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The Above INSIDE .500 Daily l.AJ:Jy Panthers defeat Murray Stale Holy 58-49to TUESDAY Eastern Illinois University improve Charleston, Ill. 61920 conference ground February 17, 1998 Vol. 83, No. 101 record to 9-8 12 pages Local church invites s PAGE community to see new 12 renovations PAGE 3 "Tell the truth and_ don't be afraid" Provost candidate calls for training Edgar to make By JUSTIN KMITCH administration need to get up Administration eclitor to speed," he said. bu~getspeech Stark also said he is Gary Stark, candidate for convinced of the value of the By JUSTIN KMITCH provost and vice president for Strategic Planning process. Administration eclitor academic affairs. Monday He said he has worked at said he urges universities lo universities that <lid not have Gov. Jim Edgar will announce Eastem's fiscal year keep up with new planning guidelines or sense 1999 budget recommendation Wednesday during his technological advances that of direction and believes that final annual budget address. are facing coUeges today. to be a cause of decreased Edgar is scheduled to approve the proposed $2.8 "Keeping up enrollmen1 in some miJlion budget increase made by the Illinois Board of technologicaJly is a challenge situations. Higher P.ducation at noon in the capital. everyone is facing today and ''The process requires a In January, the IBHE recommended Eastern receive il is a very expensive grea1 deaJ of effort and work, the highest increase in new state monies among the 12 challenge, but there is but to appreciate il you must Illinois public universities for 1998-99. absolutely no way we can see the outcome by means of With the recommendation, the IBHE approved a compete without it," Stark changes in c urriculum or fiscal year 1999 general funds increase recommendation said. "Technology is very other areas," Stark said. for Eastern of $2.8 million, which would raise the expensive to buy, but useless Stark aJso said university's total appropriated funds budget to without the appropriate international education and $44,707,800 beginning July 1. The Board of Trustees training and room left in study abroad are originally asked for a $4.4 million increase last fall. budgets for upgrades and "tremendously important.'' Eastern was recommended for the highest general maintenance." "T believe very strongly in funds appropriation increase at 6.8 percent, with the next largest increase of 6 percent going to Chicago State and IKUYA KURATA/Photo editor He also said he believes providing as many Northeastern Illinois universities. Gary Stark, a candidate for vice president for academic many students today are more opportunities as possible, Eastern officials are optimistic the governor will affairs, answers a technology question during Monday advanced with computers especialJy those students continue his four-year trend of fully funding state afternoon i" the JlJ95 room of the Martin Luther King Jr. than facul ty members. from Central Illinois that "We as faculty and See PROVOST page 2 universiliesand colleges. "We are hoping for very good news," said Jill Nilsen, special assistant to the president. "The governor has been very good to us in the past years and we have been very appreciative of his efforts." Colleagues praise VPAA candidate Nilsen previously said the general funds increase By JUSTIN KMITCH dean, first rate teacher, and a fair turned it into a fairly nice program for recommended by the IBHE for Illinois public Administration editor individual by fonner colleagues at the us. The program had j ust over 150 universities is 4.5 percent University of Texas al Arlington. students when he left so obviously he The budget recommendation, if passed, would The fourth candidate to interview Thomas Porter, English professor at did a fine job." provide $99,200 to purchase new library materials once for the position of vice president for the University of Texas at Artington, As associate dean of the College of renovations to Booth Library are completed. Funding academic affairs, Gary Stark, was served above Stark as the dean of the Liberal Arts, Stark oversaw 35 to 40 for the $ 16.8 million Booth Library renovation project described as a "very dedicated and goal liberal arts program through 1994. graduate teaching assistants in the construction was approved in December during a special oriented man" by past colleagues. Porter described his relationship fields of foreign language, English, legislative session. For fiscal year J 998, Edgar Stark, the current dean of the with Stark as "cooperative." history, philosophy and fine arts. He recommended Eastern receive $3.5 million, or 5.7 College of Liberal Arts at the "We worked very hard together." also worked in cooperation with the percent operational budget increase. The operational University of Central A rkansas in Porter said. "He became assistant dean budget covers all costs not included in the university's See CANDIDATE page 2 Conway, Ark., was described as a fine of graduate humanities in 1986 and fixed cost. The university's fixed cost includes deferred maintenance, technology enhancements, heat, water, ~-----------,.----------------------------------'electric ity bills and faculty and staff salaries. Predictions for six more weeks of winter may not hold water By JAIME HODGE received .5 inches earlier last City editor week, Price <;aid. However, Lhe ' ' I haven't seen the weather has been preuy dry for Do not believe the groundhog's outlook for March but most of 1he mon1h so Price said he prediction that six more weeks of ·I think the El Nino will welcomes the rain. winter is still in store: spring continue to assist in making The warmer weather is unusuaJ wea1her will likely arrive in the weather milder more for February because there are still Charles1on earlier than predicted. into March." snowbanks in southern Illinois "These are ... above average from the heavy snows the area tempera1ures. about like what i1 was blanketed with last week. was in January. The warmth in - Dalias Price, The tempera1ure Monday was January has continued on through Local weather observer .. predicted to top off at 40 degrees February," said Dalias Price. local and started out at 22 degrees. Price weather observer. Price said he expects that the said. I nstead, temperatures The lowest temperature rainy spring weather will continue reached 49 degrees around 5:30 Charleston experienced in through the month, predicting that p.m. February was in 1958 when the Charleston will be hit with more "l haven't seen the outlook for mercury dropped to a biting 21 precipitation and mild tem March but I think the EJ Nino will degrees below zero, Price said. On peratures. continue to assist in making the Feb. 16, 1997, temperatures ''In the next two to three days weather milder more into March," dipped co seven degrees below I'm afraid we'll be au wet," Price Price said. zero. said. "It's one of those things that ''For the next two to three days IKUYA KURATA/Photo editor "(In other years) we have had lies around ever so slowly." we will not have really severe (From right) Kyla Anthony, a freshman art major, Julie Wedding, a temperatures as high as 72 The rainfall measured .36 weather according to the long- senior English major, and Lizz. Lamphere, a freshman art education degrees," Price said. inches Monday and Charleston range outlook." major. jump in a puddle Monday morning in the Library Quad. U.S. athletes grapple with strained Iranian relations many here as the "Great Satan." But the invitation attracted China in the J970s after decades call for better ties with the TEHRAN. Iran (AP)_ From a That resolve is one face of attention after President of estrangement, no one expects United States was "very neces distance, an American flag paint Iran's Islamic Republic, set up Mohammad Khatami. in remarks a quick refastening of ties sary." Some 64 percent said it ed on the wall of a tall govern after the revolution ousted the broadcast last month, encouraged between Tehran and Washington. "could lead to better or much ment building in Tehran looks U.S.-backed shah. The other, of sports and cultural exchanges as The United States severed better ties." like it could be welcoming a U.S. relative tolerance, comes from a means of improving under relations with Iran after Muslim No margin of error or sam wrestling team, the most promi Iran's moderate president and standing between people of the militams stormed the American pling size were provided. nent group of Americans to visit those who invited the team. two nations. Embassy in Tehran months after The American wrestling Iran since its 1979 revolution. The wrestlers were scheduled The remarks. telecast in Iran the 1979 revolution and held 52 team's visit highlights the nev. But a closer look reveals to arrive early Tuesday. and the United States, were Americans hostage for 444 days. attitude. skulls in place of stars, and the "If some sportsmen come widely viewed as a diplomatic More than half of Iran's 60 "This event should be seen for red streaks of falling bombs in here, it has nothing to do with opening by Khatami, a moderate million people are too young to what it is: a wrestling match place of stripes.