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The Trouble INSIDE times 5 Dally Five Tennessee Tech players Vegged IT!l1Ched THURSDAY Eastern Illinois University double-figures Charleston, Ill. 61 920 in Tuesday's February 27, 1997 out · Vol. 82, No. 108 Panther loss. 12 pages Meat-less options to everyday PAGE eating in Charleston "Tell the truth and don't be afraid " 12 Eastern hopes to help out Campus under the weather By SCOlT BOEHMER the undecided Campus editor Eastern may receive more rain this weekend, By JESSICA BAKER adding to more than an inch that fell Wednesday. Administration editor Richard Wise, an assistant professor of geo1ogy, said about 1.2 inches of rain had fallen At the close of fall semeste.r, Eastern had a as ,Pt: ?:~ p.iµ. Wednesday. In addition, he said total of 843 undecided tnajors on campus more rain may be on the way if thunderstonns hit compared to l,373 undecided majors in 1996, the area. according to Mary Kelm, director of the Wise said Wednesday's moisture was brought Academic Assistance Center. in by warm air from the south. Weather in the 50s Of the 843 undecided majors, 588 are is expected through the weekend, in addition to freshman, 177 are sophomores, 57 are juniors the possibility of more rain Saturday or Sunday. and 21 are seniors. Although there is not much danger of flooding Charles Evans, chair of the University in the Charleston area, Wise said there were some College task force, said for the fall of 1997, puddles in sidewalks caused by old and sunken 1,392 freshman students who have been walkways. admitted to Eastern are undecided majors and Matt Stepansky, a senior environmental 90 transfer students also are undecided. biology major, said he observed a mini waterfall '"This is a substantial number of people who caused by the rain at the Martin Luther King Jr. haven't declared their major," Evans said. 'The University Union. concern with the University College was that Both Stepansky and Tom Rankin, a freshman the students with undecided majors get pre-engineering major, said the puddles and rain appropriate counseling to help them make were an inconvenience while walking to classes. appropri~~ .~R~:" "It's t~~~ ~~!-JS!f l ~"ltl to walk fro.~ the Evw itPQ lie '8 ~ ! letter to the 1,392 stadium (IOt) abOOt eYel)' day;" silid Rankin. '!f undecided students to let them know that it isnjt got soaked this momibg.;' a tragedy not to have a major. Both Stepansky and Rankin also said they IBE MASAYUKl/Staff photographer "I want them to know that the national would prefer to see snow or colder weather than Susan Shreder, a senior speech communication major, walks down a avera~e is to change their major at least five the rain. However, Amy Johnson, a sophomore sidewalk in the rainy weather Wednesday afternoon on the way back from times," he said. "I think it is good for students marketing major, did not agree. the Booth I.ibrary near the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. to take three semesters to make a decision on ''Even walking around in the rain is not bad," what they want to major in. Johnson said. "It's not like a blizzard - if you Evans said the University College should stay outside you're going to freeze." the 2 inches of rain it typically receives in February, mild help the number of undecided majors decrease. She said the weather provides "a good book-reading, tea winter weather may be in the future. John Allison, professor of English, said over drinking day." "We're moving into spring," Wise said. ''We can still get the past decade Eastern has shown remarkable Wise said that although Charleston has already surpassed snow in March, but typically it doesn't last too long." See UNDECIDED page 2 Nothing new about doubling up Scientists have successfully cloned frogs for years By SARAH DRURY said. Staffwrifer According to Gary Wong, an assistant professor of zoology, cloning frogs is a The sheep is out of the barn. relatively simple procedure. Since the existence of Dolly, the cloned "You take a frog egg and remove the sheep, and her identical sisters was revealed nucleus," Wong said. "And then you reinsert a earlier this week, worldwide discussion has nucleus from an adult frog." begun on the feasibility and ethics of cloning Typically the nucleus is taken from a cell and whether human cloning could become a that divides easily. reality. "The embryo develops normally and creates While replication of