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charges l i g h t s dropped by Kevin Eagan Alestle News Reporter

SIUE Police are dropping charges against a man once charged in connection C a m e r a with a Jan. 25 campus car burglary. Gregory Adams of Belleville was charged with three counts of felony burglary by Madison County State's Attorney Bill Mudge on March 1. One charge was connected to a car burglary that took place at the Korte Stadium Parking Lot on Jan. 25. The other two charges were connected to car A c t i o n burglaries outside the YMCA of Andy Rathnow/Atestle Southwestern Illinois in Maryville. Global Village hosts Lance Walters and Maggie Rhynes present news items on Global SIUE Police Lt. Kevin Schmoll said Village, a television show produced by the Department of Mass Communications. the charges against Adams are being dropped after SIUE Police reviewed surveillance tapes of Adams and could not Global Village puts students ccon-air verify that Adams was the suspect connected with the Jan. 25 car burglary. by Sarah Byer St. Louis area. Alestle News Reporter The two charges by the Maryville The two people sitting in the armchairs are juniors Lance Police Department against Adams still Walters and Maggie Rhynes, the hosts of the show. The set is dark; only one comer in the room is bright, lit by stand. Global Village is a television show that airs on the Higher gigantic lights, a sea of which flood the ceiling above. Two Schmoll said that SIUE Police are Education Channel and is taped, edited and distributed to people sit next to one another in armchairs on a set composed continuing to ramp up patrols of campus different channels throughout the St. Louis area. Show times of fancy bookshelves, with ivy and other plants lining the walls parking lots as the number of campus and days differ depending on what area it is aired in. and a coffee table covered in mugs. burglaries are on the rise. Each production is different and can contain interviews, “Stand by,” a voice yells through the tense air. commercials, field pieces, sports segments and entertainment “We are working with local The voice comes from a form standing among three large community police officers and also have segments. This way, the class allows for students to learn about cameras, each with a teleprompter attached to the front. The plain-clothes officers patrolling campus everything that is included in making a production. The last person waits and then it points to the people sitting in the lots,” Schmoll said. production was Tuesday. armchairs, who begin to talk, reading off of the prompters. Graduate student and producer Holly Koofer organized That person is senior Stefani Walker, the floor manager of nearly everything for the show. Kevin Eagan can be reached at Global Village. She is but one part of a production that creates alestlenews@£inMil.c(m or 650-3527. a half-hour show comprised of SIUE news aired throughout the GLOBAL VILLAGE/pg.4 Spring( board) has sprung Incoming freshmen get taste of SIUE during Springboard to Success bvby Zach Groves odd jobs. Alestle News Reporter “A job is how you are going to make a contribution to the world,” Springer said. “It is a For everyday college students, SIUE is a place big part of how we define ourselves.” with friends, classes and activities. For high school After also hearing Academic Counseling and students preparing for college, the university can be Advising Assistant Director Cheryle Tucker-Loewe unfamiliar territory. break down the 124 credit hours needed to Ninety prospective students got a taste of the graduate through their major, minor and general campus atmosphere as they spent Monday at education courses, the students broke up into SIUE’s Springboard to Success in an effort to get groups based on the university’s well-known accustomed to college life. animals, such as the Cougar and the Canadian The students settled into tables at the Morris goose. University Center’s Meridian Ballroom with their Students then either ventured to the Service parents as Springboard Coordinator Emily York, Center to get their Cougar Cards, Academic her fellow Springboard leaders and guest speakers Advising to get the advising needed to sign up for took center stage to highlight what the university classes online through the Banner system or to offers in terms of academic opportunities. other student sessions. College of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean Instead of the usual meetings with academic Laura Lengyel/Alestle Incoming freshmen Kelcie Brasel and Gary Whiteside register for Carl Springer explained to the group how college fall classes as sophomore business marketing major Jake Presley became a priority for him after working multiple SPRINGBOARD/pg.4 provides assistance. www.thealestie.com Thursday, March 15, 2007

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Police issued Carla Gonzalez a citation for speeding and the by Catherine Klene Hargis was mildly Social (Security number), but it operation of an uninsured motor vehicle on Stadium Drive. Alestle News Reporter concerned that some of his wasn’t,” Zwijack said. required courses would be filled The Bapner system Police issued Kenneth Perkins Cook a citation for the operation of The race is on to snag a seat by then. generates a university ID and an uninsured motor vehicle on Cougar Lake Drive. in fall 2007 classes. “I have to get into certain new Cougarnet PIN for each At 8:30 a.m. Monday, classes to get into the School of student when they access the 3-10 students with 90 or more credit Business,” Hargis said. new system. Police issued Dustin Jumper a citation for the operation of an hours, honors scholars, athletes, Still, he felt Web Zwijack said it did not take uninsured motor vehicle on North University Drive. students with disabilities and registration offered students him long to figure out the new even a few incoming freshmen more freedom in scheduling. numbers and ID using the Police arrested Marvin Reeves on a Pontoon Beach Police navigated their way through the “I think it’s convenient option to look up his new Department warrant for failure to appear and contempt of court. new Banner Web registration information with his e-ID and . because they can do it on their system. own time,” Hargis said. “But it’s password. 3-11 For the first time at SIUE, still nice to meet with an After entering this Police arrested Megan Hoosen for illegal consumption of alcohol by students registered themselves adviser.” information, the system a minor. Hoosen was given a notice to appear. for classes online, and some had Dillon said the freshmen provides the user with his or her a tougher time of it than others. who attended the first university ID and Banner PIN Police issued Jennifer Harkey a citation for the operation of an Second-year student Springboard session Monday number. uninsured motor vehicle on Poag Road. Richelle Dillon has senior status picked up Web registration fairly Once he accessed Banner, and is an honors scholar. Dillon quickly. There was only one Zwijack said he had problems Police issued Adrienne Boatman a citation for disobeying a stop registered for classes at 8:30 problem she noticed. registering online for surveying sign on South University Drive. a.m. Monday. Some freshmen could not courses. When he attempted to “It was really easy because I get into the more advanced sign up for section two of the Police issued Andrea Hicks a citation for speeding on South knew how to do it,” Dillon said. classes their advisers course, he said the system University Drive. Dillon, a Springboard recommended because they required him to sign up for student leader, was trained to didn’t fulfill the prerequisites, sections one and two. Police arrested Lionel Bolden for driving with suspended registration teach incoming freshmen how Dillon explained. Zwijack said the second on North University Drive. to register themselves online. She said advisers were section of this course had issues Business freshman T.C. present to override Banner and with credit hours. Campus Scanner Hargis is also a Springboard let them into the classes. “It said zero hours for the student leader. Senior engineering student second section,” Zwijack said. Cultural Landscape Study: Join Gamma Theta Upsilon and the “It was a mock Ryan Zwijack logged on at 9:30 When he dropped the first Department of Geography for the presentation “Morristown: A registration,” Hargis said of his a.m. section to sign up for the Cultural Landscape Study.” Gillian Acheson will present the talk on training. “We got to go through “I was worried about not second, Zwijack said he could one New Jersey town, the environment its residents have built and all the steps.” getting into classes,” he said. not get back into either. how demographic changes have influenced the cultural landscape. Hargis will have to wait to Zwijack was confused when After signing up for his The event will be held at 3 p.m. Monday in Alumni Hall Room 1316. exercise his Web registration prompted for his university ID other classes, Zwijack spoke For more information, contact Gamma Theta Upsilon at prowess; he cannot access and PIN. \ [email protected]. Banner until April 2. “I assumed it was your BANNER/pg.5

