Eastern Illinois University The Keep November 1998 11-30-1998 Daily Eastern News: November 30, 1998 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1998_nov Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: November 30, 1998" (1998). November. 16. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1998_nov/16 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1998 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in November by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 60˚ The Daily Monday 43˚ Showers November 30, 1998 Inside Eastern Sports Long-distance www.den.eiu.edu Boiled Eastern Illinois University romance? Charleston, Ill. 61920 over Residence Hall phone rates Vol. 84, No. 65 Panthers basketball team falls 12 pages irk many students. late in the game to Purdue in Story on Page 3 News West Lafayette, Ind. “Tell the truth and don’t be afraid.” Story on Page 12 Thank goodness for weeklong breaks Most students opt Semi-trailer goes over bridge, not to study rather causes four-hour than work ahead detour on I-57 By Laura Irvine and Nicole Meinheit By Joe Sanner Staff editors Staff editor Thanksgiving Break has traditionally been a time Students returning to Eastern for students to visit with family and friends and Sunday via Interstate 57 were relax. Many students also make plans to catch up detoured for four hours after the on homework, but sometimes this does not happen. driver of a tractor and semi-trail- “I had a lot of homework to do over break, but I er drove off a bridge, Illinois didn’t do any of it. I have to do all of it (Sunday State Police said. night,)” said Tim Folliard, a sophomore undecided I-57 was closed from Pesotum major. to Tuscola from 7:30 a.m. to Folliard was not the only student who did not get 12:20 p.m. much done over the break. while workers “I didn’t do any homework over break, but I was cleared wreck- supposed to. The break doesn’t mean much to me More inside age from the because I usually just sit around,” said Jason Two hospitalized Hickenbottom, a freshman environmental biology roadway. after vehicle major. The driver, overturnes on Vicki Vassallo, a senior graphic design major, Jack A. Kum- I-57 off-ramp said she kept busy by helping her parents around lein, 40, of Jan- the house and going out with her friends, but did esville, Wis., Page 6 not keep up with all of the homework she intended told police he to do. took his eyes “I would have liked to have gotten things done, off the road to reach down and but I didn’t do any homework,” she said. get some water when he struck a Other students, like Vassallo, worked over break guard rail. but still have a lot of homework to do now that The tractor and trailer slid 289 break is over. feet down the side of the bridge, Veronica Tibbs, a senior Spanish major, worked at where it struck the side of the Wal-Mart Super Center in Mattoon over break and bridge, police said. earned enough money to buy a few extra Christmas The vehicle came to a stop presents, but she still found herself in the study straddling the outside wall, with lounge of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Lacey Buidosik / Staff photographer both the blue 1996 Peterbilt trac- Union Sunday night. tor and white 1997 Wabash “I waited for the Union to open so I could con- Maureen Doyle, a freshman journalism major, uses a Carman Hall cart to wheel her belongings back into her room Sunday afternoon. Doyle said taking advantage of the carts that residence halls lend its residents National trailer lying over the centrate,” she said. ICG railroad tracks, police said. Tibbs was finishing her student teaching package, helped a great deal to lighten the load. Kumlein was treated and which is due Tuesday. released for injuries from Carle Other students who stayed in Charleston took “I worked in the pottery studio all week,” said Gross also said she had two papers to write but Hospital Sunday. advantage of the resources while many other stu- Jackie Gross, a sophomore art major. “This is the she did not get them done and will work on them dents were home. He was issued a citation by last night I have to work on it.” this week. state police for improper lane usage. Ex-lobbyist considering potential employers By Tammie Sloup like to be working back on a campus, Staff editor Chris Merrifield not looking back at Eastern tenure but she also would like to return to college to get her masters degree in Since leaving the university in most when she left Eastern was the she said. “My interest developed.” political science and a doctorate in June, Chris Merrifield, Eastern’s for- people below the administration Monday Since leaving Eastern, she has com- administrative education. mer liaison to the capitol, hasn’t level, such as faculty members and pleted contract work for three organi- If she were to return to college, looked back. some people who worked for plan- profile zations but is “not locked into any- Merrifield said she would return to “It was a job, and I left it,” she said. ning and public affairs who were sup- maybe had been before,” she said. thing.” her alma mater; the University of “I went on.” portive of her. Merrifield said she believed she “There are a few irons in the fire Illinois in Springfield. Merrifield, who had been Eastern’s She said in general, Eastern is an accomplished several things while at that are somewhat promising,” she Merrifield has not only continued liaison since February 1995, received excellent institution and she only has Eastern, including establishing rela- said. to lobby for organizations but also a letter of termination from Eastern one regret. tionships in the General Assembly so Merrifield said she has located has been substitute teaching in President David Jorns in January “If I regret anything, I was on a members were more aware of what funds for all three groups, but cannot Springfield for grade school children. informing her that she would monitor track toward successful relationships was happening at Eastern and secur- name the organizations. “I’m concentrating on what I want legislation until the end of June. in the General Assembly,” she said. ing extra funding for the steam plant. “It is not appropriate and is usual- to do when I grow up,” she As liaison, Merrifield said her pri- She also said students, staff and Merrifield began her career as a ly kept confidential since I have Outside from teaching and lobby- mary duty at Eastern was to secure faculty had become more aware of lobbyist when she was a policy ana- appropriated funds for them,” she ing, Merrifield enjoys spending time funds equitable to other universities the political process and how it lyst for the Community College said. with her three grandchildren. She has and determine how the university impacts the university. Board, she said. Her work with the three organiza- a 14-year-old grandson who lives in would use the money if appropriated. The campus community started She was then asked to become tions has been successful, she said. North Virginia and a 5-year-old “In addition, I sought out other becoming involved in legislation and the agency’s lobbyist on a trial basis But she has not made any long-term grandson and a 2-year-old grand- sources of funds and worked with students began writing letters to legis- when the former lobbyist left, she decisions regarding where she would daughter who live in Springfield. state agencies,” she said. latures, she said. said. like to stay permanently. “It’s much easier to be a grandpar- Merrifield said what she missed “I sensed more interest than there “I didn’t set out to be a lobbyist,” Merrifield said part of her would ent than a parent,” she said. _Police say amount of Crime redu~s · .. as peOple's quality of life increases - WASHINGTON PARK (AP) - law enf~1upy more." said LL as, rapists and wiJ4 dogs. police asked for Marlin•s bdp. be noted that When M4a>'or Robert Moore asked Owck Brueggemann, acting stare said. from 1986 to 1994 Slllie lroopers bad the Illinois State Police lasr ~ police district c.'onunaoder and Brush and IJ'CCS oive cover for helped the beJeaaues.ed F.aslSt. Louis O" "-wi·th ..: ..... -'• But--·-- for a few rroopeis to help patrol this Martin's local point man. "We want more drug deals and sucet violence. n ....- '"6"• .._...._ ~ ~ly blighted town. he had to affect the quality of life. And if we One ttact was so overgrown thal a there are barely enough Sblle- police • nQ idea he was twning the communi· do. the crime will take care ofitself." crew assigned lO clear it ~ sur- officers lO do their own work, Marlin ty into a test case. Project leaders said the quality of nnrM to discover a vacant house in and Brueggemann deCided on a dif. Dlinois State Police Director Gene life doesn't get much worse than in ~ket. Trash is everywhere. giv- fercnt appoach: soliciting ~led P. Marlin didn't send the trooper.;. but Washington Park. a conununity of ing whole blocb the appearance or urban renewal ~- he did send bulldoz.ers, urban plan­ 7, 000 just east of~ St Louis.