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Eastern Illinois University The Keep September 2002 9-5-2002 Daily Eastern News: September 05, 2002 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2002_sep Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: September 05, 2002" (2002). September. 3. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2002_sep/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 2002 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]. September 5, 2002 N “Tell the truth THURSDAY and don’t be afraid.” VOLUME 87, NUMBER 9 Trophy dash THEDAILYEASTERNNEWS.COM The field of candidates for the Walter Payton Award is full of thoroughbreds, including Eastern’s Tony Romo. Page 1 SECTION B Parking Feltt woes back in not over N More lot spaces hospital available but student N spots still hard to locate English instructor back in critical condition after By Melissa Nielsen hemorrhage in skull CAMPUS EDITOR By Melissa Nielsen Everyone on campus has CAMPUS EDITOR gained parking spaces this fall, and the University Police English instructor Bill Feltt contin- Department hopes the addi- ues fighting a battle to recover from tional parking will be sufficient injuries and has been readmitted into a to accommodate the enroll- hospital after being released from ment increase and staff office Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center ear- moves. lier this week. Over the summer, under- Feltt was hospitalized after being classman gained 35 parking attacked on campus by a group of six to spaces, upperclassman gained eight unknown males. 50 to 55 and staff gained 40 to Dana Ringuette, chair of the English 45, said University Police offi- department, said Feltt was expecting cer Lt. John Hatfill. Although to return to teaching his regular there are more spaces avail- English 1001 classes soon, but health able, several lots have changed problems have put him back into the their permit status. hospital. Staff gained one row of park- Jennifer Foster, ing in the W lot at 7th Street a registered and Roosevelt St., removing 12 nurse at Good Timeline of to 13 upperclassman spaces. Samaritan events The spaces were changed Hospital in CAITLIN BULLIS/ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR because many faculty offices Vincennes, Ind., N 1:50 a.m. from the Doudna Fine Arts said Feltt was Aug. 27 — six Center were relocated to Eric Erst, a senior finance major, gets lucky finding a parking spot in the W parking lot near Taylor Hall admitted into to eight men Lawson Hall, which is near the Wednesday afternoon. Crowded parking lots across campus make it difficult to find a place to park. Good Samaritan attack English W lot, after the building closed Sep. 3 in critical instructor near for construction. ed, but we need to work togeth- any more underclass permits condition. Gregg Triad When the Thomas Hall parking er,” Davidson said. “They “The parking issue than last year. Ringuette said N Aug. 27 — lot closed for construction of the already have barely any under- Mitchell said parkers in the Feltt is suffering Feltt admitted Health Service Center, 40 upper- classmen parking spots now has mainly been a W lot have been parking in the from a small hem- to Sarah Bush classman spaces and 40 staff and they are going to have an driveway and outside the lines, orrhage in his Lincoln Health spaces were lost. To make up for even harder time (parking). It’s student problem but it was not because of any skull, a fracture Center with the lost spaces, 63 staff spaces going to be pretty bad this year, lack of parking. and a sinus infec- bleeding, were added in the S lot across especially for underclassmen. because we are so “There are too many on cam- tion. bruises, from 7th St. The lot was previ- Even the last resort areas are pus,” he said. “There is room to Feltt was scrapes and ously all upperclassman parking. not open this year.” overcrowded.” park, the problem is they can’t released from chipped teeth. Staff also gained 35 student He said members of the park where they want to park. Sarah Bush N Sept. 2 — spaces along 7th Street. parking committee believed — Bill Davidson There is room to park. You just Lincoln Health Feltt released The lost student spaces were staff parking was underused in have to walk.” Center on Sep. 2, from Sarah made up by turning 173 exist- certain lots, while student park- in session over the summer. In the future, Due said the and was in Bush Lincoln ing spaces in the S lot to upper- ing was often overcrowded and Hatfill said the the University Police Department Indiana to visit his Health Center. classman parking. unavailable. The committee University Police Department would support a proposal to mother, Ringuette N Sept. 3 — Bill Davidson, a junior politi- presented their concerns to the was still looking at other possi- assign students and staff to spe- said. Feltt admitted cal science major and a mem- the UPD last spring. bilities to better accommodate cific lots, instead of a permit to “We are hoping to Good ber of the parking committee, “We took pictures of empty students. He said staff were use any space they can find. for the best,” said Samaritan said he was angered that the spots in faculty and staff park- not utilizing all the spaces in Davidson said that kind of Ringuette. “We Hospital in the University Police ing spots because we wanted to the F lot, so the the University proposal was a goal for the are hoping he’ll be Vincennes, Department did not show any get more spots for students,” Police Department may reana- parking committee this year. back as soon as Ind. in critical of the new changes to the park- Davidson said. lyze how they use that lot. “We want to get a survey out possible, but this condition. ing committee. He also thought Adam Due, chief public safe- “It has been very quiet as far for faculty and staff and see if is obviously a set- the new spaces would not ty officer and head of the park- as complaints about parking,” they would like to have desig- back.” relieve student parking prob- ing committee, said the UPD he said. nated spots for each individual. Adam Due, lems. needs to make changes over Hatfill said that he did not I think they need to review chief public safety officer at the “The parking issue has main- the summer before people believe underclassmen would their strategy for giving out University Police Department, said an ly been a student problem started returning to school and have a problem finding parking parking passes,” Davidson investigation into the beating was still because we are so overcrowd- the parking committee was not because the UPD has not issued said. pending and he could not comment on its progress. Feltt was attacked at about 1:50 a.m. on the southeast corner of the Martin Luther King University Union early Summer weather takes toll on area Aug. 27 by six to eight unknown males, all estimated to be in their 20s. The N Relief finally on the way occurred June 17. assault was allegedly unprovoked. Price said this summer the area faced 42 “The time will come when we A $2,500 reward has been issued for days of above 90 degree weather, well any information that leads to the arrest By Mary Carnevale above the average. will get more normal rains.” and conviction of Feltt’s attackers. STAFF WRITER It hasn’t rained since Aug. 1 and even Anyone with information should call then it was only slightly over 0.5 inches, he — Dalias Price the UPD at 581-3213. As the grass is drying out and the flow- said. Currently, officials are planning on ers are dying, the question on every mind “The time will come when we will get taking the reward money from the in Charleston is, when is more normal rains,” Price said. are the main cash crops for this area of Judicial Affairs budget, but other it going to rain? More inside However, he doesn’t expect that turn- Illinois. departments may bear some of the cost Dalias Price, a local N around for another 10 days. Price says the dry weather has been as time goes on. weather observer, said Seven day Price said there should have been three tough on farmers who make their living “It is very important that we solve Charleston is suffering weather times the amount of rain this month-long selling those crops. this and any other serious crimes on forecast. one of the worst period compared to the amount that the He said there will be a break in the hot campus,” said Keith Kohanzo, director droughts it has seen Page 2A Charleston area has received since Aug. 1. temperatures beginning in the middle of of Judicial Affairs. “Crime rates are since 1936. Coupled with Along with making people uncomfort- next week with temperatures reaching the very low on this campus, and this brings the extremely hot weath- able, the hot temperatures have made the lower 80’s with high humidity. After that, attention to the need to respond imme- er that came about this summer, the dry- local agriculture suffer. The grass is in a the area could enjoy a cooling rain, restor- diately. We are new to this, but, unfortu- ness does not help the cooling process. state of dormancy and production is down ing the land and cooling off the people of nately, this is an example of where (a The last soaking rain the area has seen in the corn and soybean industry, which central Illinois.

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