BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIP?
Sure, it’s not March. But with No. 5 Ohio State traveling to West
Lafayette for tonight’s game against the 12th-ranked Boilers, it
sure seems like it. Both teams enter the match-up undefeated
in conference play and, essentially, with the Big Ten
Championship on the line. What is Purdue going to have to do
to win the game?
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THE EXPONENT
MONDAY, JAN. 29, 2007
VOL. 121 - NO. 15 www.purdueexponent.org PURDUE’S INDEPENDENT DAILY STUDENT NEWSPAPER
PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS TB SYMPTOMS QuickREAD
Health officials will begin testing ■ Tuberculosis is a slow-moving
infection that is contagious and
potentially fatal.
Your minute read for what is
important to Purdue and the world.
By Andrea Thomas James Westman, director of PUSH, gathering class rosters to identify
■ Symptoms of active tuberculosis Explosion injures two
Campus Editor said the health center will be collabo- potentially infected students. include weakness, loss of appetite,
rating with Tippecanoe County “We know that people who have weight loss, fever and profuse nightly graduate students
Health officials are testing anyone health officials to notify and begin prolonged exposure have a higher risk sweating. If the disease moves to the Two Purdue graduate students
who may have had contact with a stu- the testing of individuals they believe (of contracting the disease),” Sayger lungs, symptoms could include frequent were injured in a minor explosion in
dent diagnosed with pulmonary tuber- may have had contact with the said. “A passer-by would have no risk coughing, especially the coughing of Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry
mucus or phlegm, coughing up blood or
culosis, a contagious and potentially patient since the beginning of the at all from this person.” having chest pain when coughing. Saturday.
fatal disease. semester. She also noted that many Purdue They had been working with a per-
The infected patient, who was diag- “(The disease is) passed by infected buildings have acceptable ventilation, ■ The last confirmed case of infec- oxide compound that became unsta-
nosed with an active form of the illness aerosolized respiratory droplets – circulation and space for the needs of tious tuberculosis involving a Purdue ble, which can happen because of
Wednesday, is an undergraduate who coughs or sneezes,” he said. “It certain- the classes. student was in November of 2005. friction, shaking or humidity. The two
lives off-campus. The student, who has ly can cause serious illness, including “People aren’t right on top of each ■ Anyone who would like to be test-
were taken to St. Elizabeth Medical
been in isolation and is undergoing death, but it’s very treatable with other,” she said. “There’s a low inci- ed for the disease should contact Center and treated.
treatment with antibiotics, was examined antibiotics unless the strain is highly dence of becoming infected.” the Purdue Student Heath Center at The Tippecanoe County bomb
by a physician at the Purdue Student resistant.” She said 90 percent of those who 494-1700 or the Tippecanoe County squad took seven other nearby vials
Health Center and was later referred to a Dr. Sarah Sayger, clinical director at Health Department at 423-9222. of chemicals to the University’s grav-
community pulmonary specialist. PUSH, said health officials have begun >> See PUSH, Page 5 el pit and detonated them.
TRASH FEES WADE STEFFEY Discounted cabaret prices
last until Thursday
City codes Tickets for the Purdue Jazz Band’s
Valentine cabaret event Evening of
could change, Romance are on sale at a discounted
price until Thursday.
charge house The candlelit event with live jazz,
dessert buffet and cash bar costs
$17.50 if tickets are bought before
renters Thursday; then the price will
increase to $19.50. Tickets can be
By Mike Westervelt purchased at Purdue box offices or
City Editor by calling 494-3933.
Evening of Romance will be held
A potential change in city codes may on Feb. 16 in the ballroom of the
implement costly trash fees for house University Inn. Table location can be
renters in West Lafayette. selected at the time of ticket pur-
A preliminary draft proposal that chase.
will be presented to the city council
this week out- Brent Forgues | Senior Photographer
lines a plan to Patti Bishop, co-coordinator of the Wade Steffey Volunteer Center, directs volunteers Sunday after-
noon from the End Zone Cafe. Attack on insurgents
PROPOSED charge home involves girls’ school
FEES FOR renters for
EXCESS
TRASH
excess trash dis-
posal, a plan
Center closes despite outpouring BAGHDAD, Iraq – U.S.-backed
Iraqi troops on Sunday attacked
insurgents allegedly plotting to kill
DISPOSAL that could be By Steve Garbacz
pilgrims at a major Shiite Muslim
effective as early Assistant Campus Editor
religious festival, and Iraqi officials
■ $2.50 for each as April.
estimated some 250 militants died in
additional trash The proposal The Wade Steffey Volunteer Center
the daylong battle near Najaf. A U.S.
container not states that the at the End Zone Cafe will close at 6 p.m. INSIDE
helicopter crashed during the fight,
exceeding 32 gal- city will require today.
