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Eastern Illinois University The Keep May 2003 5-2-2003 Daily Eastern News: May 02, 2003 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2003_may Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: May 02, 2003" (2003). May. 2. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2003_may/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 2003 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in May by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. "Tell the truth May 2, 2003 + f RI DAV and don't be afraid.• VOLUME 87. NUMBER 148 TH EDA I LY EAS TE RNN EWS .COM Ready, set, go THE DAILY Eastern's track and field team prepares for OVC championships EASTERN NEWS Page 12 Hosty v. Carter not over yet By Tim Martin newspaper. ADM INISTRATION EDITOR Offended readers demand- ed the university chancellor, "If llvlng today, President Nancy Cantor, fire the editor LJncoln would say: 'You can in chief and disband the news- fool some of the people, some paper. of the time, but you cannot And admllllstration turned fool all the people all the the other cheek. time. Unfortunately, Jews will Actually, Cantor by law fool Americans forever.•• could take no action - The -Letter to the Editor, ''Jews Daily IIJJni ls independent Manipulate America" Dally from the university - as col- Illini lege newspapers are protect- ed by freedom of speech This anti-Semitic letter was rights included in the First publlshed on Jan. 22 and Amendment. accused people of Jewish Lawsuits over the years descent of harborlllg terror- have challenged those rights; ism. the most recent of which deals Letters, e-mails and phone with the censorship of a stu- calls across the state - and dent newspaper, the even the world - were pour- Innovator, at Governors State ing In to the paper that pub- University. Ushed it, The Dally Illini, the University of I!Unols' student SEE HO STY • Page 7 PHO TO ILLUSTRATION / COLIN MCAULIFFE Bailey McMillen, a freshman chemistry major, argues with roommate Jenny Zielezinski, a freshman elementary education major, about what to watch on television. Tuition rate to Roommate rigors be decided soon • Living with a stranger can lead to problems ofjealousy and loss ofprivacy By Kate Henderson "She wanted to be me,• she on a quiet floor with 24-hour cour- By Jennifer Chiariello sibillty of 5 percent cap on any STAFF WRITER recounted. tesy hours, meaning the students CAMPUS EDITOR increase. O'Connor said her roommate was Uving there had to keep the noise Western has a cost guarantee Colleen O'Connor's roommate overweight and wanted to be an level quiet enough that it could not Eastern will not announce program, which ensures stu- her freshman year was interested average weight like her. be heard outside the door. whether the cost of tuition will dents will have the same tuition in cannibalism and Colleen. John Grimes Jr., a psychologist Zlelezinski and her roommate increase for the fall 2003 semes- costs all four years, said John O'Connor's roommate would working in Charleston, said some were friends in high school before ter until after the budget ls Maguire, vice president for uni- enllghten people on the gory details people Uving together have jeal- moving to Eastern and chose to be approved May 31 by the legisla- versity relations. So even with of cannibalism and watch the ousy issues similar to O'Connor and roommates. ture. the 13 percent increase, stu- movies, "Silence of the Lambs" and her former roommate. "We had different bed sched- Western Illinois University dents already enrolled at "Hannibal" Strangers Uving together worry ules," said Zlelezinski. "I went to didn't wait so long, announcing a Western will pay a lower cost. "Sometimes, I would come home about invasion of space, Eastern bed early and got up at 6 am. and 13 percent Increase Monday for The cost guarantee program at night and she would be sleeping psychology professor Anu Sharma she would come in at 4 am. and next fall. Northeastern has has been in place already for in my bed," said O'Connor, a sophcr said. wake up at 2 p.m." approved a 5.2 percent increase, four years. more elementary education major. "They worry about their belong- Zlelezinski and her roommate and Southern Illinois University "We don't anticipate any "Other times, I would get ready for ings being stolen or they don't want talked about their problems and Carbondale a 16 percent change in the enrollment trend," bed and she would pull a purple and their roommate sitting on their bed tried to work them out, but they had increase. Maguire said. red lawn chair up right next to my or eating a snack when they aren't too many differences, which result- Northern Illinois University Western's student enrollment bed so she could watch television." there." ed in her