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Eastern Illinois University The Keep April 1993 4-9-1993 Daily Eastern News: April 09, 1993 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1993_apr Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: April 09, 1993" (1993). April. 7. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1993_apr/7 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1993 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in April by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. astern gets its budget trimmed alOHNFERAK ing maintenance." fiscal year. In this fiscal year, Eastern bas an Joms said the $500,000-plus the universi lllnlslratic:>n editor Joms was referring to Gov. Edgar's operating budget of $52.6 million. The ty will receive from an increase in its fund February announcement that he would Board of Governors, the state governing ing will be devoted to the university's Illinois Board of Higher Education's request $11.3 million for the renovation of board that oversees Eastern and four other Priorities Quality and Productivity Initi st for a 2. 7 percent increase in Buzzard Building. lf approved by the state universities, requested $55.5 million atives and library equipment. •s operating budget will be trimmed Legislature, the money would be used for for Eastern. Eastern is involved in a $1.6 million real Dnly a l. I percent hike if the state renovating the building inside and outside, After IBHE Chancellor Arthur Quern location process that was recommended by eral Assembly approves Gov. Jim remodeling classrooms, adding central heat received the request, the amount was sliced the Council on University Planning and •s recommendations for funding high ing and air-conditioning, replacing the roof to $54 million - which still left Eastern Budget. The council proposed restructuring ecb:alion. and putting in new windows. Renovation to with a request increase of 2.7 percent from by means of consolidating the university's "Nobody at the university expected to get Buzzard Building would include the con last year's budget. six-college system would save about money requested from the IBHE," struction of a 14,000 square foot addition. However, Edgar recently announced his $300,000. President David Joms said. "The Edgar's recommendations, if approved, recommendations for allocating Eastern Of the proposed $1.6 million reallocation, thing about the budget recornmenda would give Eastern about $559,000 more in $53. I million. only a 1.1 percent rise in its Joms said about $ 1.2 million would be used is tbal we are getting money for build- revenues than it received during the 1993 budget for the 1994 fiscal year. for raises in faculty salaries. Candidate's bid ends abruptly By ANDY PURCELL Staff writer One student's candidacy for a seat on next fall's Student Senate ended almost as quickly as it began. Andrew Gardner, a sophomore social science major at Lakeland College in Mattoon, will be trans ferring to Eastern in the fall. Gardner had planned on running as an independent candidate in the April 21 Student Government elec tion. But it now appears Gardner, who is from Effingham, is ineligible to run because he is not currently enrolled at Eastern. According to Section 2. Article 2 of Eastern 's Student Govenunent constitution, "Candidates tnust be enrolled in the university during the semester they seek office." The constitution also states all students wishing to run for a seat on the senate must petition to be placed on the ballot. Petitions are available in the Student Govern ment office or the Student Act ivities Center of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union and be signed by 25 students enrolled at Eastern. 1'We wait until everyone's turned in their petitions, then they are checked for eligibility by Joan Gossett, director of the Union," said must present their valid Eastern Amy Jobin, executive vice presi Illinois University identification dent of the senate. card and sign a grade release form." "If I was going to run (in the sen KEVIN KlLHOFFER/Photo editor "As far as how he got one (a ate election), I would definitely left) Kristin Kah/es, a sophomore speech communication major, Kristin Nielsen, a junior elementary petition), I really don't know," said check if I was eligible before I actu ion major. and Kevin Lipke, a junior elementary education major, relax under the tent in front of Old Kevin Lipke, University Board ally got a petition," Jobin added. Th1usday afternoon for the "Sleep Out for the Homeless" event. Clothing and food donations from the Chairman and spokesman for the According to the constitution, ·ect. sponsored by Eastern's Panhellenic and lntrafraternity councils, go to The Depot food pantry in • Continued on page 2A leston. "All persons requesting petitions hree-college plan may fall short of goal JOHN FERAK Weidner, associate vice president for academ- Weidner said the committee feared more Applied Sciences, Education and Recreation, tion editor ic affairs and adviser to the committee, and money would have to be spent on hiring and Arts and Sciences. spokesman Andrew Methven, assistant pro- administrators to manage the many divisions "I didn't know the committee had studied ~three-college model proposals submit fessor of botany, both said a three-college and departments in the proposed model. my model," Yaffe said Wednesday. "With my to the restructuring committee probably model called Plan Y was examined closely 'That model would have a lot of division three-college model, I thought that by having not save the amount needed to reach by the restructuring committee. in its administration," Weidner said. divisions, the identities of the departments committee's goal of at least $300,000, Weidner added the committee believed it Psychology professor Fred Yaffe con- could be maintained." its spokesman Thursday. would have only saved around $186,00 - a finned he had submitted Plan Y's three-col- "(Yaffe's) proposals should have gone into With much attention given to the financial far cry below the goal of $300,000. lege system with colleges of Business and · gs of college consolidation, Terry "' Continued on page 2A 2A Friday, April 9, 1993 The Dally Eastern News RISING COLLEGE COSTS GETTING FROM PAGE ONE YOU DOWN? ARE YOU IN NEED OF ADDITIONAL: Candidate • Scholarships • FrompaRe IA However. Gardner said he made Pages 18 to 22 of the constitu •Grants inquires into his eligibility but no tion deaJ with campaigning. voting, Chainnan and spokesman for the one told him of a possible problem. ballot counting and election rules. •Financial Aid Student Activities Center. "It's pos "I dido 't want to start a cam They make no mention of election LET OUR SCHOLARSHIP-MATCHING SERVICE HELP sible he could have had a student paign and then find out that I'm not eligibility, which is on page 15 of with a valid ID get one (a petition) eligible," Gardner said. "I asked the the complete version of the consti * 100°/o MONEY BACK GUARANTEE for him, other than that. I really people in the office about my eligi tution. *NO GPA OR AGE REQUIREMENT don't know." bility when I picked up my applica Gardner said he will continue to For FREE Information Send Gardner said Thursday he had tion and again when I turned it in. campaign until he is officially noti Your Name, Address, and Phone No. To not yet been told by Student They said they didn't seem to think fied of his eligibility to run in the R.C. Enterprises Government of his ineligibility. there was a problem with it," he spring election. "He (Gardner) will be notified said "I'm still under the assumption P.O. Box 26615 e Wauwatosa, WI 53226 that he is ineligible to run (in the Although Section 2, Article 4 of that I am eligible and will continue election) within the next couple of the constitution states that "all peti under that assumption until they Eil) I Eil) days," said Brett Gerber. co-chair tions given (to prospection candi tell me otherwise." man of the elections committee for dates) shall be accompanied by If he is. in fact. ineligible to run the student senate. copies of the Student Government in this spring's election. Gardner "Because of the nature of his constitution, Student Senate said his involvement with Eastern 's problem, if he'd like to talk to us in bylaws, and grade release forms," Student Govemmenr is not over. person, we'd be happy to talk with Gardner said he received the grade ''If I am ineligible to run in this him and let him know how he can release forms and only live pages election. I'll most definitely run in get involved once he is here next (pages 18 to 22) of the 22-page the next one," Gardner said. 'TU be semester," Gerber said. constitution. back." Three-college ., From page I A "I conceived that one dean could handle that work load," Yaffe said. "You certainly don't need an associ more detail as far as how much savings could have ate dean for each of the divisions in my proposal, that's been achieved by it," Methven said. "Two deans what I thought a division chair is for. I don't even know expressed concerns that they'd have a problem running why the committee would even come up with that." such large colleges with a three-college format Yaffe 's model has each college broken down into Yaffe said he never conducted a detailed study of different divisions, much like baseball divisions.