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Eastern Illinois University The Keep June 2002 6-12-2002 Daily Eastern News: June 12, 2002 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2002_jun Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: June 12, 2002" (2002). June. 2. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2002_jun/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 2002 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in June by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. June 12, 2002 The Daily Vol. 86 No. 152 thedailyeasternnews.com Eastern“Tell the truth and don’tNews be afraid.” Presidential search delayed Jason Langenbahn “One big change to save money Administration Editor was to not send grades out in the mail and with online registration The presidential search will be the phone lines are not as tied up,” delayed for one year as Lou he said. Hencken receives a contract exten- Other changes included the sion the Board of Trustees decided closing of Pemberton dining hall Tuesday. which Hencken said costed three The BOT also made a deal with times as much as the other dining a vendor promising to save Eastern facilities to operate and turning the money. campus thermostat down during The Board of Trustees voted the unseasonably warm winter. Monday morn- “The heat was turned down to ing to renew 68 degrees in the winter,” Hencken Interim said. President Lou In other business, a recommen- Hencken’s con- dation for a copier contract, which tract to span would save money on supplies, two years. parts and maintenance on copy The machine expenditures, was passed. Photo by Geoff Wagner/Photo editor contract begins The BOT approved a $325,000 Lou Hencken on July 1, 2002, contract with Watts Copy Systems Rained out and runs until of Springfield, Illinois which will June 30, 2004.The search for a new begin on July 1 and continue until Two workers for the grounds department wait patiently for the rain to clear before resuming their work. Eastern president will resume in June 30, 2006. Several heavy thunderstorms rolled through Charleston Tues. afternoon causing flooding in many areas of 2003. “Contracts with food vendors the campus. “I’m very pleased with the terms has given us very reliable delivery of my new contract,” said service. A new copier contract with Hencken. Watts copy systems will let the uni- “I look forward to working with versity lease their copiers with Blood drive at Newman today the university and to continue to Watts doing all the maintenance By Erica Foltz today to be held in the Newman “The minimum level of blood move the university to further and supplying toner and repair News Editor Center from 1pm-5pm. and platelets on hand to assure ade- heights,” he said. parts,” Hencken said. There is currently a demand for quate availability is a three-day sup- Hencken has served as interim In other business, the BOT Newman Catholic Center is blood; 20 percent greater than the ply. Currently there is less than a president since Carol Surles’ resig- approved the Fiscal year 2004 bud- doing their part to help aid the actual supply of blood. Not only has one-day supply of both O negative nation in the summer of 2001. get recommendations which total American Red Cross in trying to the demand for blood increased, and A negative blood,” according Hencken said since filling the posi- just over $71 million. The next increase the supply of blood in the but the amount of blood being to a news release from the tion, he has implemented several step is for the budget requests to be United States. donated has decreased causing the American Red Cross. money saving tactics into the uni- The Newman Catholic Center blood supply to be placed in a versity’s agenda. See HENCKEN Page 3 will be sponsoring a blood drive threatening position. See BLOOD Page 3 McNamara immortalized through memorials By Erica Foltz The Girls Fight Back News Editor organization was started in honor of McNamara by With a year passed since the tragic death Erin Weed, president of of Shannon McNamara, many positive things the Alpha Phi sorority the have been done to keep her memory alive. year McNamara was a In McNamara’s hometown of Rolling pledge. Meadows, a memorial will be constructed in Weed commented in a Kimball Hill Park. previous article that “she The memorial is slated to contain a 15 to was influenced to start the McNamara 20-square foot area of inscribed brick along self-defense program with a plaque, a bench, and one or possibly, 'Girls Fight Back' because it made her mad two trees that will be planted near the bench. that her girls were feeling unsafe.” The area of the park in which the memorial Weed held a program for Girls Fight Back will be constructed is a place where on