N EWS M Brief PARKING LOTS from P G .L Responsible for Most of the Oduwole to Face Trial by Jury Building and Repairs on Campus
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University Archives (02) Campus Box 1063 Season recap: Pitching woes See Sports N e w s ..................... 1-3 O p in io n ..................... 4 A&E ..........................5 S p o r ts ................... 6-7 ... Classifieds.................8 Alton - East St. Louis - Eawardsville Wednesday, June 2, 2010 www.alestlelive.com Vol. 62, No. 3 5 Campus parking lots Drinking on the cheap receive makeover Two SIUE professors break down students’ frugality by Rosie Githinji The study shows that SIUE students who are Alestle A&E Editor impulsive tend to drink more, according to Rose. According to the study, 185 students enrolled in College students and drinking are assumed to an introductory psychology' class were surveyed. go hand in hand. Psychology professors Paul Rose These students range from freshmen to seniors and and Dan Segrist and graduate student Shannon the mean age was about 19 years old. Toney Smith conducted a study o f students’ drinking “About 40 percent of the students were under habits and how to change them. legal drinking age,” Rose said. “Effects were the The study concluded that frugal students will same regardless of whether they were of legal spend less money on alcohol if the prices or taxes are drinking age or not.” raised. The survey was anonymous and confidential, Prior research indicates students are sensitive to according to Rose. He said it made the students the price of alcohol, according to Rose. more comfortable and because it was confidential “All people differ in how much they enjoy students were more honest, according to Rose. saving money and spending money,” Rose said. “The big take-home message of the research is “Students who save money won’t spend as much on students are sensitive to how much alcohol costs,” alcohol and people who are more impulsive tend to Rose said. drink more.” STUDY/pg.3 Sean Roberts/Alestle All but three campus parking lots will be resurfaced this summer, at a total cost of $300,000. The funds needed for the project will come from parking tickets, meters and permits. by Jason Frazier “Re-sealing the parking lots is Alestle Reporter costing SIUE $300,000,” Langendorf said. “Parking doesn’t If you have paid a ticket or receive any money from the state. two within the last year, chances This project is being funded are those dollars are going right through citations, meter revenue, back into the lots where the ticket and parking permits.” was issued. The lots are being resealed Revenue from parking with tar asphalt. Langendorf said tickets, meters and permits will originally SIUE used Reclamite to pay for the resurfacing of parking seal the parking areas. “M ost o f the lots were built \ lots across campus, according to Tony Langendorf, assistant to the in 1997, in the past we used director of Parking Services. Reclamite, a clear substance which % g p “We will be repaving every lot seals the asphalt,” Langendorf on this campus except for lots F, said. “We were only allowed to apply three applications of #|| ' . 4A, and B ,” Langendorf said. X L ***> Resealing the lots may seem Reclamite every' four years. Since like a time-consuming process, the cycle for the Reclamite is S , -rs but Langendorf said the project done, we are now using a coal tar will be completed by the fall. seal.” “Each lot takes three days to The price of maintenance complete, however the entire may seem high, but Langendorf i process should take 7-10 weeks,” said it saves SIUE money in the Sean Roberts/Alestle Langendorf said. “The contract long run by doing the The inside of 529 currently holds a skeleton frame of the apartment. The old apartment was with the company repaving the maintenance consistently instead completely gutted by the fire and could not be salvaged. lots states the lots must be done of waiting to completely rebuild by the start o f the fall semester.” the lot. Langendorf said some of the “We do crack tilling in the most commonly used lots will be fall; this is just maintenance. It’s paved in sections to not heavily more cost effective to do disrupt parking for students and maintenance on the lots than to faculty during the summer allow the entire base to become “Main interior lots, like Lot damaged,” Langendorf said. “To A, we will pave half of the lot at a resurface the lot if the base is time because it is so large,” intact, it costs around $500- Langendorf said. “In the summer, $1000 per space; to rebuild the the student census is low. This lot if the base is gone you are allows us to close one lot and looking at $2000-$3000 per direct students