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SPRINGBOARD from pg. 1 ___

advisers to sign up for classes, McCullough said numerous a chance to chat with the participants went to the Office of students did have problems Springboard leaders and later Information Technology’s signing up and his fellow leaders took part in information sessions computer lab in Dunham Hall to had some trouble helping them, about living on campus and register using Banner. but that is normal on the first campus life for the commuters. In what was already a Springboard session o f the year. Parents were also encouraged challenging first day for the “We may have some to attend a seminar where prospective students, problems problems we have to fix on the Bursar’s Office representatives www.siue.edu/CAB with logging in and preparing spot as far as getting Banner IDs explained how the billing period fall schedules created some issues corrected or getting e-IDs set up works for the students, financial in the lab. correctly,” McCullough said. “We aid and the students’ Adam Leggett of East Alton are getting used to a new responsibility of keeping track of said he was frustrated with the schedule. It will settle down once their tuition records on system. we get a few sessions under our Cougarnet, especially since their “It is very hard and belt.” mothers and fathers cannot enter confusing to get into the Springboard, which started their accounts unless authorized. program and get your classes its first session of this year on Prospective students said scheduled,” Leggett said. “Pretty Monday, has been required for they had a newfound perspective much everybody had the same incoming freshmen since 2001. o f the college lifestyle. problem.” According to Springboard “They are actually doing a Doug Thomas of Taylorville, staff, providing something new really great job helping us out, however, thought the system was each year is a priority. like telling us what is going on at easy, but said practice would help Springboard leader and this college,” Jonathan Collins of with the adjustment. sophomore business major Jake Edwardsville said. “It went real smooth. Presley said they try to give “a Jonathan’s father, Terry, said Everything was pretty self- fresh perspective instead of ... he was pleased with the explanatory,” Thomas said. “It (people) getting the same Springboard changes. His looks like some o f (the students) answers each year.” daughter, Sheena, is a freshman are having errors with their Campus tours, information at SIUE. classes. If they get those figured seminars and opportunities for “I think there were 50 or 60 out, it should help a lot.” incoming freshmen to meet in our group (before) and there Springboard leader and faculty and staff in their are about 90 in our group this senior engineering major Tim prospective majors are some year,” he said, “so it is a little bit McCullough gave the students a features they provide. bigger than last year.” crash course on entering the Since Springboard replaced For more information on identification numbers they the Pre-Entry Advising and Springboard, e-mail received from enrollment as well Registration program, its goal [email protected] or call as their personal identification has been to improve students’ 650-3705. numbers from academic advising. transition to university life. O n l i n e 2 4 / 7 ! They also needed to determine Later in the day, students Zach Groves can be reached at their password and “e-IDs.” and parents ate a buffet lunch and [email protected] or 650-3527. Thursday, March 15, 2007 www.thealesde.com

