Eastern Illinois University The Keep April 2000 4-28-2000 Daily Eastern News: April 28, 2000 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2000_apr Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: April 28, 2000" (2000). April. 42. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2000_apr/42 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 2000 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in April by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Friday April 28, 2000 Inside Sports AMusical Freshman Eastern Illinois University weekend Charleston, Ill. 61920 phenom The Conways are just one of VoL 84, No. 146 Freshman pitcher Kristen 24 pages 2 sections many band playing across Becker is pacing the Panthers campus this weekend. ews pitching squad this season. Story in Section B "Tell the truth and don't be afraid." Story on Page 16A Police say Reusing papers may end Carman Proposed change will not allowst udents to use same paper more than once By Joshua Niziolkiewicz "This has been widely accepted and brought the revisions to both the legal opinion that the university threat was Staff writer across the nation." Faculty and Student Senate." should include a standard against Collaboration is when a student According to Kohanzo, the low this." A proposed clause in the Student tums in work that was previously feedback from students and faculty Doug Bock, speech cOirununica­ Conduct Code may not allow stu­ submitted to a class they've ah·eady have given the impression that the tion chan~ told the council that fu.cul­ a prank dents to use a paper for more than had, or are taking. majority of the university approves ty has to go through years of training one class, Keith Kohanzo, student Shonk suggested a student get the revisions. to provide for a lecture. By Julius Sexton judicial hearings officet~ told the pemlission fi·om the instructor he or "We'd like to fmalize this," "Personally, I don't care if they City editor Council on Academic Affairs she originally v.•rote the paper f01~ Kohanzo said. "We wanted people to submit my notes," Bock said. "But if Thursday. and the instructor they will be sub­ know that once it's accepted, it's a they can learn that much fium the The bomb threat that evacuat­ Other universities have already nutting it to. done deal." notes, they should read then· text­ ed Carman Hall Wednesday night established rules conceming collabo­ Kohanzo attended the CAA to Kohanzo also mentioned adding book." was a hoax and is still under ration, said Tim Shonk , English pro­ discuss new revisions in the Student a clause that would prohibit students The CAA also approved a new investigation, officials from the fessor. Conduct Code. from selling notes to Versity.com. chair and vice chan· for next year. University Police Department ''Indiana. University has a defini­ "We're about done with om ''I spoke with Mr. Baron, the new The chan· will be Ron Wohlstein, said Thursday. tion of plagiarism, which includes wotk," Kohanzo said. "We've held (legal) counsel, and he said we could sociology and anthropology profes­ The threat was discovered excessive collaboration," Shonk said. meetings that no one has attended prohibit this," Kohanzo said. ''It is his sor. The vice chair will be Bock. when residents found a mattress inside an elevator with a not stat­ ing a bomb was in the buildittg. Adam Due, assistant police chief, said the bomb threat was indeed a hoax and there was note a bomb inside the building. "The majority of kids on cam­ pus are good and mature, but unfottunately there are some who are still acting immature," he said. If caught, the people involved conspiring in the bomb threat would, at a minimum, be charged with disorderly conduct, Due said. "We are takittg this vety seri­ ously," he said. "We will prose­ cute evetybody involved." He also said if the threat had been detetmined that a bomb had been inside the building, other precautions and procedmes would have taken place. "The building would have been cleared like it was, and then a special bomb disposal unit would ha:ve been called in," he said. "The fire depattment han­ dles a lot of bomb situations because they ha:ve special train­ ing in these types of situations." Due said it would ha:ve been the duty of the police to assist Emergency Ordinance Disposal units on the scene during bomb situations. Mandy Marshall / Photo editor The deploying of police, fire and bomb units also cost taxpay­ No more butts! ers in the long mn, he said. Monica Strazzante, a sophomore philosophy major, picks one of the many littered cigarette butts up off the ground Thursday afternoon in