M UNCIE THE BALL STATE I NDIANA DDDAAAIIILYLYLY NNNEEEWWWSSS T UESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2000 Founded as The Easterner V OLUME 80, NUMBER 11 PARKING SERVICES Annual camp-out sparked by pursuit of permits Line of students numbers In an annual tradition, Parking and third choices. Occasionally a available for comment Friday. Services sold off their excess park- parking map was pulled out of a Food was provided by pizza more than 200 in trail ing passes Friday morning, on a jeans pocket, but for the most delivery, once the drivers under- first-come, first-served, basis. part these students had the cam- stood they were delivering to a down College Avenue. Parking Services will do so again pus layout down pat. For some the sidewalk. Several of the students this Friday, selling all the spots seasonal camp-out was old hat — said that when nature called, they that were turned in last Friday. For Mark Norris said he had done it answered by urinating on the side BY P AUL A LLOR ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR information on what lots are avail- two years before, and Adam of Parking Services’ building. able students can call 285-PARK Maassel said it was his fourth trip Around 7:10 a.m. student The first few students arrived or www.bsu.edu/parking. to the pavement. employees of parking services cir- at Parking Services around 4 p.m. Armed with sleeping bags, To pass the time, students culated through the crowd, pass- Thursday afternoon. By 10 that blankets and cell phones, the stu- played cards and stayed up all ing out slips for the students to night the line snaked down the dents — and a few faculty mem- night pontificating on the alleged fill out. At 7:30 on the dot, the handicapped ramp and out to the bers who arrived in the morning unfairness of Parking Services. doors opened, and the students street. By 7:30 the next morning, — braved the elements in their Michelle Reed said that you “have poured in. when Parking Services opened for quest for better parking. to be pretty desperate to camp “How many of you camped BY ANDY HEIDT, ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR business, more than 200 students The students talked parking out for parking tickets.” out?” Traffic Assistant Lori Pence wound their way down the street lots like some people talk baseball While the complaints abound- asked the crowd of students. “You Students were lined up more than 12 hours before parking passes went on sale to the corner of College Avenue cards — comparing the merits of ed, Associate Director of Public Friday morning. and around to Gilbert Street. each, deciding on first, second Safety James St. Myer was not PARKING SEE PAGE 2 FEDERAL APPELLATE Court to hear AD CAMPAIGN New ‘Everything You Need’ commercials focus on realism case of Indian trust accounts Arguments scheduled for today before a three-judge panel. BY M ATT K ELLEY ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Federal officials admit that over the last 113 years the government mishandled $500 million in trust accounts for American Indians. But they say U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth overstepped his authority with rulings ordering a full accounting of the money and appointing himself overseer of reform efforts. He also has held two Cabinet secretaries in contempt. The government is appealing Lamberth’s December ruling in a 4- year-old lawsuit brought by Indians, who contend they are due more than On the Web $10 billion because of the ■ BUREAU OF INDIAN mismanagement. AFFAIRS Arguments are scheduled www.bia.gov for Tuesday before a three-judge federal appel- ■ NATIVE AMERICAN late court panel. RIGHTS FUND Emotions are high on www.narf.org both sides. Lead Indian BY JOSIE LIMING, CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER lawyer Dennis Gingold has referred to govern- David Pearson is primped for his cameo on the new series of Ball State commercials by makeup artist Jennifer Bly-Lake. ment lawyers as ‘‘dumb and dumber,’’ while Assistant Interior Secretary Kevin Gover has called the plaintiffs ‘‘potentially a very dan- gerous and destructive force.’’ Lawyers for the more than 300,000 trust Filming complete for new BSUads account holders contend the appeal shows the federal government — particularly Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt — is more BY C HET B AUMGARTNER After take nine, Al Rent, director of Ad campaign care, a “well-respected degree,” and interested in blocking attempts to get the CHIEF REPORTER university marketing, asks the ■ ‘EVERYTHING YOU NEED’ “financial aid.” The footage of the alum- money than righting a wrong. actors to have a little more fun. Five new 30-second ni center represents the need to travel. ‘‘In the outside world, if you screw up Sunlight filters through the After take 10, Thompson and his commercials will cost “We’re focusing on the individual,” with people’s money, you end up in jail,’’ said glass dome above the atrium in the crew were satisfied, and Friday, they more than $1 million. Rent said. The main bit of the campaign Elouise Cobell, a Blackfeet Indian who is the Alumni Center. Rick Thompson, presi- called it wraps on three days of filming will say ‘I need a particular need,’ but lead plaintiff. ‘‘That’s the problem here, that dent of Richmarc Productions, focuses and two months of planning — all of Productions, was on campus last week the Ball State theme is “We have every- the Department of the Interior has never had the camera, and then slides back to which will result in five, new commer- filming background footage and stu- thing you need.” to pay for what they’ve done to screw up peo- reveal Ball State students Oya Bolgun, cials for Ball State. dents for each 5-second spot, which will Though the theme might still be the ple’s lives on Indian reservations.’’ Will Liu and Ryan McKeever. They “The focus of these commercials is run Sept. 25 in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, same, these commercials differ from The trust accounts came from an 1887 engage in conversation for a few sec- really two-fold,” Rent said. “We want to South Bend, Evansville and cable outlets their predecessors in two ways; This federal law that divided some reservation onds, trying to ignore the camera in continue with the momentum on the around northwest Indiana. The whole round of advertisements uses no land into smaller plots for individual Indians. front of them. theme of entire marketing campaign, campaign will cost more than $1 mil- spokespeople, and no one ever speaks The federal government holds that land in “It looks pretty,” the camerawoman which is Ball State has everything you lion, but the funds will come from pri- directly to the camera. trust for the Indians — meaning it cannot be says, as she studies the scene on a little need. We’ve identified, through a series vate donations. “They [students] are in class; they taxed or sold and the government must monitor. “The sun looks really golden.” of focus groups, a series of needs that Each 30-second commercial focus- are in the learning center; they are in a approve any leases. Then, at the command of make sense, that high school students es on two or three different “needs” pre- lab...they’ve been in the background; Many of the tracts are leased for uses such Thompson, the action commences have when they’re searching for a col- sented by high school students — all of they’ve been sitting around and doing a as grazing, logging, mining or oil drilling. again, and lege, and the commercial then identifies whom are from North Central High variety of things,” Rent said. Proceeds from those leases are supposed to again, and again. the need and how Ball State fulfills that School in Indianapolis. There are Student involvement has not be deposited in government accounts and “Wow!” someone says after the sev- need.” approximately twelve needs, including then paid to the Indian landholders. enth take. “What a great shot.” The production crew, Richmarc “personal attention and professors who FILM SEE PAGE 2 Since the beginning, however, those accounts have been mismanaged in almost every way imaginable, the government acknowledges. Records for many accounts TUITION were never kept, while documentation for others was lost or destroyed. Some of the money was stolen or used for other federal programs. Some lease pro- Iraq begins charging public school students ceeds were never collected. Thousands of the accounts have money in them but no per student to $12.50. An average Iraqi unable to provide their children enough were raised,’’ said Mustafa Radhi, 36, BY W AIEL F ALEH names attached. family has four children in school and food and medicine and some taking father of two students and a civil ser- ASSOCIATED PRESS In February 1999, Lamberth cited Babbitt, the typical Iraqi salary is about $48 a them from school and sending them out vant. Gover and then-Treasury Secretary Robert BAGHDAD, IRAQ — With the start of year. to beg or work. Radhi said his monthly salary is the Rubin for contempt for improperly withhold- a new school year, Iraq has begun charg- Iraq, once wealthy because of vast The cash-strapped government has equivalent of $3.50 and he must pay a ing and destroying records. The Indians then ing students to attend classes at public oil reserves, had offered free education been unable to build new schools for total of $6 in tuition for his two children. won a key victory in December when schools. from kindergarten through the highest years, resulting in serious overcrowding. Fakhir Tawfiq, principal of one of Lamberth ruled he would oversee reforms to An Education Ministry official said university degree.