BANNER from pg. 2 with his adviser, Civil adjustment so far has been Engineering Chair Mark Rossow, prerequisites. When students about his problem. Rossow registered with advisers, the assured Zwijack he would have a advisers could sign students up space in the class. for classes without meeting the Rossow quickly recognized prerequisites if it was in the die error. students’ best interest. “The secretary and I “Our prerequisites are in That’s right... Refinance your auto loan accidently put down zero (credit place to make sure students are hours) and just didn’t catch it,’’ coming in with a good with Scott Credit Union and get $100! Rossow said. “We’re going to foundation before they arc- have this thing fixed by next introduced to new course Plus, take advantage of week.” material,” Strom said. Rossow said Zwijack was the Because this is systematically only student to report the enforced online, Strom said problem, and said since the students might need to meet with No payments .25% APR* discount system is new, there are going to advisers again to discuss with automatic payment be some start up issues. alternatives. for 90 days! “I think it will be an Strom said many students improvement,” Rossow said, were worried the computer adding that it would give system might overload the day students more control and instant Web registration began. See our low auto loan rates at www.scu.org! feedback. “Once we opened Zwijack agreed, saying there registration, we were not aware were “bound to be a few bugs” at of any performance problems,” * APR = Annual Percentage Rate Loan subject to credit approval. Offer expires March 30 2007 Offer does not include refinances on first. Strom said. Scott Credit Union loans. Not valid with any other offer S100 will be deposited at time of closing The transaction requirement is a minimum For die most part, Zwijack For students who have not $5,000 loan. The minimum term is 24 months. Your first payment can be deferred for 90 days, but interest will accrue from the date of lo a n ; said he understood the new yet registered, Strom offered a closing. Rates terms'and conditions subject to change without notice Rates may vary according to your credit history online Web registration. few suggestions. “It’s pretty straightforward, “Make sure that they know just a few kinks in the system,” their university ID and their new Zwijack said. Cougarnet PIN,” Strom said. Offer extended through Rossow said he has had only “That’s something they can March 30, 2007! COTT one other problem with Banner. access right now.” CREDIT His department requested Strom said students should 2 VZOJV waitlists on courses, and they be sure to meet with their were not made available. Still, advisers to obtain an enrollment 1067 S. State Route 157 Edwardsville, IL 62025 Rossow said the Office of the PIN and ensure there are no ( 8 0 0 ) 8 8 8 - 4 7 2 8 • ( 6 1 8 ) 3 4 5 - 1 0 0 0 Registrar assured him it would be holds on accounts. fixed Tuesday morning. “I just hope that students Sophomore community find it user-friendly, and that they health education major Stacey get used to these changes,” Strom Briggs is a member of the track said. “I appreciate their patience.” and field team. As an athlete, Storm said she appreciates Briggs chose her fall 2007 classes any student input. J im m y C o b b at noon Monday. “I’d love to hear from “It was pretty easy,” Briggs students,” Strom said. “ We said. “I think it was a good idea.” welcome any comments about Legendary Jazz Drummer Briggs explained athletes the process.” often have to work around daily Students can also register on E v e n ts: practice schedules and games or designated days in Dunham Hall, * Drum Master Class meets. Registering first allows Room 0214, where an adviser them the most flexibility for both will assist from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. March 14, 3:00pm classes and athletics. Thursday, March 22, Wednesday, Dunham Hall, Rm 1114 Registrar Laura Strom said March 28, and Friday, April 6. Tuesday that the transition to For help with Web • Open Lecture Banner has gone well so far. registration, students should cal March 15, 12:30pm “ The system is working the Service Center at 650-2080. exactly as it’s built to work,” Dunham Hall Theater Strom said. Catherine Klene can be reached at Strom said the biggest [email protected] or 650-3527. • Small Group Master Class March 15, 3:30pm Dunham Hall, Rm 1114 TRANS FATS from pg. 3 • Concert with Jazz Faculty or arteries once they are labeled as containing zero trans March 15, 7:00pm clogged,” Popkess said. “The fat. Dunham Hall Theater process doesn’t easily reverse “If you have a family history itself.” of heart disease or a previous However, Popkess said not heart problem, I would all fatty acids are harmful. The recommend you consult your better ones are the omega fatty physician for an individual diet acids, which are in vegetable oils. plan,” Health Services Director Goldsmith said all food is Rianne Greenwalt said. “I think required to have a label on it Dining Services should be stating whether or not it contains commended on their proactive trans fat. Some companies are approach in order to minimize trying to alter their products so trans fats since they are known to they do not include trans fats. increase heart problems.” According to Goldsmith, a product with .5 grams o f trans fats or less is labeled to be trans- fat free. If a product has .5 grams Lori Schueler can be reached at Sponsored by Kimmel and student activity fees, Black Studies, Friends of of trans fat, the product can be [email protected] or 650-3527. ■______Lovejoy Library, and the Jazz Department.______www.thealestle.com Thursday, March 15, 2007 GLOBAL VILLAGE from pg. 4 times vary each time it is “Extreme Makeover” and the According to Donald, the class, even if productions can and the WSIE radio,” Donald broadcast. new movie “Norbit.” students become prepared for be tense at times. said. “These are opportunities “We are telling SIUE’s Turner was a special case interviews while taking the class. “It’s hectic, pretty fun, but it that few college programs offer. story,” Donald said. because he auditioned to come “These guys are really can get overwhelming,” It’s an awful good setup we have According to Donald, on the show. Both King and motivated, they know they need Richardson said. “When you’re here and it provides students Global Village has a potential Haydon were asked for an the experience,” Donald said. directing, you have to know with great opportunities.” audience of 1.75 to 2 million appearance, but anyone can Donald stressed that if everyone’s positions. It can be For volunteer or audition people. Donald stressed that the audition or volunteer. students are asked about frustrating.” information, contact Donald at small SIUE production has to “If you want to work in the experience in interviews they can Despite the difficulty of the [email protected] or 650-2236. compete with several channels; mass comm field - any side of it simply say, “Yeah, I did that, want task, Richardson usually directs, however, they still get an - then this is definitely an to see a tape?” and always edits shows. audience. opportunity to take advantage Tuesday’s director, senior “SIUE Global Village is a Sarah Byer can be reached at According to Donald, the of,” Rhynes said. Julius Richardson, said he loves practical outlet like the Alestle [email protected] or 650-3527. information on the show all ties Rhynes also said that Global in to news at SIUE. Guests are Village is a good opportunity for people who are considered to anyone who thinks that they will have a special story or who are in enjoy working in front of a some way related to the campus. camera. Tuesday’s show included Walters thinks that in order three guests: Michelle King, the to succeed as a mass campus life assistant director, communications major, students James Turner, a sophomore have to know many skills. nursing major and Rick Haydon, “You kind o f have to be a the director of SIUE’s Jazz jack o f all trades for our major,” Appetizers Combo, which performed and Walters said. Lunch & Dinner was filmed for the end of the However, taking the class to Sushi • Noodle • Sake show. build skills and have fun is not While King and Haydon the only reason Walters enrolled. 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Corrections: In the “Men’s PKlf^Ce CMMLieSSPHS th é 0IG MAC tennis team nips lllinois- Alesile Z 2 2 Springfield at home" story from Megan McClure Feb. 27 issue of the Alestle, Editor in Chief A 016 MAC/ f^lé-5 SIUE men’s tennis associate Heather Wilshire ¿WV A CoK^‘ *‘ AmP head coach Kyler Updyke's last Managing Editor name was misspelled. p a H 'T T é u . Updyke’s title was also Justin Gibson CHAKVèS S misprinted as the men’s tennis Opinion Editor assistant coach. Updyke is the Matthew Schroyer associate head coach for the Lifestyles Editor men and women's tennis Matthew Bruce teams. Sports Editor Katy Hartwig In the “SIUE to become Photo Editor Division I” story from the March 1 issue of the Alestle, it Eric Brinkmann Chief Copy Editor was incorrectly stated that Student Trustee Jesse Phelps Katie Patterson and Trustee Samuel Goldman Kristen Reber did not vote. It should have Emily Siemer Darlene Wyatt said they both voted “nay.” Copy Editors The Alestle regrets the errors. Megan Gattung Advertising Manager Maurice Bishop Molly Maurer Graphics/Production Student proposes solution to parking fees Lance Speere Adviser Ouch! That’s one painful parking ticket to recoup the same they need big trucks to hand out currently spend! That seems like Mike Genovese smack in the face. For those o f amount of revenue. The general parking tickets? a no-brainer for me. Graphics Supervisor you who don’t know what I’m campus population shouldn’t be Instead of driving the trucks, The next step would be Aria Capel talking about, I’m referring to penalized, however those who I propose they invest in the reducing the Parking Services Graduate Assistant the recent violate parking policies should. Honda Civic. The Civic has an staff. In any other industry if the announcement — Another option for Parking EPA rating of 37 miles per company cannot meet budget Debbie Roberts Office Manager of parking fee L c ttC f Services to consider is to reduce gallon, or perhaps more demands personnel cuts are the increases. The f o t n C expenditures instead of trying to impressively 49 miles per gallon norm. What make Parking Ashlee Glover gouge more revenue from for its Hybrid edition. Here is Services immune from this Delia Major r e a s o n ? E d l t O T Jessica Wallace According to ______everyone else. some math that may surprise a unfortunate fact of life? Office Secretaries the Alesde, it is If they choose not to add few folks. I think the Parking Services partly due to the new ticket fine $7.16 to each ticket, then I Based on each vehicle management should challenge Letters to the Editor Policy: schedule not creating enough propose the new parking fine driving 50 miles per day and the themselves to find alternatives to The editors, staff and publishers of the revenue. structure should be rolled back current gas price in Edwardsville fee increases for the hard­ Alestle believe in the free exchange of Since students, faculty and into its old form. This rollback of $2.47, the savings from working students, faculty and ideas, concerns and opinions and will staff are being more responsible will undoubtedly raise revenues gasoline purchases are staff o f this university. Please publish as many letters as possible. drivers, we are now hit with while only penalizing those who astounding. remember not every budget Letters may be turned in at the Alestle major, unavoidable fees. I guess cannot obey laws. 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An SIUE graduate won the struggle of her life when she survived a bout with breast cancer. Now, she tells her story in hopes that others will live.

