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The board is in the process of is forcing the initiative on them, Barbara Hill, Eastern's vice formulating budgets for 12 uni­ Hodel said. president for academic affairs, he Illinois Board of Higher versities and 40 community col­ The PQP Initiative is a contro­ told the Faculty Senate at cation might reward universi­ leges in the IBHE system and will versial IBHE proposal that sug­ Tuesday's meeting she had that it judges are complying submit a systemwide funding gests universities cut programs learned during IBHE budget By CHRISTOPHER KAGAN reallocations outlined in the request to the General Assembly with small enrollments and redi­ negotiations that fellow BOG Staff writer rities, Quality and Product­ this spring. rect the savings into stronger pro­ schools Western Illinois Initiative, said an IBHE offi- Whether the board goes grams. University and Chicago State It's time for some Eastern through with its plans for bonuses Hodel said the board has devel­ University were being considered students to say goodbye as oss Hodel, IBHE deputy will not be known until the IBHE oped specific criteria for deter­ for bonuses, mainly because of more than 950 graduates will ctor, said the board is consid­ announces its budget recommen­ mining which schools are com­ budget reallocations they had participate in the fall com­ g several reward options, dations in early January. plying with the PQP process. made. mencement ceremony at 2 uding a $400,000 PQP bonus However, such a reward plan Because the budget process is still Eastern has made a $2 million p.m. Sunday in Lantz Gym- nasium. would be added to an eligible might further anger critics of the underway, he declined comment Continued on page 2 + Graduates should report for the graduation rehearsal y snowfall creates hazardous conditions on Friday at 2 p.m. in the Lantz Gym indoor track. Also, students are expected to report for line-up at 1 p.m. Sunday in the indoor field­ mixture of freezing rain, sleet house. snow accompanying a mild Because of limited seating, ter storm over Charleston each graduate will receive six nesday threatened motorists tickets for family members icy road conditions, but the and guests. Tickets can be pery conditions are expected obtained at the Commence­ short-lived. ment Office and any un­ bout an inch-and-a-half of claimed tickets will be dis­ w had fallen by about 8 p.m. pensed on a first-come, flrst­ dnesday, giving Central serve basis, in the fieldhouse ois its first hint of true winter at 10 a.m. Sunday. th er. The marching order will owever, forecasts call for con­ be: Graduate School; College ons to moderate through the of Applied Sciences; School · der of the week and return of Adult and Continuing e 30 and 40-degree ranges. Education; Lumpkin College tate police were advising of Business; College of Edu­ orists Wednesday not to travel cation; College of Fine Arts; ssible. College of Health, Physical e've had several problems Education and Recreation dy this evening as a result of and College of Liberal Arts weather," said Sgt. Jack and Sciences. orne of the Illinois State Eastern President David L. ce. "The roads are very icy, Jorns will give the charge that's caused numerous acci­ and confer degrees on the s on the state highways so graduates. The commencement speak­ sborne, whose department ers will include Board of located in Pesotum, 14 miles Governors Universities Tr­ ide of Champaign, said the ustee Mack Hollowell, e kept busy Wednesday night Student Body President Brian stigating several weather­ Riordan and Alumni Assoc­ accidents. iation President Lyndon Most of the vehicles have ~- "I ™ Wharton. slide off the road or bounc- KEVIN KILHOFFER/Assoc. photo editor Financial Aid office civil service worker, Mary Jo DeRousse (left) received help scraping ice off the back Maurice Sheperd, faculty to the medians," Osborne marshall of the graduation "However, we haven't had window of her car Wednesday in front of the Fine Arts building. DeRousse is assisted by Martin Luther King Jr. University Union secretary, Paula Embry. ceremonies added his com­ y injured yet. We're advis­ ments on the upcoming ople to stay home and not dents relating to weather since 4 Wednesday evening. temperatures to get warmer as the event. Sheperd, who graduat­ e unless absolutely neces- o'clock," said Sgt. Edmund Park- "The snow will probably melt week wears on. ed from Eastern in 1960 