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Eastern Illinois University The Keep October 1996 10-28-1996 Daily Eastern News: October 28, 1996 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1996_oct Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: October 28, 1996" (1996). October. 6. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1996_oct/6 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1996 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in October by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. PARTLY SUNNY a high of 64º The Ground INSIDE Daily attack Eastern Panthers rush for 352 yards Cookie in 35-27 win Eastern Illinois University over MONDAY Charleston, Ill. 61920 October 28, 1996 time Vol. 82, No. 51 Tennessee 12 pages Tech The original Mrs. Fields to PAGE speak at WEIU fundraiser News PAGE 7 “Tell the truth and don’t be afraid” 12 Vacant seat blamed on election error Foyle’s fate to be decided Wed. By MINDY BUYCK seated in the spring elections. Student government editor Foyle said she was surprised to learn about the mistake but did not Student Body President Jason wish to comment until she meets Anselment announced Friday that with Anselment today. last April’s election results were Anselment said the senate will miscalculated and a candidate was vote at the meeting Wednesday not seated as a result. night whether to seat Foyle. Anselment issued an executive According to the order, if Foyle order to take steps to correct the is seated, 31 senators will serve for error. the remainder of the fall semester, According to the order, Erin and the number will return to 30 at Foyle should have been seated as the beginning of the spring the sixth at-large senator. Because semester. Student senate bylaws of miscalculations only five of the state the maximum number of six at-large senators were seated. senators is 30. According to the Elections Reform Anselment said seating Foyle on Act, six at-large senators will be See SENATE page 2 Police chief’s wife NAOKO KOJIMA/Staff photographer Flying high Lisa ZBiegien, graduate student of elementary education and program Director of Newberry’ ‘Tae Kwon pleads guilty to theft Do USA in Mattoon, performs to recruit new students Saturday afternoon in Super Wal-Mart in Mattoon. By BRITT CARSON and $100,000 from the shelter from City editor Jan. 1, 1988 until she left the position in December. The charge A former manager of the Coles is a Class 2 felony punishable by a Petitions circulating in Charleston County Animal Shelter pleaded prison sentence of three to seven the city council to take “swift and will be used for legal fees,” guilty Friday to charges that she years or up to four years probation. Seeks to regulate immediate action in eliminating Werden said. “This is going to be allegedly stole several thousand State’s Attorney Steve Ferguson adult entertainment and prohibiting businesses with- a lengthy process and will cost dollars from the shelter. confirmed that Steidinger entered a in the city limits.” tax dollars.” Sandra Steidinger, 44, pleaded blind plea of guilty. within city limits Werden said the petition Werden noted that Mike guilty to one count of theft. She “The agreement of pleading defines adult entertainment as Bickers, the owner of Capones, managed the Coles County Animal guilty with a ‘blind plea’ involves By BRITT CARSON things like erotic dancers, took the city to court before. The City editor Shelter from May 17, 1982 to Dec. certain conditions,” Ferguson said. strippers, nude and semi-nude city hired a lawyer and tax 8, 1995. “The prosecutor will remain silent dancers, adult bookstores and dollars could be used for that if Petitions are being circulated She was indicted by the Grand during sentencing and no specific non-therapeutic massages. the situation would happen again. throughout Charleston in support Jury on Oct. 10, and is the wife of recommendations will be given to The petition also requests the Werden said she does not have of regulating adult entertainment. Charleston Police Chief Herb serve jail time or a prison sen- use of tax dollars to help a specific number of signature Pam Werden, an organizer of Steidinger. tence.” implement the process. she wants obtained. the petition, said petitions want The charges allege that Sandra “We envision the tax dollars Steidinger took between $10,000 See WIFE page 2 See PETITIONS page 2 ELECTION ‘96 Character debate key in race for presidency By ANDREW RODGERS picked up and the snow plowed, no one cares Moore quotes Bob Dole in a speech he gave in Staff editor very much.” Coronado, Calif. attacking Bill Clinton’s Eastern political science professor Andrew character. “Public ethics is a public trust,” Dole The character of a presidential hopeful