Jamie Currier is pictured in late 2006, holding the hair shaved off her head. Her fiancé shaved her head in preparation for chemotherapy.

By Matthew Schroyer Currier was subjected to numerous medical tests, include a firefighter recovering from burns, photos that Alestle Lifestyles Editor including ultrasounds and MRIs. Currier said she started Currier felt instantly moved by. hoping for the best and expecting the worst, and her “The pictures are very powerful,” Currier said. family took the news very hard. Floyd-Hendey took photographs before and after the amie Currier isn’t the type to forget her camera on “This is where it gets strange,” Currier said. “I’m operation - in some of Currier’s most agonizing trips. She and her fiancé, Brett Kalker, travel every adopted, and the person that adopted me died of breast moments. Currier said the pain resulting from the summer and have the photos to prove it. cancer. As soon as I told my family, they immediately mastectomy made her life miserable at all hours of the day Sometimes it is Taste of Chicago. Other times it is thought of my mother. They were really scared.” - even late at night, when she found herself tossing and Indiana. Once it was Mexico, but that was a rare trip. Currier kept a journal all the while. At first, she used turning, fighting for sleep. “It’s never too far, just enough to get away,” said it to keep track of appointments and record the news - “You don’t know how much you use your upper body Currier, an SIUE graduate who lives in Collinsville. both good and bad. Gradually, she began writing to sit up, or how much you move around when you lie flat They never take a lot of photos, since it is just the two whatever came to mind. Her journal became a tool to on your back,” Currier said. “I never realized how of them. One sticks out in her mind the most, a picture of help her cope, and months later, served as a reminder of uncomfortable it would be just to lay down. I had a really the both of them, ready to take a plunge into the ocean for her hardships. difficult time sleeping because I couldn’t get in a snorkeling. “Now that I’m feeling better, I think it was a piece of comfortable position.” “It’s just a picture of us, and you can’t see anything cake, and I tend to forget the pain that went with it,” All of this put a toll on Currier’s psyche. behind us except water,” Currier said. “I love being Currier said. “When I look at the journal, it reminds me. ‘‘The lack of sleep, along with the pain, sort of around water.” It wasn’t a piece of cake. It wasn’t easy.” pushed me over the edge,” she said. Not all of Currier’s photographs bring back fond Reading her entries of that most unusual and dire of Currier’s wounds weren’t just physical. She attended memories of summer trips from yesteryear. Some of them summers, she said it is hard to believe support groups to cope with the document a summer not spent in paradise, but rather, a some of the feelings she was What: "How I Spent my emotional issues that would result, but medical hell. These photographs in Currier’s album date experiencing. Summer Vacation: A Visual said it didn’t prepare her for the to the summer of 2006; they are black and white semi­ “It ranges from scared to freaked Diary of Jamie Currier's aftermath of the surgery. nudes, picturing her stitched and scarred upper body, both out,” she said. “I didn’t want to lose Journey with Cancer" “For 29 years I had looked down breasts surgically removed. control and spazz out or anything.” and seen a pair o f breasts,” Currier said. “You can tell by the look on my face that I’m in pain,” When: Today 2:30 to 5 p.m. The closer she got to the date of “Now, there they go. You’re completely Currier said. “Just to see them, I can’t even find the right Where: Peck Hall, 3117 her bilateral mastectomy, the flat chested, and there’s tubes coming word for it.” procedure that would remove both her out.” Currier’s ordeal started in July 2006, when she breasts and change her appearance forever, die more she After the photos were developed and Currier discovered a pea-sized lump in one o f her breasts. When thought about being photographed. She wanted to have marveled at the anguish the images revealed, Floyd- she visited a doctor to have the lump surgically removed, her image captured, something to hold onto after the Hendey suggested they be shown to others. it wasn’t a big to-do. surgeon’s knife would remove her breasts. “She made me see that the pictures, as much as they “They told me ‘you’re too young, it’s probably “I knew that I wouldn’t look the same. I always liked were helping me, could help other people.” nothing, don’t worry about it,’” Currier said, who was 29 the way I looked before,” Currier said. “I never wished for They decided to send a message of awareness by at the time. bigger boobs, a better body, anything like that.” combining the Floyd-Hendey’s photos and Currier’s Still, she opted to have a biopsy performed. A former professor led her to Disability Support journal entries in a presentation titled “How I Spent my “I thought, ‘No. Don’t tell me what I have to worry Services Director Jane Floyd-Hendey. Floyd-Hendey, Summer Vacation: A Visual Diary of Jamie Currier’s about,”’ Currier said. whose mother also died from breast cancer, is a Journey with Cancer.” The exhibit is scheduled as part ot After the biopsy was analyzed, her doctor was photographer in her free time. Her previous subjects this year’s Women’s History Month program, and will be surprised to find Currier had breast cancer. From then, SllRVIVAiypg-9 Thursday, March 15, 2007 www. thealesde. com SURVIVAL from pg. ft______on display from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Wednesday in Peck This year, 11,100 women under the age of 40 “It kind of freaks me out to wonder what would Hall, Room 3117. will be diagnosed with breast cancer, according to the have happened if I waited until I was 40 to have my “I thought, if this is going to help, I’m Young Survival Coalition, an international, non­ first mammogram,” she said. definitely all for it,” Currier said. profit group that specializes in advocacy for young Currier is in good spirits for the presentation, Currier’s plan is to get younger women thinking women facing breast cancer. YSC also says that however. She finished her last of four rounds of S. about examinations, something she said is not the survival rates among young women are low because chemotherapy in December 2006, her hair is ^ norm. The most recent scientific findings show the cancer tends to be more aggressive. Of the young growing back and she’s eagerly waiting to receive that breast cancer among young women is on women diagnosed with cancer this year, an estimated artificial implants. Her fiance said she is as beautiful the rise, and she said the community should 1,100 will not survive. as she has ever been. take action. Although friends and family o f Currier said her “It’s just something I don’t think young optimism kept her alive, if her cancer had not been women do, they think they don’t have to worry found when it was she might not have survived to Matthew Schroyer can be reached at about breast cancer until they’re 40.” warn others o f the dangers o f breast cancer. [email protected] or 650-3531. Myspace favorite “missFlag” brings music across an ocean, rocks the religious center

