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Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC September 2002 Daily Egyptian 2002 9-27-2002 The Daily Egyptian, September 27, 2002 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_September2002 Volume 88, Issue 28 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 2002 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in September 2002 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. •F=", l·.. -_-_Ir~ .. E·GYPTlAN .• DAiiY WW_W.DAlLYEGYPTIAN.COM ~ Made-to-Qr(Jer . Chef Bill Connors'famous ·omele~ make students line up / for a homemade treat STORY BY KATI~ A. DAVIS • PHOTO BY ~1EVE J~~r:1~-~, 1 yle Burnside w-~irs anxious• Connors t:ikc their (avorite ingredi . I}: "fhe 'treat that only :nsits ents and rum them into :1 mouth· •· Lentz. Dining Hall every watering omelet. ··01hcr week had caused an excruciat Connors attributes the idea IO ingly long line, and Burnside must Cynthia Ketring, the food produc• ,. wait his rum. He moves up slowly, tion manager for Lentz Dining but still, he continues to wait for the Hall. However, she s:iid they,were next 45 minutes. both invoh·cd • in the creation of Then, finalh·, it was tim~. The Chef Bill omelets. radio-telcvisio~ · fre~hman from She said she had attended a con· Downer's Gro\'e muttered three · fercnce. at another school, where Chef. Bill Connors 'prepares some of his popular omelets for a few SIUC stuclents Thursday things: -"green peppers,· ham and students ordered omelets, which morning. at Lentz Hall. Connors travels between Lentz and Trueblood Cafeterias each week. tomato." gave her the initial idea. ·preparing mostly made-to-order omelets, but sometimes stir-fries, pancakes, pastas, and fajitas as · It was his first Chef Bill omelet: "It was Bill who s:iid he could well. Long lines of customers are a usual occurrence in the mornings at the cafeterias when Connors Chef Bill omelets have been a tr.l\·cl between cafeterias; she said. roob. · · residence hall tradition · for more Connors had previously cooked than five years. The tasty treats have omdets in :1 hotel in Chicago, where keeps the number :at four so he: can "He talks to the students and Connors said. · been known to cause long lines as he gradu:ited from \V:ishbum Trade keep track of wh:it omelet belongs tells· stories," she said. "He doesn't He has also particip:11ed in Fun srudents wait, in rum to watch Bill School in 1985. Connors, who h:id to who. Even still, he sometimes just stand there. He's entertaining.• Food Frid:ays in Lentz Dining Hall attended SIUC gets things mixed up. Amyee . Saari agreed that and Foodtastic Fridays in Trueblood for two ye:irs in "Sometimes I get to gabbing too Connors is a nice guy and that he Dining Hall. He has also heen search of :an · much and I lose tnck,• he said. "But m:ika really good omelets, but she known to m:ikc homemade salsa · engineering most students keep :111 c:yc on their . wo~d never sund in line for 30 and gen~ine c;~rm:in food. And he Che I DIU Connora cooks up hi~ popular omel4ts ai I.anti::.; :. degree, came omelet, so I can figure it out.~ ··,.. '" minutes for ,m omelet. plans to continue m:iking the popu~ and T,,..blood Dining ~tis every other.Tlw:sda1: He wlll be at _:T~eblood Dining Hall Oct. 3 dishing out o'!"'IIU.' . , back · . 10 Connors said the: gift of gab' is in "I get one if the lines aren't too fat Chef Bill omelets for ye:ars to Carbondale in important aspect to the Chef Bill long, but the most I'll wait is fifteen come. 1994. Three omelet. Students do not just stand minutes for an omelet," s:iid Saari, Burnside said he h:is lc:amed his Students can chooae trom U\eu Jn;redlenta: years later, he in line for half an hour for the: food; :in undecided sophomore from lesson, :and now gets to Lentz · was once again the present:ition also draws them in. Peotone. ,Dining Hall early on Chef Bill days creating made• He: said he enjoys the interaction. \Virhin the past few yc:irs, so that he docsn·t h:ive :1 45-minute t o • o r d e r "They don't just co,ne for the Connors has cxp:indcd his made-to· wait. omelets. food; he s:iid. "They come for the order business beyond omelets. "They're