The Daily Egyptian, March 24, 2008

Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC March 2008 Daily Egyptian 2008 3-24-2008 The Daily Egyptian, March 24, 2008 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_March2008 Volume 93, Issue 123 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 2008 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in March 2008 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. om COLUMN, PAGE 6: Gus Bode says the buildings at .c SIU live off of a shoe shine and a smile. MOND AY siuDE . www VOL. 93, NO. 123, 16 PAGES S OUTHER N I LLINOIS U NIVERSITY MARCH 24, 2008 EvDacuees return homeE after weekend flood scare Levee near Grand Tower will hold high water levels Barton Lorimor DAILY EGYPTIAN Western Jackson County resi- Cinema dents along the Big Muddy and Mississippi rivers are returning professor Mike home as area water levels subside Covell’s class from what several television sta- stands on the tions have labeled the Flood of banks of the ‘08. spillway at A voluntary evacuation was Crab Orchard issued Friday evening as officials Lake Saturday with the county’s Emergency afternoon. Management Agency expressed With the recent concerns a dirt levee along the rains and Big Muddy River in Grand Tower flooding, the — about 25 miles southwest of spillway was Carbondale — would not hold fully opened, back rising flood waters. But when turning the the National Weather Service said once serene water levels would actually be 1 spot into foot lower than originally antici- dangerous, pated Saturday, the request was raging rapids. lifted. BRANDON CHAPPLE “Our levee people are confident DAILY EGYPTIAN it can withstand the water, but some say it can’t,” Grand Tower Mayor Randy Ellet told the Associated Derek Misener, coordinator with 40-year-old levee, which would cost pour over its banks. The river’s water a system of streams spill into the Press. “We just have to deal with it EMA, told the Chicago Tribune that $60 million to replace. level is predicted to reach 38 feet by land around Spillway Road. Docks the best we can.” an inspection showed damage to the Gov. Rod Blagojevich today. at West Crab Orchard Marina were �� joined the emergency Meanwhile, por- under water Saturday, as swiftly service’s request for resi- e just have tions of Carbondale’s moving waters poured into lower �� dents to evacuate this to deal with east side remain ground. �� weekend. The governor W flooded as high Assistant City Manager Kevin declared 19 southern it the best we water levels in Crab Baity said public works officials were Illinois counties disaster Orchard Lake force inspecting the city’s water drainage �� ‘‘c an. areas and ordered the area creeks to crest. A system for obstructions as creeks �� —Randy Ellet �� opening of many camp- creek that feeds the within city limits returned to their �� Grand Tower mayor �� ing facilities for those lake from the north banks earlier this week. displaced by the weather. has flooded the land between Giant �� Land between Carbondale and City and Reed Station roads. Barton Lorimor can be reached at Murphysboro remains under water A flood continues to build as 536-3311 ext. 274 or �� as the Big Muddy River continues to water from Crab Orchard Lake and [email protected]. Students, community members rally against war Songs, signs and took their vigil on the road Saturday, Candy Davis came to the rally with marching down Illinois Avenue hold- strong opinions and a guitar. Davis, chants protest ing signs and chanting, then meeting a doctoral student from Carbondale at the Interfaith Center for a rally of studying anthropology, performed sev- invasion of Iraq about 70 people. The occasion marked eral songs, including one she wrote the fifth anniversary of the invasion of about a month after Sept. 11. Allison Petty Iraq, which occurred March 19, 2003. “Some say might makes right and DAILY EGYPTIAN When Parker and the others began tit for tat to even up the score, but they protesting, an opposing group of war can’t have my children for their dirty In December 2001, Margie Parker supporters gathered across the street, little war,” Davis sang. “No matter how began spending her Saturday after- she said. But the opposition disap- you dress it up, two wrongs don’t make Demonstrators noons at the Carbondale Town Square peared in recent years, and what was a right. Those folks who want to have march through Pavilion, joining a group of six to 10 once a negative reception of spitting, a war should be the ones to fight.” downtown others to protest the invasion of Iraq. cursing and obscene hand gestures has She said she had been protesting Carbondale The war had not yet begun, but the turned into mostly supportive honking for peace since the Vietnam War and Saturday afternoon group demonstrated in anticipation of and thumbs-up signs from passing was concerned that her children, par- the