Eastern Illinois University The Keep July 2002 7-22-2002 Daily Eastern News: July 22, 2002 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2002_jul Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: July 22, 2002" (2002). July. 7. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2002_jul/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 2002 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in July by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Monday, July 22, 2002 The Daily Vol. 86 No. 163 thedailyeasternnews.com Eastern“Tell the truth and don’tNews be afraid.” Free speech Eastern alumna hon- ored with plaque from in the sev- school of business enth circuit in jeopardy By Benjamin Tully in the Hazelwood case. The Editor in chief Innovator is currently funded by funds allocated by GSU. A lawsuit against an Illinois In November 2002 a federal university by three former universi- trial court judge ruled some of the ty newspaper employees entangles administrators involved in the case a web difficult to unravel. qualified as government actors Margaret Hosty, Jeni Porsch making them immune from the and Steven Barba, all former suit. employees of Governer’s State Hosty and Porch served on stu- University newspaper, The dent government as well as being Innovator, filed suit in January of editors of The Innovator which is 2001 alleging administrators a violation of journalism standards insisted on reviewing stories before and considered by journalism pro- they went to print. fessionals to be a conflict of inter- Hosty and Porch said GSU est. administrators and faculty did Their dual positions of power everything in their power to inhib- may have increased the aura of it the employees’ first amendment conflict between them and admin- rights. istrators. “Jeni and I had alerted the uni- Porche likened GSU to a third- versity administration to our world country. She said other uni- English department coordinator, versity publications may question Rashida Muhammad, of having their journalistic integrity from the committed racial and religious dis- outside, but she and Hosty are crimination, denying us our rights simply doing the best they can to serve on the University with limited resources. Curriculum Committee in our Hosty said they knew people capacity as former student sena- view their former positions as a tors,” Hosty said. conflict of interest, but that a new Hosty alleges the administra- age of reporting/editorials is tion also imposed conveniently becoming more accepted. invented policies designed to fur- According to Hosty, GSU is a ther depress their presence at the commuter school comprised of univeristy including covertly delet- working adult students. ing them from class rousters, thus Extra–curricular activities are not effectively slowing their graduate an option for most students, so if work and eligibility for financial she and Porche didn’t fulfill both aid. functions, “nobody else would.” “We also filed official griev- According to a court brief filed ances against the university by Attorney General Jim Ryan President Stuart Fagan and dean of supporting GSU, the students were Submitted photo CAS (college of arts and sciences) never officially restricted from Roger Oden for having defamed printing the paper and instead Eastern alumna Grace Bair shows of the plaque she received from the Eastern for being the first grad- us throughout the entire university chose not to continue operations uate of the school of business. The plaque featuring Bair, who graduated from Eastern in 1936, will be in their having published accusato- on grounds of conflict with admin- displayed in Lumpkin Hall. ry, hostile and emphatically untrue istrators. statements about our ethics Hosty and Porche said they By Chris Christenson Bair served in the Women’s poem, “The Ballad of the motives for having criticized them were dismissed. Staff writer Marine Corps during World Hoofbeats” won the National in their paper,” Hosty said. The same brief reported that War II. Medallion of Merit. GSU essentially wishes to have around late October of 2000 GSU The first graduate of She was a business education Bair and her husband of 42 the same powers of prior restraint Dean Patricia Carter called Eastern’s school of business has teacher in Rantoul following years, Ernie, were the parents given to high school administra- Charles Richards, president and been awarded a plaque. the war until her retirement. of two adopted children. Their tors in the seventh circuit following owner of Regional Publishing and Grace Bair, a 1936 graduate After retirement, Bair son Jim resides in Houston, the Hazelwood School District v. printer of The Innovator , request- of Eastern, was given a plaque became an antique dealer own- Texas and daughter Judy Kuhlmeier decision. ing that Richards allow her to in her honor inside Lumpkin ing and running a shop in Reagan lives in