Candidates Views Differ on Eastern's Community Impact by ROB STROU,P Economic Boosuo Charleston
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Eastern Illinois University The Keep March 1997 3-28-1997 Daily Eastern News: March 28, 1997 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1997_mar Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: March 28, 1997" (1997). March. 15. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1997_mar/15 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1997 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in March by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. a high o/65° To the D top Base~= Tennessee to tak£onthe FRIDAY Eastern lttinois University first-place Charleston; Ill. &1920 Blue Raiders March 28, 1997 Vot 82, No. 124 "Slow Dance on th_e Killing 2 sections, 16 pages Ground" showing throughout PAGE the week 12 SECTION B "Tell the truth and don't be afraid" -~-. - ' ~ o- -----.-, -- - ~ - - Candidates views differ on Eastern's community impact By ROB STROU,P economic boosuo Charleston. Student Government editor Cougill said Eastern is a valuable asset to Charleston, but ·Incumbent Dan Cougill and unfortunately the university does challenger Henry Bough dis not pay any property taxes. agreed on the kind of economic Charleston should concentrate impact Eastern and its students on expanding its business park, have on the community. Cougill said. This will provide the Cougill and Bough debated property taxes the city needs to Thursday night at a forum held in pay for its public schools, Cougill Lumpkin Hall sponsored ~y said. SARAH WONG/Associate photo editor Student Government. Neither Cougill nor Bough Mayor Dan Cougill thinks about his answer while Henry Bough, Charleston mayoral candidate, answers at 'This (the university) is the life thought raising the bar-entry age question about how to improve Charleston businesses Thursday night in the Lumpkin Auditorium. blood of our community," Bough had significantly lowered the "Eastern is no longer perceived the bar alternatives offered by in Charleston, but he needed their said. "Businesses come and go, city's sales tax revenue. as a party school," Cougill said. CharJ;ston merchants, Cougill help to do this. He said-Eastern but Eastern will always be here." Instead, lowering the bar-entry Eastern students should also be said. studeuts have not always been Bough said the expansion of age has improved the image of more active if they want bar Cougill also said he wanted to .hefpful in v9icing their concerns. Eastern and the enrollment of 100 the university with parents and alternatives in Charleston, Cougill work with students to find out As an example, Cougill said ~PF~ ~~~R~ wou~.4 pr9vi~ an ~~JQy,ers, Cougjll sa,iij. said. Students have not supponed what they want:ftom retail stores See CANDIDATES page 2 Students to contribute $600,000 from phone bills By SC01T BOEHMER include support personnel. from state technology gran! money, whi~h minimal amount comes from the student Cainpus editor Dave Henard, the associate vice Henard said he expects to be approved. technology fee. president for information technology Approximately 50 percent of the total· The telecommunications money comes Eastern students are expected to services, said this year's high total comes telecommunications operating expenditures from revenue the university makes on long contribute close to $600,000 this year as a result of having to install new lines will go toward helping to build the network distance phone calls by students and toward helping to build the campus and equipment from the Buzzard Building infrastructure. Henard said this may change departments and Iµie charges, Henard said. computer network through their long renovation. either this year or in the future it Eastern It is used for things such as purchasing distance phone bills. In addition, Henard said Eastern has receives infrastructure grant money from cable adapter cards and other equipment, d A total of $593,486 is expected to be gone into deficit spending for fiscal year the state, as he expects will happen. network bandwidth expansion and other e spent. That compares to $513,486 for fiscal 1996 and 1997, with the needed money Henard said the bulk of the money for related items. · g year 1995 and a projection of $535,947 for coming from reserve funds. This is the network infrastructure comes from However, that money constitutes only a y fiscal year 1998. Those numbers do not expected to be corrected in fiscal year 1998 telecommunications money, and only a See BILLS page 2 Admissions standard proposal submitted By NATALIE GOTT two years, Staff writer Shonk said the committee agreed that increasing the admission The Enrollment Management standards every two years will Advisory Committee has re confuse high school counselors and commended