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Thursday, October 1 2, 2000 ij The Pantagraph flu www.pantagraph.com T1J Unit 84 suggestions submitted in September. Other finalists considered for Grove Elementary were Eagle View, Horizon and Harvestland. Finalists for Fox Creek were Frontier, Timberview and White Oak. New principals hired In addition to naming the schools, the board also announced the hiring of principals for each new school as well as six other new principals among the district's elementary schools. All appointments will become effective in the 2001- Family to donate bell to new school By REBECCA LODA Pantagraph staff The Unit 5 school board selected names for the district's two new elementary schools Wednesday night.

They are Grove Elementary and Fox Creek Elementary. Grove Elementary School, located near Airport and Fort Jesse roads, is named for the one-room house will "meld" the two. The new Fox Creek Elementary School, located southwest of Pepper Ridge Elementary School, was named for the nearby subdivision and street. In supporting that suggestion, several board members said it will help students and families locate the school. Both names were approved unanimously by the board after a short discussion.

They were among eight finalists chosen by a committee last week from a list of Grove School that stood at the intersection of Hershey and Raab roads from 1866 until 1945. Those who suggested the name, the Kraft family of Normal, have had the old school's bell in their care for years. In suggesting the name, they also offered to donate the bell to the new school. "Too often, we tear down the old and replace it with the new," board member Gail Ann Briggs said in support of the suggestion. She said naming the new building for the old one-room school- "2002 school year.

John Lutes, currently principal of Oakdale Elementary, will become principal of Grove Elementary School. Mark Robinson, currently serving as principal at Park-side Elementary School, will head Fox Creek Elementary School. Don Witherow will replace Lutes at Oakdale. He is currently principal at Fairview Elementary School and previously was principal at Eugene Field and Hudson. Marlys M.

Bennington, an administrative intern at Prairieland Elementary, will become principal at Parkside Elementary next year. Lynette Mehall, now an assistant principal at Chiddix Junior High School, will head Fairview Elementary next year. Don Gillan, principal of Hudson Elementary, will head Sugar Creek Elementary. Vicki Kennedy, principal at Eugene Field Elementary, will lead Hudson next year. Geoffrey A.

Schoonover will become principal at Eugene Field. He is an administrative intern at Co-lene Hoose Elementary this year. Mi-racism rally emphasizes respect 1 E. rj ,1 ri 70 111 -f Above: Members of the Black Student Union at Illinois State University marched west on North Street in Normal toward the quad during an anti-hate rally Wednesday afternoon. Below: BSU programming chairman James Ford spoke to the crowd gathered between Watterson Towers and Stevenson Hall before the march.

Right: Curtis Singleton, an ISU student from Chicago, listened to speakers before the march. 200 people march to ISU quad event By ROGER MILLER Pantagraph staff Bigotry will continue until people learn a simple lesson: Treat others as you want to be treated with dignity, respect, understanding and love. That was the common thread through a series of speeches Wednesday at an anti-racism rally at Illinois State University that drew up to 200 people. Leaders of the Black Student Union and members of the ISU administration spoke to the crowd, which assembled next to Watterson Towers and then marched to the center of the quad. The event was organized in response to anti-black graffiti found last month in Stevenson Hall, when pictures of noted black American authors on an office door were defaced.

BSU programming chairman James Ford said racism's cause is simple: It is one person or institution seeing another person as not fully human. He noted Europeans treated American Indians as savages, and the U.S. Constitution counted a slave as three-fifths of a white person. "Black people have had to fight for a long time to be recognized as human," he said. "That's ridiculous." He advised his predominantly black audience to learn and take pride in the achievements of their history, which stretches back to ancient Egypt.

However, taking pride does not mean demeaning the history and cultures of others, he said. Diversity at the forefront Assistant professor of English Chris DeSantis said people need to make celebrating diversity more than a bumper-sticker slogan. It means keeping it at the forefront of one's thinking. He told people to challenge racist jokes, epithets or stereotypes, even if it means alienating friends. He also told students to demand that their professors accurately portray black history and literature in their classes.

Helen Mamarchev, the vice president of student affairs, Ruling gives By STEVE SILVERMAN Pantagraph staff A Bloomington property owner went to court Wednesday and won a temporary reprieve from the city's plan to tear down his house at 903 W. Front St. Circuit Judge Luther Dearborn sent the case back to the city's Construction Board of Review to give owner Winfield Bates a chance to present a plan for rehabilitating the property. The board of review upheld an A if The PantagrapWSTEVE SMEDLEY i cated a new owner would rehabilitate the house. The judge said Bates should be given a chance to return to the board of review to make a case for repairing the house.

