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University of Missouri, St. Louis IRL @ UMSL Current (2000s) Student Newspapers 2-11-2002 Current, February 11, 2002 University of Missouri-St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: https://irl.umsl.edu/current2000s Recommended Citation University of Missouri-St. Louis, "Current, February 11, 2002" (2002). Current (2000s). 97. https://irl.umsl.edu/current2000s/97 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at IRL @ UMSL. It has been accepted for inclusion in Current (2000s) by an authorized administrator of IRL @ UMSL. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Chocolate: VOLUME 3S from humble' '.... ~. ...... .... .. .~ beginnings February 11, •-& "'. '.:' , I' to millions 2002 ' in/ormation of h~arts ISSUE 1043 .. See page 3 THECURRENTONLlNE.COM UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - ST. LOUIS UMSL weighs bike rack Burns files trademark proposal ay AMANDA MUELLER Fonnerstudent demands compensation ·········Stajj'w;-ii~;· .. ········.... ·.. ·· ··.. Martin Pion, Coordinator of the Ferguson B.IKE. project, has recent for his contnbution to UM-St. Louis ly presented UM-St. Louis with a pro i ]X>sal that would install bike parking lay NICK BOWMAN erated very little response by the stu- Edwardsville, and, to his knowledge, racks on campus. dent body. The committee met again, MUSL was still MUSL. The pUf]X>se of the pro]X>sal is to Senior Editor and decided that perhaps finals week About one year later, at an promote bike riding. The proposal is Saturday night. The basketball was not the best time to hold an event Assembly meeting on Oct. 17, 1966, currently under consideration by the teams snit up. Head coach Mark of this sort. Huffuian then moved to re- Mary Killenberg motioned to recom RS Chancellor of Administrative Bernsen prepares his team. And the open the contest·in the fall, and carry mend to the Chancellor that Bill Burns Services. Rivermen jog onto the floor of the over the few submissions that were receive the $25 dollar reward for sub Mark Twain Center, ready for another entered in the spring automatically. In mitting the name of "Rivermen" in 'The primary c.ontest. :nus is what mostpeople think addition, Huffman threw in a $25 prize the contest. Although not docu- of when someone asks about the for the winning mascot. The contest mented, MUSL apparently Rivermen - sports. was publicized throughout the campus, adopted the Ri vemlen objective of this However, for former student as well as in 'The Mizzou News" (now mascot after the contest William "Bill" BUms, 'The Rivermen" 'The Current"). in an administrative is a 36-year-old tradition that started TIlis time, the <;antest drew a bit meeting that did not project is to reduce with a simple three-<:olor pastel, which more attention, as over 30 submissions involve the Image he sketched for a shot at $25 and were entered. The Image Committee Committee or any stU congestion on the immortality. He received neither in met again, and chose three: The dent interest. The return. Knights (a reference to King Louis IX, motion was passed. The time is fall 1965. The campus, who was, among other things, a soldier As of Feb. 8, 2002, roads, and clean which had recently undergone a nanle and crusader), The Geminites (a refer- Burns is still awaiting change from Normandy Residence ence to the campus's pioneering spirit), payment and certain Center· to Missouri University-St. and The Rivermen (an embodiment of unspecified "insularly our air. II Louis, was in a search of identity; and the colo~ romantic heritage of St. demands." Dean of Students Harold Eickhoff felt Louis, according to Burns.) "I kept my end of . Martin Pion, that this identity could be found in the Shortly after this ballot was accept- the bargain," Burns Coordinator of the student body. ed and put to a vote of the students, a said. "I gave them the Fergll5Ol1 B.I.K.E. project On April 26, 1965, Eickhoff meet protest and petition ensued. Dwight drawing and their with an Image Committee of students Stevens represented the student protest naule, they never kept ''The primary objective of this pro and faculty. There was a mutual. agree in a Nov. 22, 1965, Student Assembly their end." ject is to reduce congestion on the ment that "MU-St. Louis (the name at (now the Student Government Jump to July 1996. roads, and clean our air," Pion said. the time) should break away from MU Association) meeting, and read a peti- Bums, who is living on a Installing the bike racks is part of a Columbia in regard to colors, nick tion, signed by 1080 students atId 35 houseboat in Port Richmond, three-year