A LT0 ti ÍDWflJmVILU ■ w f r l SPO-fiTS -♦ ..........r miDi Southern Illinois University Edwardsville ♦ T uesday, October 19, 1999 Vol. 52, No. 16 ♦ S p o r t s ................ 9 Finance board Tons of Fun says no SIUE’s S a r a h passes the buck to drugs and alcohol W illiam s faced BY BRIAN WALLHEIMER King did for the civil rights HER SISTER NF.WS REPORTER movement. The trip will include a Virginia at the visit to King’s home and his SIUE Invitational Student senate finance board memorial. members are sending a program At the finance board meeting GOLF MATCH request for $6,030 from the Alpha Friday, some members said the T h u r s d a y . Phi Alpha fraternity to the student funding seemed more like a travel senate. request rather than a program The request is for the 12th request. The student senate Annual Martin Luther King Jr. capped travel funding at $425 E d it o r ia l ........... 3 Dedication. In the request ,$5,000 earlier in the semester. was set aside for the rental of Alpha Phi Alpha members three busses for a trip to Atlanta argued that the event begins on to cap off the weeklong campus and that the Atlanta trip is celebration. essential to their program. They Alpha Phi Alpha members said it was not a travel request S t u d e n t said the Atlanta trip will provide because it pertained to their participants With a sense of what program. sgg FINANCE 2 QUESTIONS YOUR Magaret MazurekI Alestle RIGHT TO KNOW. Students limbo their way to a drug-free life at Tons of Fun. ERIC BATCHELDER president of Alpha Kappa Alpha NEWS STRINGER Sorority, worked at recruiting “superstars” of her own; ones The melodious sounds of that were willing to give $1 and loud music and off-key walk a mile to help kids with Costume contest “superstars” were heard at the cancer. Vadalabene Center Friday night According to Smith, this as Tons of Fun rocked SIUE was the first year the AKA Sorority held the walk-a-thon , W in f r e e p a s s e s t o into the early morning hours. but members plan to make it an Tons of Fun, an annual THE HOTTEST annual part of the Tons of Fun drug- and alcohol-free party that HAUNTED HOUSES. event. promotes safety and Margaret MazurekM/esf/e “We are trying to raise at S h o w u p a t t h e responsibility, was held as part The women of Alpha Phi dance at the fourth annual Ebony and least $200 this year,” Smith of National Collegiate Alcohol A l e s t l e o f f ic e in Ivory step show Thursday evening in the Meridian Ballroom of said, “and so far we are doing Awareness Week (Oct. 11 -15) in the Morris University Center. very well.” COSTUME AT an effort to promote The money raised will be responsibility on the SIUE going to Cardinal Glennon 12:30 p.m. M onday. Annual Ebony and Ivory campus. Children’s Hospital patients and As students belted out wild their families staying at the St. ♦ renditions of “Top 40” hits for Louis Ronald McDonald event steps into harmony karaoke, Shanita Smith, House. L ife st y l e s..........6 see TONS, page 2 BY BETH GOODRICH here is wonderful, and it’s so NEWS STRINGER much fun,” Alpha Phi member Suzy Dune said. Unity among diversity, the The groups practiced for SIUE student dies in crash theme for this year’s Greek step weeks. “We’ve been practicing BY ANTHONY WATT Erica Holliday planned to E v e r y o n e show, featured 10 sororities and for at least a month,” Delta NEWS REPORTER study art at SIUE. Her sister was g e t s fraternities demonstrating their Sigma Theta member Makeeta a business student at Eastern stepping abilities and proving Funeral services for Erica Illinois University. They are LAID. Peters said. that they are not as different as The show began with the Holliday, a student at SIUE, and survived by Richard Holliday, ebony and ivory. fraternity Phi Kappa Psi making her twin sister Melissa will take 44, of Edwardsville. The fourth annual “Ebony its debut. place at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Blain, a student at Lewis and and Ivory” Thursday packed the “This is our first time here, Boniface Catholic Church in Clark Community College, was Meridian Ballroom in the Morris and I hope they’ll ask us to come Edwardsville. the son of Robert and Mary Blain. University Center. back,” member Josh Volz said. The two women and Robert Blain is a professor “The step show has become Phi Kappa Psi’s lively Benjamin Blain, all 18, were a tradition here at SIUE. The in SIUE’s sociology department, performance got the crowd killed Saturday in an