Eastern Illinois University The Keep September 2002 9-23-2002 Daily Eastern News: September 23, 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 23, 2002" (2002). September. 20. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2002_sep/20 This 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 23, 2002 + DAY ,,~;F:J~;~~~~- {j~ Panthers win in THE DAILY ugly game Football team wins 26-19 in a heavily-penalized game Saturday night. EASTERN NEWS Page 12 Feltt returns to work.today +Doctors say it ;nay by all this," he said. During bis first weeks, Feltt take four to six weeks to plans to cut down on office hours get back to nonnal and spend time talking with stu­ dents about his attack and recov­ By Melissa Nielsen ery. CAMPUS EDITOR "I don't think you can get over something like this without talk­ Tuday, Bill Feltt will start teach­ ing about it. ing his second first day of class. "I'm excited, but I'm a little Feltt, an English instructor, was upset," he said. "I want to only able to meet two of his three approach it openly and (1) hope English 1001 classes before he that helps them understand what was attacked by six to eight males happened." on Aug. 27 and hospitalized for The instructors that have taken over two weeks. over Feltt's classes have been help­ "My doctor released me with the ing him ease back into work. understanding that I am supposed Dana Ringuette, chair of the to take it easy," he said. English department, said the sub­ As he returns to become reac­ stituting teachers have la.id a good quainted with the students, the foundation, and kept Feltt class schedules and the agendas he informed about the his students' was forced to abandon so abruptly, progress. Feltt said it feels much like his first "The other teachers have day of class. He feels nervous, but offered to continue to help as I anxious to start over again. work back into it, so I don't feel Feltt's doctors told him it may alone in this,'' he said. "They have be four to six weeks before his bent over backwards to help me body will feel back to normal. The ease into it." CAITLIN BULL1S/ASSOC1ATE PHOTO EDITOR physical ailments he experienced Even though Feltt is looking to after suffering from a skull frac­ move on from the attack, he wor­ Dean Hughes, a volunteer for the Special Olympics, helps Nick Rush of Hillsboro aim his Nurf bow and arrow ture and brain hemorrhage, ries about medical bills. at a target, Saturday morning in one of the many game tents set up at the Special Olympics. including headaches, dizziness "That is one thing that is weigh­ and nausea, have subdued. ing on my mind," he said. However, they are still evident. Dental work to fix Feltt's many He still feels unsteady and suffers broken and missing teeth began on Special Olympics ·a success from frequent headaches, wbich Friday. He has had one of two his doctor says is normal and may needed root canals. continue. Feltt's insurance plan through By Jessica Personette After being bedridden for most Eastern covers approximately 80 STAFF WRITER of his absence, Feltt lost a lot of percent of his medical bills, but as muscle. He is weak, and the most bills add up, Feltt said even his More than 2,000 Special difficult challenge for him will be share will be hard to pay. Olympians and volunteers - building up his strength. A benefit fund has been estab­ including 600 Eastern students - However, for Feltt, teaching lished by an anonymous family gathered on the grounds of Lake allows him to turn more mental friend at First Mid-Illinois Bank Land College in Mattoon Saturday corners than physical. and 'lhlst to assist with Feltt's for the 19th annual Special "There's no point in sitting medical bills. Olympics Family Festival. around worrying about my prob­ The event, sponsored by lems and the problems generated SEE FELTT • Page 7 Illinois Consolidated Telephone Company, is a day of games, activ­ ities and fun for Special Administration ready Olympians from all over the area. Olympians participate in non­ competitive games and activities including karaoke, skee ball, for meeting with IBHE beach volleyball, golf, bean bag toss, a mechanical bull ride and a By Jamie~ include capital development proj­ hay rack ride. Fake tattoos and NEWS EDITOR ects. Nilsen could not list what face painting were other activi­ projects Eastern would request ties available for Olympians and Eastern administrators will field money for in FY04, but confirmed volunteers. questions from the Illinois Board of that continued funding for the Eastern played an important Higher Education today about the Doudna Fine Arts Center renova­ role in the festival. Interim university's