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Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC October 2001 Daily Egyptian 2001 10-12-2001 The Daily Egyptian, October 12, 2001 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_October2001 Volume 87, Issue 37 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 2001 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in October 2001 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ;::~•·; - .. ct - ti'~' - FRIDAY . DAILY~ EGYPTIANDAILYEGYPTIAN.COM No pain, no grain: Hilarity ensues: Salukis vs. Panthers Company goes to great lengths Dark comic book celebrates Dawgs face hottest team in to feed the hungry. News, PAGE3 reiease of third issue. Pulse, PAGE~ Gateway conference. Sporu, PAGE 16 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY Bush: al aeda 'on the run' ALEXA AGUILAR DAILY EGYl'TIAN President Bush reassured Americans on . Thursday in his first prime-time televised news cnnfu-ence that the :tl Q3eda :fu:rions are "on the run," after m-c days of :ilrstrlk=; on Afghanistan. His new~ conference ca.me just hours after the FBI i=ed a warning ofpossible retaliato ,y attacks :igainst the United States by anti American terrorist groups. Bush said that. the warning was in response to a "general threat," and not a specific t:ugct. He added that Americans should fed con fident the U.S. milit:uy is doing all it could in the "first battle in the ".ir of the 21st o,nnuy." "It's not the kind of war we're used to in America,W Bush said. "We lca.mal =y impor tant l=ons in Vietnam. We learned wc can not fight a guemlla war with cnm=tional forces." J<o"1' MALDNrr - DA11.Y EGYPTIAN While Bush ackncmiedgcd truit Libby Wood is comforted at the burial of her father former state legislator dyde L Choate Saturday at Anna Cemetery. Choate also served Afghanistan is the main target of American as the SIUC director of external affairs. He died Oct. 5, at age 81, after suffering from a long illness. airstrikcs, he said :tl Q3eda :fu:rions all m-cr the world are being~ "My focus is bringing the :tl Q3eda to jus tice," Bush s.ud. SIU's 'guardian angel' dies at age 81 He said the Taliban ffi3}" be able to stop the bombings if thq "cough uf Osama bin Laden, 1he man bc]jc,,-cd to be the masn:r Clyde Choate, taken from two of the wreaths that After he made 51.UC his fellow from .his casket. mind behind the Sept. 11 attacks. He also were there to adorn 1'1'1r. Choate's soldier.; were safe, Choate hit the Choate, who served as an wged the Taliban to purge their country ofthe former legislator grave. German tank with a bazooka from Illinois legislator and as SIUC "parasites that bide in their counlr):" The American flag, that his only 20 yards awa): He immobi director of atcrrul affairs, died The countries h:uboring terrorism would and administ;rator grandchildren so innocently waved, lized the tank. but the tank contin Oct. 5 at Memorial Hospital of be held aa:ount:lble, he added. In partiatl:u; he · is no stranger to a man that risked ued to 'shoot cannons and Carbondale after suffering from a called Saddam Hussein •an c,,il man" and said buried Thursday his life for his country and com machine-gun fire. Wid1 his pistol, long illness. He was 81. "we're watching him ''CIJ' carefully." rades during World War Il. On he killed two German ~lciiers as Fonner Illinois senator He said that he ~ that after the mill MOLLY PAR!l."'ER Oct. 25, 1944, Staff Sgt. Choate they emerged from the tank. And Thaddeus Lccliowicz, who is now tuy operation is over, the United Nations DAILY EGYrTJAN and his acwwcrc in a tank destroy running again through enemy fire, a member of the Cook County should step in to st:!hilizc Afghanistan's gov er, the only weapon a\-ailable to he reloaded the bn.oob and fired Board, chose the words of Gen. ernment. The two young grandsons of oppose the German annor. It was at the tank anJ completed its Douglas MacArthur to describe His speech was the ailminat::;n of a Clyde L. Choate twirled their set afire and Choate ordered his destruction, this time from only 10 Choate: "Old soldiers ne,'Cf die, national day of remembrance, and !he one umbrellas in the cold October rain men to abandon the destroyer. He yards away. they just f.ide away." month m:ukcr of the terrorist att:tcks. Bush Thursday afternoon, shortly after went back to search the vehicle for For his bravery, Choate was Following World War Il, attended a memorial sen-ice at the Pcnrngon th= that gathered to bury their trapped soldiers, risking an explo awarded the Medal of Honor, the Choate went on to sm·e 30 year.; in earlier in the day. gr:mdfather crept slowly away. sion and enemy fire that ripped his nation's highest award. And at his They each had, in their small jacket and tore the helmet from his burial, his two tear-filled daughters &pcrtrr Al.