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Eastern Illinois University The Keep September 2004 9-9-2004 Daily Eastern News: September 09, 2004 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2004_sep Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: September 09, 2004" (2004). September. 4. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2004_sep/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 2004 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in September by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. "Tell the truth and don't be afraid. " THE VERGE + Eating healthy on campus: page 7 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 9 2004 thedailyeastemnews.com &tern Illinois University, Charleston UNIVERSITY FUNDING DOUDNA RENOVATION Flexibility granted to program Details Award money toward summer enrollment. Jone Zieren, director of financial aid. spring and summer terms. This will waiting Senate Bill 1971 will add new flex "I am pleased to see the state gov- allow students greater flexibility co ' . can be used for ibility co the MAP award program, ernments co1TUJUtment. to connnu- receive tuition grants to complete which provides grants to hdp Illinois ing and improving the grants, and I their degrees. Students will also be summer terms students pay for tuition and manda fed it is an important program co our able to use the grant according to for final tory fees. students and university," said Tracy their own personal academic plan BY JENNIFER P ERYAM Financial aid directors at Eastern Hall, assistant director of financial ning schedules. Last year, 2,620 stu ADMINISTRATION EDITOR said there are great benefits co this aid. dents were awarded MAP grants. grant. An increase of fonding for the pro This year, 2,197 students were approval Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed a leg "le is wonderfol co have chis grant gram chat can be passed on to stu awarded the grants, according to islacion earlier chis month char will because any money the scare can dents is what Hall hopes the legisla Hall. allow sn1dents to apply their award increases fonds and is less cion will bring. Project expected Monetary Award Program Grant money out to students' pockets," said The grant will be available for fall, SEE FLEXIBILITY PAGE 13 to start on time BY KYLE MAYHUGH STAFF WRITER Doudna Fine Arts Center renova tions are projected to begin as scheduled, even though the state's construction management agency still has not finalized project details. The Illinois Capital Development Board expects to accept bids for the project in October. The project can be open for bids only if the CDB finalires project derails by October. The CDB has been working on the project since the money was released in February. "The project is still in the design phase. le was on hold for over a year, so they had to go into redesign," said CDB communications director Mclaney Arnold. The design for the renovations must be updated to make sure it will still fit under the budget chat was set two years ago. The original design would have increased the building from 104,000 to 194,000 square feet with plumbing, lighting and electri cal upgrades. The state is providing $46 million for the project. The project was delayed in 2003 when Gov. Rod Blagojevich froze funding for all building projects in Illinois. Renovations had begun in 2002 starting with asbestos removal. The funding was released in Febmary 2004 and state officials are STEPHEN H AAS/THE DALY EASTERN NEWS still controlling the project. Of the drinks in this illustration, only Miller Lite and Red Stripe are allowed in the residence halls, despite having similar alcohol content per volume. "As far as we know, the project is being managed by the Capital Development Board, and their schedule is to get bid development in October," said Jeff Cooley, Eascern's vice president of business LIMITED CHOICES affairs. Cooley does not expect any set BY BRITTANY ROBSON Malt beverages have drinks are associated with brand names like backs in completing the project. CAMPUS REPORTER Smirnoffor Bacardi, and chose names are known as A new fiscal year has begun since similar alcohol content as hard liquors, he said. the money for the project was For 21-year-old living on campus, having alcohol beer, but are illegal in "This has been a long standing rule," Hudson released. The Illinois General in their room is allowed, but to an extent. said. "When I was here in the mid-70s the rule had Assembly must re-approve the fund Mark Hudson, director of housing and dining, residence halls already been established." ing. said the mle has always been students who are of Hudson said scacistics tend to show students The renovation plans originally age and live in the residence halls may consume "We chink if students are of legal age, they may who live in a residence hall, have a better grade included tearing down Eastern's for beer and wine in their room. drink in their room with ochers who are also ofage, ix>int average compared co students who live of mer Health Services Building, This mle excludes drinks like, Mike's Hard ifit is a reasonable manor," Hudson said. campus or in residence halls chat allow liquor. which is housing departments dis Lemonade, Skyy Blue, Smirnoff and any ocher The university will not let students drink malt placed last year by the Blair Hall "malt beverage" or hard liquor. drinks in the residence halls because most of those SEE CHOICES PAGE 13 fire. FIVE-DAY OUTLOOK TODAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY 78 82 85 80 11 52 56 61 52 54 Sunny Sunny Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Partly cloudy THllRsDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2004 AROUND' FINISHING TOUCH WTF? ILLINOIS CAMPUSES Robber attempts to fork up cash SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AIKEN, S.C. (AP) - A robber who Work-study funds used a rusty pitchfork to stick up a bank got away - and so far, finding raise controversy him has been like looking for a needle Controversy over the vague language of the in a haystack. Department of Education's guidelines for distributing The man, wearing sunglasses and a federal work-study funds has some faculty members mask, entered Security Federal Bank and students questioning SIUC's policy. Tuesday morning and threatened Complaints have spurred an investigation into the employees with the 4-foot-long pitch University's practice of allowing federal work-study fork. The man took an undisclosed funds to be used by private businesses. Reactions have amotmt of money. varied across the campus, but many peer universities The robber dropped cl1e farm rool disagree with SIUC's current policy. as he ran from the bank through a Nancy Dole, a student employment advisor for wooded area to a golf course behind Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, said the uni the bank, police said. versity's policy does not include outside businesses. Bloodhounds tracked the robber to Although businesses like Chic-0-Fillet are contracted a fast food restaurant parking lot, with on-campus dining services, they are not allowed to where police say the man got into a the University's work-study funds under any circum white van driven by a woman. scan= "With work-stud)'> you're supposed to be learning PATIENT INJECTED something as you work," Dole said. "So pretty much, WITH OLIVE OIL we have enough spaces on campus that need to be filled STEYR, Austria -A medical intern by our work-study students, and other departments at a western Austria hospital mistak that need the help to sustain their department." enly injected an elderly patient with READ MORE AT WWW.DA IL YEGYPTIAN.COM olive oil instead of antibiotics aft:er mixing up bedside vials, officials said NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY Wednesday. The patient, a 79-year-old woman Increasing internet access in the hospital for an appendectomy, NIU will announce a plan today to establish a con was not in life-threatening condition, nection with a 175-mile fiberoptic network that will be hospital director Harald Geck told the used for research and increased Internet availability in Austria Press Agency. northern Illinois. COLIN M c AUUFFE/THE DALY EASTERN NEWS The mixup apparently happened Cable will be laid by or leased to NIU for the purpose Megan Anderson, a freshman undeclared major pours syrup on her ice cream during Sorority when the intern grabed a vial which of accessing research materials. Increased Internet access Rush, Wednesday night in Carmen Hall cafeteria. had been prepared by a hospital phys will help draw businesses to the area, said Dan iotherapist for a massage, Geck said. Halverson, president of the Sycamore-based Internet provider TBC Net. NIU is sharing the costs of the $1.5 million project THIS WEEK'S ONLINE POLL COUNTING with TBC Net and cities in the area. NIU is partly DOWN funding the installation ofcable to cl1e network running This week we ask about the problems readers have experienced with the new computer network at Eastern. along Interstate 88 in order to increase the speed researchers can access information from FermiLab in A) I haven't had any problems with the network. I only use my computer for writing papers and playing solitaire. Batavia. Graduate sn1dents will not have to physically B) I can't get the latest Strong Bade mail. My life is in shambles. go to a research database because everything will be C) What am I supposed to do with my insatiable desire to kill if I can't play Battlefield 1942 with my fellow nerds from available cllfough NIUNet, Magara said.