fielders to the right side for Giambi, who Aug. 27, 1990. Bill Regan also fourth, hitting a 2-2 pitch over the year. But he looked like a 10-year veteran while ripped a shot that Vizquel snagged. accomplished the feat, against Green Monster. It gave him 16 taming the Yankees, who came in leading the More Notes: Indians 1B Jim Thome Chicago on June 16, 1928. home runs this season. league in average, runs, homers, RBIs and was a late scratch from the starting lineup with In the opener of a day- The four homers allowed walks. back tightness. Thome has missed five games night doubleheader, Boston in one inning tied a Tampa Bay In his previous start, Baez drilled because of his back. ... Yankees closer Mariano trailed 4-0 going into the bottom record, set against Oakland on Minnesota’s Torii Hunter with a pitch only to Rivera will have a bullpen catch on Wednesday of the third. It was the 28th time Aug. 1, 1999. be hit in retaliation by the Twins center fielder. which could determine whether he goes on the the Red Sox reached double digits Garciaparra walked Pettitte, who allowed four earned runs DL. Rivera has a strained muscle in his shoul- in runs in an inning, the most in against Steve Kent in the sixth, on and nine hits, fell behind 5-0 in the fifth on the der. ... Indians broadcaster Mike Hegan worked the major leagues. Boston’s previ- a 3-1 pitch as the crowd booed. scary play that injured Posada. his first game since early June when he was ous inning of 10 or more runs was He flied out on the first pitch he With runners at second and third and hospitalized with pneumonia. an 11-run first against the was Travis Phelps in the eighth. Official Notices

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8 Sports Wrigley’s strong Lance Armstrong keeps wind does not lead in Tour de France LES DEUX-ALPES, France Provence region to this ski station acknowledged he had bluffed his (AP) — For Lance Armstrong, was the first in the Alps this year. rivals into thinking he was in diffi- stop Phillies win every second counts in the three- But it wasn’t as hard as the two ear- culty. week Tour de France. lier legs in the Pyrenees — both of Botero’s win was his second in CHICAGO (AP) — Even with Jeremy Giambi. Spanish rival Joseba Beloki sur- which Armstrong won — or the this Tour. He stunned Armstrong the wind gusting in at more than 20 David Coggin (2-2) pitched two prised him briefly in Tuesday’s 15th trek to the top of the Mont to win the ninth stage, an individual mph, the Chicago Cubs could not scoreless innings. Jose Mesa, who stage — the longest of the race at Ventoux, in which he extended his time trial. keep Scott Rolen inside the park. wasted a ninth-lead Monday, got 140.43 miles — by surging ahead in lead. However, Botero is notoriously Rolen hit a tiebreaking three- three outs for his 26th save in 33 the final stretch. Also, it was much easier than inconsistent. He finished a whop- run homer in the seventh inning, chances. Clement gave up six runs, Such a late challenge could only Wednesday’s stretch from Les ping 15 minutes off the pace in and the Philadelphia Phillies beat six hits and four walks in 6 2-3 have taken a few seconds off Deux-Alpes to La Plagne, which Sunday’s climb up the Ventoux, and Chicago 7-4 Tuesday to stop a five- innings. Armstrong’s big overall lead, but features three exceptionally difficult is seventh in the overall standings, game losing streak. Philadelphia starter Vincente even that was too much for the climbs. 11:31 behind Armstrong. With the score 4-all, Matt Padilla, 0-2 in five starts since June American. Armstrong prefers to be aggres- “Today (Tuesday) everything Clement (8-7) hit Pat Burrell with 24, allowed four runs and eight hits He gave chase and crossed the sive and attack in the harder stages, went perfectly, but I’m very disap- a pitch with two outs in the seventh in five innings. line just behind Beloki, clocking the in which rivals are less likely to pointed I lost so much time on my and gave up a single to Travis Lee. Fred McGriff homered and same time. His overall advantage of match his pace. At the Plateau de ’off ’ day,” Botero said. Rolen, the first batter to face doubled for the Cubs, who also got 4 minutes, 21 seconds over Beloki Beille in the Pyrenees and on the Belgian rider Mario Aerts was Kyle Farnsworth, sent a 3-2 pitch an RBI double from Sammy Sosa. was unchanged, and he remained Ventoux, the Texan left Beloki second on Tuesday, 1:51 behind through a strong wind at Wrigley Corey Patterson and Roosevelt on course for a fourth straight title. stranded as he sprinted to the sum- Botero, and countryman Axel Field into the left-field bleachers Brown each hit run-scoring singles. “Les Deux-Alpes, it’s not too mit. Merckx was third, 2:30 off the pace. for his 16th homer of the season. Abreu hit a two-run homer in hard, it’s not good for attacking,” The ride to La Plagne takes French rider Christophe “I got a fastball that I got on the the first, giving him home runs in Armstrong said after the stage, Armstrong over the Col de la Moreau dropped out after crashing barrel,” Rolen said. “He is throwing consecutive at-bats. which Colombian rider Santiago Madeleine mountain pass, which early in the stage and cutting his lip. hard enough where you can hit it McGriff ’s homer cut the lead in Botero won in 5:55:16. he tackled last year in one of his The Credit Agricole leader, who out there.” half in the second and Patterson, in Armstrong was ninth, 6:41 off biggest stage wins. Memorably, he placed fourth in the Tour two years “We won the game, that’s the a 3-for-31 slump coming in, tied it the pace. grimaced in apparent pain during ago, had a string of crashes in the bottom line,” he said. “Hopefully with his fourth-inning single. The mountain stage from that climb, then sprinted up the last first week and was 41st overall we’ll