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Index Picturing News .........................1-6 Hope: Opinion .........................7 One alum’s Lifestyles ................. 8-9 Sports ................. 1 0 -1 4 experience Puzzles ...................... 15 with breast Classifieds ................. 16 cancer A l e s t l e See Lifestyles Alton - East St. Louis - Edwardsville Thursday, March 15, 2007 www.thealestle.com Vol. 59, No. 47 Vehicle burglary 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 Police Reports Banner system debuts 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 ATTENTION: , .