that the Council on would not give the university University Planning and Budgeting enough time to evaluate how the not increase admission standards. changes effect Eastern. The proposal to increase the ..We wanted to get some ~ to admission standards is included in a see what effect (the change) has on draft of the strategic plan, which the student body," said Shonk. who was written by a subcommittee of also is a member of CUPB. '1t will theCUPB. take a year or two to see what Tim Shonk, chair of the happens and increasing the Enrollment Management Advisory standards too often will not give us Committee, said the committee a chance to do Utat" unanimously approved to Eastern President David Jorns recommend that the CUPB strike said increasing admission standards the proposal from the rough draft of will help Eastern in attaining higher the strategic plan. state and national recognition. The CUPB will pass this and "I believe the new admission other faculty recommendations on standar<!_s are one more step in to the subcommittee when the Eastern's progress toward becoming CUPB meets at 2 p.ni. today in the one of the finest undergraduate CHET PIOTROWSKI JRJPhoto editor Effingham Room of the Martin institutions in the nation," Jorns Luther King Jr. University Union. said. Voter turnout The rough draft of the strategic In January, a subcommittee of the Hank Nilsen, assistant professor ofwology, casts his vote Thursday afternoon in front of the Bookstore in plan called for the university to tJte MLK UMon. increase admission standards every See PROPOSAL page 2 2a Friday, March 28, 1997 The Daily Eastern News O.J. Simpson ordered to turn A weather watcher over more than 100 belongings with a new 'twist' SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - The judge in the family. At the hearing, it was learned Fujisaki granted BLOOMINGTON (AP) It can be boring, watching for tornadoes. O.J. Simpson case agreed Thursday lo order Simpson a similar order Monday for the estate of Ms. Simpson. You watch and watch and watch, searching the clouds for that tell-tale to tum over more than 100 of his belongings, includ That order included 66 items, some not on the funnel shape. But when you find it, the fear hits just ask Lou ing his Heisman Trophy, his golf clubs and an Andy Goldman inventory, including a Yamaha grand piano Saunier. Warhol silkscreen of himself. and signed letters from former President Richard M. Saunier is one of 1,200 volunteer spotters who help give McLeat1 The nearly $500,000 inventory was culled from Nixon congratulating Simpson on his football victo County an edge when tornadoes could drop out of the sky at any insurance records by the plaintiffs who won a $33.5 nes. moment. He has spotted eight tornadoes over the years. million verdict holding Simpson responsible for the The Brown and Goldman families have been "I've seen a trailer explode to nothing like a little old matchbox and slayings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald squabbling over collecting their share of the verdict. tree limbs rammed through the fender of a car," said Saunier, who is Goldman. The question appears to be who can collect first. also a volunteer firefighter. '"I think I will sign this order. Let the sheriffs take Fujisaki admonished the attorneys in the case: "You Spotters like Saunier provide a valuable service during tornado sea ahold of this property and the parties fight it out," guys are just running up money, expenses for every son. When threatening weather blows into McLean County, they take Superior Court Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki announced one. I'm really getting disturbed by this whole pro their two-way radios and beepers and head to their assigned locations after a one-hour hearing. cess." Among the items sought by Goldman's estate to watch for funnel clouds. After the order is served, Simpson has seven days were $43,860 in awards and trophies; Simpson's Their watchfulness can mean the warning sirens go off just a little to tum over the items to the Sheriff's Department for $5,100 Heisman Trophy; a $700 Buffalo Bills football earlier, giving people more time to take cover. sale to satisfy the judgment. He has the right to seek helmet; a $24,480 Tiffany-design leaded glass lamp; a "They do a great job," said Jim Wahls, director of the county exemptions, mcluding a $5,000 exemption for jewelry $25,500 Andy Warhol silkscreen of Simpson; a Emergency Services and Disaster Agency. and art, plaintiff attorneys said. $40,000 14-carat gold necklace with 89 diamonds; And that's important in McLean County. It ranks first in the state The turnover order was requested by Goldman's and a $26,500 amber fox fur. for the nwnber of tornadoes spotted since 1950. But nobody has been killed by one. ' · . Tornadoes are most 1ikely to spring up froni. March to Augu~t .