adult mammals is a a genetically identical frog," Wong said. previously undocumented procedure, cloning Frog cloning has existed since 1962 when itself is not a new technique, as Eastern John Gurdon performed the first successful zoology professors point out. cloning of an adult frog. Only 10 out of his 726 Very early in the development of an embryo, embryos successfully grew into adult frog the cells can be separated by natural or clones. r laboratory processes, and two or more identical The Scottish group's sheep results prove to individuals develop, said Gary Fritz, an be similarly promising. assistant professor of zoology who teaches Like other types of animal and plant cloning, genetics. 'They are called twins." the process that created Dolly may not be "(Creating clones at the embryonic stage) is extremely difficult, but it is "laborious," Fritz old stuff, but it is cloning," he said. '"This only said. difference is that (in sheep) you are cloning the Thousands of cells are micro-injected with adult individual, not just its offspring. new nuclei in the hopes that one will "take" ~d · "Plant geneticists have been pursuing this for function no~ally, he said. a long time," Fritz said. "It's called tissue "The difficult part was getting it to work in culture." the Jirst place," Fritz said. The process has to be worked out for each Creation of genetic clones has been IBE MASAYUKl/Staff photographer organism individually, Fritz said. And with speculated to have promising uses in Comin' at you each new organism comes a whole new set of development of superior livestock and testing difficulties. drugs or fertilizers in laboratory experiments. Seth Berry, sophomore theatre art major, cuts the edge ofa woodboard Wednesday "The only difference is that someone has And as for human cloning, it is most likely 4ftemoon to mah! aforeboardfor the next show in the Fine Arts Building. now been successful with adult mammals," he See DOUBLING page 2 Speaker to focus on African Americans' The Union Bowling Special Every Tuesday & Thursday political history and how to get involved 6:00-10:30 pm By CHRISTINA HIGBY tics and itics for over 30 years. Staff writer what poli Samuels said her 30 years of Sunday red pin bowling tics in Am experience has given her a good A closer look at the political erica is sense of where the United States 4-10:30 pm history of African Americans in like. is in politics. the United States will be the Samuels She said she "brings a nation for more information focus of a lecture tonight. said she al and local perspective to poli Annette Samuels, an assistant worked as tics in our country to the stu professor of journalism, will the as sis dents." call 581-3616 speak at 7 p.m. in the Effingham tan t press "(The speech) brings in a dif Union Bowling Lanes Room of the Martin Luther secretary in ferent perspective aside from Martin Luther King Union King Jr. University Union. Annette Samuels the Carter mainstream politics and women Samuels' speech will have a administration from 1979 to in politics," Brinker said. "strong educational compo 1981, worked for the governor Admission to the speech is nent," said Ceci Brinker, assis of New York from 1977 to 1979 free and is open to the campus Taste the Tropics Tonite at tant director of student life and and worked for the mayor of the and community. multicultural affairs. District of Columbia from 1981 The speech is sponsored by Students can receive advice to 1987. the African American Heritage LMother's. on how to get involved in poli- She has been involved in pol- Committee. Bacardi Limon, Spice or Dark Rum Mixers UNDECIDED from page one Plus $1.C-lf decrease in its undecided majors. on campus where they can begin to decide what lcehouse and F.Atllir.lg ,R,9ek ~;,,,."I w91:1l<J.n'.t .\Vant to reverse that trend," Allison they want to do." .. ICY BOTTLES: · :· '·i'" .. : , .. ... · ,.:::· ·· ,,.. ~· 'hf{~(~.e b_estnning, \Vhen I was on She said she wants people to know that the 1 ~'Wa~uit:y· :S ~nate)rt ·supported consolidating ser Academic Assessment Center doesn't just carry ··' ..- ·· H'o~e ~~the $ipitili~is u:>· '.J~!Gi'. _:~i ,: ?.. '.>::, · ·vices to cut costs, but I'm still not convinced undecided majors. ite, lcehouse and New Rolling Rock) · · Eastern needs a new college. "We also carry pre-business and pre-education "I think the best way a freshman can be served majors who haven't been admitted to those col 1/2 LB.