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Eastern Illinois University The Keep June 1987 6-30-1987 Daily Eastern News: June 30, 1987 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1987_jun Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: June 30, 1987" (1987). June. 5. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1987_jun/5 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1987 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in June by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Summer Edition · The Daily Tuesday, June 30, 1987. will be cloudy with a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the low or mid-80s with winds becoming north to northeast 8 to 1 mph. A 5 50 percent chance of showers and Eastern Illinois Unive�ity Charleston, Ill. 61 920 Vol. 72, No. 161 Two Sections, 20 Pages thunderstorms Tuesday night. astI ernI NI ews Summer enrollm·ent up ag ain at Eastern By MIKE BURKE News editor Summer enrollment continues to Summer school. increase at Eastern as the number of students attending both intersession enrollment has and the regular eight- and five-week sessions is up again this year. long history The official 10th day enrollment for the current regular summer school By MIKE BURKE _Ne_ w_s_ e_d _ito_ r session is 3,616 students, said.Charles __________ _ Switzer, Eastern summer school Eastern's summer schoo l director. Switzer said this figure is up enrollment, although still not at the about 6 percent from last year's figure level of the all-time highs reached in of 3,408. the late 1960s and early 1970s, is ''It is important to point out that rebounding from the lows it ex this number is still preliminary perienced about nine years ago, simply because we continue to allow Eastern's summer school director said enrollment in workshops up until the Monday. time they begin," Switzer said. Charles Switzer, Eastern's summer Workshops are courses that are of- school director since 1978, said fered throughout the summer, mbstly summer enrollment here hit. an all- over the weekends. time high of 5,050 studentsin 1971. The final total for the regular Currently, summer school session last year was 3,533 students, enrollment is 3,616 students. Switzer said. That figure was an 8 Although an additional 1,362 percent increase in enrollment over students went to intersession this 1985, he said. - year, many of those students are also He added that the figures for the attending the regular session. regular session only count a student Therefore, adding the two figures once, regardless of whether he or she would not give an accurate com- is signed up for the five-week session, (See HISTORY, page 7) the eight-week session or both. The five-week session and the eight-week steadily since 1978 when he took over session, which run concurrently, make as director. However, he said that up the regular session. summer school enrollments have Switzer said the 'final ·enrollment, likewise increasednationally. which he. expects to be around 3,700 "In the past nine years, we've done a students, will be counted on August little better than the national trend as 15 at the end of the summer session. faras growth," Switzer said. Intersession enrollment was also up Several factors most likely account this year. Switzer said 1,362 students, for the increase. in enrollment at St.ewart, son of Eastern civil service employee Richard Stewart, an all-time high, went to intersession Eastern, Switzer said. down a railing outside of the Union Monday. Because elementary this year as compared to 1,305 ''There is an increased focus on s have recently started their summer breaks, more area youngsters studentslast summer. summer. We've developed some w be seen spending tim� on campus. Switzer said enrollment in the programs and done some promoting," summer school program has grown (See SUMMER, page 6) ntal insurance change et - S ·-Hope fcides foi w agreement affects Eastern employees Gov.SPRINGFIELD Thompson (AP)-With the General '' Assembly's leaders deeply divided, Gov. James Thompson acknowledged Monday illinois employees, retirees and an Delta Dental was experiencing state lawmakersR. are likely to leave town this of Eastern will no longer be covered by at some financial problems. It was a week without approving any increases. Optional Comprehensive Plan starting tax ntal "While the fat lady hasn't sung, she opened· y. mutual agreement. tate of Illinois has agreed with Delta that my office door this morning and hummed a bars," Thompson told reporters after ensive plan services will be honored only if few,. -Patrick Foley meeting the legislative leaders. olve services actually provided before July with Delta Dental Thompson insisted that he hadn't aban doned hope for a increase though only 36 Dental Plan for State of Illinois employees tax ours remained before the General Assembly's been discontinued. The only thing