project, paid for partially name and mascot." faculty, that opposed the ballot and it's Calif., was working as a columnist for by federal grant money. The program Carl Huffman, a member of the choices. After much debate. a marion the . now-defunct "Richmond mail to Bob Samples, the director of campus visit, but it went nowhere. has allotted $8,000 for the first year committee. suggested that a contest be was made and passed to accept the Glannel," among other freelance jobs. University Communication, explain· Burns and Samples discussed the and will match every dollar :from beld wj th Sl!bmisSions. ing faken petition. Shortly after, Chancellor _ In his pursuit, he began to use ing the hi.stmy of the RivenTI.en and issue in various meetings and phone UM-St. Louis by a fourto one ratio. from the student body. with the best James Bugg ''technically voided" the 1ntemet; and a visit to !lie -St. what he felt was fair compensation. conversations in order to find some sort According ta Martin, St Louis is submissions being put to a vote of the contest. Louis bomepage brought to his atten- Bums had contacted the University on of solution, and that's when Bums currently out of compliance with the student body. The committee agreed, . Shortly after this, Bums transferred tion The Rivermen. which he felt was only one other occasion before 1996. Clean Air Act. So far nothing has hap and the contest wa~ initiated, but it gen- to Southern illinois University - his inve,ntion. Bums then sent an e- He raised the issue in 1971 during a see TRADEMARK, page 7 pened because of this violation but several environmental agencies are pushing for the government to do something. Installing new bike racks UMSL Campus has will hopefully cut dov,'Il on air pollu tion from cars driven to work by stu dents. hired a pied piper There was a verbal agreement made between Pion and then Vice BY JOHN WALTON were on campus at Bugg Lake. The Chancellor of Student Affairs, G. birds were flightless and at mercy to StClffWriter Gary Grace. Nothing was done with predators. The rescued animals were this vemal agreement and now it is up According to legend, when the vil adopted into approved homes. to the new Vice-Chancellor, Joanne lage of Hamlin had a rodent problem, "When I come on campus, I tell Bocci. This past Friday she promised they hired a piped piper. In that same Piper the specific animal I want him Martin she would give her decision in tradition. UM- St. Louis has hire.d a to manage," Olson said. "He will not one month. TIle problem now is that "piper" of their own to help v..ith a attempt to herd other animals in th.e there is a budget crunch and purchas solution to a problem with a different task." • ing these bike racks would only add to animal-the Canada Geese. Piper works via her commandS. expenses. Dorene Olson, who owns Olson uses the language used by: ' UM-St. Louis does have a few WyndSong Border Collies and ranchers. bike racks on campus now but Pion Canada Goose Management, is "Way to me," tells him to move said they are a bad design. Pion said attempting to solve the geese counterclock UM-St. Louis would have some the problems 'When I wise towards her. options if they agreed to the program. cau~ed when geese "Come by," will tell "UM-St. Louis can test a half and people share him to move the gaggle dozen different bike racks and see the same area. She come on in a clockwise direction. which ones work better," Pion said . v..ill use her trained 'That'll do, Piper," Some other ideas in the program Border Collie to means the task is com T. J. Schaefer, a senior Business and Marketing major takes notes from Assistant Professor Wiland's campus, I tell have been to provide bikes on a uial "persuade" the pleted. lecture in the "Understanding Terrorism in the 21st Century" class. basis for some students, bike educa geese not to inhabit Pi per the When Olson and tion classes and a bicycle transporta certain areas of the Piper are separated by a tion center. This center would have campus. long distance, she gives inside bike parking facilities and "My business is specific ani the commanci<; on a places for riders to shower and clean New .course in terrorism to use the Border whistle. up before class. Collie and habitat · mall want As Piper moves the "These options haven't all been modification of the geese to her, they take discussed, but they are fX)SSibilities," geese in conjunc him to man flight and leave the area. Pion said offered this semester tion with each other This process, repeated, One fact both sides agree on is that to address the prob age. He will will teach the geese not student involvement is needed.