Rivennen.take third in tennis VOLUME 34 tournament · The tennis Rivermen defeat· April 23, ed Bellarmine 5-2 Saturday to capture third place at the ' 2001 GLVC championships. The Rivermen were defeated Friday by tournament cham­ ISSUE 1020 pion Southern Indiana. ..... See page 5 UNIVERSI.TVOF MISSOURI - ST. LOUIS · ·...., iiillllllIIiiiII ........ SGA election gives voters.few options· BY LAURA 'BROWN the SGA. Since there are no chal­ ....... .. .... ..... ....... special. to The Cun-ent lengers to . the incumbent president, Connor will become president for a This week's Student second term mainly by default. Only Government Association election one student is needed to .cast a vote will offer voters little choice on the for each candidate to become elect­ ballot, ed. The expense needed to establish 200 t -2002 with only and run more than one polling loca­ one can- tion with supplies and personnel is , Thishilarious d i da t e unj ustified. B lantonsaid. running ''1' m at a loss why there are so diary is worth in each few applicants," said Blanton. \ ' position. A deadline was set fo.l,' interested peeking into SGA elections will be held for students to get their name on tlle bal­ Student Government President, lot. Because so few candidates Bridget weighs too much, Vice President a11d Comptroller. applied, the deadline was extended, smokes too much, drinks too Nine oth~r candidates are running but no one else signed up. much anc;l. is afraid of approach­ for Assembly Representative posi­ Blanton said he believes there ing "spinsterhood." To overcome tions. None of the candidates are could be several reasons for this . these problems, she makes opposed by anyone else, giving little Either students are completely satis­ some resolutions and buys a reason for campaigning. fied with how things on campus are diary to record her progress. Ryan COlmor, CUlTent SGA pres­ going right now and do not see a You may flot think this sounds ident, is running for reelection. Joe need for change, there is a lack of like a promising premise for a Flees is the vice president candidate, confidence in the entire system or comedy, but that's where you'd . and Brian King is running for the' there is just no interest in the elec­ be wrong. Bridget's self'-effac- office of comptroller. tion all together, he said . ing humor turns her pedestrian One polling place on each cam­ . "I think competition is healthy. It concerns and her diary into high pus will be open for the election on makes the product better," said humor. Tuesday and Wednesday. On North Blanton. Campus it will be located in the There is always the possibility a ... See page 6 Millennium Student Center, most wtite-in candidate could win the likely nC?I the cross walk where election, but that appears to, be most of the traffic through the build­ unlikely since there has been no ABOVE: Nao Kobayashi, a junior ing occurs. The location on South campaigning fmone on campus to majoring in business, takes a Campus hadn' t been determined as this point. B I s ride on the swing~ at Mirthday. of press time. Organizers brought in several There is no need for more than Vis.i t thecurrentonline.com to find out carinival rides like this one for one polling locettion on each cam­ more about the candidates in our SGA Big Event will' students to enjoy. pus, said Rick Blanton, adviser to Voter's Guide. help St. Vincent's LEFT: Students crowd together near the mail'! stage to hear L udacris. one ot-three musical BY RHASHA D PITTMAN Police chase acts that performed at Mirthday. ,J " •• " .• "' - siajj;~; ;~'i ;~:' " - '' ''''''''-''' '' A new pOSition overseeing man with gun campus housing has been creat­ ed in. an effort to help increase the number of students living through campus " on campus, which is one of the primary goals of Chancellor Blanche Touhill. O RY- & P OTOS BY JOSH RENAUD to a telephone near the MetroLink The director of residential senior editor parking lot. Gardiner gestured to a life and housing will handle the Normandy police officer who was business operations for all the A man was arrested last approaching from the opposite residence halls on campus hous· Wednesday after an incident involv· direction culd dley stopped the sus­ ing fadlities, which includes ing a gun on Florissant Road. The pect at the telephone. Mansion Hill Condiminiums and man was apprehended by NOt1llandy "The Normandy officer was the residence halls. MoDOT to reroute traffic at police with help from the UMSL attempting to cuff him when · he Reinhard Schuster, vice chan­ . police after a chase that crossed cam - . broke free and started to mn through cellor for Administrative pus. the MetroLink lot," Gardiner said. Services, said that the The chase occurred around . 