start putting some things Rollins had an RBI single in the Vaison-la-Romaine in the southern stretch to L’Alpe d’Huez. He later when he quit. together a little better in the second fifth, but Chicago went ahead 4-3 half.” in the bottom half on Sosa’s double Farnsworth offered no excuse. and a run-scoring single by Brown “It was a fastball and he hit it following an intentional walk to out” he said. “There’s nothing you McGriff. Many signings as NFL can really say about it. It was up and Jeremy Giambi, pinch hitting it went out.” for Padilla, tied it at 4 in the sixth Cubs interim manager Bruce with a two-out RBI single. Kimm pulled Clement after 119 Notes: Philadelphia RHP training camp draws pitches. Robert Person is expected to be “Clement was throwing the ball placed on the disabled list good, but I felt like I wanted a fresh Wednesday. He is scheduled to arm,” Kimm said. “Farnsworth was undergo an MRI exam on his right going to pitch the next inning no shoulder and elbow at the nearer to beginning matter what.” Rothman Institute of Jefferson By DAVE GOLDBERG The Lions also signed their sec- day of training camp. “It was a great at-bat by Rolen. Hospital in Philadelphia, He had AP Football Writer ond-round choice, linebacker First-rounders who signed earli- He was battling and happened to been on the DL early this season, Quarterback Joey Harrington Kalimba Edwards, the 35th overall er include tight end Daniel nail it,” he said. returning June 2. ... Sosa is 9-for-45 joined the Detroit Lions on pick. Graham of New England (the 21st Bobby Abreu hit a two-run since the All-Star break. ... It was Tuesday as the opening of training Peppers will play an important pick), defensive end Bryan Thomas homer in the first for the Phillies, Kermit the Frog Day at the ball- camps helped speed up contract role for Carolina, 1-15 last season of the New York Jets (22nd), and who also got RBI singles from park. talks for the top picks in April’s — he is expected to disrupt oppos- linebacker Napoleon Harris of Jimmy Rollins and pinch-hitter NFL draft. ing offenses. Oakland (23rd). Harrington, the third overall His 15 sacks at North Carolina Other rookies signing Tuesday pick, signed for about $36.5 million were one short of Lawrence Taylor’s included wide receiver Deion Strait named Illinois's over six years, according to a foot- school record. The Panthers’ new Branch, New England’s second- ball source who requested coach is John Fox, who was defen- round pick; fullback Verron Haynes anonymity. sive coordinator of the Giants last and defensive end Brett Keisel, state sports beat writer He practiced one day after the season when Michael Strahan set Pittsburgh’s fifth- and seventh- No. 2 selection — defensive end an NFL single-season record with round choices; and tight end Terry CHICAGO (AP) — The children-athletes.” Julius Peppers — agreed with the 22 1/2 sacks. Jones Jr., Baltimore’s fifth-round Associated Press in Illinois has cre- In his new position as Illinois Carolina Panthers on a seven-year, Most first-round draft picks pick. ated a new beat to focus on state State Sports beat writer, Strait will $50 million deal, including incen- wait until just before training camp Among other players agreeing sports, and Correspondent Jason be based in Chicago and will work tives. to sign and some will probably miss to terms Tuesday was running back Strait has been named to fill the with the AP’s two other Illinois That’s generally the way things a few days. Terry Allen, a free agent who’s with position. sportswriters to coordinate cover- go in the signing rush right when The top pick, quarterback David the New Orleans Saints for the sec- The announcement was made age of the beat and other sports sto- training camps open: Agents for Carr, signed with expansion ond time. He will back up Deuce Tuesday by James Reindl, chief of ries. high draft picks wait for earlier Houston the day he was chosen. McAllister. bureau in Chicago. Strait, 28, joined the AP in picks to sign and set the market. The 31st overall selection, line- The 34-year-old Allen also has “Sports editors and top editors Jefferson City, Mo., in 1998 and Harrington is expected to com- backer Robert Thomas, joined the played for Minnesota, Washington, at Illinois newspapers have long has worked for the AP in St. Louis pete with second-year quarterback St. Louis Rams on Tuesday, and the New England and Baltimore dur- expressed an appetite for deeper, and Chattanooga, Tenn. He was Mike McMahon for the starting San Francisco 49ers agreed to a ing a career that began in 1990 with richer coverage of sports below the named correspondent in job with the Lions, who finished 2- five-year, $6.4 million contract with the Vikings as a ninth-round draft professional and major college lev- Champaign, Ill., in August. 14 last season, the first for team defensive back Mike Rumph, who choice. He has overcome numerous els,” Reindl said. “This new beat A native of Clinton, Iowa, Strait president Matt Millen and coach was taken with the 27th pick. injuries to keep playing at an age will put a greater emphasis on col- earned a bachelor’s degree from the Marty Mornhingweg. But because Rumph signed in time to join when most running backs have leges, preps, and sports trends and University of Kansas. they drafted Harrington so high, his teammates for an afternoon long retired. issues that affect families and their the Lions clearly want him to win practice Tuesday at the University the job quickly. of the Pacific on the 49ers’ second Major League Baseball’s television schedule for Wednesday, July 24, 2002 from Eastern and Charleston 12 p.m. 6 p.m. 6 p.m. ESPN — Atlanta at Florida ESPN — Regional coverage, St. Louis at San ESPN2 — New York Yankees at Cleveland or Tampa Bay at 1:20 p.m. Francisco or Tampa Bay at Boston Boston WGN — Philadelphia at Chicago Cubs