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Eastern Illinois University The Keep February 1986 2-20-1986 Daily Eastern News: February 20, 1986 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1986_feb Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: February 20, 1986" (1986). February. 13. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1986_feb/13 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1986 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in February by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Thursday,February 20, 1986 ..•will be doudy with a m perce"'lt cha'1ce of rain. High m the tpper ms. ( 'lt Thursday night loudy with .,. 40 peru hanrE> of rain or snow Low l1'f tre iow€'r30s. CAA focuses on new policy By BILL DENNIS Staff writer The "rationale" behind the proposal to in it a st ute new attendance policy at Eastern will be given by Sam Taber, dean of student academic services, at Thursday's Council ori Academic Affairs meeting. The CAA will meet at 2 p.m. in the Union addition Arcola-Tuscola Room. Also attending will be James Johnson, assistant dean of student personnel services, who was invited to the meeting by CAA chairman Sue Stoner to answer questions about students' attendance. The proposed policy would give instructors the option of dropping students who do not attend 25 percent of a course's scheduled classes by midterm. Taber proposed the policy at last week's CAA meeting. Stoner said she could not say when the CAA would vote on the policy. When the CAA will vote on the attendance policy "depends on how long and how much correspon dence we receive from students, faculty and staff," Stoner said . "We want the university community to have an opportunity to respond to the proposal." LARRY PETERSON I Staff photograpl)er On Tuesday, Taber again declined comment on the e corner pocket! proposed policy. · al science major Pat Cullerton, a senior, Wednesday in a round of.billiards at Union Station. Taber has said previously that he would not his best Minnesota Fats impersonation comment on the policy until the CAA had a chance to discuss the policy and until copies of the minutes from last week's meeting were released to instructors. Even though he has not had a chance to read the p oposed policy, Glenn Williams, vice pres ent enrollment up 'surprisingly' r id for ck academic affairs, disputed claims that students can Afro-American Studies, said the Current and former mino(ity pass classes without attending them. figures are "s uprisingly recruiters tell of their problems of "I cannot see students passing classes, in the vast enrollment at Eastern high-much higher than normal getting blacks to come to Eastern, majority of cases, when they don't go," said to rise as official spring for a spring semester.'' Williams, who has taught philosophy courses. see page3A enrollment figures from Eastern's black enrollment has "I teach myself, and I can assure you people who e of Planning and increased slightly in each of the exactly the number of black don't go have a slim to none chance of passing." show an increase of 49 last three years. However, black students enrolled this fall. "I'm sure Einstein didn't have to go to class to tudents over spring enrollment here this fall was the Jones' estimates varied slightly pass mathamatics," Williams said. "The problem is last year. lowest of the five Board of from those released by the office. we're not all Einsteins." ester there are 448 Governors schools. Although she said spring black Although Taber works under him, Williams said tudents enrolled at. Last spring, black students enrollment remained "fairly he had no input in writing the proposed policy. compared to 399 a year made up 4.2 percent of Eastern's stable" over last semester, she "Dean Taber is certainly free to make proposals to total enrollment. The increase this estimated a loss of "about 30 or the CAA without my approval," Williams said. President Stanley Rives 7 spring raises that figure to 4. so" blacks from the fall. In other business, the CAA will decide whether to increase "super," and percent. Jones would not speculate as to adopt changes in the journalism major and the public e have been making Black enrollment traditionally reasons why black enrollment is relations minor. mpt to recruit more falls off some in the spring up. Although the effect of The journalism department hopes to change We obviously must be . semester from the previous fall . Eastern's new dismissal policy Journalism 3100, News Editing, a three-hour course, thn i g right." This is not the case this semester. can't yet be measured, it may have into three different two-hour courses, said David Jones, director of The 448 spring figure matches had an impact, she said. Reed, journalism department chairman. an gives new option to student teaching program "I absolutely do r-· (t hink student may be sending more student teachers to Eastern's new link teachers influence ulian High School, as a result of its part Editor's note: third in a This is the five-part series their students' choice h the school. looking at the partnership Eastern hasfor med with of college)," Joley plans have not been finalized yet, as part L. t da s said Chicago� Percy Julian High School. In o y ' . ership, Eastern student teachers will have Eastern story. an student teacher at Julian and ''I think the biggest s to Julian. The partnership will also Eastern administrators -predict a rise in black benefit to Percy 'ewing Julian's course curriculum guides schools' enrollment .here because of the two part Julian will be the students attending a summer camp at nership. contact with Eastern faculty and stt:dent inistrators hope the plan will help about Eastern and asking me to speak to their teachers," Joley said. re of its students for college, while classes," Banks said. "The net result will 1cials would like to see the program at ''A week ago we had a career day, and I spoke be more students Shernita Banks Julian students, boosting minority about college life in a predominantly white from Percy Julian attending college, and fr ankly, we . university. At the end, I asked people who were hope to attract some of those students . here are interested in Eastern,'' thinking about attending Eastern f people to raise their hands, "The teachers and counselors (at Julian) are Shernita Banks, an education major, who and there were quite a few who did," she said. familiar with Eastern through the student teachers, teaching English and language Banks said a number of those who expressed an student or they went here themselves," Joley said, adding i n. at Jul a interest probably would not have considered Eastern, that Eastern is "one of the premiere institutions for m e to send me a bunch of ap or even heard of it, if not for the partnership. If.° so eon the preparation of teachers in the state. added. An increa$C in black enrollment here as a result of ' she "I think we may be the best, but I'm prejudiced," is black, believes the planned part the universit 's sending student teachers to Julian has he said, jokingly. ho � y r a y stimulated some interest. al e d been predicted Eastern's dean of the college of In addition to a possible increase in black are always asking me questions education, CharlesJoley. (See here 1 JULIAN, page 6) Thursday, February 2A'. 20, 1 986 j\ssociated Press Engineer argued against launch State/Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP)-An engineer at the McDonald told the Ogden firm that manufactured the solid fuel booster Examiner today of his pre-launch con rockets for the Challenger said today he un He said he told the commission he co successfully argued against the space shuttle to object to the launch even after the StateATLANTA-The appeals stateKemp will �ecisiseek a newon trial of Jan launch the night before its fatal liftoff because arrived at Cape Canaveral, where Kemp's lawsuit against two University of Georgia ad he feared the effect of cold temperatures. stationed the night before the launch. ministrators who were ordered to pay Kemp $2.57 million Allan J. McDonald, a 26-year veteran of the McDonald said he turned over detail after a jury found she was unjustly fired for criticizing Utah company, Morton Thiokol, said he of his conversation.s with NASA offic· preferential treatment of athletes, it was announced testified Friday at a closed hearing of the presidential commission. presidential comm1ss1on investigating the In an interview published in the Wednesday. N Attorney General Michael Bowers released a statement shuttle disaster that he had talked to NASA Times, McDonald said most of saying the decision to appeal was made "at the request of officials at length on the day before the Jan. 28 versations concerning the shuttle had liftoff about his concerns. Lawrence Mulloy, who heads the defendants . , with the approval of the Board of NASA's Regents and after consultation with the governor." McDonald said he told the commission his fuel booster rocket project at Marshall The motion will be filed by Monday with U.S. District objections were overruled by his boss, foe Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Kilminister of Brigham City, who transmitted a · was a very prolonged di Judge Horace Ward, who presided over the Six-week trial "It launch-approval letter to NASA.