just re:illy good C o n n o rs show." He has been known to :m:ikc c.melets,• he s:iid'. admitted he S:ira.h Bruer,. :1 zoology sopho- , m:ide-to·order stir-fries, p:111c:1kes, could cook up more. from. Decatur, said Connors past:is :ind fajitas. &porter Katit .ti. D.r.1i1 to six omdets :it himself is an intric:ate part of a Chef "It's good, it's different, it's fresh tan ht rtathtd at .JOSH MISKINIS - 0AILY EGY"IAPf one time, but Bill omelet. and it's m:ide right in front of you," kdavis@dailycgypti:in.com Water causes campus stink Jury rules student's Algae bloom to blame . for peculiar smell . train death accidental Brad Brondsema Daily Egyptian mentioned that there was no head Heen:in's shirtless body, the train Coroner's inquest traum:1 that miy h:1\-c indiated cars had to be broken apart. Edoardo D.ielli, a junior in electri Hecn:in was att:1ckcd. Heen:in was identified by his dri- cal engineering from· Sao P:aulo, reveals de.tails .. · Kupferer s:iid the toxicology vcr's liccr.:sc.. · Bnzil, says he isn't· sure how reports indic:ited th:it Heen:in h:id Police S:lid Hccn:111's h:it :ind T Carbonda.le's water quality compares abo~t SIUC a· blood alcohol content level of shirt were found 196 feet from his with th:it of his homeland. t:1p water. .237 percent at the. time of his body, indic:iting they were removed But he is sure ofonc thing. · ·T · i m ·student's death death. A person with :1 lml of .08 before he \vas hit "Right now it tastes like dirt," he · Wiemken, a percent . is leg:ally intoxic:ated. Carbondale Police Detective s:iid of C:arbonda.le's tap W:lter. senior · in . Brian Peach Kupferer also S:lid Heen:an h:id a Bnd Boyd in=tigatcd the incl.' Utility officiili uy stc:amy sum· microbiology Daily Egyptian history ofbingc drinking and being dent :ind found \vimcsscs who S:lid mer tempcn:urcs and a .. wid~prc:ad f r o m arrested for p:assing out in public. Hccn:111, a member of the rugby drought arc to blame for a large algae Mo r r is o n, • A jury rulc;l "accidenul death" An investigation rcvc:aled that team, had been going to diffcrcr,t bloom in Ced:ar Lake that has been said he tastes Thursday .fcer. almost 25 minutes the . train engineer sounded the. parties all night, including one with :affecting the . odor :and taste of the . more th:in of ddiberaticu. in the case of :in horn :and.applied. the emergency his teammates at 40S 5. BC\-cP-1,>e. city's w.ater supply.. · . · just dirt in the Gus sa~: SIUC student hit and killed by a bnking system ~n the tr:iin when After the house parties, Boyd s:iid But the water is still s:afe to drink w:atei train in l:ite August. he S:IW Heen:111 l)ing f:acc up on the Heenan went to PK's, 308 5. :and b~the.. in, according to 'Jim . •J;'s like Would you like John Heen:in, who was a prc tncks. -· Illinois Aw:.. , :and then Sidetracks, Sw:ayze,· manager. of Carbondale's rust :and din; some water with m:ijor sophomore from Chic:igo, Howard Anderson, · Jackson 101 \V.CollcgcSt.,where,vimcss . \V:tter operations. •· . · he said of the your algae? fell ;isleep on the tr:iin tracks near County deputy coroner, S:lid the es s:ay a m:an fitting Hcenan's S,v:ayzc said he doesn't know when t:aste. "I've . the intersection of College Street, locomoti\'C was going 18 mph up a : dcsaiption w:as ~rted out of the the water's normal taste will return. · been going to Wal-:M:irt :and buying about 200 feet south of Sidetracks small gr:ade :and was pulling 75 to bar. :: · "h m:ay t:ikc :1 week in some areas'. .\v:ater.". .. · · . Bar :111d Grill, where he was killed 100 cars when it hit Heen:an. The Boyd said Hcen:an's f~ther told :and longe_r for others," he said. "It's: . For now, Swayze said his'office is by :1 northbound freight train just tr:iin . dragged and dismembered police his son \V:15 :1 ,-cry . deep · hard to say how long it will t:ike to go · · reco111mending .th.at concerned· rr..si after 1 a.m. on Aug. 23. Heenan's body, traveling almost slccpcr, :and other friends S:lid it aw.ay." · : : .: ·. ,:- · '. : c· • · . ~ dents chill their W:lter, which will Jackson County . Coroner 100 feet before coming to :1 com• \V:15 not uncommon for him to fall He said the algae growth is :1 com- .