Eastern Illinois University The Keep October 1999 10-20-1999 Daily Eastern News: October 20, 1999 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1999_oct Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: October 20, 1999" (1999). October. 13. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1999_oct/13 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 1999 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in October by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 55˚ Partly The Daily Wednesday 36˚ cloudy October 20, 1999 Inside Eastern Sports Bookstore www.eiu.edu/~den Dropping to Eastern Illinois University open Sunday Charleston, Ill. 61920 seventh Union Bookstore one of sev- Vol. 85, No. 42 Men’s golf team finishes in 12 pages, 1 section eral union facilities extending seventh place at Ironhorse hours. News Intercollegiate. Story on Page 6 “Tell the truth and don’t be afraid.” Story on Page 12 Alumnus’ gift to go toward teacher center Surles announces $1 million also will be used for faculty development By Melanie Schneider opment,” Abebe Administration editor More inside said. “One way Faculty Senate to do that is to Eastern President Carol Surles talks more about make sure there announced Monday during the faculty develop- is the opportuni- Board of Trustees meeting that the ment. ty for growth $1 million gift from Florence Coles and develop- Ballenger would be used to support Page 5 ment.” faculty development and establish The plans for the Florence Coles Ballenger faculty develop- Teacher’s Center. ment and the teaching center are Helen Gilbart, a friend of still being negotiated. Abebe said Ballenger and the trustee of her the president is still considering estate, said Ballenger valued the appropriate steps to implement this education she received at Eastern for both short-term and long-term and wanted the money to be used to issues. promote education and benefit stu- “We are including necessary dents. travel and other costs directly relat- “She didn’t specify a specific ed to developmental activities that a use for the money,” Gilbart said. “If faculty member chooses or identi- it benefits students and faculty, it fies as important,” Abebe said. “We sounds like the president has good also need to make sure, in the long plans with those ideas.” term, we not only recruit faculty to Teshome Abebe, vice president come to the university, but also for academic affairs, said Surles lis- retain them at Eastern. One way to tened to faculty for the last few accomplish that, is to make sure weeks, and the common theme that they have opportunity for growth continued to emerge was the issue and development in the areas they of faculty development. choose by investing in faculty “We wanted to make sure she development.” Mandy Marshall / Photo editor responded to faculty and the need the university had for faculty devel- Splat! See DONATION Page 2 Sarah Claunch, a freshman mathematics major, successfully catches a raw egg during Fun Games Tuesday afternoon in the South Quad. The Homecoming event for today is Food Sculpture from 10am-5pm in the South Quad. Theater arts goes Making the right choice beyond the acting Internationally-known ethics consultant discusses By Tammie Sloup News editor I got a degree in theater complex ethical dilemmas in business and daily life Amelia Heape probably didn’t arts By Erin Vanderbilt plex. She said ethics is not always ethical principles into action. know it then, but when she and her friends would go on “chalkboard Staff writer doing what is easy or popular, but “In the United States in the last what is right. 25 years, compliance has become a raids” in Coleman Hall, scribbling NowWhat? Discussing and implementing Toffler said often making the synonym for ethics,” Toffler said. down information about upcoming ethics into everyday life is a com- ethical decision is not as easy as “Ethics has become a checklist of theater productions on every single board, she had found her calling. tion, now works for a relatively plicated process, because each indi- coming to a simple conclusion. actions in corporate America.” small, but growing, marketing vidual has a different definition of “Sometimes we know the right Toffler said many companies “You can’t just put (a play) on. It’s not a ‘build it and they will agency handling accounts for the what ethics is, said Barbara Toffler, thing to do and how to do it but the employ ethical counselors and Broadway production “Rent” and internationally-known ethics con- cost appears to be too high,” she adopt a code of ethics, but do not come’ thing,” said Heape, an Eastern alumnus and senior off-Broadway productions “Wit” sultant. said. have an understanding of what is and “De La Guarda.” In her lecture entitled: “Ethics Toffler said although the cost ethically right, favoring