. VOLUME 38 June 13, 2005 ISSUE Your source for campus news and infonnation 1154 See page 8 'Cinderella Man' packs a real punch THECURRENTONLINE.COM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.UNIV ERSITV OFMI SSOUR I -S~ LOUIS '" NY Yankees draft $1 0 million scholarship UMSL's star hitter fund settles tuition suit Josh Morgan led the BY MIKE SHERWIN a class action lawsuit against the UM 1993. System The Missouri Legislature amended Terms of the Editor-in-Cbie! team this Spring with Herman based his lawsuit on a the statute to allow for collection of settlement: Over 100,000 former students of the Missouri statute originally passed in tuition in 200 1. ,586 batting average UM system's four campuses could be 1872 that stated, "All youths, resident Former UM System President - $1 million to Roben Hem1an, eligible for a portion of a $10 million of the state of Missouri, over the age of Manuel Pachecho testified in Dec. the attorney who filed the suit scholarship fund, as part of a tentative sixteen years, shall be admitted to all 2001 that "educational fees" and BY .JAMES DAUGHERTY settlement announced May 18. the privileges and advantages of the "tuition" were not the same, and that a plus $17,000 for expenses Sports Editor A St Louis County Circuit Court various classes of the University of the total refund of in-state tuition to stu­ - $27,000 for the three students judge still must approve the agreement State of Missouri without payment of dents since 1993 could total as much as after an actuary finalizes details of how tuition ..." $450 million, named as plaintiffs in tl1e case ~J Junior outfielder and pitcher Josh the scholarship fund will be set up and In 1986, the UM system changed St. Louis County Circuit Court Morgan was recently selected by the -$10 million scholarship fund divided among former students. from a flat fee charge to a per-credit Judge Kenneth Romines ruled Dec, 6, New York Yankees in the 27th round The settlement comes seven years hour "educational fee." Herman's law­ 2002 that the UM System did violate for qualifying students, their of the Major League Baseball draft. after St. Louis attorney Robert Herman, suit argued that the UM System the law in charging a per-credit hour fee spouses and their children, He now has the opportunity to either enlisted three UM students, Douglas charged tuition in violation of state law. for Missouri residents to attend the four accept an offer from the team, or -To qualify, a student must Sharp and Frederick Becher ill from Herman sought a refund for all UM schools. decline and play one more year at the UM-St. Louis campus and Sandra Missouri residents who paid a per-<::red­ have been 16 . 21 while attend­ UM-St Louis. Lynn from UM-Kansas City, and filed it hour fee to attend UM schools after see SETTLEMENT, page 7 Morgan came to UM-St Louis ing UM from 1995 - 2001. two years ago as a sophomore trans­ Mike Sherwin! Tbe Cwrent fer from St. Louis County Community College - Meramec. As a UM-St. Louis pitcher and out­ pitcher at Meramec Morgan never fielder Josh Morgan was got to bat, which caused him to look selected by the NY Yankeesin One dirty classroom ... elsewhere for playing opportunities. the 27th round of the Major UM-St Louis Baseball Coach Jim League Baseball draft. Morgan Brady felt that he had more than just led the Rivermen in hits this pitching potential and picked him up. season, with a .586 average. The decision paid off. While at UM­ also been a key pitcher for the team. St Louis Morgan has batted .320, tal­ In his two seasons at UM-St Louis he lied 110 hits, scored 63 runs, hit 19 pitched 21 garnes, earning an overall doubles, eight triples, 12 home runs, record of 8-5, including a 6-2 record and 72RBfs. for the 2004 season. He finished with This past season in particular has an ERA of 4.77 on 63 runs, 50 been huge for Morgan. He led the earned, and 62 strikeouts. conference with seven triples, while "Josh has certain gifts that some of corning in second with nine home the best players to corne through UM­ runs, 30 stolen bases,-ancf a slugging St. Louis have not had," Brady said, percentage of ,586. Perhaps the most "He is what you call a 5-tool player; remarlrnble feat of the seasqn for he can hit, run, throw, field, and hit Morgan was doing all of this from the for power." lead-off position. In addition to being the Rivermen's best hitter, Morgan has see BASEBALL, page 3 Chancellor's 5-year plan stresses increased affordability, funding BY PAUL HACKBARTH funding," News Editor George explained the conse­ quences of lower funding for the University. "Our level of funding Chancellor Thomas George's from the state has gone lower than From left, Becky Meinhardt, senior, anthropology, Charlynn Walls, senior, anthropology, and UM-Columbia student Lauren Davis, annual report to the community