moving out after the first and Illinois State University will has been respectively growing, One time, O'Connor went to eat Even friends tend to encounter semester. discuss tuition this month. he said. An advantage students dinner in Champaign for dinner. problems because they go into col- Sharma said that there are a few Eastern's tuition lllcrease will have is a predicable cost for When she reached the restaurant lege Ufe with different assumptions logical steps to solving problems, could total $1.8 milllon, accord- all four years. her roommate was at the table next of how the experience will turn out, such as constructiveness and posi- ing to figures from the Bureau Sue Davis, spokeswoman for to her. Sharma said. tive criticism. of the Budget. The number Southern Illinois University She had followed O'Connor all the Jennifer Zlelezinski, a freshman "As a therapist, I always helped takes into consideration the pos- SEE TUITION • Page 7 way there. elementary education major, Uved SEE ROOMMATES • Page 7 Grants will not change with budget cuts By Jeremy Pelzer ls significantly Jess than what access to higher education." As a result, Deedrick said an ing State Sen. Dale Righter, R- CITY REPORTER tuition rates will be." Members of Eastern's Student increasing number of students are Mattoon, have advocated return- MAP offers grants of up to Government said Eastern students being forced to take out Joans, ing fifth-year MAP funding, no At a time when higher education $5,000 to Illinois students who will suffer. rather than receiving grant money action has been taken yet in is recommended for $112 milllon in demonstrate financial aid and Outgoing student vice president that doesn't have to be paid back. Springfield. cuts next fiscal year, Monetary attend a college or University in for academic affairs Ronnie Mormino and Deedrick both Deedrick said rising tuition Award Program (MAP) grant fund- Illinois. Deedrick said that while the state said they are also concerned that without rising tuition grants is part ing to students would remain at its Mormino said she thought MAP was "between a rock and a hard while MAP grants only cover four of a "general trend (where) higher current budget under Gov. Rod funding should be increased. place" financially, he felt a MAP years of tuition, financial and edu- education ls getting cut. Blagojevich's budget proposal. In his budget address last month, funding increase was necessary. cation factors are leadlllg an "It's a trend that all students However, many think that as col- Blagojevlch said he would "prcr "(At Eastern) we're going to have increasing number of students to should be worried about," he said. lege tUltion rates rise, simply main- tect" the current MAP grant budg- at least a double-digit increase in graduate in five years. Mormino said that all Eastern taining current MAP funding will et at $336 milllon. tuition," Deedrick said. "I hope that the Legislature real- students will "definitely" be affect- hit students' pocketbooks hard. "I will not repeat the last admlll- He said current funding levels izes that because of rising costs, ed by next year's budget cuts. I'm glad it (MAP grant funding) istration's mistake by slashing were already significantly lower there are more students that are "It's notjust going to affect sum- is not being cut," Student Body funding to the Monetary Award than in previous years. The MAP staying an extra year," Mormino mer school," Mormino said. "It's President Alison Mormino said. Program," he said. current budget was slashed 50 per- said. going to affect every single part of "(But the current level of funding) "We will not deny needy students cent from Fiscal Year 02, he said. While several legislators, includ- campus." Today Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Mostly cloudy Mostly sunny Thunderstorms Thunderstorms Mostly cloudy Partly cloudy Partly cloudy PAGE - ~ ~ ~ ~ Friday, 0 58° 630 720 68° 43° 66° 46° 67° 78° 51° 62° 45° 50° 46° May 2, 2003 TWO HI GH LOW HIGH LO W HI GH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIG H LOW HI GH LOW Other colleges allocate money for their RSOs By Niki Jensen STUDENT GOVERNMENT ED ITOR dents within organizations," Saelens said. Currently, Recognized Illinois State University has Student Organizations at more than 250 RSOs that are Eastern do not receive any currently eligible for funding, money from the university. according to the university This, however, is not the case Web site. for several other state univer- Beginning with Fiscal Year sities. 2004, the Office of Student Larry Ward, newly-elected Life and Student Government student vice president for busi- Association will implement a ness affairs, said many other new RSO Program Fund to state universities allocate allow only RSOs to apply for money to RSOs.