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For more information, please contact [email protected]. “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID” WWW.DENNEWS.COM The DAILY EASTERN NEWS EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CHARLESTON FRIDAY | 2.8.08 VOL. 95 | ISSUE 24 CamPUS | Rotc naTION | election 2008 Romney suspends campaign The Associated Press WASHINGTON — John McCain effectively sealed the Repub- lican presidential nomination on Thursday as chief rival Mitt Romney suspended his faltering campaign. “I must now stand aside, for our party and our country,” Romney told conservatives. “If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a nation- al campaign and make it more like- ly that Senator (Hillary) Clinton or (Barak) Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror,” Romney told the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. McCain and Romney spoke by phone after Romney’s speech, though no endorsement was requested nor offered, according to a Republican official with knowledge of the con- versation. McCain prevailed in most of the KEVIN KENEALY | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS Super Tuesday states, moving clos- ROTC cadets do static load training in a UH60 Blackhawk in the quad south of the Tarble Arts Center on Thursday. The training comprises of get- er to the 1,191 delegates needed to ting each cadet group in and out of the aircraft as soon as possible and into attack formation. win the nomination at this summer’s convention in St. Paul, Minn. Overall, McCain led with 707 delegates, to 294 for Romney, 195 for Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul at BLACKHAWK COMES TO CAMPUS 14. ROTC cadets have has seen helicopters similar to the Captain Jim Smith is a tactical Jenkins participated in ROTC UNIVersITY | various training UH60 Blackhawk fly overhead. operations officer who began -fly training in the tundra near the arts appoRtionment boaRD Now, the Reserve Officers’ Train- ing in college in Carbondale. Smith center Thursday afternoon. routines, tactics ing Corps cadet and rugby play- said static load is a procedure that Jenkins was looking into becom- er stands a few hundred feet from involves getting members of the ing a helicopter pilot as a career touching a 16-foot-tall, 20-passen- group in and out of the aircraft as choice, and her dad is supportive, AB shelves By Kevin Kenealy ger combat mission UH60 Black- soon as possible. The process is one she said. Staff Reporter hawk helicopter. It is tires-deep in for security and team purposes. “This is kind of looking into if I mud at the Tarble Arts Center quad. “I found out on Tuesday, and I’ve really can do it and to see if I got computer Both of Ashley Jenkins’ par- Jenkins shivers in the cold but been shaking and squealing in my what it takes,” she said. ents are in the U.S. Air Force. Liv- has a smile of anticipation for her boots ever since I found out,” Jen- ing next to Fort Knox, Ky., Jenkins static load training to begin. kins said. » SEE ROTC, PAGE 5 request for UNIVersITY | Faculty FeatuRE two weeks Proposal would spend TryinG TO MAKE A diFFerenCE $17,000 on student Women’s studies activities computers coordinator hopes to teach social justice By Rick Kambic Student Government Reporter By Ashley Mefford The Apportionment Board has Senior Campus Reporter decided Student Government will have to wait for funding for new Suzanne Enck-Wanzer wants to computers. clear up common misconceptions Student Government’s request, about women. presented by Levi Bulgar, student “There is a misunderstanding executive vice president, was for about feminism and oppression of $17,000 to replace 16 computers in women,” said Enck-Wanzer, coordi- the student activities office. nator of Women’s Studies at Eastern. AB voted to table the proposal Enck-Wanzer, along with the until the Feb. 21 meeting and asked Women’s Studies program, will have Bulgar to return with quotes from a chance to clear up those mispercep- other computer companies. tions with a presentation of the Vagi- Bulgar presented a quote to AB na Monologues at 7 p.m. Monday in from Dell, and Bulgar said he was the Martin Luther King Jr. Universi- BRYCE PEAKE | DAILY EASTERN NEWS able to save money by requesting ty Union Grand Ballroom. Dr. Suzanne Enck-Wanzer, assistant professor of rhetoric and publication and coordinator of the Women’s Windows XP instead of Vista. Studies program, is directing the Vagina Monologues, which will be presented at 7 p.m. on Monday in the » SEE WOmen, PAGE 5 Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Enck-Wanzer is the Eastern’s coordinator of Women’s Studies. » SEE COMPUTers, PAGE 5 NEWS WWW.DENNEWS.COM I THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS I THURSDAY 2.8.08 EIU WEATHER DEN STAFF PRODUCTION STAFF ABOUTTHE DAILY EASTERN NEWS FRIDAY WEATHER BRIEF Night chief ·-------------------------.Matt Daniels The Daily Eastern News is produced by the stu Lead designer ~--------------------- Ju lie Beaulieu dents of Eastern Illinois University. 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