the North Quad. "The people responsible for Strazzante, who thinks the butts are "gross" is a member of Earth Club, who are cleaning up the campus for their Earth week activities. this are only hmting themselves," he said. Mother, daughter to take final Eastern step together By Julie Bartlow degree in biological sciences and teacher's when I got my master's, I didn't participate in with college," Nancy Beem campus editor cettification. "My mom's older and has that graduation either." said. "She got her taught school for years before, and (graduat­ Both Sarah and Nancy Beelll, of Finley, More inside Associate's degree from raduation is always an exciting ing) is quite a big deal for her; it's really neat said graduating together was not a planned Soon-to-be Parkland and then worked and special event that is shared by that we get to do this together ... This doesn't thing, it just happened. graduates for a little bit. She went reflect on their many through tears, hugs, laughter happen all the time." "My mom didn't know until last semester back to (Eastem) to become Nancy Beem agrees that graduating with that she was going to be joinittg me for grad­ college years a teacher in biological sci­ and joy. For Eastem student Sarah Page 3A GBeen1, graduation will be extra special. her daughter, Sarah, will forever be remem­ uation," Sarah Beem said. "Her classes are on ences, and I thought she'd Beem will have the oppottunity that not bered. the weekends at night, so it was really neat to be out before this." many students have. She will be graduating "Graduation will be really special," said find out our graduation was at the same time." Both Nancy and Sarah said graduating with her mother, Nancy Beelll, at 9 a.m. May 6. Nancy Beem, who will graduate May 6 with Nancy Beem said it was funny how things together has brought them closer. "This (graduation) is pretty important," a degree in educational administration. "I did­ just turned out like this. said Sarah Beem, who is graduating with a n't participate in my graduation at U ofl, and "I thought Sarah would have been done See TOGETHER Page 2A 2A Friday, April 28, 2000 The Dally Eastern News Faitern Elian's relatives denied visit P.olice News Federal appeals court says no to bid for visits l:iiOller The Daily Eastern News is published daily, Monday through Friday, in Charleston, Ill .• dur­ ATLANTA (AP) - A federal appeals court federal agents retwned him to his father Satlll'day. ing fait and spring semesters and twice weekly Thmsday denied a request by Elian Gonzalez's Miatni Lazat·o Gonzalez is appealing the federal govenunent's Disturbing the peace during the summer term except during school order that the 6-yeat·-old boy be retwned to his Cuban • Patrick M. Curran, 21 , of the vacations or examinations, by relatives to visit him and declined to appoint a guardian $0v;N;< the students of Eastern tlinois for the boy other than his father. father. 300 block of Polk Avenue was - Universlty. SUbscription price: But the cowt still kept the relatives' appeal alive. It put The great-uncle claims the boy should get an asylwn cited for disturbing the peace at $38 per semester, $1 6 for summer only, $68 all year. The Daily Eastern News is a member of off a decision on the fathetJs request that he be substitut­ heat"ing; the Justice Depattment contends that only 7:12p.m. on Tuesday at his The Associated Press. Which is entitled to ed for Elian's great-uncle as the boy's representative in Elian's father can speak for him on inunigration matters place of residence, according to excklsive use of al articles appearing ® the case. Such a move would allow the futher to drop the such as asylum. a police report. in this paper. The editorials on Page 4 represent the majority opinioo of the appeal. Elian has been ordered to stay in the United States edttorial board; all other opinion pieces The cowt told the fafuer, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, that until the appeal is over. He is staying v.rith his fathet~ step­ • Mat·k Joseph Haddad, 21 , of are signed. The Daily Eastern News edttorial he could intetvene - but the judges also said they would and business offices are located in Buzzard mother and half brother at a mral retreat in Matyland. the 800 block ofFolll'th Street Hall. Eastern lli nois Universtty. not consider whether to remove the great-uncle from the On Tuesday, the Miatni relatives asked that they, their was cited for distw·bing the Periodical postage paid at ChMeston, IL 61920. case until May 11, when atguments in the relatives' attorneys and their doctors be given "regular and reason­ peace at I :32 a.m.