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Eastern Illinois University The Keep March 2000 3-3-2000 Daily Eastern News: March 03, 2000 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2000_mar Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: March 03, 2000" (2000). March. 3. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2000_mar/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 2000 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in March by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Friday March 3, 2000 Inside Sports Just like Final Eastern Illinois University Heaven Charleston, Ill. 61920 four A review of the Chicago cover VoL84 , No. 112 Men's basketball team takes 16 pages 2 sections band 7th Heaven's night at on Murray State in the OVC's Roc's. ews final four Saturday. Story in section 8 "Tell the truth and don't be afraid." Story on Page SA Defibrillators to be available A spring Other universities debate use of electronic shock device ::~"~,;',:;'", ~'t ~.-=.;:; break that implement the use ofthe se defibril- 1 By Julie Bartlow health services and one in the lators or the cost of the plll'chase. lators lllltil fall (2000) ... this will Wl1'1 not be Campus editor (Martin Luther King Jr. University "We are pro active and want to give us the rest of the spring and Union) because there are various be prepared for whatever situations 0 Eastem officials decided recent groups of people who come in and may come oru· way," Stewmt said. sru~7~: ~ n:~~:ly lllliversi- l!o~r~O{f.e~ n ly to distribute automatic defibrilla rent the (University Union)," said "We asked Lynette Drake (director ty that has considered the use of 1( '.l 4 l.l 11 tors to several buildings on campus Shirley Stewart, associate vice of student health services) to do defibrillators. Some lllliversities and the University Police president for student affairs. some research on (defibrillators). already ha:ve pru·chased the auto Depmtment. The idea to have automatic We are thinking ahead in case we matic defibrillators for their cam Speaker tells of one Defibrillators m·e devices which defibrillators on campus was decid have a situation in which we may pus' health services department. are used to send an electric shock ed when Stewart and Lou Hencken, need to use the (defibrillators)." Southem Illinois University in mistake that killed across the chest of a. person who is vice president for student affairs, Stewmt said training for the Carbondale has one automatic having a hemt attack. had a discussion about the possibil defibrillators will begin as soon as defibrillator located in the lll'gent 3,landed him in jail "We m·e going to have one in the ity of pru·chasing the defibrillators they m·e shipped in. care section at its clinical services (Student Recreation Center), a. cou for Eastem. The lllliversity does not "We're not for sru·e when they By Geneva White ple in the police squad Cal'S, one in know the exact nrunber of defibril- will come in, but we have to do See DEFIBRILLATORS Page 2A Staff editor nstead of heading back to col lege with memories of good times and pa1tying, Mark I Stemer's spring break trip ended with three felony convic tions and the loss of three close friends. Stemer, 30, captivated a large audience in Buzzm·d Auditorilllll Thru·sday when he talked about the tragic price he paid for drinking and driving dlll'ing "DUI: A Powerful Lesson." Stemer spent 23 months in prison after killing his three friends in a drunken driving accident in Florida where they were on a spring break excursion. He had been voted the least dnmk to drive that night. "Six years ago I was on spring break," Stemer said. "If you would have told me then how my life's changed as much as it has, I would have laughed." The five senio1'S from Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island rented a Lincoln Town car when they a11'ived in Flo1'ida and stayed at a hotel that was about 40 Sara Figiel / Associate photo editor minutes from the popular bars. Stemer began his lectlll'e by show Kid 'n the Hat ing a video of the night of the acci- Sandburg preschool students, Mercedes Savage and cousin Katie Pierson, both 3 years old, hug during Dr. Seuss's birthday celebration on Thursday night. The cousins had to make an agreement that whoever got to wear the Dr. Seuss hat did not get to wear the slippers. See SPRING BREAK Page 2A Mrican-American coordinator search ongoing By Branden Delk throughout Ap1'il. tions of having a. te1minal degree in an appro Wednesday at the Student Senate meeting