Eastern Illinois University The Keep April 2000 4-17-2000 Daily Eastern News: April 17, 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 17, 2000" (2000). April. 33. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2000_apr/33 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]. 65° Showers Monday 55° Aprill7, 2000 Inside Sports An infonned First Eastern Illinois University decision Charleston, Ill. 61920 loss The Daily Eastern News VoL 84, No. 137 12 pages Panther softball team looses endorses candidates for the u~ its fi rst conference game of the ing student gCMlll1ment elections. ews season to Morehead State. Story on Page 5 "Tell the truth and don't be afraid." Story on Page 12 1t was just too late' Online grades are a sure thing By Shauna Gustafson they will know their final semester grades, Administration editor but will know much sooner if they check them online, Hmvey said. Students will be able to view their Hmvey said this is because thet·e is no grades online at 9 a.m. the Monday after processing time involved, grades can be grades are due. transfened directly to the Web site. Starting this spring students will be able Hmvey said sevet-al other state institu­ to view their grades online, as well as tions are ah'eady putting their grades receiving grades in the mail. online including Southem Illinois Sue Harvey, director of academic University in Cm·bondale and Westem records, said the records office will likely Illinois Unive1-sity in Macomb. mail grades this semester, and the office "I think more and more people m·e still is deciding how they will make grades moving to doing things on the Web," available, other than online, in the future. Hmvey said. Online grades will be available through Not only will students be able to view the Eastem Web site. the cw1·ent semester's grades at the site, Harvey said grades might be mailed by but also any grades that were emned for request only, or they might be made avail­ cow-ses held after spring semester 1992. able tlu·ough touch tone access. Hmvey said the only person able to In the cw1·ent mailing system, students have to usually wait at least a week before See ONLINE Page 2 Money and power not on one student's agenda By Michelle Jones Student government editor Mond~y___ Money and gl01y m·e not the forces profife behind the life of one Livingston C. Lord A weekly series feallDing a person oo """""' orin 1he city Scholarship award winner. her, she said. Jada Wannick, a 22 "They were ve1y instrumental in help­ year-old semor ing me receive the awm·d and wrote won­ African American derful letters of reconunendation for me," studies and English Wmlnick said. major with teacher The scholarship award entitled cettification, is more Wmlnick to $5,450. Mandy Marshall / Photo editor concetned with teach- Jada Wannick "I'm going to use it for my fu-st semes­ The Dollar General Store sign is the only thing left standing after a fire destroyed the building Friday ing, religion and fami- tet· of tuition, so I can use the loan to go to afternoon on Lake Land Boulevard in Mattoon. The fire, wh ich is believed caused by electrical ly, than money. Em-ope next summer with the English wiring, broke out while 3 employees and 5 customers were still in the store , but everyone escaped The Livingston C. Lord Scholarship is depmtment," she said. without injury. the university's most prestigious awm·d. To Wmlnick said she has always wanted to qualify for the awm·d students must have at go to Ew·ope. The department also offered least 30 horu-s of credit at Eastem and at the trip this yem·, but Wannick said she least 24 how-s left in their degree by fall could not afford it. Fire destroys Mattoon Dollar General semester 2000, a 3.6 grade point average Education is one of the most imp01tant and an intent to pursue a cm·eer in elemen­ factors in Wannick's life. By Julius Sexton ,, ______________ _ tmy or secondaty education. "If I could stay in school forever I City editor Wannick, who is fi.·om Peoria, said she would," she said. When I got back, flames had is happy she was chosen for the scholm·­ She said she enjoys education because A fire that broke out Friday aftemoon in already started coming out of the ship; however, life would have gone on if of the interaction with peers, professors Mattoon destroyed the Dollar General store walls. she did not win the awm·d. She said it was and the never ending knowledge students on Lake Land Boulevard. "just one of those events that happen in receive from them. Dollar General employees had been com­ Rosemary Rosine, life," and it did not give her an "ego trip." "Even if you have a bad teache1~ you plaining that the temperature in the store had Dollar General employee "Money and gl01y really m·en't impor­ can still lemn from them - even if it's been excessively wmm that moming. _______________ ,, tant to me," Wannick said. "It's a blessing patience," she said. Rosemary Rosine, a Dollar General fi.