by Steve Berry covered: lead singer, two guitars, bass, was produced by Guy Erez in Los Angeles. Alestle Reporter and Photographer drums and keyboards. Erez produced songs on the “Crash” Their SIUE concert was organized by soundtrack and albums for the Gipsy Kings The five members of missFlag took a Galit Greenfield of the Jewish Federation of and Ryan Cabrera. The band said working few moments to admire the sunset before Southern Illinois, who said the Religious with Erez has been the pinnacle of their their concert at the Religious Center Center was a good place for the concert. career. Tuesday night. “(The Religious Center) is a place that “Guy gave us a sense of hope and “Wow, it’s so beautiful,” has great energy,” Greenfield said. direction on how to do music. I mean, he drummer Assaf Krauss said, MissFlag’s tour is being funded mostly showed us the way with music arrangements looking up through the trees, outside by the Consulate General of Israel to the and song writing,” Krauss said. “He was like the Religious Center. Midwest, which is part of Israel’s Ministry of a spiritual guide for us.” Despite not resting in the past 40 hours Foreign Affairs. “He helped us find ourselves,” keyboard of their American tour, the band was in high Before the free concert on Tuesday player Gil Assayas said. spirits. MissFlag played at the Knitting night, the band talked about finding the A few moments later the band found Factory in Los Angeles on Monday night right record label to sign with. They are themselves under Buckminster Fuller’s and flew directly to St. Louis for Tuesday’s currently unsigned, and would rather sign to geodesic dome in front of a crowd of about show at the Religious Center. They are a major label than an independent, but are 30 people at the Religious Center. The band spending their days on the road, promoting being cautious. peacefully made their way through a flawless their new album, “To Infinity.” “We are in a learning process; we are hour-long set which included an acoustic A first time missFlag listener with no learning everything about the industry and I cover of Britney Spears’ “Toxic.” previous knowledge o f the band might think am sure we are going to be down a lot and After the show, sophomore Mike Lyons they were hearing a Brit-Pop group. we are going to make a lot o f mistakes, but said, “I wish the chairs weren’t here, then we Geographically, missFlag is far from Brit- we are into it and we are going for it,” could dance and stuff. That would have been Pop; the band hails from Israel. Sonically, Krauss said. really sweet, but overall it was really good.” missFlag is like Brit-Pop. The band describes The band recently played a private show For more information on missFVag, visit www.missFlag.com or their sound as British rock-pop and for Universal Records, and claim to be the biggest Israeli band on MySpace. www.MySpace.com/missFlagm usic. Steve Berry/Alestle compares themselves to Muse, Keen, The band’s recent debut album was Israeli rock group missFlag played Coldplay and Radiohead. The five Jewish Steve Berry can be reached at recorded in Jerusalem and Los Angeles and at the religious center Tuesday. men have all the typical rock band posits [email protected] or 650-3531. Is the Obama campaign trail leaving political apathy in the dust^M

by Brittney Barr sincerely interested in people and presidential hopeful. in their situations, unlike other “I, like many Americans, Alestle Lifestyles Reporter politicians who seem to be more support change in the nation’s potential concerned about their own direction and I admire that to swing votes, Since Illinois Democratic ambition.” Obama has no false idealism of some note another Sen. Barack Obama emerged on Obama’s career has been what America should be, but a potential flaw in the candidate - the national political scene as a accentuated by his representation clear idea of what America is.” his limited experience in national key speaker at the 2004 National of and compassion for the According to Alexis political office. Democratic Convention, he has everyday American citizen. Overstreet, a political science Moffett said on Obama’s fascinated many people across Obama graduated magna cum major and intern at the “premature” bout for the the nation. laude from Harvard Law School Governor’s Office in Springfield, presidency, “He is running four Now, with more popularity in 1988, then went on to become “The only person I know who years too soon and is missing out than ever, Obama has become a civil rights lawyer and still stands behind President on valuable experience one of the Democratic Party’s community organizer in George Bush also loves Barack and networks in the Photo courtesy of MCT most formidable candidates for Chicago. Obama. Barack has a high government that would generation. the presidential. Before entering politics as an conversion rate and the upper make him a more viable Obama supporters have used At SIUE, the student body Illinois state legislator in 1996, hand in the democratic race candidate.” the networking site Facebook to has a range of opinions in regard Obama enjoyed 11 years as a because of that.” Senior Lauren May advocate the candidate. One to youths’ political involvement. lecturer on constitutional law at In regard to Obama’s ability complements Moffett’s Facebook group, “One Million In previous years, students the University of Chicago. to close the divide between argument. An Obama fan, she Strong for Obama” has expressed that much of their Today, after one term in the political parties, skeptics like admits she wishes that Obama accumulated nearly 350,000 political apathy stemmed from a United States Senate, Obama political science professor Ken waited until the 2012 election members less than three months lack of political connection to believes that he is capable of Moffett argue that “unless year to run for presidency, after being created. their lives. leading the U.S. away from the Obama moderates some of his “giving him the opportunity to However, according to a However, according to divisive politics of the “baby policy possessions such as those gain more experience in national Washington Post article written junior Dominique Cole, Obama boomer” generation and into a on Iraq, the death penalty and politics.” She concluded, by Jose Antonio Vargas, “no one breaks the mold. new era where people stand health care ... I don’t think that however, that she will still vote knows whether such online “Because Obama has the together for the common good - he can close the gap between the for Obama in the ’08 elections. excitement can translate to characteristics of charisma and strengthening the nation. red states and blue states, Politicians have increasingly votes.” youth, students are able to African-American studies conservatives and progressives.” used the World Wide Web to connect with him,” Cole said. Brittney Barr can be reached at professor Stefan Bradley Regardless of Obama’s connect them to a host of people “He gives a sense that he is [email protected] or 650-3531. expresses admiration for the apparent popularity and - especially the younger Women’s Tennis @ Bellarmine - Friday, 9 a.m. Softball vs. Grand Valley State - Saturday, 9 a.m. in Lockport Baseball @ Missouri-Rolla - Saturday, noon Questions or comments regarding this section? Softball vs. Saginaw Valley State - Saturday, 1 p.m. Contact Sports Editor Matthew Bruce at 650-3524 or [email protected]. 10 ___S_____ pI www.thealestle.com o r t s Thursday, March 15, 2007

Co n t in e n t MISSOURI VAUJEY CONFEHtNCS HORIZON LEAGUE. HA YOllR With SIUE a NCAA Division I athletics program now... Where do Cougars go from here?