is they �-'' hscheduled adjournment and bill offered be serviced through Delta Dental," approval. any longer that would need an extraordinary Foley, public information officer for After services are rendered the claim should be after trick submitted to Delta for a post-treatment review. majorityfor approval. the Republician governor el Tristano, director for Illinois department Delta then will review these services under the x pectedBut lawmakers said he taxe ement services said in a press release that same treatment plan protocols used on a would send him no increases and an state budget fident that the basic coverage offered by pretreatment basis and make the appropriate unaffordable requiring cuts more $370 million, or and administered by the Equicor after payment as long as the service is actually provided · of about percent. than provide excellent service. prior to July 1, 1987. 3.5 will Thompson's comment that his Dental had rendered services to Illinois Foley said there will be only one significant four-mounth increase a since October 1, 1986. change in that '1ast year we had an optional campain for a tax "may be lost . many agreed to waive the requirement that a program that provided additional services to those battle" led lawmakers to believe the has issue had been forthe plan must be submitted in advance for all that wantedit. " shelved springsession. t "Dead, absolutely · said Senate xcess of $200 and for all major This year all employees will receive a basic dead," in e Leader 've and fixed prosthetic (crowns and Preventive Care DentalProgram , he said. Republican James ''Pate" Phillip of w en s tu services. Therefore, no 'further pre State of Illinois employees will not be able to voice h Wood Dale asked about"Nobody the ts s of the tion vouchers be issued by DDPI. their opinion on the plan change because "it was a tax-increase proposals. can agree on will what what to w ere y State of Illinois employees will have self fiscal management decision and there was no to tax, not tax, h the mone going n ." ntalcoverage," Foley said. chance fora vote," Foley said. is to be spe t don't expect there will a further effort ees who think that they might need "Delta Dental was experiencing some financial "I be es ," e r during the month of June are allowed to problems. It was a mutual agreement," he ex to raise tax added House Sp ake Michael Madigan, those services without a pretreatment plan plained. D-Chicago. :Tuesday, June 2 30, t 987� J\ssoclatecf Press State/Nation/World · White House officials mull Hospital AIDS precautions over high court candidate Chicago-All hospital workers should wear protective WASHINGTON (AP)-President Reagan and White House legal advisers, working gear as a defense against AIDS when there is a chance of key advisers reviewed a list of possible can weekend, prepared a s ary for exposure to a patient's blood or other body fluids, the umm didates for the Supreme Court on Monday as legal opinions and positions taken American Hospital Association said Monday. by administration leaders tried to play down the candidates for the high court. That simpleprecaution would do mor� to stop the spread importance of political ideology in selecting a Reagan discussed potential candidata of AIDS than universal testing of workers, patients or ' successor to retiring Justice Lewis F. Powell. Attorney General Edwin Meese both, said Carol McCarthy, association president. ill, One senior administration official said he staff Howard baker and presidential co McCarthy said the group recognized the recom "would just be shocked " if the nominee weren't B. Culvahouse. Afterward, Meese mendation would increase operating costs, bfit. noted that Robert H. Bork, a strongly conservative federal White House without commenting tore ''hospital workers are understandably concerned about appeals court judge here. People widely mentioned as likely c their vulnerability." The 30-minute meeting in the Oval Office include Bork, Republican Sen. Orrin She said there are nine known· cases of AIDS being G. ended without any announcement of a nominee. of Utah and two other appeals transmitted to �ospital workers. court· . White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Robert A Posner of Chicago and J. a decision was not expected Monday but could Wallace of San Diego. Chun oppositiort seeks election come quickly. "I would just be shocked if it wasn't SEOUL, South Korea(AP)-President Chun Doo-hwan's "This is the kind of thing where opinion can said one senior official. chosen successor made a surprise demand Monday that coalesce behind a candidate, and the president "The last time it was (Justice Antonin) Chun adopt major democratic reforms, and the opposition says, 'This is the person I want and then-do it.' and Bork that went into the president immediately called for a direct presidential election by That can occur very fast, " Fitzwater said.