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Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC August 2000 Daily Egyptian 2000 8-1-2000 The Daily Egyptian, August 01, 2000 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_August2000 Volume 85, Issue 185 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 2000 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in August 2000 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailycgyptian.com . · • SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSffY· AT CARBONDALE , . , Jenkies!. S~ooby plays ~rbondalg • . ' . =-::,-:,,.,,:,-:-:,,--, ~. I • • "" •~- .•~'»'-"' .. Scooby and cartoon - _friends shake up Universitj'Mall KELLY DAVENPORT DAILY E.GVPTIAN REPORTER ...... h was like a Beatles sig!tting f~r 5:· year-olds. Life-sized cartoons Scooby Doo, Yogi Bear, <l!Jickdraw McGraw and Huckleberry Hound go-go'd, twisted and . cha-cha'd through a 10-minutc song and --· dance routine fast weekend at University Mall, 1237 E. Main St., while hundreds of youngsters clamored for a fistful of.fur. "Scooby - you're my favorite actor," one young girl shouted after the Counfry Rock Jamboree performance, which fc:t tured songs like "Happy Days," "All Shook Up" and "Thank God I'm .A Country Bo):" Scooby and other cartoon characters - like the Jetsons and the Flintstones - jct around the country, especially during the Christmas season when about .JO shows might be touring at the s1me time, said Todd Gearhart of New York, front man for the cartoon gang and Par:imount/Hanna-Barbcra representa tive. A sea of pigtails, pacifiers and Scooby shirts swayed during the show-the boys Groups of children flock to meet.cartoon characters Hu~kleberry Hound and Quicltdraw McGraw afterthei(musical act-af. - University Mall Saturday. Hundreds of kids pushed their way~trough the crowd to meet. and ·t,ug:the life size·• : SEE SCOOBY, PAGE 7 characters who stared in Scooby Doo's Country Rock Jamboree. · · · · ··· • Fonner sorority membets ball< at pencilti~~ Ex-members face possible food preparation. Former sorority mem never received the money. The majority of the departed did so in:::.:: bers said the chapter house went without a Kri~ta Appenzeller, another former April. Earlier in February, members were· --~ fines far breaking cook during the -months of November member, pl-ins a com-crsation via tele told that unless they signed the lease for 1999 through February 2000 and the phone with her legal adviser and Turk the upcoming year, their. memberships chapter's housing bylaws, promised preparation of meals did not Tuesday. •· would be terminated.' · · lawsuit occur. "My lease was never formally signed by "Many of the girls' _self-termination Ongoing litigation lease agreement Former member Laura Brown will be an official of the sorority and returned to was due to them being forced to Jive in the plagues two SIUC CHRISTIAN HALII: meeting with Turk · me,W Appenzeller -said. house," Garrison said. professors. DAILY EGYPTIAN RltPORTER Wednesday to. review "Therefore, I withdrew the She said that a number ofmembers did p,1gtJ paperwork regarding the lease before it was accept- not want to sign the lease because of ani Former members of Sigma Sigma lease agreement. Brown Many of the girls' ed." . mosity that had been brewir.6 within the Sigma's Alpha Nu chapter are voicing · said she was informed in a self-termination was She did ·not break the chapter since the previous fall. opposition lo financial charges they phone call by Turk that k-ase, she said, and feels Jodie Munge, a chapter advi~_for the incurred for breaking lease agreements. "they were going to try and due to them being that no penalty should be Alpha Nu chapter, signed the fall 2000 . According to the sorority's lawyer Gene work it so that everyone is forced to live in the charged to her. lease as a representative of the national Turk, as many as five or six former mem- happy." house. According to Sigma organization. She said former members hers have contacted his office with these Brown said former Sigma Sigma chapter were "kicked out and their leases were ter A Troy Story questions. Turk said it appears former sorority members were not TORI <iARRJSON bylaws, if a member _is minated." The former members are being Alter playing in the members who quit living at the sorority's returned their August 1999 form<r Sign,> Sigma Sigma member evicted, they will lose their charged the stated fee of$5()() according to NBA, Troy Hudson house on Greek Row, either through evic- security deposit of $350 deposit and be penalized bylaws. returns to tion or self-termination, are in violation of and were charged $500 for breaking lease $500 for breaking the lease. The money is "Alums are coming to help out," Carbondale. !case agreements. agreements by not living in the house for a to be paid by the fast day ofspring semes Munge said, referring to c.he necessary pagt12 This could mean as many as 13"to 16 full year.The amountofmoneyatthecen ter or c1sc the member \viii be turned over transition facing the chapter after severe membcrs will not get back their security ter of discussion cumulates near $10,000. to a collection :igency. member losses in A'pril and this summer. deposits and will be fined $500, Turk said. Former members Kristin Palmer and In the chapter's last meeting of the Munge was reluctant to answer any more Additional moneys are in question by Toni Garrison said they were promised semester, a two-month departure of near questions and expressed disbelief at the former members, concerning payment for reimbursement for food preparation but ly half of the sorority's membership began. idea of these claims. Walker New SIU president . Music indu~ Napster ~ash over fight for rights brings experience to Saluki Athletics. then, there have been charges by the RIM that the Bartolomucci said because it is so easy and cheap; he Online music grant lives far now, online music exchanges go beyond the boundaries of likes downloading music this way. pagt 12 but lawsuits are ongoing "fair use." What makes Napster different from other online Fair use, as the law defines it, means music must be music exchanges is the centralized nature of the compa .JASON COKER exchanged for private consumption. However, many of ny. Napster allows music to actually reside on its com 0AIL.Y EGYPTIAN REPORTER Napster's customers are known to be trading music in puter servers, whereas others like Freenet and Gnutella, large quantities, and music industry insiders say this is only operate as a place for people to exchange their •MiBihi· Napster Inc., the Frankenstein's monster of the wrecking' their business and destroying profits. music. It is the centralization that allo\vs music to be TODAY music industry, remains temporarily online thanks to a Ben Bartolom(!cci, an Information System exchanged in bulk, thereby crossing ~c fair use line, Partly Cloudy successful appeal that kept the technological maverick Technology junior from St. Peters, Mo., has down according to U.S. District Cou_rt Judge Marilyn Hall . open. loaded every Metallica song he has ever heard and has P.atel. · High: 90 A U.S. Di~trict Court onler ruling that Napster go even downloaded a whole Metallica CD. He said he Fem Logan, a cinema and photography professor, Low:· 67 offiine July 30 did not take effect. Instead, two federal does not think much i:an be done to stop businesses like said she has never used Napster. Instead, she prefers to appeals judges decided in favor of the controversial N.apster because the technology is easy to obtain. He download free or cheap music from a site called TOMORROW Internet business. said there is a question about who is at fault, either MP3.com, which is artist-approved. Most of the music Mctallica was first to compl.tin, asking that 334,345 Napst~r or its customers. comes from new bands trying to broaden their audience Partly Cloudy traders of their music, which the band recorded on a "It's hard to say who's in the wrong," Bartolomucci but all genres are represented, High: 90 single weekend earlier this year, be banned from the said. "I really don't sec :my clea:-cut solutions. It's a gray "I've made enough to make two CDs, but it was all ; Low: 65 · site. Napster complied, but now the Recording Industry area." · legal and \vith the artist's permission," Logan_said. "If Association of America is suing to stop all non-paying Napster is appealing because a person can place people like the music, they should support the artist." · music exchanges from taking place. between 150 to 175 songs on a single CD in MP3 for At least 75,000 Napsterites are threatening a boycott Sl~GLE cor\' FREE Napster, founded last year by 19-year-old Shawn mat. The MP3 is computer formatted, originally for against RIM to stop their la\vsuit. RIM represents \'01. 85, NO. I 85 Fanning, a student at Northeastern University in online movies. The usual CD format, called Redhook, . major music companies like EMI, BMG, Sony, Warner 81',\G[S Boston, was originally intended for person~ use. 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