conflict. motorists. ticularly her 25- and 21-year-old sons, as part of the ‘Five More than six years later, she is still Students for Peace and Democracy could be drafted to fight in Iraq. Years Too Many’ standing there. member Jon Klemke said several peo- Kaori Sato, a freshman studying demonstration. “In one sense, it’s certainly very dis- ple insulted him by yelling “liberal” anthropology at the University of Roughly 70 couraging and frustrating,” said Parker from their cars. But he said the insult Illinois, spent part of her spring break students and of Carbondale. “And yet it’s also very was misguided, because peace is non- at the rally. Sato said she was visiting community heartening to think that there are partisan. a friend in Carbondale, heard about members came out enough people to keep this going Klemke, a freshman from Glenview the event and decided to join. Though to protest entering every Saturday.” studying cinema and photography, said many of her peers might spend this the sixth year of Parker said the group, which has the war had been mismanaged. time on a beach, Sato said there was war in the Middle grown to about 15 to 20 regulars, “I am a firm believer that you can nowhere she’d rather be. East. protests by holding signs and banners always solve a problem through talk- BRANDON CHAPPLE encouraging to end the war. They ing to people,” Klemke said. See RALLY, Page 5 DAILY EGYPTIAN Campus Local Pulse Sports Players take over Carbondale. Police step up DUI ‘Drillbit’ just doesn’t cut it. Seniors reflect after loss. patrols. PAGE 3 PAGE 3 PAGES 14 PAGE 16 2 Monday, March 24, 2008 DAILY EGYPTIAN News CALENDAR NEWS BRIEFS The Department Police arrest Iraq protesters during Easter Mass CHICAGO (AP) — Six protesters interrupted Cardinal Francis George’s Easter homily on of Cinema and Sunday at Holy Name Cathedral, standing and yelling their opposition to the war in Iraq to Photography Visiting a packed auditorium. The three males and three females squirted fake blood on themselves and parishioners Artist Series: Shannon as they were removed from the Mass by security guards and ushers. Police arrested the protesters and charged them with one count each of felony criminal Petrello damage to property and two counts each of misdemeanor simple battery. • 7 p.m. today in the Dean’s Conference “Even the Pope calls for peace,” the demonstrators shouted as they were escorted out of Room Communications building a church auditorium where the Mass was held because the church proper is under construc- • She will give a lecture and conduct cri- tion. tiques with students, as well as discuss One Mass attendee, Mike Wainscott of Chicago, yelled at the anti-war protesters. post-graduate school career options in the “Are you happy with yourselves?” he said. “There were kids in there. You scared little kids non-profit art world with your selfish act. Are you happy now?” Speaking afterward, George said, “We should all work for peace, but not by interrupting Disney College the worship of God.” Those arrested said they are members of a group called Catholic Schoolgirls Against the Program Presentation War. Police identified them as: Angela Haban, 20; Regan Maher, 25; Mercedes Phinaih, 18; • 6 p.m. Tuesday at Lawson Hall, room 151 Ephran Ramirez Jr., 22; Donte D. Smith, 21; and Ryane J. Ziemba, 25. • 12 p.m. Wednesday at the Student Center, The group issued a statement after the arrests, saying the protests were staged “to reach Kaskaskia room both Holy Name’s large Easter audience — including Chicago’s most prominent Catholic • Presentations for students of all majors citizens, who commonly attend Easter Mass at the church — and the many more viewers interested in a paid internship at Walt and readers of the local press, which usually extensively covers their services.” Disney World Kevin Clark of International Solidarity Movement told the Chicago Tribune that he attended to serve as a witness for the protesters. Talk on U.S. “If Cardinal George is a man of peace and is walking the walk and talking the talk, he should have confronted George Bush and demanded any immediate end to the war,” Clark Constitution said. • 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Student Chicago police said all six were scheduled to appear in bond court on Monday to face the Center, Kaskaskia Room felony charge; they have court date set for March 31 on the misdemeanors. • SIUC Rotaract invites people interested in the U.S. Constitution to a talk by political science Emeritus Al Melone, “Getting the Wrigley, Cubs in limbo as Tribune’s Zell seeks Constitution Wrong: Intellectual Missteps and the Abuse of Presidential Power” home-run deals • Free admission CHICAGO (AP) — Despite a Midas touch for eking profit from distressed proper- ties, Sam Zell surely didn’t know that having control of baseball’s lovable losers would be this hard.

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