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Home ·The • INSIDE again Gridders look/orfirst Eastern Illinois University win in FRIDAY Char1eston, Ill. 61920 home September 5, 1997 Vol. 63, No. 10 opener An &stem professor. displays 20 pages, 2 sections JOO wOlen:olors depicting his PAGE ·year spent in Israel 12 · ..SECTlONB "Tell the truth and don't be afraid" Tailg:ating party to ·kick off game By SCOTT BOEHMER refreshments set up in the Campus editor parking lot -area .of a stadium before the start of a football Before the football game game. begins Saturday, there's going "The idea is to go out and to be a party. ~- tailgate party. have fun and (then) come in Eastem's athletic depart· and support the football team ment has put together a and b11ve a total day of fun tailgating contest to ipspire entertajmnent," Kidwell said. football enthusiasts to create a Alcohol will be allowed at party-style atmosphere in the the tailgating event, including parking lot of Lantz bottles, cans and pony-kegs, Gymnasium and in grassy Kidwell said. Kegs als0 will areas near it. The contest will be allowed. Only students and run from 10:30 a.m. to 1:15 adults who are at least 21- p.m., and the game starts at years-old will be allowed to 1:30 p.m. drink, he said. Dave Kidwell, the associate "(We're) not going to be athletic director and sports hassling p_eople, but there's information director, said the going to be people around the university has always allowed area to make sure there's no tailgating at football games, problems," Kidwell said. "The but the contest is the first idea is to tailgate, not just SHERYL SUE SIDWELUPhoto ed~or attempt to actively promote it have a kegger in the parking .<;luvles P,~illips (left), a senior enviornmenal biology major, and his father, Chuck Phillips, di,rector of and get more people it1terested lot." hlitMn n!iources, play chess together Thursday afternoon in the apartmenr they share. is it. • • ~well ~Q he is hoping to "(We want) to ht>-t5~f:rt1~ inake the codt~st an annttal help initiate more interest so event and bring out more people will routinely gather tailgaters before the start of Know your roommate and come out and tailgate," football games. -However, he Kidwell said. said Saturday's contest is the About 12 people had only tailgating event planned Father, son come to Eastern and move in together registered to compete in the for this year. contest as of Thursday. It is In addition, Jason Amato, By KRISTA LEWIN dorms and wanted to live in an apartment," Chuck themed "Oldies at O'Brien," student vice president for Staff writer Phillips said. and involves decorating, lip­ student affairs, said he is Ironically, this arrangement is not a new one for the synching and general looking at some of the Most students on campus have experienced. or at Phillips family. It has become a tradition for father enthusiasm based on pop regulations on tailgating to try least heard of, one hoaifying roommate incident since and son to share a room together in college. songs from the 1950s, 60s or to make it more accessible to they have begun school. "My senior year at Prairie View University in 70s. students and give more Some roomies' personalities clash, and they aren't Texas, my dad (a matt~ instructor) returned to Kidwell said tailgates are opportunities for enter­ able to live together. Other people take the safer path college," Chuck Phillips said. ''It's interesting that my based around the i4ea of tai,otpent .for students who are and room wj.th someone they are already friends with. • son and I are now rooming together as well." having a table, food and uµaer21. But no one on campus, except for. one persC?n, Although Charles Phillips agreed to the living would ever think &.. taking an even silfer path On the arrangement, he never dreamed his dad would be roommate trail - living with a parent. rooming with him at Eastern. Charles Phillips Jr., a senior environmental biology "It's been an education for me," Charles Phillips major, and his father Chuck Phillips, Eastem's new said "It's kind of like a senior seminar and my dad is director of huma11 resources, have plunged into the instructor. He gives me advice about investing in uncharted territory in the college world the stock market and buying a house." Chuck Phillips said the situation is positive, and Chuck Phillips took the reins of the Human they both agreed before the semester started to do Resources department August 25. He said adjusting to this. his new job and different surroundings has been "I initially suggested it, and my son thought it easier because bis son has helped him. would be a good idea. He had always lived in the See ROOMMATES page 2 Gateway director bids Eastern farewell By GREG PIPKEN r--:'.'-:-~:::---.....,,,.- A m e r i c a n doctoral program in Educational Staff Writer Studies majors Administration in January. before heading "If I can't find a good job I like, As Eastern's director of the the Gateway then I'm going back to school," she Gateway Program leaves the program in said. "But for now I'll still be the university today, she closes her 1991. Delta's adviser until the end of the book of accomplishments in The Gateway $Chool year." Charleston and sets her sights on Program was Davenport has also been the Chicago. created in 1990 chapter adviser of the Delta Sigma "I've done everything I can do so minority Theta Sorority and a member of the here," said the departing Mona Mona Davenport students who Illinois Committee on Black Davenport. "I'm just going back to do not meet Concerns in Higher Education. SCOTI BEAUDRY/S taff photographer Chicago to. pray, relax, and hope regular admission requirements still Davenport said she received two the lord can find me a job." could enroll at Eastern. bachelors degrees in sociology and Blowing in the Wind Davenport was previously the Davenport said if she does not African-American studies and her Amanda Rhea, a junior communications disorders and sciences academic adviser for incoming find a job she plans to enter masters degree in educational major, relaxes and blows bubbles Thursday afternoon on the minority students and African- University of Illinois at Chicago's ps~chology from Eastern. Booth Library Quad. 2a Friday, September 5, 1997 The Dally Eastern News New virus proves to kill AIDS BOSTON (AP) Scientists you can make a virus that will Diseases of Animals in Tubingen, have created the first virus-killing specifically target HIV-infected Germany. viruses, cleverly crafted micro­ cells," said Dr. Ronald Desrosiers "It's a completely new approach scopic missiles that zero in on of the New England Regional to limiting viral infection," Rose AIDS-infected cells and destroy Primate Center, who plans to begin said. "This is the first virus that's them. testing one of the viruses soon on an anti-virus." Reports on both Best Chinese w/ egg rol & fried rice The idea is to fight infection monkeys. experiments are being published in food in town s42s with infection. The newly created One version of the virus, created Friday's issue of the journal Cell. Delivery 348-5941 Open Monday 4-8 pm viruses target only cells that have by Dr. John K. Rose and his An accompanying commentary by Exp. 9•8•97 already bee11 captured by HN. .research team at Yale Medical Dr. Garry P. Nolan of Stanford The approach works well in the School, is a genetically altered University called the work "highly test tube but has not been tried yet fonn of vesicular stomatitis virus, significant" and "a leap forward." in people or even in animals. Even or VSV, a bug that ordinarily If it works as its developers hope, What happens when though no one knows whether it infects livestock. Another is based the technique will stop the AIDS will eventually help control AIDS, on the rabies virus and was created virus cold by employing a sort of 32 teeth try to fit into experts say the idea is noteworthy by a team led by Dr. Karl-Klaus mirror image of HIV's own sly for its novelty alone. Conzelmann of the Federal tricks for worming its way into a size 28 mouth? "It's absolutely amazing that Research Center for Virus cells. For most of us, wisdom teeth represent four additional teeth that our mouth can't accommodate. The result can be impacted MOods'· indifferent about Diana wisdom teeth producing pain and possibly LONDON (AP) - Amid the showers of flowers and "I was taught to speak well of the dead," sighed causing damage to the other teeth. tears, Princess Diana's weeklong wake has bumped Jason Mayberry, a retired schoolmaster from Devon It is not unusual at this time of year for into what one exasperated gentleman, stepping into his observing the constant stream of mourners from the students to have trouble with their wisdom Pall Mall club, called a "backlash against bathos." steps of the London Library.