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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 66˚ Partly The Daily Thursday 36˚ cloudy November 18, 1999 Inside Eastern Sports Deck the www.eiu.edu/~den Coachin’ Eastern Illinois University malls Charleston, Ill. 61920 the pros The holiday decorations are Vol. 85, No. 63 Former Eastern quarterback, 16 pages, 2 sections going up and shoppers are Sean Payton, works with the coming out. News New York Giants. Story in Holiday Guide, 1B “Tell the truth and don’t be afraid.” Story on Page 12A Union asks Lights, Tools, Action Officer allegedly for halt on frauded software petitions By Chris Sievers Student government editor A Student Government officer installation has been accused of fraudulently obtaining sig- natures for sen- UPI officials argue invasion ate election applicants of privacy; university other than him- self. The allega- agrees to stop temporarily tions toward By Tammie Sloup Kaleb Searcy, News editor student vice president for Union officials are requesting the university “cease student affairs, Kaleb Searcy and desist” installing a new computer software system were formally that allows for remote control of all client PCs from a sin- announced at the Student Senate gle location. meeting Wednesday. Sue Kaufman, president of Eastern’s chapter of the Student Senate member Tiffanny University Professionals of Illinois, submitted a letter to Vandever, in a written statement to Eastern President Carol Surles early this week stating the the Student Government Election installation of Intel LANDesk Management Suite, a pro- Commission, said a student had gram that includes the capability of installing a remote tipped her off that Searcy was gain- control option on university computers, is an issue that is ing votes for their party (Kaleb and a mandatory subject of bargaining. Blue) by having blank petitions The Management Suite program includes the capabil- signed. ity to do inventory of all computers that have the program “A blank petition is when a stu- installed on them, along with a remote control option that dent signs a petition before the can- enables connected workstations’ screens to be viewed didate declares his or her candidacy,” from a central location. she said in the written statement. Dave Henard, associate vice president for Information Vandever said she believed she Technology Services, said the purpose of the new pro- had an obligation to make the gram, which has been installed in workstations at ITS, Student Government elections as fair the Academic Affairs and Business Affairs offices and Mandy Marshall / Photo editor as possible. Facilities Planning and Management, as of last week, is Roger Hardwick, a university employee, places a new glass dome on top of a new light post Searcy refused to confirm or a “matter of being more productive.” Wednesday afternoon outside of Pemberton Hall. The old lights made of cast iron and plastic deny the allegations. It is nearly impossible to manage more than 3,000 domes have been in place since at least the early 1950’s. The 75 replacements which are made computers without the LANDesk program, Henard said. with aluminum posts and glass domes will be erected only in place of lights north of Garfield Street. See OFFICER Page 2 “There is not enough staff to physically go out and install software (to computers that need it),” he said. “It allows us to be more productive.” Student dilemma: Go to class Friday? Henard said the program is not fully implemented and ITS is going to hold off installing the LANDesk By Shane Patterson professor said we’ll have some big, on Friday.” Management Suite on faculty members’ computers Staff writer important assignment, so I should proba- Mike Mullaney, a senior art education “until the matter (with UPI) is dealt with.” bly go.” major, said attending class is simply a ITS does not intend to invade faculty members’ priva- lthough many classrooms on Michelle Croft, a sophomore psychol- matter of principle, regardless of the cy, Henard said. Eastern’s campus may echo from ogy major, said while one of her classes occasion. “ITS has never done that – it’s not our job. We don’t Aemptiness on the last day before has been canceled, she believes she “My classes are just too important to desire that type of responsibility,” he said. “We have no Thanksgiving break, some students plan should go to her other one. skip,” he said. “Besides, you never know interest in their individual data.” to take the safe route and attend class as “Usually my professors conveniently when professors will give extra credit In fact, staff members found violating computer use usual on Friday. give tests or projects on the days before points for making it to class when no one will be subject to dismissal, Henard said. “I just can’t afford to skip,” said Craig break,” she said. “This gives everyone in else does.” my classes an extra incentive not to skip See UNION Page 2 Gain, a senior geography major. “My See CLASS Page 2 Health center urges students to snub smoking habit for day By Melanie Schneider dinator, said the theme for this year’s The resource center received much Administration editor smokeout is Y2Q, or “Year to Quit of its information from the American Atglance Smoking.” The Health Education Cancer Society and the BACCHUS & What happens when you quit smoking Smokers nationwide are encouraged Resource Center will have a table set up GAMMA peer education network. to set down the cigarettes today and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today in the These groups provide informative Within 20 minutes... Within 24 hours... resist the need for nicotine for one day Martin Luther King Jr. University resources such as “Quit the Spit” pam- Blood pressure drops Chance of a heart attack during the Great American Smokeout. Union walkway with anti-smoking phlets aimed for the people using dip or Pulse rate drops to normal decreases The event happens once a year to posters, handouts and information for chewing tobacco and “Your Future Within 8 hours... Within 2 weeks to 3 months... encourage smokers to weigh the conse- the event. Looks Cloudy” posters for the smokers. Carbon monoxide level in Circulation improves quences of smoking before lighting up “Although the event is only 24 hours, “If students can give (smoking) up blood drops to normal Lung function increases up to and to prove it is possible to quit, even the information is intended to make stu- for one day, that’s a good start,” Cox Oxygen level in blood increases 30 percent for one day. dents aware of their options and the con- to normal Amanda Cox, health education coor- sequences of smoking,” Cox said. See SMOKING Page 2 2 Thursday, November 18, 1999 The Daily Eastern News The Daily Officers Eastern Jury begins deliberations from Page 1 JASPER, Texas (AP) –- The jury in the case against Berry knew what was going on.” Vandever said she believed Searcy News the third white man arrested in the dragging death of a Berry, 24, could get the death penalty if convicted in misunderstood the reason behind her black man began deliberating Wednesday after a prose- the murder and kidnapping. Byrd, 49, was chained by letter to the election commission. The Daily Eastern News is published daily, cutor ridiculed Shawn Allen Berry’s claim that he was the ankles and dragged to pieces last year in one of the Monday through Friday, in Charleston, Ill., dur- “It wasn’t because they didn’t get ing fall and spring semesters and twice weekly just a horrified bystander. nation’s ghastliest racial crimes in decades. their petitions in on time or that I was during the summer term except during school Prosecutor Pat Hardy disputed Berry’s claim that he Two friends of Berry’s, avowed racists Lawrence trying to hurt their party in any way or vacations or examinations, by PRINTED WITH wasn’t driving when James Byrd Jr. was dragged behind Russell Brewer and John William King, were convicted form,” she said after the meeting. “I SOYINK the students of Eastern Illinois TM University. Subscription price: a pickup truck down a country road. And Hardy said and sentenced to die in separate trials earlier this year. wanted to make aware that everyone’s $38 per semester, $16 for summer only, $68 all Berry knew exactly what his friends had in store for In closing arguments, defense attorney Joseph C. “Lum” petition was filled out fairly, with the year. The Daily Eastern News is a member of The Associated Press, which is entitled to Byrd. Hawthorn said Berry made “terrible” decisions after the same knowledge going into signing exclusive use of all articles appearing “If I sound blase about some of this, please don’t killing - not calling the police, washing off his truck and the petition.” in this paper. The editorials on Page 4 think I’m not deadly serious about this case,” the prose- the chain, and lying to investigators. represent the majority opinion of the Melissa Riley, director of elec- editorial board; all other opinion pieces cutor told the all-white jury.