■ For informa- killing two American soldiers. Mortar
lons and 35 landlords of Patti Bishop, co-coordinator of the tion on a K-9
shells, meanwhile, hit the courtyard
pounds. rental properties center, said that Steffey’s family has search, see
of a girls’ school in a mostly Sunni
to purchase a conveyed wishes to her that the center story, Page 5.
Arab neighborhood of Baghdad,
■ $5 for each 96-gallon close and students return to their nor-
killing five pupils and wounding 20.
bulk rubbish item garbage tote for mal lives. The center will remain open
U.N. officials deplored the attack,
less than 35 their tenants. from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and not reopen Tuesday. No
calling the apparent targeting of chil-
pounds that can In addition more organized searches are planned.
dren “an unforgivable crime.”
be collected by to the city’s $9 In less than one week, the center has drawn in hundreds of
Brent Forgues | Senior Photographer
one worker. per month volunteers and completed several searches focusing mostly Frank Gunther, 46, of Lafayette, and
base fee, north of campus. Businesses and organizations in West Nakia Ordille, 21, of Westpoint, Ind., ride
■ $10 for each renters must Lafayette, Lafayette and across the state have donated their horses Candy and Winterhawk as Clinton wants U.S. out of
bulk rubbish item purchase “bulk resources, whether food or maps or manpower to the search. they scour the area around the Wade
Utility Power Plant Sunday morning in Iraq by January ‘09
more than 35 rubbish stick- The center acted as a central point for volunteers to coordinate DAVENPORT, Iowa – Hillary
search of evidence of Wade Steffey’s
pounds or requir- e r s ” f r o m t h e Rodham Clinton said Sunday that
>> See STEFFEY, Page 5 disappearance.
ing more than c i t y f o r e x t r a President Bush should withdraw all
one worker. bags of garbage U.S. troops from Iraq before he
that won’t fit leaves office, asserting it would be
■ For more i n t h e c i t y ’ s
detailed informa- toter, the pro-
BUDGET “the height of irresponsibility” to
tion on the fees, p o s a l
go to www.pur- E x t r a
says.
trash
Jischke hopes to continue Daniels’ momentum pass the war along to the next com-
mander in chief. “This was his deci-
sion to go to war with an ill-con-
dueexponent.org. p l a c e d c u r b - By Brent Forgues After Jischke presents his requests, ceived plan and an incompetently
side without PURDUE’S Senior Writer the committee should make a recom- executed strategy,” the Democratic
stickers will BUDGET mendation by early February, followed senator from New York said in her
double the suggested sticker fees. REQUESTS Purdue president Martin Jischke said by several other committees. initial presidential campaign swing
Mayor Jan Mills said the plan is he hopes to continue the University’s Jischke said Daniels’ proposal during through Iowa.
designed to “ensure people living in the ■
After more already “promising” start to its budget the State of the State Address to priva-
neighborhood are being good neigh- than six years requests when he speaks Tuesday at the tize the Hoosier Lottery, which he said
Source: Staff Reports and Associated Press
bors.” of stagnant Statehouse. could draw almost $1 billion for fund-
“Our goal would be to say if it can go funding from Jischke said he hopes to keep the ing scholarships, is equally encourag-
in the toter, we’ll pick it up, no (addi- the state, Gov. momentum of Gov. Mitch Daniels’ ing. He said there are also indications
Weather
Today Tue.
tional) charge,” she said. “But we’re not Mitch Daniels and the recent recommendation to increase that Purdue will begin to have its nearly Mostly Snow
going to pick up the couches and stacks Commission for Higher Education funding for universities by 5 percent $400 million backlog in building main- Cloudy Showers
of trash (for free). We don’t think it’s recommended a 5 percent during the House Ways and Means tenance fees repaid. 29/18 22/15
fair.” increase for universities from hearings as Purdue, Indiana and Ivy “So we think this is a very promising
She said she hopes the fees will deter Indiana. Tech all look for new presidents. start to the budget process,” he said. Index
excess trash buildup, especially in stu- “Thus a good budget recommenda- “We’re very hopeful.”
dent-populated areas of the city. She ■ The average increase from tion will do a great deal about enhanc- After more than six years of little or Express 3 Comics 8 & 9
states to universities across the ing these three institutions’ ability to Opinions 6 Sports 14
Classifieds 7
>> See TRASH, Page 5 nation last year was 7 percent. attract good leadership,” he said. >> See BUDGET, Page 5