Staff wr~er The Afi1can-Amei1can studies coordina pi'iate academic discipline; expe1'ience in col that the sem·ch for a new Afi1can-American tor is responsible for developing and review lege teaching and adininistrative responsibil studies coordinator has been canceled, The sem·ch for anAfrican-Ame1'ican stud ing long-range goals; providing leadership in ities in the field ofAfi1can- American studies; putting the prograiU injeopm·dy. ies coordinator is lUlder way, and the search cru1'iculm· matters; improvement of instmc demonstrate capabilities of leadei'Ship and Eboni Jett, a senior psychology maj or and collllllittee will pelf01m a national search this tion; and academic advisement; prepm1ng organizational abilities at the lllliversity level; Afi1can-Amei1can studies maj01~ said at the semester to fill the position. class schedules; recruiting majo1'S; reviewing have the ability to listen well; collllllllllicate meeting that a search was postponed because The collllllittee, which is chaired by grade appeals and other student concems, a effectively; and the ability to work with stu of lack of interest for the position. According Stephen Canfield, chair of the foreign lan position annollllcement stated. dents, the position annollllcement stated. guage depmtment, will continue the search The candidate must meet the qualifica.- Several students voiced their concem See COORDINATOR Page 2A CM approves standardized test as a form of assessment By Shauna Gustafson age of a students' final grade for the Bates said the reason the eco a fonn of assessment and assign a agree with the idea of assigning a Administration editor coru·se, not equaling more than 30 nomics depa1tment decided to grade to the test. grade to the test. percent. assign a percentage of the coru'Se He said although the test is stan "There's always going to be A new economics capstone "We would negotiate on the per grade to the standardized test was dardized, the depmtment cannot some person . who is going to coUl'se, which includes a standard centage," said Lai1y Bates, associ so students would take the test sei1- use any questions they think m·e (take the test) in 10 minutes," said ized test as a. fonn of assessment, ate professor of economics. ously. llllfa.ir. He also said the department Justin B11nkmeyer, student CAA was approved by the Collllcil on Capstone coUl'ses incmporate Bates said there m·e about 70 intends to use cruving if test results member. Academic Affairs Thlll'sday. the impo1tant fundmnental themes other lllliversities across the COlllltly are poor. The test will collllt as a. percent- of a major into one coru'Se. who also use a standai·dized test as Many CAA members did not See CAA Page 2A 2A Friday, March 3, 2000 The Dally Eastern News ,, _________________________ real." Spring break The police catne to Stetnet·'s hos Faitern I was going to be the first person in my family to graduate pital room to an·est him. from Page lA college. I'd now be the first person in my family to go to jail. "As they read me my rights, I saw dent, when the group planned to cel my dad and I sav.r him crying for the News ebrate their last night in town by Mark Sterner first time in my 21 yem·s," Stetnet· The Daily Eastern News is published daily, drinking excessively. said. "I was going to be the first pet· Monday through Friday, in Charleston, Ill .• dur Students were welcome to laugh son in my fatnily to graduate col ing fall and spring semesters and twice weekly at some of the antics of Stemer and lege. I'd now be the first pet'Son in during the summer term except during school vacations or examinations, by his buddies as they behaved like typ They ch-ove at least 100 mph on a cmshed. Stetnet· suffered nine bro my fatnily to go to jail." $0v;N;< the students of Eastern llinois ical college seniors on the tape. cwving road shouting and cheering. ken 1'ibs, a punctw·ed lung and a'' bro Although he was told he could be - Universlty. SUbscription price: "This tape was never made to bat~ ken pelvis. His friend Darren was $38 per semester, $1 6 for summer only, $68 all At the the guys acted silly as sentenced to more than 30 yeat'S in year. The Daily Eastern News is a member of show to an audience," he said. "This they danced to live music and sang the othet· swvivor, and sustained p1'ison, Stemer was released Nov. The Associated Press. Which is entitled to tape was made to look at 10 or 15 along with the songs. It was m-ound minor injw'ies. 16, 1996. He was given 12 yeat'S of excklsive use of al articles appearing ® years later.