Oct. 24, where more than 200 women McNamara often liked to run. showed up to learn self-defense and precau- While no official date for the completion tionary actions to use in order to avoid dan- of the memorial has been set, Shannon Klemp gerous situations. of the park district in Rolling Meadows said McNamara’s memory has also been hon- that the memorial will “hopefully be done by ored by the physical education department the end of July." Klemp also confirmed that through the newly created Shannon some materials have been ordered, including McNamara Outstanding Physical Education the plaque and bricks. Award. The bricks that will be included in the The first award was given to Andrea Shae memorial can be bought for a $50 donation Minott, a physical education graduate stu- and inscribed up to two lines with up to 12 dent. Minott received a plaque and a $200 gift characters each, according to John for being chosen for the award. Minott was a Scharringhausen, a friend of the McNamara close friend of McNamara’s and was selected family. for the way she represented what McNamara The donations from the bricks will cover stood for. Submitted Photo construction expenses and will disperse into Dr. Phoebe Church, chair of the physical Andrea Minott (right), receives the first Shannon McNamara Outstanding Physical either the Shannon McNamara Scholarship Education Award from Phoebe Church, chair of the physical education department. Fund or the Girls Fight Back organization. See MCNAMARA Page 3 2 Monday, June 12, 2002 NewsThe Daily Eastern News ETheastern Daily News Champaign woman pleads guilty Campus The Daily Eastern News is published daily, forecast Monday through Friday, in Charleston, Ill., in killing of 45-year-old man during fall and spring semesters and twice weekly during the summer term except dur- ing school vacations or URBANA, Ill. (AP) — A dal death were dismissed. guilty. today examinations, by the stu- Champaign woman has pleaded Three others also were charged Nelson bought cocaine regularly dents of Eastern Illinois University. Subscription guilty to first-degree murder in the in the killing. Blandin’s husband, from Nathan Blandin, according to 82˚ price: $38 per semester, $16 for summer death last year of a Danville man, Nathan Blandin, 23, was sentenced testimony at the trials of Nathan only, $68 all year. The Daily Eastern News is 66˚ a member of The Associated Press, which is whose nude body was found last week to 95 years in prison after Blandin and Boyd. The four defen- entitled to exclusive use of all arti- wrapped in sheets and blankets in a his April conviction on charges of dants first plotted to rob Nelson, cles appearing in this paper. The drainage ditch in Champaign. murder, armed robbery and con- but later decided to kill him, chance editorials on Page 4 represent the majority opinion of the editorial Misty Moreman Blandin, 26, is cealment of a homicidal death. according to testimony. of rain board; all other opinion pieces are signed. expected to be sentenced in July for Another co-defendant, Jamie In testifying about the attacks, The Daily Eastern News editorial and busi- ness offices are located in Buzzard Hall, the April 2001 killing of 45-year- Boyd, 22, of Springfield, was sen- Bailey said Nathan Blandin Thursday Eastern Illinois University. old Danny Nelson, who was beat- tenced to 40 years after pleading grabbed Nelson and held him while Periodical postage paid at Charleston, IL en, choked and slashed with a guilty to murder and concealment Boyd hit him in the head with an 78˚ 61920. butcher knife. Blandin faces 20 to in March. iron. Bailey said Boyd and Nathan ISSN 0894-1599. 57˚ Printed by Eastern Illinois University, 60 years in prison. The last defendant, Shurese Blandin then choked Nelson with Charleston, IL 61920. In exchange for Blandin’s plea Bailey, 27, also of Springfield, testi- an electrical cord before Boyd Scattered Postmaster: Send address changes to on Monday, charges of armed rob- fied against Boyd and Nathan slashed his throat with a butcher The Daily Eastern News bery and concealment of a homici- Blandin and is expected to plead knife. T-storms Buzzard Hall Eastern Illinois University Charleston, IL 61920. Friday Summer News Staff Committee denies license for 75˚ Editor in chief...............................Benjamin Tully* Administration editor..............Jason Langenbahn 54˚ Photo editor....................................Geoff Wagner Caumpus editor...........................Felicia Martinez partly Sports editor.............................................Erik Hal Grateful Dead show in Milwaukee Verge editor................................... Matt Rennelsl cloudy Asst. design & graphics manager ................open MILWAUKEE (AP) — A county Reunion”