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Eastern Illinois University The Keep March 1981 3-6-1981 Daily Eastern News: March 06, 1981 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1981_mar Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: March 06, 1981" (1981). March. 5. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1981_mar/5 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1981 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]. The Daily , Friday, March 6, 1 981 Partly sunny Friday, highs upper 30s. Partly cloudy Friday night; lows in the low 20s. Partly sunny Saturday, highs around 40. EastEastern Illinoiser University I Charleston,n Illinois·News I Vol. 66, No. 115 /Two Sections, 20 Pages Over half denied 80-81 ISSC a-id by Linda Charnesky More than half of about 640 Eastern students wlio have applied thus far for funds from the Illinois State Scholarship Comm_ission for the 1981 -82 New grants school year have already been informed that they will not get an award, John Flynn, associate financial aid director, said Thursday. Most of the 640 students who have been told they will not get an award not allotted are incoming freshmen who have not had ISSC awards before, but Flynn said students who have attended Eastern previously have received none or for Eastern much lower awards than in previous years. by Linda Charnesky _ · Flynn said some students have come to him questioning the reason for Eastern students will not receive a their reduced award. portion of the $508,000 that Gov. ''The hardest part is explaining to these kids why they are not getting as James Thompson recently approved in much money," Flynn said. "Many of them are not aware of the 25 percent supplemental requests for the Illinois parental contribution and student self-help increases." State SchQlarship Commission to fund The ISSC voted last November to raise the amount of student self-. grants promised to 750 students during help-the amount of ,money students must contribute to their education · the 1980-81 school year. through work or loans-from $950 to $1,200. About 2,000 ISSC awards were give.n out to Eastern students last year John Flynn, associate· financial aid and Flynn said he expects only about 1,500students to receive ISSC for the director, said Thursday that no Eastern 1981-82 school term. students will receive part of the Flynn said that because of the 25 percent increase in parental contribution $508,000 because Eastern's billing was . submitted to the ISSC -before the that has already been implemented for next year, and a contingency plan _ that may be put into effect next·year, awards were expected to be much deadline of Sept. 1. lower this year than last year. After the ISSC sends the Financial The contingency plan, if implemented by the ISSC, will affect students· Aid Office a list of Eastern st_udents , with an unmet financial need of $400. The unmet need is determined after ' applying for ISSC for the upcoming the ISSC takes into consideration students' additional financial resources year, the Financial Aid Office sends and subtracts the total from the cost of education at the school. the ISSC a verification of the fees that If the contingency plan is implemented by the ISSC, Flynn said the cail be deferred because of their ISSC number of students receiving ISSC at Eastern could drop as low as 1,100. awards� Flynn said. Flynn said the ISSC will not know whether it will adopt the contingency plan until July, when the Illinois General Assembly makes a decision as to "We submitted all of our billing � what the 1981-82 ISSC budget will be. befor the deadline-so we had no money left to receive, he said. The · ISSC submitted a recommendation of $97 million to the Illinois f Board of Higher Education and the IBHE has also submitted a "We (Eastern) are one of the first o •• i1f ,......,.. "' recommendation of $97 million to the Illinois General Assembly. the larger ·schools, counting community colleges, to get oµr billing t111 d in 1 i Senate size cut propose · ::::�1� ::�: :�ll receive part of the · $5 8, are tho e that did not get b Patty O'Neill . election tend to be r � I y bette _ fa an effort to "make the Senators," Mueller said. their� billmg� ii:� n time, J'.'lynnadded. · efficient and The al cut the b The origrnal request f r I Student Senate more actu in num er of . � -·-· to develop competition among Senators will not hurt committees, supplement�! funds br · the Ill�no�s senators," Senators Bill Mueller because the Senate will encourage Board of Higher Education and l h?o1s General As mbly was $5.3 mtlh� on, and Mike Nowak have proposed a losers to still become. involved in �� bylaw change which would cut the student government by working on plus the additional $508,000. 