=Aguilaram h ,ra,/;ed at hands, an American flag and a rose head. were handed the flag that draped SEE CHOATE PAGE 10 aaguil:tr19@aoLcom SIU president scores $50,000 raise from BOT The board unanimously appro•,ed the including the aeation of a aimnunee to the template by which \\C\\illjudge him in Walker donating pay raise after C\-aluating \½.lker's pcrfor keep SIU at the forefront of educ:itional LJune],• D'Esposito said mana: in an cxerutive session Wedncsda): trends, the launching of a multi-million Board member John Brewster praised $30,000 to fund Walker took the reigns at SIU Oct.1,2000. dollar capital campaign and the dC\-clop Walker's ac:complishmcnts so f.u; noting Chairwoman Molly D'Esposito said mcnt of30 anniw p=iclcntial scholmhips that SIU was lucl..y to snatch \Valker awzy scholarships the board authorized the s:tl:u)· inacase for Illinois high school stwknts. fiom Middle Tennessee State Unh-crsity, based on \¼lkcr's initiam-c in handling Walker also announced his intentions to where he scn-cdas p=iclcntfornineycars. GINNY SKALSKI issues doled out by the board and by filling donate $30,000 to the presidential scholar Brewster acknowledged Walker's acliie,-e .DAILY EGY!'TIAN the chancellors posjtion so quicldy. ship fund at the meeting. The scholarships ments saying that1he library atl\1TSU will °The area we looked at was wlut we "ill be offered to in-state high school stu soon be named after \Valkc:; A little more than a }= has passed asked Dr. Walker to do when we hired him, dents who c:xcel aca.demicall}: "Omiously the board is ,e,y pleased sina: SIU Pn:sidcnt James E. Walker one was to bring stayility to the Unn-crsity "I bclic,,-e in it so r.,uch that I wanted to with your performance," Brewster told ann-cd on cunpus, and his ac:complish in tenns of leadership," D'Esposito said m:ikc what I consider is a small gesture of \¼lk::r. "'You ha\-c done eYC2j-ihing wc mcnts h:we already earned him a hefty P'1}' "There is a sense in our Unn-crsity that \\"C support ofthe program," Walke. said cnuld ha\e imagined. You're leading our raise. are mming forward• Walker's raise went into c:ffcct Oct. 1 UM-crsity and taking us where \\"C need to The Board of Trust= app=-cd a President Walker•s Shared V-mim plan, and, in the future, his C\-aluations "ill ocrur go." S50,000 saJruy in= for Walker at its released last month, scn,:s as a map of the in June \\'lib the rest of the UM-crsity's meeting Thursday. Walker now cams direction Walker .wants the Unn-crsity to C\-aluation. &p.tc Ginny SJ:a/sE am k ,ra,/;edat $2i5,000ycarly. mm-c. The plan cited seven major areas, "That Shared Vision st111:ment ,\ill be [email protected] PAGE 2 • FRIDAY OCTOBER 12 2001 D.•.ILY EGYPTIAN NEWS National Briefs - National Briefs - N fs - National Briefs - National Briefs National Briefs - National Briefs - National Briefs - National Briefs posters featuring Muppet characte, Bert Silence, bagpipes with Osama bin Laden. rang at attack site The posters were carried during a vio lent protest in Bangladesh this week. They NEW YORK - Hundreds d New York ~hawed a large picture of bin Laden with a recovery workers gathered for a memorial small picture of Bert above 'iis shoulder. service Thursday one month alter the terrorist ~~~:'1!!.-~~1/ Bert has been depicted in ~imilar photos attacks on the World Trade Center. with Hitler and ~rand dra~ons of the KKK. on the 1 by ~~t!rnesn:~:i,s~h~';of;~!':~r1fi~~!~:r';;:~~ and denies~~~ i~~~;!~e~t~ :!~tln~nt~~a~r: ~J~~ ~;~!~ New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani. Bagpipes rang over the jumbled concrete and mangled steel remains of the tow ers as Guiliani saluted the thousands who lost their lives Frozen bodies found on in the attack. Mount Adams Saudi Prince AI-Walid announced a !ignificant donation to the T\'llin Towers Fund for disaster relief alter the ser YAKIMA, Washington - A hiker discovered the mummi vice. fied bodies of two Oregon men while chipping away at a As the bagpipes died down, workers returned to their rope lodged in ice.