and faculty' to space.” another lot if needed.” SIUE issued the contract to Sean Roberts/Alestle Revenue for the resealing of Oates Associates f t c . to complete The remnants from the August 2009 fire [shown left] have been since torn down and replaced with the parking lots is generated by the parking lot project. a replica of the previous building. The new Cougar Village apartment [right] is scheduled to be SIUE and is not a product o f state Langendorf said they are completed by the fall 2010 semester. grants or loans. PARKING LOTS/pg.2 N EWS m brief PARKING LOTS from p g .l responsible for most of the Oduwole to face trial by jury building and repairs on campus. “The maintenance is Alestle Staff Report charge against Oduwole of recommended by our attempting to make a terrorist engineering firm, Oates Olutosin Oduwole, a former threat. 5-24-10- Grill stolen from Cougar Village Associates Inc.,” Langendorf The note found in Oduwole’s 509. SIUE student arrested in 2007 on Police stopped a vehicle for driving said. “SIU E uses them for any car, which was abandoned on the charge of attempting to make without lights on East University 5 -2 9 -H L projects on campus that requires campus, included: “send $2 to ... a terrorist threat, will now stand Drive. Police arrested Gerald an outside engineering firm such PayPal account if this account Police issued Faizan Khan a trial by jury. Woody for driving under the as the new science building.” doesn’t reach $50,000 in the next citation for speeding on Cougar Oduwole’s defense attorneys influence of alcohol. Woody was SIUE alumni and Oates 7 days then a murderous rampage Lake Drive. argued the note found in the 25- transported to the police Associates Inc. Project manager similar to the [Virginia Tech] year-old’s car contained rap lyrics department where he was Police stopped a vehicle for Tom Cissell said the parking lots shooting will occur at another and should be dismissed on the processed and was issued speeding at New Poag Road. have upgraded since his time on highly populated university. T H IS basis of free speech. citations for DUI and driving Jason M. Smith was arrested for the SIUE campus. IS NOT A JOKE!” Circuit Judge Richard without lights. Woody posted driving under the influence. Smith “The parking lots when I Ammunition was also found Tognarelli dismissed the defense’s $300 and was released. was taken to the police was a student at SIUE had in the car, and police later found a argument Friday, ruling the note department where he was weeds and grass growing up loaded handgun in Oduwole’s on- 5-25-10. contained two separate parts and processed and issued citations for through them,” Cissell said. campus apartment. the rap lyrics on top did not have Police issued Christopher S. driving under the influence, “The campus has made a Oduwole is free after his a connection to the “threatening” Thomas citations for speeding and speeding and the unlawful priority to take care of their lots father posted $110,000 cash bond portion at the bottom. illegal transportation of alcohol. transportation of alcohol. Smith and make them look on Aug. 2007. A jury will now decide the Police arrested Cheyenne M. was released after posting $100 aesthetically pleasing compared Haxton, the passenger of Thomas’ bond and relinquishing his driver’s to my time there.” vehicle, on an active warrant for license. SIU E is doing maintenance failure to appear for driving while on the lots already in place; $1.5 billion proposed center moved 5-31-10- suspended. Thomas and Haxton however, senior mass Alestle Staff Report were taken to the police Police responded to a subject communications major Melissa department where they were turning himself in on a warrant. Sherman said they also need to The University Town Center is no more, but it may have found processed. Haxton was unable to Leon Loving was arrested on an create better areas for parking as new life under the name of Millennium Development. post bond and was taken to active warrant for failure to appear well. The Millennium Development project is now being proposed in Madison County Jail. Thomas was for driving without a seat belt. “We need better parking in Marion, and Senate Bill 2093 has passed both houses, awaiting Quinn’s released with a notice to appear. Loving turned himself in at the general,” Sherman said. “The approval. police department and was lots on the other side really put 5-26-10__________________ Once a proposed $ 1 billion retail and entertainment center for processed and released after a damper on traffic with all of Glen Carbon, the proposed University Town Center lost steam after Police were notified the warrant for posting $100 bond. the pedestrian crossing. It’s Gov.