University Archives (02) Box 1063 www.thealestle.com Cougar bailers take on GLVC See Sports flLTON ■ E a s t St . Lo u is ■ E dwardsville ♦ T uesday, M arch 2. 2 0 0 4 _______________________________ So u th e r n Illinois U n iver sity E pwarpsville__________________________________V o l. 5 6 , h o .4 2 ♦ Students send helping hand to troops N ic o l e G a u d r e a u l t and willing to work with us. It E d it o r I n C hif.f was extremely successful,” Mellick said. Members of the SIUE About nine Criminal Justice Criminal Justice Club drove Club members were there to help away with an Army Humvee with the rally, along with family packed with items and more than members of soldiers deployed to $840 in cash for U.S. troops in Iraq. Iraq after a Support Our Troops Criminal Justice professors rally Saturday at the Glen Carbon Kevin Cannon and Trish Wal-Mart. Oberweiss, College of Arts and The club collected items for Sciences Dean Kent Neely and SIUE student Roy Schumacher Criminal Justice Club adviser and his fellow soldiers in the Matt Petrocelli were some of the 415th Military Police Academy SIUE faculty members lending a stationed in Iraq. Club members hand at the rally. passed out about 400 wish lists to “The results were fantastic,” Wal-Mart shoppers from 8 a.m. Petrocelli said. “People were to 1 p.m. and received many even more generous than we' donations. The lists named items hoped and were just excited to such as toilet paper, toothpaste, help out.” shaving and other personal Mellick said his home’s hygiene items. Snacks, sunscreen dining room is overloaded with and batteries were also much in the items donated Saturday. demand. “It’s unreal how much it is. Criminal Justice Club M y dining room is packed with President Chad Mellick said that bags,” he said. “We got so much while the morning started slow, stuff.” Mellick and other club the club received an outstanding members will be repacking the amount of help from shoppers items and sending them via U.S. J e s s i c a B a i.a d a d /A lestle and the community. mail to the troops. Criminal Justice Club members take donations Saturday at their Support Our Troops rally outside “Everyone was so generous see TROOPS, page 3 the Glen Carbon Wal-Mart. Journalist speaks on career Virus brings doom K r is t e n R e b e r “The Office of Information K r is t e n R e b e r desk for the next 14 years.” N e w s R e p o r t e r Technology repaired fewer N f.w s R e p o r t e r For one year, Dash lived than 10 office workstations in a basement apartment in It arrives as an e-mail infected with MyDoom.F,” Renowned journalist, author Washington Highlands, where 54 attachment and makes copies of Academic Computing Director and professor Leon Dash spoke out of 1,000 girls between the itself before deleting hard drive John Drueke said. “The PCs were on his career as an investigative ages of 13 and 17 were mothers. files and giving hackers access to cleaned of the virus and journalist Wednesday night in the In this area, Dash discovered the infected computer. repaired.” Maple-Dogwood Room of the 12th graders who were It is MyDoom.F, the latest in By continuously installing Morris University Center. completely illiterate and families the e-mail worms infecting the the latest updates of McAfee anti­ With the evening’s with up to 11 children living in nation. The virus has hit campus, virus software, which is free to discussion focused around poverty. attacking computers running SIUE users, and applying the Dash’s award-winning book, “After I moved into Microsoft Windows. see VIRUS, page 3 "When Children Want Children: Washington Highlands, I The Urban Crisis in approached 22 families,” Dash Childbearing,” Dash shared his said. “(Of these 22 families,) 13 Stay safe during break investigation of teenage families agreed to come into the A l e s t l e S t a f f R e p o r t campus have shown doors have pregnancy in one of the poorest project.” not been locked or have been left areas of Washington, D.C. Narrowing his focus down to In 1984, after discovering six families, Dash began Due to a string of recent wide open. intensely interviewing every burglaries in Cougar Village and Police said leaving a light on the statistics of teenage P h o t o C o u r t e s y o f w w w . n e w s . u i u c .e d u while away, making sure pregnancies in the black member of the families. the residence halls, the SIUE community, Dash decided he “Going in, my assumption expected, were dishonest. Police Department has issued a windows are locked and storing valuables in hidden, wanted to investigate the people was no one would tell me the Answers for why the teenager safety bulletin with tips for students on how to avoid locked locations are also behind the statistics. truth about the process by which became pregnant included burglary while living on campus. good ways to avoid being “I decided that I’d want to they became a father or a fabricated answers based on what The police are reminding burglarized. move from the foreign desk , mother,” Dash said. “My the interviewee believed a high students first and foremost to The Police Department can and I made a move to objective was to get behind the school guidance counselor would lock their doors. According to the be reached in an emergency by the investigative desk of public mask.” like to hear. bulletin, investigations of most of dialing 911 or in a non­ the Washington Post,” Dash said. The first interviews with the “At the beginning, no one the residential burglaries on emergency at 650-3324. “I stayed over at the investigative teenage parents, as Dash see DASH, page 4 ♦ Page 2 f l I « S t I Q T uesday. March 2. 2 0 0 4 ♦ |Yt\j í-'l-'í+CV' ,Jc A '. V'jAsf'í. Project X’s battle against pv «««¡»y, Y w u t* *V ¿.tjvuxtf- tVVV<K><JU* n o 4 -Tt> V/£ V -^ f'V ^ VMtX C ^ W » W . ÍHVW w drugs kicks off at SIUE I vW iV^ v*«4- h v ^ .^ « r> ^ VWM H i <* > U M \b u x ^ '<,,_ W A VS* 11 - te ^ S c h a l e n e H o u s t o n Representative for Cornell Weidler said recovering o^ev pi«M »" »vu íM > ^ ^ ^ + <"\ N e w s S t r in g e r Interventions Bill Weidler is the meth users, an Illinois Police P è ^ ^ W v 1 A , W«W. \ w w cw ^ ^ coordinator of speaker and area college ¿A<*te- < ; W A U « +Vvi<, m 4 tVw- U*$f ¿**V 1 Students, faculty and staff this event. Weidler said representatives will be in <3AW w\v| < --A ¿ M r . 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Rod Blagojevich and was education and awareness of the For more information about developed to create awareness danger of club drugs and Project X, contact Weidler about club drugs and methamphetamine usage,” at 271-4542 or e-mail him at methamphetamines. Weidler said. [email protected] M others Against Drunk D riving needs your support this holiday season to assist victim s and help keep our roadways safe. Visit www.modd.orK to find out how you can volunteer or make a charitable donation. Talk to be given on media stance Call 656-UTAN (8826) K e l l y S c h o m a k e r Murphy said. the student newspaper, calling it a N e w s S t r in g e r Murphy gave a presentation liberal paper. 6455 Center Grove Rd., Suite 101 to a senior citizens group four “I wouldn’t exactly call Edwardsville, IL 62025 Mass Communications years ago. The Alestle a liberal paper. Chair Patrick Murphy will “There was a pretty good It serves as a paper for issues speak to senior citizens about the reaction, and we were contacted on campus. It is more of development of the media by the organization again to do objective journalism,” Murphy at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the another presentation,” Murphy said. Mississippi Room of the Morris said. The series is cosponsored by University Center Murphy added that the the Gerontology Department, the The talk is titled “Are the senior citizens have an enriched SIUE School of Education and Media Liberal?: Media and history because of the different the SIUE Office of Continuing Politics in U.S.