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Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC March 1989 Daily Egyptian 1989 3-31-1989 The aiD ly Egyptian, March 31, 1989 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_March1989 Volume 75, Issue 125 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, March 31, 1989." (Mar 1989). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1989 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in March 1989 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Daily Egyptian Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Friday, March 31.)989, Vol. 75, No. 125, 24 Pages Alcohol allowed at Fest with limits By Miguel Alba Staff Writer form requesting apPloval. Auditorium .... " aleohol is allowed. Welch had previously turned Though the memo singles Alcohol will not be allowed A request to allow alcohol at down 3 request. He said the out these areas, Don Castle, anywhere else on campus for the annual Springfest rejected plan did not clearly assistant University the event. • (~elebration was approved by d~fine where the event was to Programming co-ordinator, The event will take plaCf. Harvey Welch, vice president beheld. said drinking will be allowed from noon to 7:00 p.m., April for student affairs, Thursday. According to the two-page within a border that en 22, with security measures The University's on-::!l.mpus memo that acc'lmpanied the compasses all three areas so being increased. alcohol policy, enacted in approved rer.uest, the alcohol that students may walk freely The memo calls for security August 1988, requires that comsumption areas will be from area to area. that would have been used at sponsors who anticipate or limited to, "Old Main Mall, castle said signs will be the regatta to be used at Gus says sponsors have to fill plan to have alcohol at their Free Forum grass area, and in posted around the perimeter out forms before we can fill on-r..ampus events, submit a front of Br\.l"Nne informing people where See FESt; Page 7 ourselves '.vith foam. Exxon sacks tanker Skipper Fed won't help with deanup, Soviets offer to send equipment VALDl.Z, Alaska (UPI) - was legally unfit to command fIShermen were spending their Exxon USA Thursday fired the a ship at the time of the ac own money to save the salm9ll, skipper of the oil tanker that cident. and the Soviet Union offered to hit a reef with a load of crude Hazelwood, 42, of Hun help by sending cleanup oil March 24, spilling at least 11 tington. N.Y., was not on the equipment to Exxon's growing million gallons over 600 square tridge of the Exxon Valdez at flotilla working the blackened miles of the ecologically the time of tb accident. Third waters off Valdez. sensitive waters of Prince Mate Gregory Cousins was on Transportation Secretary William Sound. the bridge at the time, Samuel Skinner, back in At the same, the Coast although he was not certified Washington to brief President Guard began ~rocedures to to operate the vessel through suspend the license of ca,t the tricky waters of Prince ::h ::roninsJ:~ '::ssp~ Joseph Hazelwood. who left William Sound. quickly enough to the sp~ut the helm of the Exxon Valdez Cousins apparently bas been was now doing a credible job. to his third mate before it ran cleared of alcohol use by the "The response could have aground and caused the NTSB. beel) quicker," Skinner said biggest spill in U.S. history. Earlier Thursday, Exxon "We're not sure what the The National Transportation said it was invoking force &Olety Board said a test majeure, a legal device :n~3t :!v! =~~r~ performed 10 lh hours after the whereby it declared the spill going to learn. Exxon. the accident showed Hazelwood's "an act of God." A spokesman state and the federal govern said the doctrine was invoked ment are working well • ~~~~~~ _:li!n~:tC:e!i to protect the company from together and at this point, by the Coast guard. customer claims for late oil there is not a need to fedei-alize But NTSB investigator deliveries. this effort. ... Such a decision William Woody emphasized ~eanwhile, the federal might be coonterproductive Stall PhoIo by Ben II. Kufm that the delay in testing left it government refused to take because of the coordination U. Governor Georae Ryan, left, makes his way Into Student unclear whether Hazelwood over the cleanup, angry that is ongoing." Center Ballroom D accompanied by University PresIdent John C. Guyon. Ryan was In carbondale Ttusday gMng a seminar on community developement and marketing In Southern Illinois. Viewers pledge $132,936 to WSIU By Wayne Wallace Although some PBS af in the mid-I980s, causing the Entertainment Editor filiates must host two or three cancellation of such favorites City marketing methods fund-raisers in 1989,Gerig said as "An Evening at Pons" and Viewers of WSIU-TV the Carbondale station is "American Playhouse:r,- pledged $132,936 during the fortunate that it only bas' to discussed by officials station's annual March fund pledge drive once each spring. "We'll do et-erything we can raiser in an effort to keep their to bring back those shows," By Daniel Wallenberg given a "how to" handbook fa vorite public-television He added that the viewers Gerig said, "but our first goal StaffWriler prepared by Illinois am prt>grams on the air. are directly responsible for is to keep what we have now." bassadors describing For two weeks, March 4 to making this choice. Noting the steep rate of Lt. Gov. George Ryan and methods of marketing rural March 19, WSIU·TV enlisted increase in program costs, other experts visited "They know our com communities. the help of student television mitment not to pledge drive Gerig said "The MacNeil. Carbondale Thursday to On June 1 and 2, com workers and community more than once a year," Gerig Lehrer Newshour" is going up meet with local community munities will have an op- volunteers, who answered $4,000 this year, from $25,000 to leaders 011 technigues for said. "I believe the results of phones, as the station in the drive confirm their con $29,000 annually. community marketmg. ro::~\Zn ~~s~~~~lv: terrupted regular I?rogram University President to business decision-makers ming to ask for the Qonations viction to help us avoid that. Gerig said call-in pledges John C. Guyon and Car and economic development that pay for commercial-free Our viewers have come totaled $91,412, but bondale Mayer Neil Dillard, profesSionals at the Illinois PBS shows like "Sesame through for us." uaditionallyonly~~tof along with others interested Community Expo. The Street" and "Great Per Gerig said the $132,936 figure the money {lledged actually in marketiI.~ their per Expo will be held at the gets mailed 10. The station's formances." is "essentially what we needed call-in goal had aimed at spective coml.1Unites, met O'Hare Exposition Center Bob Geri~, station manager, to maintain the status quo." in the Student Center and Hyatt Regency O'Hare said "Festival '89" was suc WSIU-TV specifically uses $100,000. Ballioom D for a seminar in Rosemont. cessful enough to maintain pledge money to buy special Payroll deduction plans and on the subject. WSIU's present policy of r.rogramming. Last year's membership renewals in Those in attendence were See RYAN, Page 7 holding only one pledge drive a 'Festival" pledges dropped Friends of WSIU brought in year. sharply from a higb mark set another $41,524. This Morning USG general election argument settled Councilman Yow By Miguel Alba questions over correct to run as write-in candidates. write-in candidate. Staff Writer procedures for considering All candidates, those ap All write-in candidates must seeking $100,000 write-in votes. pearing on the ballot and have submitted the grade Conuoversy involving write Debbie Hughes, the current write-ins, are required to release form and letter of -Page9 in candidate policy in the April election colllDlissioner, said no attend a meeting 7 p.m. intent by the end of the 19 Undergraduate Student policy exists concerning write Monday at the Student Center meeting on April 3. Itchy Jones nears Government elections has in candidates. Auditorium, concerning SenatNial''Candidates must been cleared up by the election The election commission election rules and regulations. have at least a 2.0 grade point milestone victory commission. passed a resolution requiring All deadlines to run in the average and president and The controversy stems from write-in candidates to sign election have passed, in vice president teams must - Sports 24 last year's elections when all grade release forms used to cluding the deadline to have a have 2.25 grade point average write-in candidate votes were determine their academic candidate name placed on the in order to run for office. Clearlng,501. tossed out by the election eligibility and to write a letter ballot. The only way for a commissioner, leaving of intent explaining they wish student to run now is as a See a.ecnoos. 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