·omGod." Wmlnick said she decided to attend employee, said when they went to check the he said. "(It was compounded) because ofthe Wannick also is thankful for the two Eastetn because it is the least expensive air conditioner the breaker kicked back and amount of chemicals, aerosols and spray cans English professors who nominated her, school in the state, and it has a strong edu­ she went outside to check the fuse. inside the store." Jerie Weasmer and Michael Loudon. cation progrmn. "When I got back, flames had ah'eady Rosine said although the fire depmtments When other people said she could not She said she was originally a pre-med stmt ed coming out of the walls," she said. responded quickly the fire had ah'eady begun win the award because she was ah·eady a Rosine said tlu·ee employees and about to bum the store dov.'Il when they mrived. senior, Weasmet· and Loudon supp01ted See AGENDA Page 2 five customers were inside the store when the Nichols said, "We really began to concen­ fire began to bum, but no one was hurt. trate on the Neal Tire and Auto store next According to Mattoon fire chief, Gmy door. We wanted to save the (Dollm· General) Nichols, the fire began sometime before but it was ah·eady too late." DailY- Eastern News back online noon on Friday and they received the call The investigation into the fire is still con­ The Daily Eastern Ne1Vs is back online and a new online editor has been named. fi:om 9-1-1 at approximately 11 :55 a.m . tinuing but officials believe it was started by Law-en Kraft, a j unior jownalism major, will post the news, spotts and photographs "When we got there the fire was rolling," electrical wiring. three days each week: Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The site can be seen at: www.eiu.edu/- den. 2 Monday, April 17, 2000 The Dally Eastern News Faitern Imprisoned Mexican ecology crusader News among winners of environmental prize The Daily Eastern News is published daily, Monday through Friday, in Charleston, Ill .• dur­ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Mexican prison cell since last May, The other prize winners were: project fi:om desn·oying wetlands in ing fall and spring semesters and twice weekly during the summer term except during school imprisoned leader ofa peasant group and is widely considered by environ­ • Oral Ataniyazova, an obstetrician Pru·aguay. vacations or examinations, by that fonns hwnan chains to stop log­ mental groups to be a. fearless cm­ in Uzbekistan who founded a clinic • Alexander Peal, a fonner Libet"ian $0v;N;< the students of Eastern llinois ging trucks in Mexico's Guenero sader for trees. He and his supp01ters - Universlty. SUbscription price: to deal with the health effects of pro­ national soccer star who has led $38 per semester, $16 for summer only, $68 all region is among the winners of the believe old-growth forests are being longed pesticide use in her ru-ea. wildlife presetvation eff01ts in West year. The Daily Eastern News is a member of Goldman Environmental Prize. excessively logged by the U.S.­ • Vera Mischenko, who fonned Africa for decades. The Associated Press. Which is entitled to Rodolfo Montiel and six others based Boise Cascade lumber com­ Russia's first public-interest environ­ Ataniyazova observed that excklsive use of al articles appearing ® in this paper. The editorials on Page 4 fi:om around the world were to be pany. mentallaw fum. women and children were most represent the majority opinioo of the awarded $125,000 each on Monday Montiel says he was an-ested on often affected by years of pollution edttorial board; all other opinion pieces • Nat Quansah, who n·eated thou­ are signed. The Daily Eastern News edttoriat from the San Francisco-based fiUlllped-up dmg and weapons sands of patients at a Madagascar fi:om pesticides and mining opera­ and business offices are located in Buzzard Goldman Environmental charges in retaliation for his eff01ts. clinic with local medicinal plant tions along Uzbekistan's Amu Druya Hall.