automobile students really enjoy it, and it is a and Mary Blain is a child care cheering and set the tone for the accident near Charleston. The great way to bring together the three were in the same car when assistant at the Early Childhood rest of the evening. Center. Greek community,” John it struck another vehicle. “I was happy it all went Abby Payne, a State Police Davenport, coordinator of greek A memorial service for Blain well,” member Sam Riney said. telecommunicator, said the life and orientation said. will take place at l:30p.m . Veteran performers such as accident occurred about 6 p.m. The step show allows Thursday, at Leclaire Park. Delta Sigma Theta sorority were Saturday as the Hollidays’ members of fraternities and Visitations for all three will also part of the show. northbound car swerved across sororities to demonstrate dance take place from 4p.m. to 9p.m. at the center line on Illinois Route and rhythm routines. Weber Funeral Home in 130 near Charleston. “The Greek unity shown see STEP, page 2 Edwardsville. see HOLLIDAY, page 2 T 41 I J) I -E f T I -E T uesday, O c t o b e r 19, 1999 + FINANCE-------- ------------------ Former SIUE professor dies fro m page 1 SIT JF. NEWS SERVICES government and history at the The 1999/2000 Funding finance board needs to cut Annual Founder’s Week East St. Louis residence center in Manual is vague on the unnecessary spending that does Celebration. S.D. Lovell, emeritus fall 1957. He also was dean of differences between travel and not benefit students, he said. Board members also professor of political science, what was then known as the program requests. Some In the past, finance board approved a $302 travel request died recently in Florida. He was general studies division from members interpreted the request members and student senators for the Kinesiology Students 83. 1966-1978. as a travel request while others seldom questioned the validity of Association to attend the Illinois A memorial service was He had been a faculty saw it as a program request a request. “When are we going to Association for Health, Physical conducted Saturday, Oct. 16, at member at Christian College in before they recomended put it down and say stop?” Education, Recreation Calvary Baptist Church in Columbia, Mo., from 1946-47, at approval. It is now up to the Gersman asked. conference. Edwardsville. The Ohio State University from student senate to decide. The motions passed at the Lovell, one of the pioneers of 1948-1950, and at Georgia State Finance board President Phil In other business, the finance finance board meeting will be SIU Edwardsville, began as an College in Atlanta from 1952-57. Gersman said that reviewing board approved $1,600 to be voted on by the senate at 2:30 associate professor of He retired from SIUE in 1983. funding for organizations had voted on by the senate for the p.m. Friday in the Morris been too relaxed in the past. The Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity’s 93rd University Center. TONS-------------- from page 1 Tons of Fun was also able to discount to them. Call 656-REEF Campus Scanner raise $103 for the Glen-Ed Food for more information. Pantry, according to Wellness According to Baya, the night Literature: Poet Kysha Brown and authors present the multimedia event. Admission is free. A Coordinator Mary Bay a. The went perfectly. Sherman Fowler and Marcus Atkins will be VCR and “X-Files” videotapes will be given away money was raised to buy food for “It’s really nice when you featured speakers at the Cultural/Literary Mini- as prizes. the homeless for Thanksgiving, have so many people attending Festival at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in Room 3404 of Music: The SIUE orchestra will perform at she said. and not have a single problem,” Peck Hall. The festival commemorates the fourth 7:30 p.m. Friday in Dunham Hall theater. Michael “That meant we had 103 Baya said. “With the police and anniversary of the Million Man March. Mishra, an associate professor of music and guests come this year,” Baya other volunteers walking around, everyone is very positive and Student Leadership Development Program: director of orchestral activities, will conduct. said. “All together we had approximately 800 people attend seems to be enjoying “Leading Your Peers” is the module topic at 2 p.m. Tickets are $3 for the general public and $2 for Tons of Fun this year,” she added. themselves.” Tuesday in the Maple/Dogwood rooms of the students.