has McNitt said American voters may not like the said. “And when it is violated, the damage is CHARACTER become of increasing concern throughout the shortcomings in a presidential candidate’s done to our nation, and our institutions, and our history of American politics. private life, but they can usually forgive them. idealism. Confronting it directly and forcefully “We are not well With the advent of mass-media in the last But when it comes to an abuse of power, is not a personal attack; it is a public duty.” served when we half of this century, what the public really needs Americans have a much harder time accepting a Furthermore, Dole said, “This election will attack each other. It to know to decide their leader has become candidate’s mistakes, McNitt said. help determine the nature and integrity and doesn’t create jobs. It doesn’t educate somewhat questionable. “A lot of presidents have had their character dignity of the presidency itself. Can it be children. It doesn’t Should the public’s right to know extend past attacked, but I think more so with this trusted? Should it be respected?” solve problems.” CLINTON a candidates public life and into his or her president,” said Chris Boyster, president of the On Oct. 17, the day after the second private life? Does the way a presidential University Democrats. “And every president presidential debate, USA Today ran a story “Public ethics is a public trust. And candidate manage his private life indicate how has some kind of scandal.” written by Bill Nichols titled “Dole on offense when it is violated, he would manage a country? In 1972 most Americans were aware that in debate.” the damage is done In his Oct. 28 Time Magazine article titled Nixon had somehow abused the power of his “We are not well served when we attack each to our nation, and our institutions and our “The Trouble With Character,” Richard Stengel office, McNitt said, and yet he still won his re- other,” Clinton said at the debate. “It doesn’t idealism.” said, “In the post-cold war era, when election by one of the largest landslides in create jobs. It doesn’t educate children. It DOLE ideological differences between the parties are presidential history. doesn’t solve problems.” “I want to make sure receding, voters know that they are not so much In this year’s presidential race, presidential Throughout the debate, Clinton refuted that we get past the superficial acting that electing the Leader of the Free World as voting incumbent Bill Clinton has had to ward off Dole’s attacks by saying he wanted to debate permeates and for the Mayor-in-Chief. When it comes to character attacks every step of the way. issues and not insults. Many people now feel dominates electing mayors, Americans have never been Recently most of the attacks have come from Clinton’s moral high road approach will pay off campaigning now.” fussy about character. The mayor can cheat on his Republican opponent Bob Dole. on election day. PEROT his taxes or his wife, but if the garbage is On CNN’s AllPolitics web site, Thomas H. See CHARACTER page 2 Dole calls for an end to affirmative action SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) – istration that are sorely lacking overwhelmingly ethnic crowd of Confident of hitting a “Golden now,” he said. his support for legal immigration. State jackpot,” Bob Dole extended Looking out at the sun-splashed “It is good for our country and it his homestretch tour of California crowd, where the yellow and red should always continue,” Dole said. Sunday, chipping steadily at striped flags of Vietnam were only But, he added, Clinton’s lax bor- & President Clinton’s integrity while slightly outnumbered by standard- der controls have left thousands of calling for an end to affirmative issue Dole-Kemp placards, Dole Californians “victims of violent action. also reiterated his commitment to criminals who should have been then some “In America, what counts is human rights and a full accounting stopped at the border.” Dole also hit & then some is a weekly column covering merit and character,” he declared. of American prisoners of war in affirmative action, another hot-but- various campus and community events. “I can feel the energy all over Vietnam. ton issue in this state, where a refer- this state,” the Republican nominee Immigration was the stop’s offi- endum is on the November ballot to ◆ LEND A HAND tality. They accomplish this said as he launched Day Two of his cial theme, with a giant royal-blue end race- and sex-based preferences through community service, California swing with an appear- backdrop lettered “Celebrating in public hiring, contracting and As part of the March of advocacy, research and educa- ance at the Van Lang Day Viet- Legal Immigration – The American education.