requests for a 13.6 per­ tion was among them. President Lou Hencken attended cent increase in its fiscal year 2004 This meeting will give Eastern the opening ceremonies, which operating budget. the opportunity to explain its budg­ included a parade featuring Administrators began formulat­ etary needs, Nilsen said. However, Eastern's baseball team. ing their budget requests about this following a year of cuts to the fiscal Also, Eastern students made up time last year, said Jill Nilsen, vice year 2002 and 2003 budgets and a large base of volunteers run­ president for external relations. facing an unimproved state budget, ning the games and activities and First, interim President Lou Eastern can't realistically expect serving as a companion, or Hencken announced his goal for full funding of its request. "Friend-For-A-Day," for the the FY04 budget year, which begins "Last year, the whole budget was Olympians. Some 600 students July 1, 2003. Vice presidents, deans significantly impacted by the econ­ volunteered this year, said event CAITLIN BULLIS/ ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR and department heads followed omy, and the preliminary figures chairperson and ICTC employee with focus statements, objectives corning out of Springfield show, at April Osterman gets her face painted by one of the many volunteers at this SamJurka. the Special Olympics, held all day Saturday at Lake Land College in and initiatives, respectively, Nilsen least at point, there is not a Dar'Keith Lofton, a senior jour­ Mattoon. said. tremendous difference," Nilsen nalism major, had never volun­ "We're always working about said, adding that a 13.6 percent teered for SOFF before, but had fun, so I came back." ator Scott Wattles, Olympian two years ahead on the budget," budget increase is "probably not signed on as a Friend-For-A-Day Katie White, a special educa­ Marnie Koltmann was hitting the Nilsen said. going to happen." this year. He said he read about tion major, had never volunteered sports activities such as basket­ The Council on University It is not, however, an unusually the event and thought it would be before but was having fun with ball, football, T-ball and bowling Planning and Budget approved high request, she said. a good way to help. her Friend-For-A-Day, Joyce with her Friend-For-A-Day, Dani those requests in the spring semes­ Hencken, the President's Kelly Newman, a senior speech Tindle. Walk, a special education major. ter and the Board of Trustees final­ Council, former budget director communication major, had such a "I just thought it (volunteering) This year was Walk's first year at ized them at its June meeting. The Kim Furumo and representatives good time at the last SOFF that would be helpful," White said. SOFF, as well. IBHE received Eastern's requests from the Accounting and she returned this time. While Tindle was looking for­ in June, Nilsen said. Academic Affairs offices will meet "l did this last year," she said "I ward to seeing Elvis imperson- SEE OLYMPICS +Page 7 The 13.6 percent increase over Eastern's current budget does not SEE MEETING +Page7 Today Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Mostly sunny Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Scattered rain Partly cloudy j " ~~kt_ ~ / PAGE ~ I Monday, 48° 75° 53° Tl° 59° 7'1!' 51° 700 49° 63° 500 September 23, 2002 TWO HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH L'ow ·4 Grl LO W HIGH LOW HIGH LOW Politica-groups team to register student··,voters By Melissa Nielsen Democrats want to concentrate CAMPUS EDITOR .. on getting students involved. ''We are stressing that in The Illinois budget' crisis, cou-' order for our funding to contin­ pied with upcoming November ue to increase we have to get elections, have sparked campus students out to vote," she said. political groups that have been "If we could get every student dormant for years to resurface. to vote, (students) would control The College Democrats and the whole distnct." the Green Party have regrouped The College Democrats will to get students more involved also participate in several and aware about the political parades throughout the county, world, register more voters and go d')()r-to-door in Charleston to let politicians know students are register voters and hit the resi­ interested in the policies they dence halls. support. Deputies for the group will be Both groups are in the begin­ available in residence hall lob­ ning stages of running cam­ bies during the week. The paigns aimed at organizing stu­ deputies can not only register dents to register to vote and voters, but also transfer their pushing political candidates.