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OUR WORD, page 6: Gus Bode says WEDNESDAY Saluki Way or the highway Daily Egyptianwww.siude.com VOL. 92, NO. 95, 20 PAGES S OUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FEBRUARY 7, 2007 Professors sue state over ethics exam — claims the state acted illegally by violation of a minimum time limit Association President Marvin Zeman Lawsuit demands officials drop possible threatening to discipline faculty mem- set on a statewide ethics test every said. “If you violate the ethics law, then bers who failed the online test. state employee had to complete. A you are unethical.” discipline for noncompliant test takers State officials claimed those who form was given to all failed test tak- While most employees who failed failed took the test too quickly, while ers to sign, which would mark them signed the form, Zeman did not. Ryan Rendleman demanding the state drop possible the lawsuit states the minimum time as noncompliant. Ralph Loewenstein of the Hagen DAILY EGYPTIAN discipline over an ethics exam that 159 requirement was not listed in the Signing the form could have and Smith, P.C. law firm is represent- university employees failed in the fall. Ethics Act. brought discipline, including firing. ing Zeman, mathematics professor Two SIUC professors and the The suit — filed against Inspector The Illinois Office of the Executive “We’re contending that the Walter Wallis and the faculty union. faculty union filed a lawsuit against General James Wright and the Inspector General in November state violated its own ethics law by Illinois’ inspector general Tuesday, Executive Ethics Commission found 65 SIUC faculty members in doing what they did to me,” Faculty See ETHICS, Page 10 Poshard keeps goals in sight Sean McGahan DAILY EGYPTIAN Editor’s Note: The DAILY EGYPTIAN will break down each of the 16 presidential goals and the progress achieved in the upcoming weeks. It would be difficult for SIU President Glenn Poshard to forget his goals for the university. They stare him in the face every time he looks up from his Stone Center desk. A dry-erase board detailing the monthly progress of the president’s 16 goals for the JOSEPH MIDKIFF ~ DAILY EGYPTIAN future of the university system takes up more SIU President Glenn Poshard shows a progress board of his 16 goals for the university in his office Friday. than half of one of his office walls. Poshard said he is visually inclined, and The goal to improve student enrollment 0ROGRESSOF0OSHARDSGOALSASOF$ECEMBER the board serves as a constant reminder of at SIUC is one of five goals that did not 2EVIEWTHETHREESTRATEGICPLANSNOWINPLACE 7ORKWITHHIGHEREDUCATIONLEADERSHIPAND)"(%TO his progress as president. carry a specific percentage of progress in a 6ISION 3OUTHERNATANDTHE3)5%,ONG ADVOCATEFORHIGHEREDUCATIONSUPPORTINTHESTATEOF “I’m a very goal-oriented person,” he said. mid year progress report submitted to the 2ANGE0LANANDDETERMINEWHETHERTHEY )LLINOIS ARTICULATETHEAPPROPRIATEVISIONFOR3)5 “I really keep a close eye on those, because BOT in December. /NGOING !SSUMEANINCREASEDROLEINFUNDRAISINGEFFORTSFOR that’s the only thing that tells me we’re Poshard said these goals are ongoing, and $EVELOPAPLANFORMAKINGTHESYSTEMMORE 3)5 getting the job done or we’re not getting do not have a specific ending date. INTERDEPENDENTANDARTICULATINGANINTEGRATED SYSTEMTOTHEPUBLIC /NGOING it done.” “Student retention and enrollment, that’s )MPROVESTUDENTRETENTIONAT3)5#AND3)5% Poshard said the SIU Board of Trustees just something that we’ll never stop paying $EVELOPASTRATEGYTHATWILLPERMITTHETWO UNIVERSITIESTOACHIEVETHEIRSTRATEGICGOALSWHILE /NGOING )MPROVESTUDENTENROLLMENTAT3)5# presented him with the goals in May, but he attention to,” he said. HONORING3)5SHISTORICCOMMITMENTTOSERVING has been working towards similar objectives “It’s constant. We’ll have maybe some- MIDDLE ANDLOWER INCOMEFAMILIES since taking office in January 2006. thing go short one year and maybe we’ll %XPANDDIVERSITYTHROUGHOUTTHE3)5SYSTEM Each goal has a list of objectives and tasks fix that, and next year it will be some- %VALUATETHEORGANIZATIONALSTRUCTURE ROLESAND to be completed in a specific time frame. RESPONSIBILITIESOFTHEPRESIDENTSSTAFF $EVELOPA-ASTER,AND5SE0LANFORFUTUREDEVELOP thing else, but it’s always going to be there. Poshard said he determines each objective We are developing specific strategies right MENTOFBOTHCAMPUSES #REATEANATMOSPHEREOFTEAMWORKANDPOSITIVE and its scheduled date for completion. now to try to combat a decline in both