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Story on Page 5 “Tell the truth and don’t be afraid.” Story on Page 12 I got a degree in English NowWhat? New shuttle From the farm to the city route sought Eastern grad takes her experience Senate member proposes revisions By Chris Sievers to university classrooms in New York Student government editor A newly-elected Student Routes Senate member has presented a revised shuttle bus route proposal at a glance to the shuttle bus committee. Mark Davenport, a senior Mark Davenport’s Lou Willett Stanek English major and senate mem- ber, in a written statement to the suggested changes Daily Eastern News and the shut- ■ Martin Luther King Jr. Editor’s note: This marks tle bus committee, proposed dras- the start of a weekly University Union tic changes to the current route. ■ Ninth Street and Buchanan series looking at alumni “I believe that a preschool from different professions Avenue class could have come up with ■ Seventh Street and Harrison to find out just what stu- something better than what the dents can do with a degree Avenue senate did last year,” Davenport ■ Square (one stop) from Eastern. said in a written statement. ■ Fourth Street and Harrison “Thanks to the shuttle bus, the Avenue By Nicole Meinheit Student Senate has gone from ■ Managing editor being unknown to being constant- Division Street and Pierce ly ridiculed by the students.” Avenue ■ Fourth Street and Taylor Hall ou Willett Stanek had Davenport said last semester’s ■ Fourth Street parking lot no intention of register- Student Senate spent a lot of ing for classes when she money bringing the shuttle bus to (between Student Recreation campus. Center and Taylor Hall) visited Eastern for the ■ Lfirst time. “(The shuttle bus) was a com- Carman Hall ■ A friend was registering for plete waste of $80,000 of our Martin Luther King Jr. fall semester classes, but before money,” he said. “Very few peo- University Union the two returned to their home- ple rode it and if we don’t get this ■ After 3 p.m. West town of Vandalia, Stanek was an turned out that his family was in route down, it will fade away and Library/Wal-Mart incoming freshman. the Chicago mafia. die.” Her father was furious. army, but girls didn’t,” Stanek “My father almost had a Davenport proposes the new Shuttle bus chair’s “I think my father was afraid said. heart attack,” Stanek said. route should be simple and con- suggested changes Working as a flight atten- Luckily, the blurb that ran in sistent. college would make me ■ spoiled,’’ said Willett Stanek, dant, Stanek met a lot of inter- the local paper saying he had “One of the many problems Seventh Street and Polk esting people, including one misspelled his name so no one with last year’s route was that it Avenue who grew up on her family ■ farm. “terribly dapper young man,” in the community was the wiser, pulled up to its stops every 40 South side of the Square The two spent the summer whom she brought home to she said. minutes.” Division ■ fighting over whether Stanek meet her family. Stanek didn’t just meet inter- Davenport said with classes Walkers would start classes in the fall, At the time, her younger sis- esting people, she wrote about starting on the hour or half hour, ■ Wal-Mart but, in the end, her father let her ter, Loann, “had a monkey them. She wrote three novels for off-campus students could not ■ Lantz Circle go. fetish,” and in an effort to young adults, “Megan’s Beat,” take the bus to campus because ■ Taylor Hall Since then, Stanek has been impress Stanek, this dapper “Gleanings” and “Katy Did,” in they would be late to class. ■ Ninth Street Hall all over the world, literally. young man brought her sister a addition to her nonfiction works He said his proposed route ■ Thomas Hall After graduating, she taught real live monkey to add to her including “Whole Language: revision caters to off-campus stu- ninth-grade English in collection of stuffed, toy mon- Literature, Learning and dents. Champaign and Libertyville keys. Literacy, So You Want to Write “With a campus that barely route at the Martin Luther King before taking off as a flight The young man may have Novel,” “Story Starters” and spans four blocks, we simply do Jr. University Union. attendant for United Airlines and stayed around longer than the “Thinking Like a Writer.” not need a shuttle bus whose main The proposal also would earning her masters degree from monkey, which Stanek’s family “Megan’s Beat,” published in purpose is to ferry people around reduce the number of on-campus Northwestern University in gave back, but he wasn’t around 1983, was an autobiographical campus,” he said. “Rather, it’s stops to three along with eliminat- Evanston. much longer. account of Stanek’s high school people who sometimes live more ing the Wal-Mart and Wilb “I wanted to see the world, Sometime later, Stanek says experience. than a mile from Old Main who Walkers stops. Instead, and in those days if guys wanted the man’s name was in a head- need the bus the most.” Davenport proposes the shuttle to see the world, they joined the line in the Chicago Tribune. It See CITY Page 2 Davenport also proposes beginning and ending the bus See ROUTE Page 2 College students nationwide drowning in debt By Geneva White have to look at (the debt), it becomes a reali- Campus editor Credit cards source of most financial problems ty,” she said. A major source to the problem of student Nicole Schaefer did not expect to be Schaefer said. “Because it makes you spend Simpson, professor of consumer affairs. debt is the constant solicitation of credit card $4,000 in debt when she got her first credit money you don’t have.” “Whenever I talk about it, I see people companies to college students. card after high school. According to the United States Student cringe.” “They make it very easy,” Simpson said. Although the junior special education Association, many college students across the Simpson said when she lectures on the “A lot of credit card companies are after col- major has paid $2,000 of her two credit cards country are finding themselves in Schaefer’s topic of credit card debt in her consumer edu- lege students because it’s a fact that your first off, she still regrets ever getting them in the situation. The average monthly balance on a cation classes, a form is issued to students so credit card you become loyal to.” first place. college student’s credit card is $584. they can itemize their debts. Often credit card companies visit college “Honestly, I think credit cards are a trap,” “It’s a very big problem,” said Linda “If they get it down on paper and actually See JUMP Page 2 2 Wednesday, September 15, 1999 The Daily Eastern News The Daily of Chicago and began work on her Now it is Stanek’s turn to get the ty sister, who currently lives in City doctorate. students caught up academically. Effingham. Eastern Stanek found the courses at the She now teaches creative writing She and her friends hung out at from Page 1 University of Chicago very at The New School in New York Little Campus, located where Ike’s demanding, but said the confidence and teaches workshops from her bar is now, and Black Brunt, a News and education she got at Eastern New York apartment and her home saloon on the Square. The story focuses on Megan, a had prepared her for them. on her own island in Maine. Mattoon and Champaign were The Daily Eastern News is published daily, high school student who along with “I used to lament the fact that I Later this year she will be doing the popular “getting out of town” Monday through Friday, in Charleston, Ill., dur- ing fall and spring semesters and twice weekly writing a teen gossip column, is didn’t go to Columbia,” Stanek a workshop on writing memoirs in hangouts she said. during the summer term except during school getting used to going to a high said. “But I probably wouldn’t have Key West, Fla. She has returned to Eastern vacations or examinations, by PRINTED WITH school where she doesn’t know a gained the confidence and had the “I’m going to be working with since her graduation to receive the SOYINK the students of Eastern Illinois TM University. Subscription price: lot of people – Stanek wrote a teen one-on-one attention (at a bigger people I have only read about in the Alumni Association’s Distinguished $38 per semester, $16 for summer only, $68 all gossip column called “Lou’s Teen school.)” papers,” Stanek said.