THE ALESTLE Students, Staff and Faculty Came Face to Face with Their True Health Picture at Fall for Fitness Day in the Student Fitness Center
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Football at SIUE The final word - at least for now. ♦ Tuesday, November 14, 2000 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Vol. 5 3 , No. 2 4 ♦ Ambassador to U.S. Campus steps up to fitness BY ERIN O’MALLEY packs house at SIUE FOR THE ALESTLE Students, staff and faculty came face to face with their true health picture at Fall for Fitness Day in the Student Fitness Center. The event was sponsored by the Wellness Center and offers each participant 10 stations that measure a variety of physical functions and characteristics, from height and weight to blood pressure to cardiovascular fitness. Coordinator Aimee Knitter said Friday’s event was a good way to bring people into the center and to let them know about the advantages of good health and what is available to help them achieve or maintain it. Knitter said the event is offered each semester. Friday’s Fall for Fitness Day drew 100 people, she said. “I haven’t been to the gym in a Shen MeWhirter/zilestle South African Ambassador Sheila Violet Makate Sisulu addresses while and I wanted to see how in SIUE students, faculty and staff Thursday in Peck Hall. shape I am,” sophomore Christina Weekley said. BY MIKE TERRY Botswana, Lesotho and Participants not only found out NEWS REPORTER Swaziland in Lesotho, South Africa, and the University of the the state of their health, but were South African Ambassador Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, given written material about fitness, to the United States Sheila Violet South Africa. She is also fluent in nutrition and reducing stress. Makate Sisulu filled one of the the English, Xhosa, Sotho, Zulu “Everybody has way too much largest classrooms on campus and Afrikaans languages. (Stress) in their lives,” Knitter said. when she spoke in Peck Hall. Throughout her career, Some 40 to 50 volunteers are Some students, staff and Sisulu has been very active in needed to staff the event. faculty were left standing as education and youth development Kinesiology major Mark Beatty Sisulu, who was appointed to the programs and has been helped with the height and weight position by South African recognized with several awards station. President Nelson Mandela in for her work in the community. “I think it is a great thing so 1999, covered topics such as race, Between 1978 and 1988, she everyone has a chance to check out gender, war, peace and the future held several senior positions in of South Africa. She talked at the South African Committee for their level of fitness and improve on length about the trials her country Higher Education, heading the it,” he said. has gone through since becoming student service department of a The next fitness check will be in a democracy in 1994. distance education college and February near Valentine’s Day and “We take our freedom very editing distance education will include a cholesterol screening seriously in South Africa,” Sisulu publications. among the stations. said Thursday. “This is not a Later Sisulu became the Students, faculty and staff process that happens without education coordinator of the interested in improving their fitness tension. But it is a process that African Bursary Fund of the can set up individual appointments at Jennifer GreenlAlestle will lead to a better life.” South African Council of Wellness Center staff adminster fitness and blood pressure the Wellness Center. To schedule an With South Africa’s Churches and the director of the screenings Friday in the Student Fitness Center as part of appointment, call 650-BWEL elections coming up on Dec. 5, Joint Enrichment Project, which SlUE’s annual “Fall for Fitness” day. Sisulu admitted she has watched specializes in youth services. (2935). in amazement at the problems She has also served on many that have arisen during the boards and committees, including Board OKs speakers for King event presidential elections in the the African National Council’s United States. National Education Committee, BY MIKE TERRY Smith is circuit attorney in Berkley, Mo., and Sisulu also discussed AIDS. the United States of NEWS REPORTER he graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Webster She was active in fighting AIDS America/South Africa Leadership University in St. Louis and a law degree from Texas as the special adviser to the Training Programme, the Pending final approval by the student senate, Southern University in Houston, Texas. minister of education in 1994. Community Bank Foundation, SIUE will be host to two nationally known speakers Besides winning many honors, including the “This is about sex. This is the Board of Trustees Equal for the 13th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X Distinguished Service Award, the about death,” she said. “The Opportunity Foundation, the Dedication on