INTERACTIONWITHCHANCELLORSANDSTAFF %XPAND3)5#AND3)5%SERVICESINTOTHESOUTHERNAND He said the objectives serve as a more of those.” CENTRAL)LLINOISREGIONS specific roadmap to achieve goals that are BOT member Samuel Goldman said the $EVELOPACLOSEWORKINGRELATIONSHIPWITHTHE "OARDAND"OARD#HAIR often long-term and ongoing. presidential goal statement has been success- /NGOING $EVELOPAGREATERSENSEOFCOMMUNITYONEACH CAMPUS The goals encompass all of the major ful in gauging progress. )NCREASE3)5SPRESENCEANDPROFILEIN3PRINGFIELD AND7ASHINGTON $# WHILEDEVELOPINGCLOSER %XPAND3)5PROFESSIONALSCHOOLSINTOTHE3PRINGFIELD issues facing the university system, he said, “For many of them it will take some time /NGOING including “probably the number one issue LEGISLATIVECONGRESSIONALRELATIONSHIPS AREA that we face,” — student enrollment. See POSHARD, Page 10 4PVSDF0öDFPGUIF1SFTJEFOU (*03(04."3"5)&'5*4_%"*-:&(:15*"/ CITY ELECTIONS Seeking a second term Cole looks to finish what he started Andrea Zimmermann “I think at 31 I was a little untest- DAILY EGYPTIAN ed,” Cole said, “and I have proven myself and I don’t think that youth is an Editor’s note: This story is the last in a four-part issue anymore.” series that profiles each of the candidates In 2003, Cole was sworn in as the city’s running for Carbondale mayor. youngest mayor, after narrowly beating for- The giant, maroon sign emblazoned with mer City Councilwoman Maggie Flanagan the words “Our Mayor” across from Lewis by 21 votes. Park Apartments makes the message clear Today Cole faces twice as many oppo- — Brad Cole is running for re-election. nents as he did four years ago — fellow Four years ago, many people were wary of council member Sheila Simon, SIUC law ANTHONY SOUFFLÉ ~ DAILY EGYPTIAN having a 31-year-old mayor, but now Cole student development director Jessica Davis Carbondale Mayor Brad Cole talks with Saluki ball boy Will Douse, 8, during half- said he has a firm record and unfinished and local personality Pepper Holder. time of the men’s basketball game against Indiana State University on Jan. 31 at the SIU projects he’d like to see completed during a Arena. Cole is running for re-election as mayor of Carbondale. second term. See COLE, Page 17 2 Wednesday, February 7, 2007 DAILY EGYPTIAN News CALENDAR NEWS BRIEFS Black History Month House fire kills 10 in central Kentucky BARDSTOWN, Ky. (AP) — A fast-moving blaze killed 10 people early Tuesday keynote address — six of them children — in Kentucky’s deadliest house fire in at least 30 years. • 7 p.m. Student Center Auditorium Two people were injured. Neighbors said the pair had to be prevented from run- • Dr. Manning Marable will speak: “From Slavery to Freedom: Africans in the ning back into the flames in an attempt to rescue the screaming children. Americas” “It may have been an explosion in the center of the house. The fire flashed very • Will include book signing quickly,” Fire Department spokesman Tom Isaac said. • Free admission It was Kentucky’s deadliest fire in any type of building since the Beverly Hills Supper Club blaze in northern Kentucky in 1977 killed 165 people. Before Tuesday’s Men’s basketball fire, Kentucky already had 12 fire deaths so far this year, according to the state fire vs. Bradley marshal’s office. • 7:35 p.m. today at the SIU Arena • Tickets prices range from $12 to $20 for Judge rules that priest files must be released adults and $8 to $20 for high school and LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge Tuesday ordered the Roman Catholic Church younger depending on seat location, SIU to release thousands of pages of insurance records and confidential files related to a student admission is free with a valid SIU notorious case of sex abuse by a priest. Student ID Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter D. Lichtman ordered the Archdiocese of • Contact Julie Beck at 618-453-5153 for information on group discounts Milwaukee to make public 3,000 pages of insurance records and hundreds of pages from the disciplinary files of former priest Siegfried Widera. Lichtman wrote that Widera’s files prove that “priests with known sexual proclivities Visiting Artist: have been handed off from location to another without regard to the potential harm Laurie Palmer to the children of the Church.” • 1 to 4 p.m. Friday at the Communications Widera was convicted in Wisconsin in 1973 of sexual perversion. The Archdiocese Building, Room 1122 (Individual student of Milwaukee transferred him to California in 1981. He was facing 42 counts of child critiques) molestation