instead to account executive for Spotco Advertising. Theater arts not only gives a per- and Responsible Business can be high for maintaining ethical do only what is required. son acting experience, but also a Practices,” Toffler said her own def- behavior in difficult situations, it is Toffler encouraged faculty and Although Heape spent most of her time at Eastern acting in plays tolerance and sensitivity to the field inition of ethics; “trying to figure necessary in order to preserve per- students, which was part of the as a whole, Heape said. out what the right decision is in a sonal principles. inauguration celebration for rather than promoting them, her experience gave her the knowledge Heape said she will always world that is terribly complex,” The link between principles and Eastern President Carol Surles, to remember what Jerry Eisenhour, addresses the problems that many actions is what Toffler believes is focus on ethical principles and how and tolerance to pursue a career in advertising Broadway and off- professor of theater arts, once told face when dealing with ethical the most difficult for people to to make them work in practice in her. questions. practice. order to increase ethical responsi- Broadway productions. Heape, who graduated from “He said, ‘there is always some- Toffler said this conception of Toffler said in today’s business bility within the university commu- thing out there in the business of ethics is what makes the practice of culture, compliance to policy has Eastern in 1994 with degrees in the- it in business and daily life so com- overridden a responsibility to put ater arts and speech communica- See ETHICS Page 2 See ARTS Page 2 2 Wednesday, October 20, 1999 The Daily Eastern News ETheastern Daily Columbine parents filing lawsuits News LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) - The Harris had made threats and main- silver-and-blue Columbine ribbons The parents of Isaiah Shoels, the same intense emotions that brought tained a hate-filled Web site, and in windows and on fences and only black student killed in the The Daily Eastern News is published daily, people together in a sea of silver the Klebolds claim they would have wearing lapel pins. They turned out massacre, are suing the Harrises Monday through Friday, in Charleston, Ill., dur- ing fall and spring semesters and twice weekly and blue to mourn Columbine High made sure their son stayed away for funeral services, organized cam- and the Klebolds, in addition to two during the summer term except during school School’s dead are now tearing them from Harris if they had known that. paigns to raise money, and made men charged with helping the teens vacations or examinations, by PRINTED WITH apart. The Klebolds’ lawyer, Gary dinners and did other chores for get the guns used in the attack. The SOYINK the students of Eastern Illinois TM University. Subscription price: At least 18 lawsuits are in the Lozow, said Thomas and Susan victims’ families. lawsuit alleges the parents failed to $38 per semester, $16 for summer only, $68 all works as a result of the April 20 Klebold want to protect themselves Harriet Hall, the mental health take action when their sons stock- year. The Daily Eastern News is a member of bloodbath, with just about everyone from lawsuits filed by victims and worker in charge of providing piled guns and bombs, and gave The Associated Press, which is entitled to exclusive use of all articles appearing a potential defendant — gun mak- will not seek more money that what counseling to the Columbine vic- them “extraordinary privileges” in this paper. The editorials on Page 4 ers, the gunmen’s parents, the other people are seeking from them. tims, said she is not surprised how despite their run-ins with the law. represent the majority opinion of the editorial board; all other opinion pieces school district and the sheriff’s Harris and Klebold stormed much the community has clashed They do agree with the Klebolds are signed. The Daily Eastern News editorial department. their high school just after since then. on one thing — they also have filed and business offices are located in Buzzard Even the parents of one of the lunchtime, scattering gunfire and “I’d be worried if there weren’t notice of intent to sue the sheriff’s Hall, Eastern Illinois University. killers, Dylan Klebold, have filed a bombs. They killed 12 students and disagreements. I think it is possible department. Periodical postage paid at Charleston, IL 61920. ISSN 0894-1599. notice of intent to sue Sheriff John a teacher and wounded at least 23 to have nobility, anger and grief at Sam Riddle, a spokesman for Printed by Eastern Illinois University, Stone. The Klebolds say Stone others before committing suicide in the same time, if you recognize the Shoels family, said “the Charleston, IL 61920.