Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC February 2007 Daily Egyptian 2007 2-1-2007 The Daily Egyptian, February 01, 2007 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_February2007 Volume 92, Issue 92 Recommended Citation , . "The Daily Egyptian, February 01, 2007." (Feb 2007). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 2007 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in February 2007 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. OUR WORD, page 6: Gus Bode says THURSDAY Scapegoat is my middle name Daily Egyptianwww.siude.com VOL. 92, NO. 92, 20 PAGES S OUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FEBRUARY 1, 2007 MCMA dean’s status to be announced today Dunn is scheduled to announce to all MCMA staff and faculty. over in 2001. Brandon Geier, a senior from Dunn to release his decision on the dean’s five-year Alumni and former faculty have “Things are going well here and Roselle studying radio-television, said review to the college’s staff and faculty criticized Pendakur, saying he lacks that, I think, would reflect in a positive the faculty members the dean has decision on at noon. interest in hands-on, career-oriented way on Dr. Pendakur’s leadership,” brought in recently to the television Radio-Television Professor John curriculum. In a letter sent to the SIU he said. production program are focused too five-year review Downing — co-chair of a committee Board of Trustees in May, MCMA Kolb said the college has hired much on theory. formed in September to review the graduates urged for Pendakur’s dis- strong faculty, made progress in cur- He said he looked at applications Sean McGahan dean’s tenure — would not discuss missal. riculum reform, and worked well for the positions and was disappointed DAILY EGYPTIAN the committee’s recommendation, but The dean could be not be reached within budgetary restraints. in some of the choices made. said it followed protocol for a five-year for comment because he is visiting He said the latter has been the “There were some people with Interim Chancellor John Dunn review. family in India, and is not expected biggest challenge. great TV experience, but they didn’t today is set to announce the future He said the committee submit- to return until Feb. 17, said MCMA “That certainly has impacted have an MFA, so they were over- of Manjunath Pendakur, dean of the ted a report of more than 40 pages to Associate Dean Gary Kolb. what we’ve been able to do and chal- looked,” Geier said. College of Mass Communication and Dunn in December that included the Kolb said the college has lenged us to work effectively with the Media Arts. findings of a confidential survey given achieved much since Pendakur took resources that we have left,” he said. See MCMA, Page 9 JOSEPH MIDKIFF ~ DAILY EGYPTIAN The DAILY EGYPTIAN pressroom is abuzz with activity as workers prepare Tuesday’s newspaper. For a closer look at the printing of the DE, see CURRENTS, Page 10. CITY ELECTIONS The wild card Jessica Davis brings unique mix of religion, politics to Carbondale mayor race Andrea Zimmermann Buck said she sensed a genuine years, Davis said her background in DAILY EGYPTIAN quality in Davis. community development and public “I liked the way she described her service drove her to throw her hat in Eunice Buck and Gerard Archibald plan,” said Buck, who is a graduate the ring. were impressed. student in forestry at SIUC. “She was “I just saw pockets of voiceless- The two, who recently moved to very organized, has a clear vision and ness in the city and felt that given my Carbondale, said they didn’t know very personable.” leadership ability I could create an anything about the upcoming elec- It’s understandable that Buck and environment where everyone would tions, and with the Feb. 27 primaries Archibald wouldn’t know the 38-year- have a seat at the table,” she said. approaching, they figured they had old Davis. She is the only candidate better learn fast. in the mayoral race without a past in JAKE LOCKARD ~ DAILY EGYPTIAN They went to Hangar 9 Monday Carbondale politics. This race isn’t the first time that Eunice Buck, left, a graduate student in forestry, and her husband, to meet the candidates running for In fact, she has lived in Carbondale Davis has run against popular candi- Gerard Archibald, right, talk with Mayoral candidate, Jessica Davis City Council and mayor. under only one mayor — the incum- dates. At the nation’s oldest all-girls during a mingle with city candidates Monday at Hangar 9. One of the first people they met bent Brad Cole. was mayoral candidate Jessica Davis. Despite living in town for just three See DAVIS, Page 9 2 Thursday, February 1, 2007 DAILY EGYPTIAN News