7 He culd the other officer began University currently has 1,000 intersection of I·70, Hanley p.m., about an hour after the cbasing the suspect, Gardiner said, beds for on-campus students Mirthday festival ended. when he saw a gun had fallen. and Touhill is looking to expand Sgt. Bruce Gardiner of the 1!1e officers chased the suspect to 2,500 in the next five years. BY JOSH RENAUD until 5:30 am., westboW1d traffic will you weren't used to before." UMSL police explained that he and through traffic on East Drive and Lisa Grubbs, campus housing . senior editor be detoured off the interstate at the MotOlists will not be able to eros., other ofiicers were handling a sepa­ past the new East Drive parking administrator, is the only inter­ Banley Road exit and entrance ramps over the Hanley Road bridge while the rate incident at Hollywood Park garage onto the private Lucas prop­ nal applicant that is being con­ Evening students who nonnally and then back onto the interstate. On disITh1Iltling is W1derway. The Hanley Apartments wh~n a motorist flagged erty east of the garage. When more sidered fonhe position. Grubbs come to campus by taking 1-70 east tei April 24, westbound 1-70 \\o;ll be open Road bridge will be restricted to one them down and said a man was officers joined the chase, the suspect has managed all campus hous· Florissant Road may run into delays between 10 and 11 p.IIJ. for St. Louis lane in each direction through late pointing a gun at another man fcu1her reached. for his waistband, Gardiner ing as the campus housing this week as crews dismantle half of the Cardinals traffic. 2001. down Florissant Road. said. There was enough light that the administrator for the past seven bridge over 1-70 at Hanley Road. On April 25 and 26, from 8:30 p.m. The other half of the bridge will be Gardiner notified Normandy officers could see he didn't have years. "Her position will end Most of the' work' will be done at until 5:30 am., eastbound traffic will dismantled in 34 months, probably police, since the incident occurred in anything in his hands. once a director has been select­ night during the week. weather-permit­ be detoured at the exit and entrance near the end of summer, Evers said, their jurisdiction. The UMSL offi­ "They were going to protect ed," said Gary Grace, vice ting, said Tom Evers, MoDOT project' ramps and then back onto the interstate. depending on hm.... quickly the first half cers located the victim of d1e inci­ themselves if they had to," Gardiner chancellor for Student Affairs. manager. On April 27, the far right lane of is rebuilt dent and then an UMSL police dis­ said. "That guy was lucky it was still 'Tve been here for seven "The times will vary, but we're eastbound 1-70 will be closed at Hanley The Hanley bridge is being replaced patcher infOlmed them that the sus­ daylight. He went in looking, and I years," Grubbs said. "I love it. I going to staIt from the westbound side from 6 p.rn. lmtil5 a.m. as part of the six-year HI~70 corridor pect had been sighted on the don't think he realized he'd dropped want to be here a lot longer." to the eastbound side, removing the "At the worst, the students v.ill have project" which is scheduled to be com­ MetroLink platfotm. his gun." If seLected for the new posi­ blidge deck from one direction to the to sit for a little bit," Evers said "1-70 is pleted in 2003. Work on the Hanley Gardiner approached the plat­ The suspect was fmally caught tion, Grubbs said that one of other," Evers said. not being dosed, but you ",ill have to Road bridge is expected to be complete fOlm from the south and was spotted and arrested on the MetroLink tracks ,her goals for the dormitories is On April 23 and 24, from 8:30 p.m. sit in five to 10 rrlinutes worth of traffic by late 2002. by the suspect, who begcu1 walking necu' the Luca'> property. to have more "peer·to-peer support," where students help each other. Grubbs said that many stu; UMSL to offer dents living in the dormitories Legislator discusses alma mater, telID limits . have similar schedules. She wants those students to team Tim Green, chair of the courses online BY DAN GALLI "UMSL has always been on the up and help each other. short end of the stick," said Green. Missouri House of "You can have two students special to The Current Representatives "[The House Budget Committee] BY TIM THOMPSON [living in the same hall] sitting Budget, visits UMSL TIm Green, chair of the Missouri approves ·a lump sum to the UM staff write.,.