Eastern Illinois University The Keep September 1999 9-1-1999 Daily Eastern News: September 01, 1999 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1999_sep Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: September 01, 1999" (1999). September. 1. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1999_sep/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 1999 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in September by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 82˚ Partly The Daily Wednesday 57˚ cloudy September 1, 1999 Inside Eastern Sports Hanging around www.den.eiu.edu Making ROTC members will be “hanging Eastern Illinois University around” the Physical Science Charleston, Ill. 61920 another run Vol. 85, No. 9 After sitting out a year, tailback Building Thursday as part of ROTC 12 pages Day. Jabarey McDavid is ready to Story on Page 5 News take the OVC by storm. “Tell the truth and don’t be afraid.” Story on Page 12 More parking tickets issued early in year Officer tickets 87 cars in 45 minutes By Geneva White This has resulted in some under- Campus editor classmen getting ticketed when they park in the south end of the W- School has been in session less lot, Osborne said. than two weeks and university “The signs are there,” he said. police have already issued their “Last year, (underclass students) share of parking tickets. could park there, this year they Sgt. Ron Osborne of the can’t.” University Police Department said The University Police one campus police officer wrote Department is cracking down on 150 parking tickets Monday. those who violate 15-minute park- Another officer wrote 87 tickets in ing this semester. University police 45 minutes last week. used to issue only one ticket per “This always occurs the first day per violation. two or three weeks of classes,” Before, when people were tick- Osborne said. “After that, people eted for violating the 15-minute become educated more to the time limit on the meter, they often rules.” left their cars in the spot for the rest The key to avoiding parking of the day, Osborne said. Now, tickets is to understand the right police will be issuing $40 tickets to areas to park, Osborne said. During cars that remain in 15-minute park- the summer, a couple of changes ing zones every two hours. have been made to on-campus “When those 15-minute meters parking. are filled, people have to run in to Because of Booth Library’s drop something off and they’re move to McAfee Gym, Osborne forced into fire lanes and the grass, said the farthest east row of the E- which is illegal,” Osborne said. Lot behind Lincoln, Stevenson and “We need to keep those clear so Douglas halls is functioning as a people don’t park in grass or dri- staff parking area. White signs indi- ves.” cate the area is for staff. To replace Two houses were torn down the 30 student parking spaces lost during the summer on the corner of in E-Lot, 44 upperclassmen spaces Ninth and Garfield streets to make Mandy Marshall / Photo editor have been added to the south end of way for 63 more student parking University Police Officer Hall gives his 13th parking ticket for the day in Eastern’s W-Lot located on 4th street across the W-Lot, eliminating some from Taylor Hall. Issuing parking tickets is just part of Hall’s daily schedule. underclassmen parking. See TICKETS Page 2 Senate discusses Lake Land Accord,Pemberton By Jason Maholy “What we have is two institutions In other senate news, Herbert Staff writer supported by state funds that are Lasky, director of the honors pro- working together to do what they can gram, reported scholarship funds for All-honors housing The Faculty Senate Tuesday dis- to serve the region,” Abebe said. “We the honors program at Eastern are cussed the immediate objectives and have a responsibility to serve our continuing to grow at a steady rate. the long-term goals of the Lake Land regional communities because those Eastern offers two different hon- Accord. communities serve us.” ors programs: University Honors, a in Pemberton’s future The Lake Land Accord is a pro- By collaborating with Lake Land, lower division program designed for By Meghan McMahon Many students were opposed to gram that was signed into effect July Eastern is hoping to build its credibil- students who begin as freshman at Staff editor the idea of making Pemberton a co- 12th and is designed to strengthen the ity first within the region, but is not Eastern, and Departmental Honors, ed residence hall because of the relationship between Eastern and planning to stop there. an upper division program for trans- Herb Lasky, director of the hon- building’s state and national signif- Lake Land College. Better communi- “We want to work first in our own fer students and other eligible stu- ors program, told the Faculty icance. Pemberton is a 90-year-old cation between the schools, shared neighborhood and then we will move dents. Senate Tuesday he plans on keep- building that has always been a student financial aid and a commit- on to other community colleges,” Lasky said there are about 700 ing Pemberton Hall an all-female female residence hall. ment to pursuing common goals are a Abebe said. “We are not leaving any- students in honors programs, with 72 residence that will eventually house About 40 students attended few of the ideas behind the program, body out.” percent women, and their goal is to honors students. meetings with Lasky and Bill with its ultimate goal being to better John Best, Faculty Senate vice have 1,000 students in the programs. “Since the university communi- Schnackel, director of university serve the region, said Teshome chair, said this is important to To help achieve this goal and ty has indicated they are more com- housing and dining. At the meet- Abebe, vice president for academic increase recognition of Eastern as a improve on the existing programs, fortable with it being a women’s ings, students voiced concerns that affairs. progressive university and to help Eastern has enhanced its study dorm, that’s fine with me,” Lasky the changes were being made with- By providing better services and a work toward its goal of increasing the abroad program focusing on archae- said. out consideration of students’ opin- higher quality of education for their enrollment of Illinois students. ology and is looking into expanding In fall 1999, plans were ions. respective students, Eastern and Lake “This is essential because the the number of archaeological sites announced to possibly make Lasky originally said Pemberton Land are hoping to filter back to the strength of the faculty and the stu- overseas. Lasky said that this is Pemberton a co-ed honors resi- would be an ideal location for an region well-educated individuals who dents here can enable us to have an designed to be a self-funded program dence hall, but the student opposi- honors residence hall because it is will have a positive impact on their impact far beyond the regional area,” that requires no additional university tion to the idea forced university communities. Best said. funding. officials to reconsider. See HONORS Page 2 2 Wednesday, September 1, 1999 The Daily Eastern News ETheastern Daily AIDS drugs optimism may be risky News ATLANTA (AP) — The drug es in risky sexual behavior among and said they were aware of the wide conclusions about how much cocktails that have revolutionized gay men — who comprise an esti- AIDS drugs called protease advancements in AIDS treatment The Daily Eastern News is published daily, AIDS treatment in the United mated 450,000 cases of HIV, or inhibitors, which can reduce the may have fueled risky behavior. Monday through Friday, in Charleston, Ill., dur- States have made some gay men more than half the U.S. total. level of the virus in the blood so And researchers said they’re ing fall and spring semesters and twice weekly during the summer term except during school more willing to engage in risky But the University of Southern low that it can’t be measured. confident most gay men are still vacations or examinations, by sex, researchers said Tuesday. California study released Tuesday Of the 346 who did not have practicing safer sex, whether by PRINTED WITH SOYINK the students of Eastern Illinois TM A study presented at the is among the first to link the suc- HIV, those who were more confi- using condoms or having sex with University. Subscription price: $38 per semester, $16 for summer only, $68 all National HIV Prevention cess of AIDS drugs to increasing- dent about the ability of drugs to fewer people. year. The Daily Eastern News is a member of Conference showed gay men were ly cavalier attitudes about safe control AIDS said they used con- Still, scientists acknowledge The Associated Press, which is entitled to exclusive use of all articles appearing less likely to use condoms or sex. doms 74 percent of the time dur- that the protease inhibitors have in this paper. The editorials on Page 4 abstain from anal sex if they felt “There’s been this rumor that ing anal sex. dramatically changed the way represent the majority opinion of the confident that AIDS drugs could we’ve been hearing about increas- Those who were less confident people perceive AIDS. editorial board; all other opinion pieces are signed. The Daily Eastern News editorial prolong their lives or even prevent es in unprotected sex,” said Sheila said they used condoms 85 per- The disease used to mean rapid and business offices are located in Buzzard infections.