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LONDON (AP) - Orbiting high above Earth,
Europe’s infrared space observatory has discovered water around stars and planets and in many
other surprising places, raising expectations of
life elsewhere in the universe, the European
Space Agency said Tuesday.
The discovery of water vapor in the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, has generated the most excitement, because that moon
may duplicate the conditions that led to the creation of life on Earth, said Roger Bonnet, the
agency’s director of science.
“Now that water has been discovered . . . this
lends more support to the possibility that we
have all the conditions which prevailed on Earth
41 billion years ago to give birth to life,” he
said.
“These conditions may also exist on Titan,
and the only thing you need is a little heat to
heat up Titan, and maybe (the) birth of life may
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be seen.”
For 21 years, the European Space Agency’s
Infrared Space Observatory, known as ISO, has
been exploring the universe at wavelengths that
can’t be seen with the human eye, giving
astronomers a new view of the solar system.
They have been able to see water throughout
the universe, to see where stars are forming, to
shed light on distant galaxies - and to solve riddles that have puzzled astronomers for cen-
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critical condition in the intensive care unit as of 11
p.m. Tuesday, a nurse said. The nurse would not comment on the extent of his injuries.
Edwards was treated and released and has returned
to Eastern, Flock said.
The vigil is sponsored by McRae and Edward’s
fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha The Macomb and Illinois
State police departments had no information on the
accident.
Edwards was unavailable for comment.
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turies, said Reinhard Genzel, chairman of the
agency’s Astronomy Working Group.
“With ISO, for the first time, you could see
water,” Genzel said at a news conference
Tuesday. “In fact, it has been a spectacular vista
to see water everywhere.”
The observatory found water around dying
stars, newborn stars, in interstellar space, in
other galaxies and in the atmospheres around
Mars and all the outer planets, in particular the
Titan moon, Genzel said.
“Now you may say, `So what?’ Well, that’s
actually quite surprising because it’s so cold out
there. So water should normally freeze out. So
the fact that there is water in these atmospheres
is really rather remarkable,” he said.
Genzel said the explanation probably has to
do with the fact that something in space is
bringing water to the icy outer planets all the
time - “and this something could be comets.”
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istrative collective bargaining team was
March 11.
The negotiations involved an attempt to
end the contract dispute that has been in
effect since June 1997.
AFSCME rejected the last contract
proposal offered by Eastern’s negotiating
team because their average wages would
not increase enough to equal those of
other state university civil system service
workers, said Rick Prince, staff representative for AFSCME Council 31.
The State University Civil Service
System (SUCSS) comparison puts the
salaries of Eastern’s clerical and technical
workers 12 percent below the average
wages for Illinois’ university civil service
workers, Prince said.
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Participants agreed the memorial was helpful for students who
are still mourning the loss of Miss Will.
“I thought it was wonderful; it made all the difference,” said Lou
Hencken, vice president for student affairs. “Poetry and the arts are
meant to bring people together.”
Jones said the reading was beautiful and went wonderfully.
“It was wonderful that people came out to show their support.
Everyone was touched who knew Andrea,” she said.
The poetry reading was sponsored by the English department and
Valentino’s English 1001 classes.
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Valentino explained how preparing her students for the reading
was an extraordinary, enriching experience.
“Students were eager to help write poems and participate in the
poetry reading,” she said.
Students from Valentino’s English 1001 classes read poems from
literary master’s like William Shakespeare’s, “Shall I Compare
Thee to a Summer’s Day” and Theodore Roethke’s “Elegy for
Jane.”
“One of the greatest things about doing this, is that my students
were so helpful and recited poems for me,” Valentino said.
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“We’ve got a great botany faculty that
came here because Eastern has a strong
botany department,” he said. “Students
should have a right to choose a botany
major and that choice is being eliminated.”
The Student Senate will also discuss several old and new resolutions.
One of the old resolutions to be discussed
concerns the renovations being done at
Booth Library.
This resolution suggests that the library’s
lecture hall be improved to accommodate
space for movies, lectures and other special
events.
Another old resolution to be discussed is
the Accuracy in Campus Crime Reporting
Act.
The resolution states the ACCRA would
require “campus officials who have direct
administrative responsibility for students or
campus activities . . . and other officials
responsible for resolving student disciplinary matters (and) athletic department
officials” to report campus crime.
This act has been discussed in the U.S
House of Representatives and was recently
inserted into another house bill.
The Student Senate resolution says it
does not support the bill as a whole.
A new resolution the student senate will
address deals with tuition waivers as a
method of compensation for the work done
by executive senate officers.
Executive senate members who receive
tuition waivers include: student body president, vice president for public affairs, vice
president for student affairs, vice president
for financial affairs and vice president for
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academic affairs.
Melissa Girten, internal affairs chair, said
in a memo to executives regarding the
tuition waiver resolution, “It is now time
either to accept the current system or to
write a referendum that is based on the
questions that we have been debating for
two semesters.”
The Student Senate will also go over the
Competitive Salaries For Public University
Faculty and Staff resolution.
Illinois currently ranks second in public
funding for private institutions in the nation
and the Illinois Board of Higher Education
1997 report shows that among the top 12
private and 12 public colleges and universities, public university salaries are significantly lower than those at private universities, except in a few cases.
ALBION (AP) - The
Edwards County prosecutor
will seek the death penalty for
an Indiana man accused in a
two-state shooting rampage
that claimed five lives.
State’s Attorney Brian
Shinkle said the last victim
may have died during an autotheft attempt, allowing the state
to meet the criteria for seeking
the death penalty.
Steven A. Hale, 21, is
charged with murder and
attempted murder in the shootings of two Albion men last
Wednesday. Police say Hale
and Chalk A. Wessell, both of
Washington, Ind., are also
responsible for three deaths
there.
But Hale would not be eligible for the death penalty in
Illinois unless prosecutors
could prove one of several
aggravating factors listed in
state law, Shinkle said.
“Among those are a multiple
murder conviction and murder
committed in the course of
another felony. One of those
felonies is aggravated vehicular
hijacking and attempted aggravated vehicular hijacking,” he
said Tuesday.
The shooting survivor,
David Chalcraft, has recounted
how Hale and Wessell moved
his truck after shooting him in
the neck and killing his friend,
Larry Sams.
They did not take the truck
however, authorities say, opting
instead to drive away in a
Camaro stolen from one of
three Indiana
residents whom police say the
pair shot to death April 1.
The car was later abandoned
in a cemetery. Wessell’s body
was
eventually found in a nearby
wheat field, dead of a gunshot
wound
to the head. Hale was arrested
25 minutes later.
Shinkle said tests have failed
to determine conclusively
whether Wessell died at his
own hands or Hale shot him to
death.
“There is evidence emerging
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