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Jacksonville State University JSU Digital Commons Chanticleer Historical Newspapers 2003-01-30 Chanticleer | Vol 51, Issue 18 Jacksonville State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_chanty Recommended Citation Jacksonville State University, "Chanticleer | Vol 51, Issue 18" (2003). Chanticleer. 1357. https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_chanty/1357 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Historical Newspapers at JSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Chanticleer by an authorized administrator of JSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Cocks back on the ball - p.6 Bush spells out risk he !iEhs election changes believes Saddam poses By Jamie M. Eubanks The Chanticleer News Editor By Martin Merzer and Jodi Enda Although he didn't men- Knight Ridder Newspapers tion Iraq until deep into his 60-minute speech, the presi- "If you're not going to go and actually do something WASHINGTON - dent devoted nearly the entire yourself, then you're pretty President Bush, seeking to second half to a stark assess- much worthless to this rally Americans standing on ment of the risk he believes University's Student Saddam poses. shaky eco- Government Association," said nomic He said Iraq could not Senator Jordan Brewer at ground and account for 6,600 gallons of Monday night's Senate meet- the brink of anthrax, more than 10,000 ing. "Our job is to actually war, called gallons of botulinum toxin make a difference and make on the nation and as much as 500 tons of this University better for the Tuesday chemical agents, enough to students." night- to con- commit unthinkable mass At the meeting Brewer repri- front the Pres. George Bush murder. manded his fellow senators for as he delivers his " 0 U t 1 a W State of the Union "Before Sept. 11, 2001, not doing their jobs. Out of 35 of addresson Tueday. many in the world believed senators, only seven senators Iraq or risk that Saddam Hussein could have written bills this term. "a day of horror like none we be contained," Bush said. "There are very few senators The ChanticleerlJam~eM. Eubanks have ever known." "But chemical agents and who are actually in it for our purpose," Brewer said, "which He said Saddam Hussein lethal viruses and shadowy Crystal Aaron, Sharton Gross and Clint Snider are sworn in at Monday's Senate meeting. Six senators and two justices took is to go to whatever extent we the places of those who couldn't serve out the remainder of their term. terrorist networks are not eas- might possess enough chemi- have to to make sure the stu- cal and biological material to ily contained. laws. a it." uphold the JSU SGA dent body is taken care of and "When someone applies to kill millions of people, and "Imagine those 19 hijack- If the bill passes when it goes Constitution and .Code of Laws that their best interest is be a senator they are going to before the senate, it will not go and to serve the students of was all too capable of using ers with other weapons and served." be given a copy of the JSU in effect until next year's elec- Jacksonville State University to it. other plans, this time armed To confront the problem of Constitution and Code of Laws. tions. So it would affect the the best of my ability in my by Saddam Hussein. It would "The dictator of Iraq is not apathy in the Senate, Brewer is Then they will come back at senators of 2004. capacity as senatorljustice of disarming," Bush said during take just one vial, one canis- working on a bill that would another meeting and take a test The oath the senators take the SGA." his State of the , Union ter, one require senators to take a test to show they actually read it when they are sworn into office address. "To the contrary, he on the constitution and code of see SGA, paqe 2 see President, paqe 2 and they actually understand says, "I do solemnly swear to is deceiving." Trustees vote to close Forney Hall Serious credit By Ben Cunningham the history of the building, it The Chanticleer Edrtor ~nCh~ef would be a great museum-piece property JSU's board of trustees voted "It's just not adjacent to our problems crash Mondav to close down Fornev campus," Meehan said "It's an - -- ing building, because of safety just more ot a liabimy to the concerns and maintenance University." costs. In other business, the trustees: By Miranda Bryant college students. "There are just a lot of prob- Approved the president's The Chanticleer Staff Writer "Then I went on vacation lems," JSU President Dr. Bill financial report for the 2001-02 and used two of my major Meehan said after the vote. The fiscal year. The report showed Bill Smith, a JSU student, credit cards because I was University will close the build- JSU ending the fiscal year with was 19 when he started buying close to maxing one out and ing at the end of the pring 2003 $73.5 million in revenues and clothing and vehicle acces- didn't want to go over," Smith semester. $71.9 million in expenses, to sories on credit. Bill Smith is said. "Although it's not true now, we end the year with a surplus of not his real name, but he said Smith finally had to contact know that if we continue with- $1.6 million. his situation is now too embar- a debt management agency, out a major inflow of cash, we Approved an $802,500 pro- rassing and he looks back to ,and he now sends them $199 know that safety issues and ject to re-roof several buildings regret his past decisions. monthly to disperse through- those things will become appar- on campus, including Bibb "I basically wanted to work out the various credit card ent," Meehan said. "The build- Graves Hall, Dauguette Hall, up some credit," he said. companies that used to call ing, if it's going to be refur- Dixon Hall and others. Smith has been employed him. bished, needs a total overhaul, Voted to allow Meehan to since he received his first bill "They (credit card vendors) and at this ~ointI cannot recom- dispose of several acres of prop- in the mail. It was from don't care," said Smith, The Chantlcleer/Patr~claLockhart mend to the trustees to invest in erty owned by JSU in southwest American Eagle. They started "because they will get their Forney Hall adjacent to Kitty Stone Elementary will be closed for good at the end Texas. ~h~ property was donat- money one it." of the Spring semester after a vote by the JSU Board of Trustees at their quarter- his limit at Forney Hall, adjacent to ly meeting Monday. ed to the University in the past, $500, and it way or ~ackson;ille's Stone Meehan said. Revenues from oil took him only a another." itt ti ing, with units available for "Unfortunately we outgrew it, First in a two -part Elementary School was built as deposits on the property were married students and those with and it's in the wrong place," to series on student debt. a dormitory in the early 1920's. used to fund scholarships, and maximize the After accu- children. Meehan said. The University At that time the campus of what Meehan described those oil account. He See next week's issue mu i ati n g As the building has aged, plans to put the property up for was then the Jacksonville State deposits as "pretty well deplet- said $500 O maintenance problems have sale, the president said. for part two on solu- Normal School was centered ed." He said after the vote that $10,000 in become serious and costly. Potential buyers could include "went like tions to credit around the area that later the University was negotiating that.".... debt, Smith "We're just getting so many the City of Jacksonville or the became Kitty Stone. As the col- with a buyer to purchase the Next, it was looks back complaints from folks. It's just city's school board, he speculat- problems* lege moved north, other build- property for about $30,000. the Sears credit in disgust. old, and I wonder about the ed. ings in the area were demol- Approved new handbooks card because he had to put "Aside from a11 that, I am safety of the people," Meehan Other buyers might include ished, leaving Forney as the last for faculty and staff members. still having to pay my cell said. Housing officials could those interested in historic new tires on his car. "It just vestige of the original campus. The Trustees will meet again- phone bill, my car Payment, not be reached by press time to preservation. "It's a historical went from there," Smith said. In recent years, Forney has on April 2 1, on the 11 th floor of my insurance," he said. "And discuss the specific maintenance building," Meehan said. "For "Once I was able to get served as apartment-style hous- the Houston Cole Library. now I have to live with my concerns. someone that has an interest in more credit cards, I took the Sears card and American parents." Eagle card and consolidated Smith realized the error of them into one major credit his ways, and said he now card." Smith's limit on that spends only $50 cash each Graduate enrollment growing fast new Bank of America Visa week on food and gas.