CALENDAR NEWS BRIEFS Law School Admission Student seeks to ‘rent’ girlfriend for holiday BEIJING (AP) — A desperate Chinese university student wants to “rent” a girlfriend for Test (LSAT) Preparation 10 days so he can show her off to his parents over the Lunar New Year holiday, state media Program reported Wednesday. • 8 to 3:30 p.m. February 3 and 4 The physics student, who gave his name as Zhu Lijie, posted a notice on a bulletin board • Cost for this program is $325 and all at Peking University offering $130 to a woman who would pose as his girlfriend for the trip materials are included home for the holiday, Xinhua News Agency reported. • For more information contact the SIUC- The advertisement said the woman should be “an honest, kind and similar-aged girl with Division of Continuing Education at (618) a diploma.” 536-7751 The Lunar New Year holiday, which starts Feb. 18 this year, is the most important family holiday in China. Xinhua said Zhu had told his parents, who were pressuring him to get a girlfriend, that he had been studying too hard and had no time to meet a potential partner. Housing Social Justice Committee Meeting Man charged with drunken driving after car • 5 p.m. Today at Grinnell Hall, Lower Level sinks in ice covered Mississippi river • Meeting to discuss upcoming production CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A Clinton man was charged with drunken driving after of Tunnel of Oppression officials say he drove his vehicle onto the ice-covered Mississippi River near Sabula. • Individual students, faculty and staff Steven A. Parker, 51, is accused of driving his sports utility vehicle off a boat ramp to do members, and RSO groups invited to “doughnuts” on Sunday when the ice broke and his vehicle sank in 4 feet of water, about 30 participate feet from shore, said officials with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. • Contact Alfred Jackson at 618-453-6748 Parker and his son, Steven A. Parker, Jr., 28, of Waynesville, N.C., made it safely back to for more information land. Parker is charged with third-offense drunken driving and driving with a revoked license. Submit calendar items to the DAILY EGYPTIAN newsroom, Investigators widen investigation of Missouri Communications 1247, at least two days before event, or call child kidnapping suspect to Illinois (618) 536-3311, ext. 266. ST. LOUIS (AP) — The investigation of child kidnapping suspect Michael Devlin has expanded, with authorities searching one of his previous homes and investigators in Illinois POLICE REPORTS looking into a possible connection to the 2003 murder of a 7-year-old boy. Devlin, a 41-year-old pizzeria manager, faces kidnapping charges in two rural Missouri counties in the abductions of Shawn Hornbeck and 13-year-old Ben Ownby. No events to report at this time A police source confirmed Wednesday that investigators have searched a Kirkwood house Devlin had rented before moving into the apartment. Police wouldn’t say what, if CORRECTIONS anything, they were seeking. Devlin, held in lieu of $1 million bail, has pleaded not guilty. The investigation also has crossed into Illinois, where Livingston County Sheriff Robert In Wednesday’s issue of the DAILY McCarty said Wednesday investigators are looking for links between Devlin and the EGYPTIAN, the page 6 editorial ‘Sinking unsolved 2003 killing of 7-year-old Dalton Mesarchik, but so far have found nothing. ships’ should have stated that retired Dalton was abducted from his front yard in Streator, Ill., on March 26, 2003. A fisherman professor Richard Archer founded the found his body in the Vermilion River the next day. Cardboard Boat Regatta. The DAILY EGYPTIAN regrets this error. Black lawyers urge judge to limit testimony at If you spot an error, please contact the fraud trial in Hollinger case DAILY EGYPTIAN accuracy desk at 536-3311, CHICAGO (AP) — Former press lord Conrad Black’s lawyers are asking a judge to ext. 253. bar from his trial evidence he used money belonging to the Hollinger International media empire to buy dinner for Henry Kissinger, refurbish a Rolls Royce and pay for his wife’s jog- ging suit. A Black effort to scuttle a Hollinger International investigation of his financial dealings also is among allegations his attorneys asked U.S. District Judge Amy J. St. Eve to rule out in court papers filed Tuesday. Prosecutors want to present a number of such items to the jury at the May trial of Black and three other former executives charged with plundering millions of dollars from the Hollinger International empire Black once ran. Black’s attorneys said the acts in question have nothing to do with the charges against him and it would be unfair to present them at trial.