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Eastern Illinois University The Keep August 1996 8-21-1996 Daily Eastern News: August 21, 1996 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1996_aug Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: August 21, 1996" (1996). August. 3. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1996_aug/3 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1996 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in August by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. PARTLY SUNNY a high of 90º Ready INSIDE to run Feet Eastern’s top runner Eastern Illinois University WEDNESDAY Charleston, Ill. 61920 returns for August 21, 1996 First Vol. 82, No. 4 fifth season Hackey sac champions 12 pages honored taday. PAGE PAGE 7 8 WEIU-TV news signs off Daily show gets cut due to safety in Buzzard By DENISE RENFRO at the TV station is not just the Campus editor experience but to build a resume I’d rather the tape.” Safety hazards in Buzzard Stephanie Dimov, an anchor and Building caused WEIU TV station students graduate editor for WEIU TV, said students to cancel one of the four student- healthy“ than take a chance can still get experience at the run programs. station. John Beabout, general manager on anyone being injured.” “Even though the news program at WEIU FM, said the Friday is canceled, other programs are morning fire in Buzzard Building –John Beabout going on and students can gain the was the latest of many problems to experience – just not anchoring cause the program’s cancellation. general manager, and producing,” Dimov said. “I’d rather the students graduate WEIU FM “(The cancellation of the healthy than take a chance on station) will basically effect the anyone being injured,” said seniors,” Milano said. “The ju- Beabout. nights a week. niors will get a good chance.” “It (the fire) wasn’t an isolated, EIU Connection, Lynch “I’ll still gain the experience I one-time incident,” Beabout said. Colloquium and Panther Country, need, it’s just really unfortunate “The fire on Friday was the final the other three programs the for the seniors this year and those incident that led to discontinuing station runs, will remain on the air. doing and internships,” Dimov of the operations of the two All four programs use a student said. stations.” crew, so students can still come in “We have almost $4 million The station will discontinue the to get experience by doing a worth of equipment – there’s no program’s broadcasting until they package program for sports or possibility of relocating, it would move into a new area of Buzzard features, said Michelle Milano, a be exorbitantly expensive,” Bea- designed for the station between speech communication major who bout said. “It’s just not an option.” Dec. 15 and Feb. 15, 1997, works at WEIU TV. Because of the safety hazards in Beabout said. Under normal conditions the broadcasting area of the “At that point in time we will students can come in every day stations, two speech com- SARAH WONG/Associate photo editor return WEIU FM to the air and and have a lot more opportunities munication classes will be News Scan also,” Beabout said. to turn a story into a package, canceled during Spring semester. Learning to fly WEIU TV broadcasts on 40 Milano said. TV Production, SPC 3540, and channels in the area surrounding “I have one year of experience – Directing, SPC 4540, which were CW2 Maroon teaches ROTC member Megan McManus, how to Eastern. The program to be I don’t have a resume tape at all,” fly UH60 Black Hawk helicopter as part of the ROTC Week canceled, News Scan, airs five Milano said. “The reason to work See WEIU page two display. Another helicopter will be on display Thursday in the South Quad. Improvement Jorns’ salary increase sets a standard funds allotted By ELLEN EARDLEY said. “It only seemed to be in keeping with but is more than the president of Western Administration editor everything.” Illinois University. Western is relatively the The BOT also sent a recommended budget same size as Eastern and the president earns to businesses Eastern Board of Trustees this summer for fiscal year 1998 that would provide for a $120,000 a year. By BRITT CARSON approved a 7 percent salary increase for seven percent salary for Eastern employees. “Your president’s $120,000 was set up at City editor President David Jorns, elevating his salary to Currently Eastern employees are among the the same time as our president’s $120,000 by $128,400 a year. most underpaid in the state. the old Board of Governors,” said Western The Charleston City Council This was the first pay raise Jorns had “We are very aware of the fact that the Director of Institutional Research and Tuesday night approved a received since September 1994, when it was salaries of the staff at Eastern are lower than Planning Charles Gilbert. “Seven percent is a $30,000 bond/loan that will be set at $120,000, said Susan Gilpin, vice chair elsewhere, and we recognize that we have pretty substantial increase.” used to repair several buildings of the BOT. some very talented faculty,” Gilpin said. Northern Illinois University’s president in the Tax Interest Finance “The president’s salary sets a standard for “Unfortunately we are not receiving the earns $160,000 a year. Approximately 12,000 district. all of the university, and that’s about the funding.” more students attend Northern than Eastern. More than half of the money equivalent of the percentage increase we came Jorns’ new salary is still lower than several will be granted to downtown up with for other faculty’s salaries,” Gilpin other presidents’ at Illinois public universities See JORNS page two business owner Clint Campbell, who will spend $18,500 to fix rear walls in a building at 607 Monroe Ave. and $3,200 to repair a wall at 911 set to be available by end of year 410 Seventh St. By BRITT CARSON wanted to make sure we did it address or a local residence and their current addresses were rural Richard and Michael City editor right,” Abrams said. “The system which police to dispatch. routes. Schafer of Schafer Con- involves more than just dialing “Once a call is received, the Most of the three years was struction were granted the By the end of the year, 911 and when everything is computers will trace the call and spent trying to raise the money remaining funding to make residents of Coles County will be finalized will end up costing the name, phone number and for the system. improvements to the front of able to dial 911 for emergencies about $800,000.” address of the person calling will “Everything was funded by the the building, replace the instead of seven digit numbers In the past, residents had to appear on the screen,” Abrams $1.95 surcharge Charleston brickwork and purchase an for different emergency response dial individual telephone said. “Whether the person can residents pay on their monthly awning for 313 Sixth St. agencies. numbers for the fire and police speak or not, an officer will be phone bill,” Abrams said. “We The city will grant each Jack Abrams, 911 director in departments or had to call the dispatched to make sure nothing also needed back-up money in party half the money for the Coles County, said the 3-year operator and hope they could is wrong.” case something goes wrong.” repairs and expects them to project is in the process of being refer them to the right emergency Abrams said putting the 911 Abrams said most of the repay the city at a low-interest installed and should be ready for service, Abrams said. system in place took a lot of money will go toward the rate since the businesses are in use by the end of this year or by Abrams said the new system cooperation from different purchasing of computers and the TIF district. early January. will also dispatch Eastern campus organizations. equipment and hiring dispatchers. Mayor Dan Cougill “The system could have been police to student addresses. When The only delay for the project “We looked at other 911 See FUNDS page two installed in a year and would a call is received the computer was having to re-assign several have been cheaper, but we will know whether it is a student addresses in Mattoon because See 911 page two 2 Wednesday, August 21, 1996 The Daily Eastern News Amusement park ride under investigation after girl’s death Police question riders following accident SPRINGFIELD (AP) – Illinois State Police want gled out of her harness. She slipped through a 16- to interview people who rode the “Kamikaze” at inch gap in a safety gate and fell to the ground, this year’s Illinois State Fair as part of their investi- where she was struck by one of the descending Live Music Every Friday & Saturday gation of the death of a girl who fell out of the ride. cars. Tuesday Fourteen-year-old Tamara Terrell died last “It’s a tragedy,” Gov. Jim Edgar said Tuesday. 50 Friday. Inspectors from the state Department of “But I have no reason to believe the Department of 1 Heineken Labor found no mechanical problems after the Labor or carnival people can be Wednesday accident, but since then, state police have received held responsible for what happened.” some complaints about the Kamikaze, which State Fair Manager Joe Saputo said that all those 50¢ Leinenkugals swings riders upside down.