Jan. 8 in Woodland Hall. American Jurisprudence Award and the Webster people at the highest risk are Women’s Development The event, sponsored by the Alpha Phi Alpha University Undergraduate Student Leadership young, and neither topic is easy Foundation, the Women’s fraternity, will feature Donnell Smith and Felica to talk about to young people.” Development Bank and the South Award, Smith has more than a decade of experience Ezell-Flewellen. The dedication was unanimously Sisulu holds bachelor’s African Broadcasting in practicing law across the country. approved by the student finance board on Friday for degrees from the University of Cooperation. see SPEAKER, page 5 $7,000. see FINANCE, page 5 ♦ P a g e 2 fl I t 5 T I t Tuesday, November 14, 2000 ♦ www.siue.edu/ALESTLE Board OKs honorary degree for professor SClNDfiZZLERS TUNNING 656-UTAN (8826) Tan Until The End Of 2000 Fo r O nly $ 3 9 .°°! S/UE STUD ENT SPECM L , _ _ 8 V / S / T S (/60M/NI/TFS FOR T + U Student ID required along with coupon Sheri McWhirter/ The SIU Board of Trustees meet Thursday in the Meridian Ballroom of the Morris University 1*1 ZZA Center. The board approved an honorary doctor of fine arts degree for Ruth Slenciynska, an SIUE emerita professor of music. Slenczynska retired in 1988 after 24 years of service. She will be awarded her degree at the Dec. 16 commencement ceremonies. Campus Scanner Art: Hsiu-Ping Kuo, a textile arts major from call geography professor Mark Hildebrandt at 650- Taiwan, will present am exhibition through Friday 2765. in the New Wagner Gallery, just off the atrium Mines: Robert Gibson, an emergency section mm lobby of the Art and Design Building. An artist’s supervisor with the Office of Mines and Minerals of Better Ingredients reception is planned from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday. the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, will There is no admission charge, and the public is discuss mine subsidence as it relates to various Better Pizza invited. Hsiu’s work combines fibers, metals, types of construction at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the leaves, feathers, and other found objects to create SIUE engineering building auditorium. For more Larae intimate, fragile structures that address themes of information, call 650-2088. passage of time. For more information, call the art Art: The 23rd Annual Art Auction will be and design department at 650-3071. Thursday at Sunset Hills Country Club. Preview of Laughs: Comedian Steve Iott will perform at 6 works begins at 6 p.m. and the auction begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Cougar Den. The show, which is p.m. The event offers fine art pieces by SIUE art SPECIAL OR THIN CRUST WHERE AVAILABLE. sponsored by University Center Board, is free to all faculty and students. Proceeds benefit the Friends Not Valid with any other offer. Valid only at participating locations. Customer pays all applicable sales tax. SIUE students, faculty and staff. For more of Art scholarship fund. For more information, call Additional toppings extra information, call Allison Benoit at 650-3371. the art and design department at 650-3071, or, from Quit: Commit to quit smoking cigarettes for St. Louis toll-free, (888) 328-5168, Ext. 3071. Glen Carbon/Edwardsville/SIII the Great American Smokeout Thursday. The More Music: The SIUE Suzuki Strings Wellness Center will sponsor a program from 10 Program will conduct an honors recital at 7 p.m. 6 5 9 - 7 2 7 2 a.m. to 2 p.m. that day in the Goshen Lounge. For Friday in the John C. Abbott Auditorium, on the more information, call Wellness Coordinator Mary lower level of Lovejoy Library. For more Baya at 650-3873. information, call the music department at 650-3900. Business: As part of the SIUE School of Madrigals: Tickets are now on sale for the Business “Business Hour” program at 11 a.m. annual Renaissance Madrigal Dinner, scheduled for Tuesday in Room 2401 of Alumni Hall, Sanjay Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 29 and 30, at Jain, founder and chairman of Worknet Sunset Hills Country Club in Edwardsville. Tickets Communications Inc., will bring the insight of a are $25 per person and include dinner and an manager, investor, attorney, and chief executive evening of musical entertainment by the SIUE officer to his presentation about Worknet. Concert Chorale in period costumes. For more Safety: SIUE community health students will information, call the music department at 650- FLICKS present a bicycle safety program to the “latchkey” 3900. students of LeClaire Elementary School at 3:45 Co-op: Volunteers are being sought for the p.m. Tuesday at the school, 1204 Franklin, Share Food Food Co-op from 8 a.m. to noon JAMES DEAN is Ed wards ville,. For more information, call Becky Saturday to help package and distribute food. Downing at 538-7182. Participants must wear work clothes, sturdy shoes Music: The SIUE Jazz Band and the Jazz Lab and bring work gloves.