Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC February 2000 Daily Egyptian 2000 2-22-2000 The Daily Egyptian, February 22, 2000 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_February2000 Volume 85, Issue 100 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 2000 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in February 2000 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailrcgrp1ian.com · ·,.\' . -: SOUTHERN· ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT' CARBONDALE . 1 . ' / . / Getting past the interim image Students, past and tion during the past year.. from Chicago. "Besides the present, speak out SIUC's bbel as a party school, party-school atmosphere, I think stemming from a 1970 Playboy it has added onto the negative about SIU's image stoi:y where the University was image of the University." pegged as one of the top party Williams' minor is Black schools in the nation, still lingers. American studies, and he works After almost a year of a to promote Black Studies in aca­ Through~ m-olving door ofchancellors and demic departments. Williams th~ir Eyes interims, coupled with the f= his efforts will become more Januai:y resignation of SIU difficult in the Uni,,:rsity's cur- Editors note: This is thefirst in President Ted Sanders,· the rent state. · a t/Jrtt-part Jeria txamining the University finds itself amid an "If the foundation here is imageofSIUC .from the pmp,r:thoe image battle. shaJ...-y, as it is, it might hurt the of students, student leadm, SIU Three of the University's top chances of programs such as administrators, and Illinois lmsi­ ranking positions - president, Black American Studies to get · ness and politiral leaders. chancellor, and prO\-ost - arc attention,~ he said. Today's story faruses on tht currently occupied by an interim, Undergraduate Student image ofthe U11it:mity in the eyes in addition to athletic director, Government President Scan oframpus leadm, SIUCgraduates, ,ice chancellor for Institutional Heni:y said the lack ofcontinuity and cumnt SIUC studr•r after a Advancement and dean of tl1e with administration has been dif­ year ofadministratiw 11X1kr-11ps in Graduate School. ficult for USG because some Southern Ulinois·u11iversity t~S/Us;~tem. Dean of Student Affairs Jean programs initiated by an interim Tuesday's story will look at how Paratore is vice chancellor for might be abandoned by a new iOrganiiaticmal SIUC administmtors,faculty a11d Student Affairs as interim until chancellor. i11comi11g administrators pmriw Larry Dietz, hired last month, "If we're working mth· the Structure· the Univmity, in light of the takes the helm in April. chancellor, and \\'C come to find ~... ~ rwnls of.the last )\•ar. Some ~n campus wonder out later that someone else ,,ill whether the constant turnover be coming into that position, that TERRY L, DEAN be .JASON ADAMS - 0An.v EGYPTIAN DAILY EGYPTIAN REPORTER ,vith administrators, beginning would a problem," he said. with the June 5, 1999 firing of ~IU's image problem is not SIUC. He also said the at Carbondale Community High former . Chancellor Jo Ann just limited to the campus. University's image has been tar­ School. Some of his students SIUC prides itself as being Argcrsinger, has seriously dam­ People in the community \\ith nished, and he wonders about the have expressed apprehension the heart and soul of the aged sru·s image ,vith prospec­ close tics to the University arc future. about coming here once they Southern Illinois region, but now ti,-c students. also concerned. "It's a concern," he said. "I graduate, he said. has to dc:al wi_thqucstions con­ ,"I think it has hurt [the JeffHartfonlis a 1995 SIUC don't know how bad it is, but it cerning its image because of .University's] image," said Jakobi graduate. Hartford· said he can't be all that good." 