Hannibal, Mo. “Equating high schools to col- review the paper before it went to Hall. Leroy, Ill. Bair currently resides in the leges is an absolutely ludicrous print. Bair’s career choices varied She remained active in com- Knight’s Templar Home in step,” James Tidwell, Eastern pro- Carter explained her intention over the years since graduating. munity organizations through- Paxton. fessor of journalism and communi- was to review the paper for compli- According to a press release, out the Rantoul area. She was a supporter of cation law, said. ance with the University’s stan- Bair first taught business edu- She also received an award women attending college. She Tidwell said publications that dards for grammar and correct cation classes in Ashmore, Ill., from the International Poetry is also a member of the Eastern prove to be an independent public punctuation as well as journalistic but went on to pursue a gradu- Society for a poem written Foundation, giving back to the forum standards. ate degree from the University and provide their own funding are about the vanishing of Native community and her alma mater. of Illinois. American life in the West. The exempt from any notion prescribed See GSU Page 3 2 Monday, July 22, 2002 NewsThe Daily Eastern News ETheastern Daily Thousands die needlessly from hospital infections Campus And payroll cutbacks have gutted one operating room was often CHICAGO (AP) — Deaths staffs devoted to reducing infec- contaminated by dust because of News linked to hospital infections in 2000 tions. faulty ventilation. Flies buzzed forecast were 14 percent higher than the fed- In 1998, eight children died of overhead during operations and eral government estimated, and an infection that spread from a doctors wore germ-laden clothes The Daily Eastern News is nearly 75 percent of the deaths Chicago pediatric medical center from home. Many did not wash published daily, Monday today through Friday, in could have been prevented, a to a hospital. The flulike outbreak their hands before operating, the Charleston, Ill., during fall newspaper reported. was halted months later after three paper said. and spring semesters and twice weekly dur- About 103,000 deaths were dozen sick health care workers Hospitals are not required to dis- ing the summer term except during school 92˚ vacations or examinations, by the students linked to hospital infections, were ordered to stay home. close infection rates, and most of Eastern Illinois University. 13,000 more than the Centers At Loyola University Medical don’t, the paper said. Also, doctors 69˚ Subscription price: $38 per semes- for Disease Control and Center in Maywood, Ill., a doctor are not required to tell patients ter, $16 for summer only, $68 all year. The Daily Eastern News is a Prevention calculated last dropped a surgical glove on a dirty about risk or exposure to hospital partly member of The Associated Press, which is year, according to a report in floor, picked it up, put it on his germs, the paper said. entitled to exclusive use of all articles sunny, rain appearing in this paper. The editorials on Sunday editions of the Chicago hand and changed the bloody To document the rising rate of Page 4 represent the majority opinion of the Tribune. dressing on the open wound of a infection-related deaths, the news- editorial board; all other opinion pieces are Many of the deaths were caused burn patient. paper analyzed records from 75 signed. The Daily Eastern News editorial and business offices are located in Buzzard Hall, by unsanitary facilities, germ-laden In Detroit, infections killed four federal and state agencies, as well Tuesday Eastern Illinois University. instruments and unwashed hands, babies in 1997 as doctors and nurs- as internal hospital files, patient Periodical postage paid at Charleston, IL the newspaper reported. Infection es moved about the pediatric inten- databases and court cases around 83˚ 61920. rates are soaring nationally, exacer- sive care unit without washing the country. ISSN 0894-1599. bated by hospital cutbacks and their hands, according to court CDC officials said they believe Printed by Eastern Illinois University, 58˚ Charleston, IL 61920. carelessness by doctors and nurses, records and interviews. It took two most hospital infections are pre- Postmaster: Send address changes to according to the newspaper. months for administrators to close ventable, but the agency has not partly The Daily Eastern News Hospital infections are now the the nursery for cleaning. arrived at a precise number. Buzzard Hall sunny, rain Eastern Illinois University fourth leading cause of death in the Staphylococcus bacteria inside The American Hospital Charleston, IL 61920. United States, behind heart dis- a West Palm Beach, Fla., hospital Association said the last decade of ease, cancer and strokes, according infected more than 100 cardiac unprecedented cost-cutting and Summer News Staff to the CDC.