However, Dearborn said the board of review would be justified in renewing the demolition order unless Bates comes up with a specific plan, not a vague one that assigns responsibility to a future owner. Moore said after the hearing that he is unsure how Bates will it I im 1 YDi Conflict suggested on vote Board member's family owns Ford County land By BOB HOLLIDAY Pantagraph staff The appearance of. a conflict of interest may lead McLean County Board member Adam Kinzinger to abstain from voting when a board resolution is presented Tuesday on the controversial Miami Indian tribe land claim in Ford County. The dilemma is that relatives of Kinzinger who has been a strong advocate against the Miami claim own about 400 acres in Ford County, where the tribe seeks to reclaim land it says it is entitled to under an 1805 treaty. The Kinzinger family is not one of the defendants in the Miami lawsuit filed earlier this year in U.S.

District Court in East St. Louis. It also appears, Kinzinger said, that his family's property is not part of the disputed zone, which covers 2.6 million acres in east-central Illinois. "I don't think it should be an issue, but if it becomes one, I could decline to vote," Kinzinger said Wednesday. He said his interest in the issue has nothing to do with his family's land, but has everything to do with trying to protect Mel iean County land.

Last week, Kinzinger pushed the resolution opposing the Miami claim through the legislative committee, arguing that if the lawsuit is successful, McLean County land eventually could be jeopardized. The resolution also contends a Miami victory could "cause large-scale economic chaos to Ford County." While the resolution passed the! legislative committee unanimous ly, McLean County Board Chaffs man Gary Riss said Wednesday" the board has tried to stay out of things that don't qfi feet our county directly." His com-! ment was in reference to the fact 2 that McLean County is not part pf the litigation. As far as Kinzinger's possibly conflict of interest, Riss said thataJF 1 he were Kinzinger, he wouldn't fee comfortable voting on the issue. -1 "It might not be an actual con- flict, but there is the appearance of I conflict that may benefit family members," Riss said. McLean County Chief Civil Assistant State's Attorney Eric Ruud said there's probably not a conflict of interest if Kinzinger has no ownership interest in the property.

However, Ruud said he wouldn't discourage Kinzinger from abstaining if Kinzinger perceives that casting a vote could cause the appearance of impropriety. Kinzinger's father, Russell Kinzinger, who owns one-filth of the property in question, hopes the core issue won't get lost in the conflict-of-interest matter. "It's simply the appearance of a conflict," the elder Kinzinger said, adding his son has no direct interest in the property. Russell Kinzinger said that ownership In the land much of it south and west of Piper City is shared among himself, three brothers and a sister. Qnmliw Tli WmM Ii Ovr Garden 4, y.

vV 2f gued his client should be given a chance to fix the house before it's torn down. "The city has not afforded him the constitutionally protected right of some due process before they take his property," Moore said. "The reasonable thing to do is to repair the property." City attorney Todd Greenburg estimated the cost of repairs at $47,000. He said the house only is valued at $23,500. Greenburg also said Bates failed Ik 1 1 1 mi innfiii M-mmmmmmnm "Black people have had to fight for a long time to be recognized as human.

That's ridiculous." James Ford, Black Student Union pledged herself and her staff once again to work for the eradication of racism. She made that pledge before at a Sept. 6 anti-hate rally in the wake of gay-bashing incidents. President Victor Boschini attended last month's rally but was out of the country on Wednesday. Other high-ranking officials said they did not attend because they had not heard about the rJ lua owner chance to form plan for blighted house to develop a concrete plan to rehabilitate the house.

He said the blighted property is damaging the value of neighboring property. "His neighbors can suffer (financial) injury and, I would submit, have suffered injury," Greenburg said. The judge expressed concern that transcripts submitted by the city from the board of review hearing included the city's presentation about the condition of the house but not Bates' plans for making repairs. Bates reportedly indi inspector's demolition order at a September hearing. Evidence indicated the two-story, 10-room house had massive structural problems, required a new roof and plumbing, and had various other defects.

Bates appealed the ruling, contending the city hadn't given him sufficient time to make repairs. He arranged a sale by contract last year, but the city blocked it because the new owner couldn't immediately repair the house. Bates' attorney, Fred Moore, ar fall Wl fa Superior quality trees fresh dug from our field to your home. Norway Maple Patmore Green Ash 212-3" reg. $245-395 Now $179 10-70 Off Selected Seasonal Inventory of Shade A Ornamental Trees As Phon 309-452-9402 Man-Fri 8-7.

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