Eastern Illinois University The Keep February 2007 2-2-2007 Daily Eastern News: February 02, 2007 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2007_feb Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: February 02, 2007" (2007). February. 2. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2007_feb/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 2007 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in February by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. "TELL THE TRUTH AND DON'T BE AFRAID." W\NVV.DENNEWS.COM Student roduction crew to learn from ESPN2 Eastern's event staff scurries angles and inserting game stats National coverage of from one end of the gym to the and other graphics onto viewers' basketball game lets other with chairs and ladders, while televisions all with the push of a students with WEIU-TV duct tape button. WEIU employees work down the colored cables. Price transferred here from Everyone is busy and the Southern Illinois University with professionals preparation is a game in its own this year to study corporate right: Be ready before tip off. communications. By Sarah Whitney For the 12th time, Lantz Arena But Saturday, Price won't attend Senior Reporter will transform from a recreational the game as a WEIU-TV employee, gymnasium into an official N CAA but as an employee for ESPN 2. A basketball game begins before basketball arena on Saturday For the first time in Eastern's tipoff. night. history, a men's basketball game Gray curtains sweep back to Saturday's game will be no will air on ESPN2. reveal the upper balconies. Blue different from the other 11 home The game starts at 5 p.m. chairs and score tables emerge games except once the clock starts, Saturday in Lantz Arena against from a side closet to outline the the nation can watch through Samford. court with Panther logos and local ESPN 2's cameras. Sports Information Director advertisers. Rich Moser said ESPN2 is here Blue, green and yellow cables No pressure through an agreement with the run to cameras that are checked Ohio Valley Conference. twice and sometimes three times. Sophomore Justin Price has been "The OVC is given a number The blue scoreboard blinks to every men's basketball game, and of games that are to be used for "Panthers, Welcome to Eastern when he's there, he presses buttons. its member schools to have on Illinois University" in red while the The communication studies major the ESPN family of networks," he works for WEIU-TV. He sits in WEIU Technical director Justin Price, left, and Dan Jones, both clock reads 24.8 seconds, probably said. stopped from an earlier warm-up the station's blue bus where he is communications majors, practice production for the men's game during practice. in charge of changing the camera n SEE ESPN2, PAGE 6 the women's basketball game Thursday evening outside Lantz Arena. GREEK LIFE I COMPUTERTHEFT Students deal with stolen data By Kristy Mellendorf BOB DUDOLSKI I Greek Life Reporter DIRECTOR OF GREEK LIFE Ben Mahan got the bad news in the mail. So did the nearly 1,400 other students in fraternities or sororities at Eastern. A desktop computer, two hard drives and a trash can were stolen Jan. 24 from the Student Life office in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. The computers contained membership rosters from all Greek organizations. This included personal cooperative and understanding information such as names, of the recent situation regarding social security numbers, home the theft of our computer," he addresses and birthdates. said. "We have had no reports Mahan said he is continually of any problems resulting from monitoring the situation. the computer being stolen." "I am worried," Mahan Not all students are as said. "I let my bank know, and concerned as Mahan. I am keeping a close eye on "I've contacted my bank JAY GRABIEC I THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS everything." at home, but I'll wait a few Kerry Kroscher, a senior marketing major with a Spanish minor, helps Michael Baird study at the TRiO computer lab The sophomore history weeks before I do the free at Ninth Street Hall on Wednesday. Tutors are at the lab Mondays and Wednesdays from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. major is a member of Alpha credit report," said Lauren Tau Omega fraternity. Hogeboom, a member of Dan Nadler, vice president Alpha Phi sorority. for student affairs, met Hogeboom isn't very with fraternity and sorority worried about the misuse of Students help peers presidents Sunday and gave her information. them envelopes to give to "I don't think it was TRiO tutors among several who specialize in specific areas, help study for midterms members. taken for the purpose of our The letters detailed what information," Hogeboom said. By Tearria Ruffin Support Service office looking for an during her freshman year, Kroscher steps students should take to Dustin Culp, a member of Campus Reporter answer. said she was asked by instructor Cindy make sure their credit history Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, He found it in the assistance of Boyer to consider tutoring other is not affected. has heard about the letters that Michael Baird had trouble writing Kerry Kroscher. students for the TRiO program. Bob Dudolski, director were distributed to members of papers one year ago. Kroscher, a senior marketing She decided to do it. of Greek Life, said he has the community, even though Since becoming a college student, major, has dedicated her time not "I knew it would be something I not received any complaints he has not received his yet. the sophomore political science major only to her studies, but also to student would enjoy putting my time and and the students have been "I'm not that worried," Culp said he made it his goal to work hard organizations such as the American effott into," Kroscher said. patient. said. "I think whoever took to get straight Xs. Marketing Association. "(They) have been very them was after the money." 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