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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 55˚ Partly The Daily Friday 33˚ cloudy December 3, 1999 Inside Eastern Sports Evening www.eiu.edu/~den Big road win Eastern Illinois University Men’s basketball team opens with Krush Charleston, Ill. 61920 conference season with 76-72 Take a front row seat to a Vol. 85, No. 69 16 pages, 2 sections win over Middle Tennessee. concert at Roc’s without leav- Story on Page 8A ing campus. News Story in Verge, Section B “Tell the truth and don’t be afraid.” Federal civil Booth’s tree splits into three suit resolved out of court on the settlement, said Deborah Settlement details Barnes, assistant attorney general. “(Including a confidentiality sealed in case agreement in the settlement) is very common,” she said. involving two Barnes said she could not com- ment on the nature of the agree- Eastern employees ment or how it was reached because of the confidentiality agreement. By Amy Thon, Deana Poole The agreement is contingent on and Laura Irvine the approval of Eastern’s Board of Staff editors Trustees. Barnes said she expects the approval within a few weeks. URBANA – The federal lawsuit “We still have to get whoever is filed by two Eastern employees authorized at Eastern to sign off,” claiming a personal telephone con- she said. versation was intercepted and dis- Bosler testified a steam plant closed to administrators and a local employee gave him a tape of a phone union representative has been set- conversation between Bowlby and tled out of court, attorneys said Waddell, a conversation the prosecu- Thursday. tion argued was held over the tele- The court documents have been phone from Waddell’s home. The sealed and no details on the settle- two discussed a steam plant union ment will be released. meeting that was held during the The civil suit was filed April 4, evening of March 12, 1997 in the 1996 by Billy (Mike) Waddell, Martin Luther King Jr. University chief operating engineer of the Union. steam plant; and Eldridge (Elroy) Weidner and other defendants Bowlby, an administrative assistant testified the quality of sound on the in Facilities Planning and tape was “clear” as was the fact it Management. was a telephone conversation. The lawsuit names Wayne The content contained negative Bosler, a stationary fireman in the views of employees of the steam steam plant; Ted Weidner, director plant, including Weidner and Bosler. of Facilities Planning and Weidner testified the content Management; Paul Michaud, for- was “normal work banter” and mer director of human resources views that were already known. for Eastern; and Rusty Thompson, Bosler testified he brought the tape Mandy Marshall / Photo editor business representative for the to the attention of Thompson who Ryan Anselment, a senior marketing major, puts the finishing touches on one of the five real Christmas trees International Union of Operating recommended he seek the advice of Engineers; and the union as defen- Thursday afternoon in Old Main. Old Main is not the only building on campus with Christmas trees, there is a tree the director of human resources. located in McAfee, one in the IGA branch of booth library and one in the Gregg Triad. dants. “I felt this information would A jury of seven women and four clarify some problems going on at tradition will not be forgotten by pur- men was selected Monday in U.S. By Geneva White the physical plant,” said Bosler, chasing three smaller trees for the District Court and opening argu- Campus editor whose immediate supervisor at the different locations where resources ments were heard. Glenn Stanko, Traditional time was Waddell. are being housed. The trees are on attorney for Waddell and Bowlby, enovations to Booth Bosler was called in to a June 5, display at McAfee Gymnasium, presented several witnesses library tree Library mean the com- 1996 predisciplinary meeting, Gregg Triad and the former IGA Tuesday and the case was settled mon holiday sight of an which included Weidner, Michaud (Booth West.) out of court that afternoon. temporarily enormous real Christmas and Thompson. He faced a 30-day R “We didn’t actually buy a huge one tree in the library foyer will not be In the settlement, the parties suspension for unsafe work prac- seen this year. involved signed a confidentiality tices. Thompson testified Bosler replaced agreement restricting them from But the library has ensured the See TREE Page 2A giving out any further information See SUIT Page 2A Gen ed decisions behind CAA resignation By Melanie Schneider Mark Davenport sent an e-mail to CAA arrogantly refused to even entertain our con- cial rift between students and faculty that did Administration editor members stating CAA did not attempt to cerns.” not exist during the semester.” involve students in campus decision-making, CAA Chair Bill Addison said he was very The decision Davenport said CAA did not Two of the three student members on the especially concerning the recent changes to upset by Davenport’s letter. listen to the students about was the deletion Council on Academic Affairs Thursday said the integrated core. “He (Davenport) gives the implication of the well-being courses from the integrated they are resigning from their positions as a Davenport wrote, “CAA provided the illu- that just because we didn’t agree with him, core requirements. All three student members result of a decision made regarding the sion of student representation … All three stu- we didn’t listen. He said we arrogantly voted to keep the three classes - Nutrition and General Education program and for personal dent representatives voted against the General refused to entertain concerns, well, that’s not reasons. Education proposal, and faculty members true,” Addison said. “He’s created an artifi- See RESIGNATION Page 2A 2A Friday, December 3, 1999 The Daily Eastern News The Daily Officials to review federal Tree Eastern from Page 1A “In two or three years, report for O’Hare security we’ll be back in our News like we have in the past,” said building and we’ll have CHICAGO (AP) - City aviation and studying it,” he said. Bob Hillman, university The Daily Eastern News is published daily, a tree again just like officials said they will carefully Chicago aviation commissioner archivist and reference librar- Monday through Friday, in Charleston, Ill., dur- ian. “There’s no place to put ing fall and spring semesters and twice weekly review a federal report that outlined Thomas R. Walker in a written state- before. during the summer term except during school troubling security lapses at major U.S. ment said the city’s airports are fully (the tree) where everyone vacations or examinations, by Bob Hillman, PRINTED WITH could enjoy it so we decided SOYINK the students of Eastern Illinois airports and adopt any recommenda- compliant with Federal Aviation university archivist and reference TM University. Subscription price: tions for O’Hare International Airport. Administration security regulations. to do three trees instead of librarian $38 per semester, $16 for summer only, $68 all The U.S. Transportation “Security is our top priority and we one.” year. The Daily Eastern News is a member of The Christmas tree nor- The Associated Press, which is entitled to Department investigation found that do everything possible to ensure the exclusive use of all articles appearing security was so lax in some cases that safety of the traveling public,” he said. mally displayed in the library in this paper. The editorials on Page 4 investigators were able to sneak In a series of tests early this year, was generally 18 and 20 ft. in Christmas lights. represent the majority opinion of the size, Hillman said. The three “That’s sort of a concept editorial board; all other opinion pieces through without tickets and settle into federal investigators slipped through ” are signed. The Daily Eastern News editorial seats aboard planes ready to take off, security by “piggybacking” or fol- Christmas trees Booth we had to brighten up the and business offices are located in Buzzard Library purchased this year facility for the holidays,” Hall, Eastern Illinois University. the department’s inspector general said. lowing employees through doors at are 9 and 7 ft. in size. Hillman said. “It took several Periodical postage paid at Charleston, IL 61920. The names of the major airports various airports. They also walked ISSN 0894-1599. tested were not included in the report unchallenged through concourse “It’s too bad we don’t have hours (to put the tree togeth- Printed by Eastern Illinois University, released to the public, but The doors, gates, jetbridges and cargo a place for (the large er). It was a little time con- Charleston, IL 61920. Washington Post on Thursday quoted facilities. Some drove through Christmas tree) now, but it’s suming.” Postmaster: Send address changes to sources it did not name who identified unmanned vehicle gates or rode temporary,” Hillman said. “In Although the absence of The Daily Eastern News two or three years, we’ll be 600 E.