will er Wednesday night. "The only when the temperatures warm up "The temperatures will reach be retiring as associate pro­ spite the high number of advice I have for motorists is not later in the week," Wise said. into the high 30s and low 40s later fessor of chemistry and stu­ ents reported to the state to speed." "But we'll likely see the snow in the week," Wise said. "That dent teaching. , the Coles County Sheriff's Richard Wise, an assistant pro- stay as the Wednesday night tem­ will cause the snow to melt. "I'm looking forward to ent received only a hand­ fessor of geology/geography, said peratures drop down into the mid­ However, there's a good chance the graduation as faculty s. Charleston would probably re- 20s." we might see another snow storm marshall," Sheperd said. e haven't handled any acci- ceive a two to three-inch snowfall Wise said he is expecting the around Sunday." .S. forces given a warm welcome by Somalis ADISHU, Somalia (AP) - A U.S. the crippled city's airport. ized Mogadishu apparently had melted secured the airport and seaport, gateways ne landing force, on a mission of The Marines and Navy commandos, away into the city's ruins or into the coun­ for the planned effort to re-establish a food to a starving land, quickly took con­ sweeping in before dawn by sea and air, tryside. pipeline to the hundreds of thousands oday of key points in Mogadishu, met no reported resistance. But word of new unrest came from the threatened by famine in this war-torn the streets were suddenly free of the Instead, thousands of Somalis, some in southern Somali port of Kismayo, where a nation. of mobile gangs. rags, flocked to the shoreline to gaze in night of looting and shooting forced the Other nations will help, and about 80 t hours after the Marines hit the awe at a superpower's might - and to shake U.N. World Food Program to evacuate 13 French soldiers arrived today and began s, giant Air Force transports and a its helping hand. foreign aid workers by air. deploying around a crossroads that is one relief flight were touching down at The youthful gunmen who long terror- In Mogadishu, the Marines swiftly • Continued on page 2 2 Thursday, December 10, 1992 The Dally Eastern Ne FROM PAGE ONE PQP • Continuedfrompage 1 had mentioned they are considering PQP bonuses. early retirement plans for faculty affected, or to pay ft However, he could not release details on the school's tenta­ them to go get a different degree and to pay for restruc reallocation, but doesn't qualify because the money was tive budget. ing." used to fund salary increases, she said. Chicago State officials could not be reached for com­ The Board of Governors, Eastern's governing body, Eastern President David Jorns said the IBHE does not ment. already made its budget 1994 recommendations to allow Eastern to release budget details. The IBHE came up with the idea of a bonus as a way of IBHE and can't release any information until the bo "The IBHE budget has not been disclosed, and they will rewarding schools that are making significant steps in the releases its budget. notify us when it is, but at this point we don't anticipate PQP process, Hodel said. "Generally speaking, the chancellor (Thomas Layzell receiving a bonus," Jorns said. "It's to provide incentives to institutions to further has repeatedly supported a concept of rewarding the uni Mike Glowaki, Western Illinois University's acting vice implement the Priorities, Quality and Productivity versities for showing progress," said BOG spokeswo president for administrative affairs, said IBHE officials Initiative," Hodel said. "Those schools are going to draft Michelle Brazell. Troops • Continuedfrompage 2 arriving in the coming days, also moved the airport by the thousands to watch the "They are friendly, yes, definitely frien of the main routes to northern Somalia. out from the airport and set up three troops descend from their monstrous ly." Under U.N. sponsorship, the checkpoints on the road into the city. amphibious vehicles and deafening air­ The opening moves of Operatio American-led foreign troops will guard Ordinary Somalis greeted the friendly craft. Restore Hope appeared to go off lik aid deliveries that have been hostage to invaders, crowding rooftops and hillsides Residents swarmed across the runway, clockwork. More pictures were take thousands of armed extortionist, some to watch the helicopters, hovercraft and and the soldiers responded by pushing than prisoners.