'changes within the admi~tr:1- \Villiams, a senior. in histoi:y received a good education at Hartford teaches government SEE IMAGE, PAGE 6 Hearing a Ill Ill VISIOtrH Lasers SIRIS helps paint a·picture SIU researchers are· · working toward a far disabled and blind people device that will replace DVD's. who can not read it ANDREA DONALDSON DAILY EGYPTIAN RtPORTEA Since 1984, the Southern Illinois Radio Information Service has been serving as the eyes BOT and hands for the blind and disabled people of Board is under · · Southern Illinois. sautinyfor Through the efforts of SIRIS and its com­ members missing· mitted volunteers, impaired and disabled indi­ meetings over the viduals arc kept informed about community, past few years. national and world news. pagt3 SIRIS is a closed circuit radio reading service transmitted on a side band ofWSIU radio, cov­ ering an area within a 75 mile radius of Carbondale. The station is aired over a special Bo• JACOIIIHI - DAILY EGYPTIAN receiver that is prmided free of charge to those Louiese Miller, control board operator at the Southern Illinois Radio Information Service on the SIUC campus, stores Meeting tapes play~d on the radio the previous day. "We record and play daily newspapers every day. But these, (tapes of Carbondale City books and magazine articles) we'll play them again next month,W Miller ~aid. SEE SIRIS, PAGE 6 Counol will meet tonight at 7 at the Carbondale Civic Center, 200 S. lllinoisAve. Police sea~ch for man in connectio~ with Gatsby's inddent · Woman· who was beat up because they would not dance ,vith two The man being sought by police, of the men sa}ing before another punched men. Fasano said, bter punched the victim in her in the face. On Monday, Fasano said •¥-i;H•;H• ·at bar leaves Carbondale The men told Fasano and the victim, the face three or four times and threw a she felt sore, but did not require medical "Ifyou're not going to dance ,vith us, then beer bottle at her while she \\135 hunched attention last. week. TODAY DAVID FERRARA }-ou're not going to dance at all," Fasano over \vith her face in her hands. Community relations officer Don Cloudy DAILY EGYPTIAN AtPOATER said Monday. Police said the suspects kicked the vic­ Elliott said police have received tips on When the victim asked the men to tim when she was on the floor. the whereabouts of the suspect who is High: 66 stop, they punched her. During that time in the crowded bar, described as a 6-foot tall black man about Low: 51 , Carbondale police expect ·an arrest "We were ha,ing a good time,.'! Fasano Fasano lost contact mth her roommate. 21 years ofage and who goes by the name later this week in connection with an inci- said. "All of the sudden, I felt these hands Eventually, she located the victim, "David." · TOMORROW dent- that left an SIUC woman ,vith a groping me, viciously - ipvasn't just a bleeding and hunched over with a towel Jason E. Thornton, 22, of Carbondale broken jaw after two men allegedly beat pat on the butt." . on her face. • \vas arrested and charged \\ith aggravated Breezy/Sh<M'ers her up inside a Carbondale bar bst ,veek. The suspects continued to rub against "Her whole bottom jaw \\135 shifted,w battei:y and resisting arrest in relation to High: 68 The victim ·is going home today and the women, she said. · · Fasano said. "And she was gushing the incident. He \\135 taken to the Jackson Low: 49 ,vill try and finish the school }"Carat home, Frustrated, the women asked the men blood." County Jail and bter released pending a her mother said l\fonday. again to stop. One ofthem poured beer on Then Fasano went outside and saw the March 15 preliminary hearing. • Lindsay Fasano said she ,vas with the · the victim's head. suspects. She tried to confront them about As one man remains at large and the SINGLE COPY FREE victim, who is her roommate, when the The victim tried to push the men the incident. \'OL. fgj,Ai;~OO victim \vas beat up inside Gatsby's II, 610 . a,vay, Fasano said. "Then [one of the "You better shut }'Our mouth, you're ....._ ______. _ S. Illinois Ave., early Thursday morning men] pun.ched her in the face." going to get hit, too," Fasano recalled one SEE GATSBY'S, PAGE 14 .'•JHiJAY, FEBRUARY 221 2000 • PAGE 2 D.uiir£tiwnn MM!MM4iW '-~ ·~1i1i UPCOMING· ::~ }a~~ ~f ~ ~i~er 1229, UNIVERSITY is l"'bli>h<J MonJ..y • Apostolic Life Campus Ministry 3 4 thmuJ.-h FriJ.iy, JurmJ: ~rayer meeting. eve:}; Wed., 8 to 9 a.m, • Pre-Law Assodatlon seminar, Feb. th< fall anJ •rnn~ ;~~f~;/a;dMJ,~~~~•l~3: Jrf!i;i~~~~tse st-mntc-n anJ four limn ;;~t~mm.Room Stu ent Center, Abbie 24, 5 p.m. Mississippi Room, Torree a w«k during the 549-7106. inOuence of alcohol after being stopped for 0 summrr Kmntcr cxcq,t • Library Affairs Java Script, Feb. 23, ~~~~ro~ln~ ~e~~~~o~~:iitv~Nti~: !1:;u~J" Jutingv-.xatitlllt;JnJ TODAY ~JfJ~g:f.:ill'i ~orris Library Room . ~~~~ ~et~d: f~~ iTa~!~nt~.ery 2 a.m. Saturday. 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