1 I · committees, I Senate from 30 members to 20 Mueller said. The $5.3 million cut by Thompson There I members · are seven committees on Feb. 18 would have gone to some Mueller said that with fewer the Senate which any interested 12,000 Illinois students who applied venson Tower residents count down positions available, better people student can work on. for ISSC after Aug. 28, when the ISSC days until they .can leave for their long willing to work harder would be The proposal also stipulates that stopped processing applications ed spring break adventures. (News elected. - all senators and executive officers because they ran out of funds. by Marcia Steele) "People who put more into an (See SENATE, page 7) ewhouse severs tie with Moon ie I ifestyle n the final part of a four-part series looking at a see more ' Inside the Unification Church: Kay said as an observer she was able to er Eastern student's involvement with the clearly how Moonies "rationalize" their involvement ication Church, Kay Newhouse's outlook on the with the organization. ization and her life now is examined.) A former Moon ie reflects She added, however, that the research she has done TlmSchmidt so far "is not in the Moonies favor." On .- - y Newhouse fulfilled her promise to the her inVOIVement Her six month neutral period ended on Feb. 28 and ogrammers to research" the Unification Church now, " for all practical purposes I am starting a new thoroughly and remain in a neutral position, . She explaiQed to them that the deprogramming life," she said. · steps which gave her a new outlook on her "didn't stick.'' She said she has a "low-keyed job" to help get her 'ence as a Moonie. "I still agree with a lot of your poin�s, but I do not "back on'her feet." y had returned to Charleston during the third intend to be actively involved," she said. Kay said the experience with the Moonies has k of September following her deprogramming, She said the Moonies misunderstood that to nl.ean changed her attitude toward her parents somewhat. a few weeks later she went back to Ohio to stay she was a "closet Moonie, ".,-that she would "There is a -certain amount of resentment (toward Jon and four others in a co-op. continue working for the organization in secret. them). I don't think it (the ·deprogramming) should on had gone back . to Ohio after the . After the visit, Kay's ties with the Moo�ies were have been done to begin with. ogramming session, but called Kay every night. severed. "I don't hate them , but I am understanding them . 'He was the only one I could really talk to," Kay "I have no plans to go back to CARP, but also better," she added. "Jon always kept ,me on an emotionally-even have no plans to join deprogrammers. I am basically The experience has changed her family's view of " pretty neutral," she said. her:too. fter settling back in Ohio, Kay said she knew she Kay added, "The doctrine (of the church) still Kay's mother said she definitely feels she "has her have to face the members of the Collegiate matches my internal attitudes, but I experienced it daughter back again. "ation for the Research of Principles Center first instead of researching it first." "We've got the old Kay back-and grown up, RP), and a couple of months after her return, ·Her promise to do research following her more mature," she.said. .visited tliecenter. deprogramming resulted in her attending the But Kay said she has few regrets about joining the The Moonies at the center w.ere aware she had gone deprogramming of another Moonie, "strictly as an Unification Church. ough deprogramming. observer;" she said. "CARP is the best thing that happened to me. The e received a warm greeting from the group, she There were "a lot of things I observed in this one very essence of it makes you take a close look at your that I didn't see · n mine,'' Kay said =-����� �� �����������- _ _ _ _ �_ _ _ 1_ _� _ � ___ � _ _ _ _ ·���������� (S- ee�NE�:: W��HO� USE, page 7) _ _ ��......:� 2 March 6, 1981 The Dally Eastern News Friday retirement Afghans stop rural battle Cronkite's Friday's marks start of ratings war to expel Russian invaders NEW YORK-Walter Cronkite leaves CBS' {AP) News shorts NEW DELHI, India-Afghan rebels, crippled b "Evening News" after Friday night's broadcast, with shortages of weapons and food, have large) abandoned a 14-month fight to oust Soviet troop the rival networks eagerly awaiting a tug-of-war for Poles warn against strikes viewers no longer bound by loyalty to the anchorman from the countryside and are concentrating instea recognized as one of the most trusted men in after Kremlin declaration on the major cities, a reliable source in Kab American.