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Alton - East St. Louis - Edwardsville fungi in Southern Illinois’ Thursday, April 15, 2010 www.alestlelive.com Vol. 62, No. 30 Unknown perpetrator defaces cougar by Rosie Githinji “This act will not deter us from thought for a moment it was Alestle Opinion Editor continuing our deep commitment students being mischievous at the to the university’s sense of pride.” end of the semester,” Emmanuel Police are investigating the “Taking Stalk” was unveiled said. “Defacing, vandalizing and vandalism of the cougar statue, Oct. 3, 2007 after $39,000 was potential damage to university “Taking Stalk,” outside the Morris fundraised through trivia nights, property is damaging to the University Center that happened silent auctions, the sale of Cougar message of the cougar.” sometime during the night, bracelets and the sale of Students are encouraged to according to SIUE police officer commemorative bricks placed voice their concerns and issues, Lt. Kevin Schmoll. but need to do it in a manner that The statue was inscribed with cWe encourage is constructive and respectful, the messages “How are we according to Emmanuel. spending our $?” and “What is individuals to “You have got the rock to education?” There were also express your viewpoints,” dollar signs and question marks become change Emmanuel said. “What is painted on the cougar itself. agents, not become perplexing about and confusing is “The day shift got the call the message written on the base around 6 a-.m.,” Schmoll said. part of the problem5 of the cougar. We encourage “We are checking to see if individuals to become change anybody is unhappy with the agents, not become part of the university or a department.” -Narbeth problem.” He said the night shift will Emmanuel said there is a step up patrolling the main Emmanuel, $1,500 reward being offered for campus. Officers usually vice chancellor of Student information leading to the arrest and conviction for the individual concentrate on the residential Affairs areas after classes are finished for or individuals who are responsible the day, according to Schmoll. for the vandalism of the statue. Extra measures are being put around the base of the statue. “We are doing everything we into place to make sure nothing Emmanuel said he was can to find the individual or else is done, according to Vice appalled and disgusted when he individuals who committed this Chancellor for Student Affairs saw the statue and this is the first heinous act,” Emmanuel said. Narbeth Emmanuel. time anything like this has “We will also be taking the Sean Roberts/Alestle “I want to make clear that we happened, according to necessary steps to protect the ‘Where are we spending our $?’ was scrawled on ‘Taking Stalk’ Emmanuel. Wednesday morning by a vandal. University workers removed the will not tolerate this. This is not vandalism with paint thinner and power washers later that day. acceptable,” Emmanuel said. “When I learned about it, I GRAFFITI/pg.2 CAS Colloquium features evolution An Qdliy Slim m er by Kari Williams the scientific sense of the word, it’s a very specific Bluff Hall air conditioning restored Alestle Reporter kind of thing.” after one week of high temperatures Professor of biological sciences Rick Essner Evolution, in more than scientific terms, is the spoke Wednesday afternoon in a roundtable by Kari Williams we found out that some topic of discussion at the College of Arts and discussion. Essner said the main focus of the Alestle Reporter communication parts on the Sciences’ colloquium from Wednesday through discussion was human evolution and the chiller were burned out,” Legate Friday. implications for human evolution. The air conditioning in Bluff said. “It appears it happened as a Aldemaro Romero, Dean of the College of Arts “My part of [the discussion] is looking at the Hall, which has not been result of the lightning we had early in the week.” and Sciences, said CAS has held a colloquium in the insight we get into human evolution’s comparative operating since before Friday, was Legate said since April 1 nine spring since 2004, with a different theme each year. anatomy,” Essner said. in the process of being repaired work orders from Bluff Hall “[There] will be people talking about evolution The comparative method, according to Essner, Wednesday. residents have been processed. in biological sense and historical sense,” Romero is an approach in biology where one tries to Bob Legate, associate director of Housing, said they Five of the requests came on April said. understand how species evolved through comparing found out Friday afternoon that 7, the other four on April 8. Carl Springer, associate dean of the College of organisms with their relatives. the chiller for the air conditioner According to LeGate, the Arts and Sciences, said he played a part in bringing “Many features present in humans got their start was not running. software used for the air the colloquium to SIUE. going way back,” Essner said. “These features “We had a student report that conditioning should have sent an “We tried to have it very broadly defined,” the AC wasn’t working, and then Springer said, “so when we think about evolution in COLLOQUIUM/pg.4 BLUFF/pg.2 Highlights Tuesday’s issue atAlesiloliv9.com... www.alestlelive.com Thursday, April 15, 2010 GRAFFITI from pg .l BLUFF from pg.l statue and other university property.” e-mail notification saying that the chiller was not Student Body President Brandon working, but the e-mail never came. Rahn said damaging state property is Legate said the problem they found during not the way to voice concerns or troubleshooting on Friday was blown fuses. He problems and what was done is called the company that installed the chiller. extremely disgraceful and According to Legate, the chiller was replaced last disrespectful. year and it is uncommon for complications to arise “I think it’s disrespectful, not only with them. to our university but to the people Monday morning the company was contacted who took the time to raise money for and the necessary' parts were ordered immediately, the statue,” Rahn said. “Vandalism is Legate said. never the way to handle something Chief Clerk of Purchasing for Housing along those lines. We have a free Management Teresa Shipton said the contracted speech zone for something like that.” company, McQuay, arrived at approximately 10:30 The university is going to have to a.m. to fix the air conditioner. According to Legate, spend money to clean the statue and the new parts arrived and the chiller began running that is a waste of the money, according by 2:30 p.m. and an e-mail was sent out to students to Rahn. Emmanuel said he agrees to notify them of the changes. that money is being wasted to clean Freshman business administration major up the statue. Germone Williams said the temperature makes the “I am not ready to accept the fact work environment more stressful, but it has not it could be a member of our family,” affected his study habits. Emmanuel said. “If it is, I would be “It’s been feeling like hell in here,” Germone deeply hurt that someone from our Williams said. “[It’s] kind of hard to sleep. I always SIUE family would do this.” have to keep the windows open to get a little bit of Joseph Pearson, director of the air and that’s not even enough.” Morris University Center, said he Freshman pre-med major Ana Murillo said the wants whoever did this to come air conditioning not working is keeping her forward and make restitution for what roommate from sleeping comfortably on the top they did as well as apologize to the bunk. SIUE community. “We’re living in a shoebox, and it’s ridiculous “I was very disappointed and that outside it’s cooler than in here,” Murillo said. disheartened that someone with a lot Accord to Murillo, her roommate and she have of ignorance had the gall to do this to Sean Roberts/Alestle opened the windows, brought a fan and wore shorts the rest of the students and the people University workers power wash and scrub the spray paint off the cougar statue, ‘Taking Stalk’ Wednesday morning. There is a $1,500 reward offered for and T-shirts to try and stay cool. who contributed to have this [statue] information leading to the arrest and conviction for the individual or Freshman accounting major Eric Williams said here on our campus,” Pearson said. individuals who are responsible for the vandalism of the statue. the lack of air conditioning has not affected how “To me, it’s a symbol of the don’t graffiti much on campus, but on it.” often he is in Bluff Hall. He usually goes to Lovejoy university.” when they do it needs to be taken care Anyone with information about Library to work on homework, but it is an The painters who came to clean of quickly. the individual or individuals who may inconvenience. the statue said the work to clean the “When people graffiti, we have to have vandalized the statue is asked to “I don’t like it because it’s hot when I go to statue takes about two or three hours get it right away or else people call the SIUE Police at 650-3324. sleep,” Williams said.