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For more information, please contact [email protected]. “Tell THE TRUTH and don’T BE AFRAID.” WWW.DENNEWS.COM ThuRSDAY Eastern Illinois University, Charleston Volume | 92 Issue | 72 12.7.06 STUDENT GOVERNMENT| ELECTIONS CAMPUS| STUDENT gOVERNMENT Anderson Students to contest elections By Matt Hopf calls attention Student Government Reporter The election results were to safety presented at Wednesday’s Student Senate meeting with an overall total By Stephen Di Benedetto of 399 votes. Staff Reporter The only contested election was in the at-large district. The Illinois Board of Higher Student Senate member Tori Education has set aside zero dollars Frazier lost her seat by seven in its budget for improving campus votes while sophomore Chris safety. Kromphardt missed winning a seat Student Body President Sean by three votes. Anderson addressed the issue in his Frazier plans to contest the State of University speech during election results. Wednesday’s Student Senate “First my plan is to contest the Meeting. election, seeing as how the polls “Currently, campus safety is were closed for a fact whenever not one of the multiple priorities people were going to vote for me,” set forth by the Illinois Board of Frazier said. Higher Education,” Anderson said. Ashlei Birch, student executive “Illinois is one of four states in the director of elections, said the only United States which does not have times that she knew of polls being a specific comprehensive analysis of closed is if an election worker had crime statistics among colleges and to leave for class. universities.” Election workers cannot be told ERIC HILTNER | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS Anderson, however, has a plan to to stay if they have class, if the other Student Body President Sean Anderson and senate member Jeff Melanson consult “Roberts Rules of Order” improve campus safety throughout worker has not yet arrived, Birch to check on a rule concerning majority votes after a roll-call vote on an amendment to senate bylaw change the state of Illinois. said. 06-07-03 during Wednesday’s Student Senate meeting in the Arcola-Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther “Campus Safety Initiative: Frazier will need to submit a King Jr University Union. A bylaw change, which would have made it a requirement for all members to act as Illinois is a program which will written complaint with justification liaisons to Registered Student Organization on a weekly basis, failed 11-11-2. ultimately request that the Illinois for it, said Ceci Brinker, director of Board of Higher Education and Student Life. (Student Body) Constitution for the allegations, Brinker said. Getting more students involved the governor make campus safety a The current election guidelines contesting elections and make sure Jeff Lange has been elected is what Lange plans to accomplish priority,” Anderson said. established in 2006 says any the proper guidelines are followed,” Student Senate speaker for the for his term. Anderson went on to explain his violation must be submitted within Brinker said. spring semester. three phases of CSI: Illinois. seven days after the election. A hearing of the Student Supreme Former speaker Kent Ohms did His first phase is to inform “I’ll review the procedures in the Court could be convened to review not win re-election. » SEE elecTioN, PAGE 2 and get feedback from all Illinois colleges and universities of the Campus Safety Initiative. His second phase is to gain support for the initiative NATION | 65TH ANNIVERSARY through campus’ Faculty Senate, Student Senate, University Police Department and President’s Council. Pearl Harbor survivor numbers dwindling The Associated Press » SEE SAFETY, PAGE 2 every five years for four decades, but plunged the United States into workday as a civilian pipe fitter they’re now in their 80s or 90s and World War II and set in motion the when he was thrust into assisting in PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii are not counting on a 70th reunion. events that led to atomic bombings everything from spraying water on SEAN ANDERSON | – This will be their last visit to They have made every effort to of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. the ships to aiding casualties. STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT this watery grave to share stories, report for one final roll call. “I suspect not many people “From the time the first bomb exchange smiles, find peace and “We’re like the dodo bird. We’re have thought about this, but we’re dropped and for the next 15 salute their fallen friends. almost extinct,” said Middlesworth, witnessing history,” said Daniel minutes, it was complete chaos,” This, they say, will be their final now an 83-year-old retiree from Martinez, chief historian at the USS he said. “Nobody knew what was “Currently, farewell. Upland, Calif., but then on Dec. 7, Arizona Memorial. “We are seeing going on. Everybody was running campus safety With their number quickly 1941 an 18-year-old Marine on the the passing of a generation.” around like a chicken with their dwindling, survivors of Pearl USS San Francisco. The attack may have occurred head cut off.” is not one of Harbor will gather today one last Nearly 500 survivors from 65 years ago, but survivors say they Chun saw the Oklahoma the multiple time to honor those killed by the across the nation were expected to can still hear the explosions, smell and West Virginia torpedoed by Japanese 65 years ago, and to mark make the trip to Hawaii, bringing the burning flesh, taste the sea water Japanese aircraft. priorities set a day that lives in infamy. with them 1,300 family members, and hear the cries. He heard the tapping of sailors forth by the “This will be one to remember,” numerous wheelchairs and too “The younger ones were crying, trapped in the hulls of sunken said Mal Middlesworth, president many haunting memories. ‘Mom! Mom! Mom!’” said Edward ships. Illinois Board of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Memories of a shocking, two- Chun, who witnessed the attack He escaped death when Ten-Ten of Higher Association. “It’s going to be hour aerial raid that destroyed or from the Ten-Ten dock, just a was strafed, leaving behind dead something that we’ll cherish heavily damaged 21 ships and 320 couple of hundred yards away from and wounded. Education.” forever.” aircraft, that killed 2,390 people Battleship Row. The survivors have met here and wounded 1,178 others, that Chun, 83, had just begun his » SEE SURvivoR, PAGE 7 Men’S BASKETBALL PREVIEW TOP CAT EASTERN VS. TENNESSEE TECH SWIMMING NOTEBOOK cheatsheet Samford head coach uses Martin continues despite Tennessee Tech coach returns Break will reunite swimmers UNIVERSITY Princeton style offense to win former teammates leaving to the sidelines after syndrome and their high school coaches President Hencken appeals » It’s these simple words that got » Eastern head coach Mike Miller » A year ago at this time, Mike Sutton » Head coach Ray Padovan said the Samford head coach Jimmy Tillette to is stopped randomly to talk about could only slightly move his thumb and winter break would allow the teams to more money for study abroad sell his players to a offense they had it. He has received e-mails and gets index finger on his left hand. work out on their own or at their former » President Lou Hencken kept himself never seen live and was unique to its phone calls all wanting to talk about six Sutton, Tennessee Tech’s head high schools. busy early this week by attending both region of the country. seconds of play. coach, collapsed April 10, 2005, Senior captain Megan Frawley an Illinois Board of Higher Education Explaining the Princeton-style “You certainly don’t see something coming out of a hotel in Norfolk, Va. said it is always nice to be able to go meeting as well as a forum hosted by offense in the middle of Dixie country like that very often,” Miller said. “People Sutton was in Norfolk at the Portsmouth home and train with old coaches and the Commission on the Abraham Lincoln became similar to teaching a foreign are still talking about it because of the Invitational watching Tech’s Willie Jenkins teammates. 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