by Anthony Patrico that fits its needs in order to do well. of college athletics. entering into a conference. Alestle Sports Reporter Enrollment, exposure, distance away and Athletic Task Force Chair Gary “Kennesaw's done really well,” and Matthew Bruce academic standards of current members of Giamartino knows that there can be a few Giamartino said. ‘They were a very, very Alestle Sports Editor a conference are aspects that SIUE would bumps in the road to a smooth transition successful Division II school who'd won need to look at when making its selection. to DI. Ask the members of Indiana national championships in several sports. With the Southern Illinois University Athletic Director Bradley Hewitt said University-Purdue University Fort Wayne They made a transition very, very Board of Trustees approving the that SIUE is the very early stages of athletics; they made the jump after being a successfully. They landed in a conference. reclassification of the SIUE Intercollegiate finding a new conference and declined to very successful Division II team. Upon The conference wanted them.” Athletics Department earlier this month, discuss future possibilities. applying for reclassification, the school ran The Missouri Valley Conference, all o f SIU E’s sports are officially making “We don't want to offend anyone in into heavy problems and saw no Ohio Valley Conference, Mid-Continent the jump to NCAA Division I status. this process (an individual, an institution conferences that would take them. Conference and Horizon League would Now comes the hard part for the or a conference) by one of us casually “So they were kind of left out,” likely be some of the conferences that Cougars: if they want to have success at rating, ranking or evaluating them,” Giamartino said in an Alesde interview last SIUE would try to join when it goes to DI they must undergo a four-year Hewitt said. “As soon as we have July. “They made the move and it's been a Division I. reclassification process before becoming a information to share we will do so.” very trying experience for them. I'm not On page 11, the Alesde takes an in- full-fledged member of Division I sports. But the reality remains that sure where they're going next. They're depth look at each of those conferences, One of the main criterion for a conference placement will likely be the losing money. Faculty are upset, the considering how SIUE might fit in them: smooth transition for SIUE will be biggest hurdle that SIUE faces in its move community is upset, students are upset. selecting a good conference to play in. to Division I status. The conference that It's pretty much been a disaster.” SIUE will likely need to join a conference SIUE chooses could either make or break Other schools, such as Kennesaw see pg. 11 its reclassification into the upper echelons State University, have found no problems SIUE baseball team opens season with six wins

By Anthony Patrico inning, the Cougars added an Alestle Sports Reporter insurance run and they recorded the victory 6-3. The SIUE baseball team The very next day the two opened up their season this year teams faced off again in the final with a road trip down to meeting of the Cougars road trip. Georgia. The team took on three The Cougars offense kicked on teams in what turned out to be a during the home half of the very successful trip for the thirrd inning. Scoring six runs Cougars. Overall, the Cougars with six hits made scoring easy posted a 6-3 record. for the Cougars along with some This was the first time the added defensive errors from the Cougars got to play in warm, Pumas. outdoor conditions, as the cold Cougar pitching held the Midwest weather has forced the Pumas to only two hits in the team to stay inside for most of final game and led SIUE to a 10- their workouts and practices. 0 victory over St. Joseph’s. The Cougars played well Junior hurler Luke Vine throughout their stay in tossed a two-hit shutout to lead Savannah, Ga., taking on some SIUE to victory tough competition, including “The first start wasn’t good current Great Lakes Valley but the second one was,” Vine Conference rival St. Joseph’s said. “I was just working with my University fastball and making them respect The team opened up the trip my pitches.” with two tough losses. After The team as a whole had falling to St. Joseph’s, the team quite a showing offensively had a very tight game with during the trip. With nine players Wayne State University. SlUE having a batting average over had a chance to tie the game in Steve Berry/Alestle .300, the team showed it’s the bottom of the ninth, but fell Members of the SIUE baseball team, background, practice Tuesday at the SimmonsCooper Complex. The offensive ability. Leading the short with a runner on second. Cougars opened the season last week, winning six of their first nine games. charge was junior outfielder and In the very next game, the first baseman James Kulovitz. Cougars got their second chance After cruising through three doubleheader with both teams During the second game of Kulovitz led the Cougar at Wayne State. It would take straight victories against Davis & hungry for a win. In the first of the series, die Cougars showed team with a batting average of more then just nine innings to Elkins College, the Cougars the two match ups the stats on their powerful hitting skills. In .438 throughout the nine-game decide a victor in this game. again set their sights on St. paper look similar, but it was the the bottom half of the 5th inning, span. Kulovitz also had a total of During the 10th inning, SIUE Joseph’s. Pumas getting the hits at the junior third baseman Ben Bardey 10 RBIs. At the plate during the drove in two runs o ff an error The Cougars and the Pumas right moment and driving the set a drive over the outfield wall trip, Kulovitz put two hits over and a single that put them on top from St. Joseph’s prepared to runs in that put them on top and that put the Cougars on top 5-3. the wall and also had a triple and and got them the win in a 13-11 square off in the first game of a gave them the victory. In the bottom half of the next game. BASEBALL/pg. 14 Thursday, March 15, 2007 www.thealesde.com 11

life, ¥Hi joining the SIUE mirrors the enrollment of many of the i f ? ! ® HI Missouri Valley schools in the conference. University of Northern I m M R 1 V Conference, SIUE would Iowa, Wichita State and Indiana State all show rfiollyw ood ★ T a n NMH b HHI. mcs*1 m w‘t*1 some other similar enrollment. SIUE currently has an sgaLV*uJ> coKfwtwci schools close to the Illinois enrollment of about 13,000 and continues to rise. area. The MVC consists of If the school enters the MVC, they may have to schools in Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, travel as far as 407 miles to play away games against Two M ystic Tans Nebraska and Illinois. Most notable is Southern Wichita State University in Wichita, Kan. Illinois University Carbondale. If the Cougars were to join the MVC, the The M VC, which is headquartered in St. SIUE men’s basketball team would also get to play $2 2 .0 0 Louis, is the home conference of schools such as in one of the up-and-coming college hoops Creighton University, Illinois State University, conferences in the nation. Located next to Denny's in front of Wal-Mart www.hollywoodtanco.com 656-8266 Bradley University, Drake University, Indiana State SIUE would also get a chance to face sister University, Missouri State University, University of school SIU Carbondale in games that counted. Northern Iowa, University of Evansville, Wichita Sunday, March 4, Creighton University State and SIUC. defeated the Salukis - which are ranked No. 14 in Doug Elgin, Commissioner of the MVC, said the latest Associated Press Top 25 poll - in the SIUE would fit in well with any conference that it MVC men’s basketball tournament finals held at the joins. Scottrade Center. A record crowd of 22,612 “I do think the institution has a lot to offer a watched the showdown. The four-day event drew a i l m e r i c o ’s new conference in Division I,” Elgin said. “Being in tournament-best 85,074 fans with the games being D r i v e * ! » . a major metropolitan market shows tremendous broadcast to a nation-wide audience on CBS. potential for growth.” Cougar Special! large size The Mid-Continent acceptance. Conference is in the “We’re very fortunate that right now we have a French Fries or Tater Tots midst of a re-shuffling lot of interest from schools that want to get in our With the purchase of any sandwich m m IV ||D w l phase. Of its nine conference. So we look at a number of profiles,” (CHEESE EXTRA) member institutions, Douple said. “One’s the academic profile of the Be sure and join us for happy hour! Continent only two schools have university. And then athletically, we look at their 1/2 price Fountain Drinks & Slushes. been with the MCC past history, attendance, community and booster Monday - Friday 2-5pm for 10 years or more. support, budget, staffing and athletic facilities.” Having lost a pair o f schools - Valparaiso and With Western Illinois University the lone Valid student ID required. Not valid in conjunction with any other offer. Chicago State University - to other conferences in Illinois member and schools as far as Southern Utah the last two seasons, the MCC took in North University in Cedar City, Utah, the MCC would 618-655-1281 Dakota State University and South Dakota State inflict a heavy burden of travel expenses on SIUE. 1017 Plummer Dr. University Sept. 1. Both schools, which made the A basketball conference, the MCC touts a (located in front of Edwardsville High School) move from Division II in 2004, will begin play in nationally-ranked baseball team in Oral Roberts the conference this fall. University, as well as solid track programs. Mid-Continent Conference Commissioner But the conference lacks the exposure of others. TomDouple said he was not too informed about Since 1998, Oakland University has been the only SIUE, but was becoming more familiar with it and MCC basketball team to send a squad to the NCAA added that it fell within the range of schools - based Tournament, qualifying in 2005 and 2006. on its location - that would be considered for