our level of tuition and fees .. so you, sophomore, anthropology work at an excavation site at Cahokia Mounds on Tuesday as part of a field archaeology co urse. emphasized the importance of the students, collectively, are paying increasing affordability through sup­ more," he said, UM-St. Louis is one porting scholarships and raising the of the first colleges to cross that line. University's state funding to a more· According to the 2004 state Students study - and practice - archaeology at Cahokia comparable level with other Missouri appropnatlOns, UM-St. Louis colleges. showed the lowest dollar amount per BY MELISSA M cCRARY Palisade Project 2005 at Cahokia purpose of the field schooL 2000 under the direction of Tin On Friday, May 20, George student in Missouri. With $50 million ..~ . ... - Features Editor Mounds. "It is designed to teach field work Baumann, assistant professor 0 addressed 800 in appropriations divided by 15,600 UM-St. Louis facilitated the and for students to do archeological anthropology. Machiran said tha people from the St students at UM-St. Louis, only about Archaeological Field School 2109 excavations, fmding the palisade although the dig sites have been Louis metropoli­ $3 ,000 per student is awarded. That Neither rain nor sunshine, severe course to coincide with the ongoing walls," Machiran said. 'We are build­ various locations around Cahoki tan community at statistic increases only a small temperatures nor overcast skies have project sponsored by the Cahokia ing off last year's excavations,looking Mounds. they have primarily bee America's Center. amount if the 3,000 high school stu­ prevented anthropology and archaeol­ Mounds Museum Society. Students for soil, trench walls, discolored soil, held within the Palisade location sinc This marked the dents taking college credit courses ogy students from rediscovering histo­ have met at the Cahokia Mounds dig ceramics and housing features," 2001. 29th annual report are not included. ry and completing their archeological site five days a week frojp. 7:30 a,Ql. to According to the course descrip­ The location of the proposed di from a UM-St. Floyd wrote a letter to Gross field study at Cahokia Mounds, 3:30 p.m. The class began on May 31 tion, in addition to learning various site was chosen by studying th Louis chancellor, showing past state appropriations to Six UM-St. Louis students, along and runs until June 17, The undergrad­ field study techniques, instructors ground and researching maps or th To increase UM-St.Louis, In 2003, withholding with volunteers and other students uate students involved vrill receive taught the students and volunteers Palisade WaU. state funding for George from the University was reduced by ii'om UM-Columbia, Tnunan State three credits upon completion of this how to record, store, analyze and Some historians believe that ave UM-St. Louis, 50 percent compared to other cam­ University, and the Universities of project. report archaeological findings. 1,000 years ago Cahokia's Grand George worked with UM President puses in the UM system. Kansas, Illinois and Maine, have been Robin Machiran, UM-St. Louis Machiran said the first field study Elson Floyd and State Sen. Chuck In 2004, all of the withholdings working together with the West anthropology lecturer, shared the main class took place at Cahokia Mounds in see CAHOKIA, page Gross to develop a five-year plan, and core cuts were allocated propor­ The plan intends to correct the fund­ tionally to all of the UM campuses. ing gap that the UM-St. Louis cam­ During that fiscal year, UM-St. Louis pus has received in past years. In the received about $50 million in state last three years, UM-St. Louis has appropriations, compared to $46 mil­ received about 12-13 percent of the lion to UM-Rolla, $77 million to Garage N demolished to make way for new parkin UM state appropriations. UM-Kansas City and $213 million to ''We've been underfunded by UM-Columbia. every measure," George said, ''We're BY BEN SWOFFORD graveled over and become a tempo­ is perpendicular to the curb but the to the PAC and nearby buildings, sai trying to get more state resources to News Associate rary parking lot. Sam Darandari, UM­ new configuration will make parking Darandari, get a little more equitable share of see CHANCELLOR, page 3 St. Louis Director of Planning and parallel. West Drive will also be re­ The plan to ·create a new garag Construction, said the gravel lot paved. proposed by Darandari an It took just three weeks to demol­ would stay for about a year while con­ The total cost of the proposed Chancellor Thomas George was bo ish and haul away the rubble from the struction plans are made and bids are garage, including sidewalks and land­ partially of necessity and partially of INSIDE: nearly 40-year-old Garage N, located taken for the proposed garage.