A similar possibility for would fall second in enrollment with only Eastern SIUE SIU E to consider may be Kentucky University having a higher enrollment of the Ohio Valley around 16,000 students. Conference. This Both the MVC and the OVC are relatively Sunday services conference is home to close in the location to SIUE. The farthest the Mass at 10:30 AM every Sunday and at schools in states such as, school currently has to travel for away conference 8:00 PM during Fall & Spring Semesters. games is at Northern Kentucky University 343 Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Missouri, and Hosted by Catholic Campus Ministries Illinois. The conference is headquartered in miles away, which is about the distance from Brentwood, Tenn. Most notable schools are Edwardsville to Chicago. If SIUE enters the OVC, Southeast Missouri State, Murray State, and they could possibly see action as far away as 404 Peace Community Worship 12:15 Eastern Illinois. miles to take on Samford University in Hosted By United Campus Ministries SIUE, with its growing student population, Birmingham, Ala. Rent the Center for Weddings or other events The Horizon League talked to us about it and right now, we’re just not Call (618) 650 3246 or visit us at would make a good fit looking to expand at all,” said Cusack, WSU’s www.siue.edu/religion for SIUE on the sheer Athletic Director. “If they had a meeting right now strength of its exposure. of all the (Athletic Directors), they would say no. The conference is currently in But, you know, that’s now. A few years from now, the second of a five-year five years from now, who knows? Early Explorations Inc. deal with ESPN to have “Down the road, it (SIUE) certainly would be HORIZON LEAGUE »many of its regular- a program a lot like the Horizon League programs,” r a s f your sights season men’s and he added. “If they weren’t considered, it wouldn’t women’s basketball games shown on ESPN2. The be because we didn’t think they were a good H L also linked up with www.CSTVcom last year to program. It would be just because we’re not looking stream more than 150 of its games on the Internet. for a member right now. But we will definitely keep A 10-team league with baseball, softball, soccer an eye on them, that’s for sure.” and volleyball as its premier sports, the league Nonetheless, being that all of the Horizon At Early Explorations Inc.. The Preschool For All features such schools as the University of League’s member schools are at least 200 miles Program is a quality enhanced program that provides a Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of Illinois at north of the Metro East area, SIUE could offer the Chicago and Wright State University. conference exposure to a feature market with its play-based developmental screening and discounted Youngstown State University in Ohio, 572 close proximity to St. Louis. student rate. The classrooms are mixed age groups miles away, would be SIUE’s farthest competitor. “You can never say never,” Horizon League (ages ranging from 3-5 year olds) We offer: hearing and The Cougars would stand in the middle of the pack Director of Communications Robert Hester said. vision screenings, parent/child libraries, monthly parent in terms of size, boasting the league’s fifth-largest “It could always happen. If the right situation came, meetings/workshops, family reading nights, parent- enrollment. we would go 11. But ideally, 12 would be the magic teacher conferences, individualized child assessments, number.” But with Valparaiso University, its 10th and goal setting, and developmentally appropriate member, beginning play in the fall, the conference Cusack, who worked at WSU in 1987 when classroom curriculum. may not be in much of a hurry to take on more the Raiders made their jump to Division I status, schools, according to Horizon League Membership said he believed SIUE was making die correct For information on screenings or openings. Committee Chair Mike Cusack. moves to be successful at the next level. Please Call “The administrators and athletic directors DIVISION 1/pg. 14 (618) 659-1438 12 www.thealestle.com Thursday, March 15, 2007_ Preps-to-pros ban malees freshmen risk losing millions

by Ian O’Connor (Sebastian Telfair). since I’ve been coaching,” Texas The Record Stern decided he had to stop Tech Coach Bobby Knight said the fast break from the prom to of Stern’s harsh rule, not Oden’s (MCT) - David Stern, take the pros. As the league grew soft curriculum. your bow. Greg Oden and Kevin younger, louder and more defiant Knight was raging over the Durant finished their one-and- in the face of authority, the fact a one-and-done player can done regular seasons, became commissioner wanted to ease the retain his eligibility without nearly as familiar to NBA fans as disconnect between his product attending a single second- Shaquille O’Neal and Kevin and his consumers. semester class. That, he said, “has Garnett and nobody tore a knee Only the payoff was not a tremendous effect on the ligament in the process. worth the price. Stern stripped integrity of college sports.” A win-win, isn’t it? A away a high school graduate’s But this isn’t only about joke validation of the NBA ordinance right to apply for employment, courses damaging the game’s sending high school prospects to not to be confused with a right to credibility as much as Knight’s college, or some other one-year employment, which doesn’t exist. conduct. This is about basic waiting room, before entering A free enterprise system allows fairness, about Stern assuming the draft, right? for high schoolers to pursue the role of omnipotent and Not even close. Oden and NBA work, and for executives to infallible hoops god with young Durant can go ahead and rip either grant them jobs or send men’s lives. through the NCAA tournament, them on their way. What if Shaun Livingston meet in the Final Four and hit the Stern found this system bad was playing at Duke - on Stern’s lottery as the slam-dunk first two for business. He said he made the orders - when his knee exploded, picks in June, and the rule will change in the hope kids would costing him the millions he still stink worse than the mature as athletes and human would ultimately earn from the Grizzlies. beings and enter the NBA better Clippers and Reebok? What if It’s an artificial and self- prepared for the adults-only Oden or Texas’ Durant suffered a serving restraint of trade, that’s realities of the league, but who career-altering injury in January, why. was kidding whom? or in the postseason games to Some team executives were Stern simply wanted to come? making dreadful choices on high restore his Division I farm What would Stern tell those school talent, and Stern was system, which had marketed his players and their families then? Jim Prisching/Chicago Tribune moved to protect those future stars free of charge before On the other side, Telfair Ohio State's Greg Oden signals number one to the crowd after executives from themselves. the high schoolers started has become die face of the age- defeating Purdue 63-52 in the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament at Nevermind that general treating unpaid labor in some requirement cause. He was a the United Center in Chicago Saturday. managers and team presidents bully coach’s gym as an superhyped Brooklyn point were scoring seven-figure wages unnecessary evil. guard who decided against a year Traded to Boston after two low- I spent a year at Lincoln High on the notion they could The result? Oden studying or two with Rick Pitino at impact years in Pordand, he’s with him for the purpose of a distinguish the 13th picks who the history of rock-and-roll at Louisville for the guaranteed now sitting the bench for one of book, and Telfair desperately were worth the high school Ohio State. millions he was offered by Adidas the NBA’s sorriest teams. wanted to escape the poverty and gamble (Kobe Bryant) and the “The worst thing that’s and the Trail Blazers. But you know what? He still 13 th picks who were not happened to college basketball Telfair has been a bust. did the right thing in cashing out. FRESHMEN/pg. 14

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a mainstream American sports know, I had Syracuse beating But Oregon, which finished t e K . ___JT M w ch l« phenomenon. Kansas in 2003 in the national tied for third in the Pac-10 What I know: There’s a finals and had three of the Final regular season but steamrolled all good chance if you’re reading this Four, yet lost anyway in our comers in the conference tourney, 16 temrn___5, that you’ll soon be filling out a office pool - but I’m not bitter.) is a team that I fear peaked a ili T »asA »M 3* tournament bracket. What I think: I f you’re week too soon. *Sì£L____U March J * March 16 What I think: Using history mining for first-round upsets, What I know: For pool Nwada 7 » as a guide, I have some helpful history says there are two bracket purposes, it’s hard to be objective hints. lines most likely to produce them. about a team in which you are 18 Wet** ü f IN. Texas i s What I know: Everyone is The famous “5 vs. 12” upset emotionally invested. looking for “this year’s George pairing got that reputation for a What I think: It should be Courtesy of MCT Mason.” reason. Twelve seeds are 29-59 pretty easy not to get carried Brackets for the 2007 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. What I think: For pool against No. 5’s since 1985. To away with the locals in 2007. purposes, that’s a complete waste put that in perspective, that’s a Conference tournaments This year, the Cats went out Still, that old Rick Pitino o f time. better record than No. l l ’s have may not always be a strong in the SEC quarterfinals. tournament magic has been an Last season’s NCAA against No. 6’s (27-61). indicator, but they are for Eastern Kentucky is in as a iffy proposition at U of L. Pitino Cinderella made the Final Four as History would say your Kentucky. Since the SEC Tourney No. 16 seed against No. 1 North has led the Cardinals in three a No. 11 seed. other place to look for upsets is resumed in 1979, Kentucky has Carolina in the East - and 16s are prior NCAA Tourneys - and Since the NCAA tourney the matchup between No. 7 and gone to the Final Four five times, 0-88 in NCAA Tourney play. gone out on the first weekend to expanded to 64 teams in 1985, No. 10. The 10s are 35-53. but never without making the Louisville figures to be lower-seeded teams twice. only two teams seeded lower Also, if you are torn between SEC Tourney finals. our state’s best hope. The than eighth have made the a No. 8 and a No. 9 (a game that In that time, UK has made No. 6 Cardinals potentially (c) 2007, Lexington Herald- national semifinals (the other was should be a toss-up, obviously), the Elite Eight 12 times, but only get to play their first two Leader (Lexington, Ky. ), No. 11 LSU in 1986 - and that go with the No. 9. They are 47- once (1983) without making the games in the commonwealth, Distributed by McClatchy- one still stings, doesn’t it Cat 41 against the 8s. SEC championship game. albeit in Rupp Arena. Tribune Information Services. THA

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crime that gripped his world “I disagree with Coach faenamgans Bar & Grii inside the Coney Island projects. Knight,” said Jim Boeheim, who If a sneaker company and a won a national title during lottery team wanted to make him Carmelo Anthony’s one pre-rule rich beyond his wildest dreams, season at Syracuse. “He’s right that was their problem. Telfair about a lot, but not this time. It’s couldn’t seriously consider the a great rule. It keeps some guys in possibility of blowing more than school who should have stayed in Morris University Center $20 million by playing poorly, or school, and guys like Oden and getting hurt, at Louisville. Durant will be helped by the Upcoming Events Now every whiz kid out of college experience. the projects will be forced by “You need a great kid for it ©tocpCbQDcsfes QOa^iM Stern to play a high-stakes game to work with your program. March 15, 8:00pm - 11:30pm of chance across a wildly Carmelo never thought about the Relax & enjoy live performance unpredictable season. If NBA while he was playing for us, Located main level of MUC misfortune visits a college and it’s obvious Durant and player’s family during the year he Oden haven’t been thinking Starbucks open till 2:OOam otherwise would’ve become a about it; they’re just playing.” multimillionaire and the point But the one-and-done man on the family’s road to a wonders who spend their M arch 19f 11:00am - 1:OOpm better life, Stern will have an freshman seasons obsessing over Enjoy live performance by Michael Loveman awful lot of explaining to do. their NBA stock can suck the life Goshen Lounge Right now, this much is true: out of a program (see Eddie Ohio State and Texas have Griffin, Seton Hall). In the end, produced must-see TV because college is supposed to be for Daily Specials available of their transcendent stars, and students who actually want to be Monday - Friday, 11:00am - 2:00pm those stars will enter the NBA as there. Thursday Steak Special for $7.25 (+ Tax) household names. That’s exactly That decision belongs to an Choice Sirloin Strip Steak w/ Baked Potato what Stern wanted after his fans individual and his family. It available every Thursday from 11:00am - 2:00pm were hit with a relendess blitz of doesn’t belong in David Stern’s Located upper level of MUC Martell Websters and DeSagana rulebook any more than the four- Diops. point shot. [iDma®® ©as^a®® It’s not a worthy cause, even Edwardsville Intelligencer if college coaches are treating the (c) 2007, North Jersey rule as the best thing to hit their Media Group Inc., Distributed Available Monday - Friday sport since the annuity and the by McClatchy-Tribune Information seven-figure sneaker deal. Services. EtaaKig) ©ocpwa©©© Stop by Deli/Panini in Center Court & try our BASEBALL New Paninis from pg. 10 a double. Rolla. The games will be held at ©ac&l £7®oa “The hitters were amazing the UMR Baseball Field in Rolla, SIUE dining services uses and we didn’t make an error in Mo. 0% Trans Fat oil for all fried foods the field,” Vine said. The Cougars now look ahead to a pair of weekend games Anthony Patrico can be reached at against University of Missouri- alestlesports@>gmail.com or 650-3524. Thursday, March 15, 2007 www.thealestle.com 15

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