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Athletic .director search may j high of·4 .6. in.elude local candidate$~ Friday, November 5, 1993ill .~ Prograni eliniination possible By DAN DAHILL with low student enrollment. ence in botany and the master's of Staff writer "It's not in our economic interest to science in technology. • The Illinois Board of keep a program with low enrollment The IBHE meeting will be at 9 The Illinois Board of Higher if eliminating it will lower tuition a.m. Tuesday at the Chicago Mariott Education will discuss eliminating Higher Education costs," Hodel said. Downtown, 540 N. Michigan Ave. A several low-enrollment programs at warns colleges about Eastern's master's of business meeting of the IBHE Committee to state universities at its meeting administration is one of the pro Study Affordability will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday in Chicago. sports funding. See grams the IBHE will recommend for Monday. The recommended elimination of elimination. The program has an The IBHE can only recommend these programs comes from the story Page 7B. enrollment of about 37. programs for elimination. The Board IBHE's Priorities, Quality and The IBHE will again recommend of Governors makes the final decision Productivity Initiative. said the board's primary focus will be that Eastern eliminate six bachelor's on whether to retain, consolidate or The PQP Initiative, started by the discussing how to lower costs and of-arts or master's-of-arts programs, eliminate the programs. IBHE in October 1991, is a program keep spending at a minimum for all Hodel said. The programs suggested The master's of business adminis geared at cutting wasteful spending Illinois public institutions. for elimination include the bachelor's tration, bachelor's of arts in technolo at the 12 state universities the IBHE Hodel said the only way to cut of arts in German, the bachelor's of gy education and the bachelor's of governs by eliminating programs spending at Eastern would be to arts in technology education, the science in Afro-American studies are with low enrollment. eliminate a number of bachelor's-of bachelor's of science in Afro Ross Hodel, IBHE deputy director, arts and master's of science programs American studies, the master's of sci- • Continued on Page 2 Concert highlights Parents Weekend By BRIAN HUCHEL Staff writer Numerous activities for students and par ents make up a three-day schedule for Eastern's Parents Weekend, which will be high lighted by two performances by comedian Bill Cosby. Cosby, in his third Parents· Weekend perfor EAN ESKRA/Assoc. Photo editor mance at Eastern, will perform two shows Explanations Saturday, one at 6:30 p.m. and another at 9:30 Charleston Mayor Dan CougUl, Eastern President David Jorns and Campus Police ChiefTom Larson ~m. answer questions and address concerns about Charleston's liquor codes an openforum Thursday David Milberg, director of student activities, at night in Taylor Hall lobby. See story Page 3. said more than 4,300 people ~are expected to attend the two sold-out shows:·:, Kevin Lipke, University .Board president, said it is hard to tell what to expect from Student could face federal Cosby's performance. "Everybody knows Cosby and the different types of comedy he is known to perform," Lipke felony charges for mail theft said. "All I can say for certain is for parents and students to expect a heart-felt, exciting, By ANDY PURCELL an assistant district attorney case will be tried until the laugh-until-you-cry performance." Campus editor with the U.S. district court in investigation yields more infor .Cosby has worked on a variety of projects in Danville. mation. his years as a comedian. Two of his more well An Eastern student arrested Under federal law, a person The case · is also being known projects were the programs, "The Cosby in connection with mail theft in convicted of theft of U.S. mail · referred to Eastern's Office of Show" and "A Different World." Cosby also sup Greek Court could face federal could receive a maximum sen Judicial Affairs. plied the voices for the cartoon series "Fat felony charges, a district attor tence of up to five years in Under Illinois law, if authori Albert." ney said Thursday. prison, a maximum fine of ties find the alleged theft Another popular activity for parents and stu Campus police arrested $150,000 or both, Beaumont involved less than $300, it dents alike is the annual Parents Weekend Martin J. Vagena, a senior from said. would be considered a Class A football game. The 2-5-1 Panther team is com Richton Park who had worked U.S. postal inspectors have misdemeanor, punishable by up ing off a win against Southwest Missouri State as a mail carrier for Greek been contacted and said they to a year in prison. If it University and will take on Northwestern Court, on charges of theft in will pursue local prosecution, involved more than $300, it Louisiana State University, which is 4-4. connection with mail, sent to Campus Police Chief Tom would be considered a Class 3 The game will begin at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the housing complex, that was Larson said Wednesday. felony, punishable by up to two O'Brien Stadium. apparently stolen. Because the investigation by to five years. In addition to these activities, several meals Vagena is free after posting campus police and the The first reports of theft are also open to students and parents. $100 bail. Charleston Post Office is contin came on Oct. 4. Police arrested A candlelight dinner buffet will be held from Because the alleged theft uing, authorities do not know Vagena after a month-long 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday in the Grand involved U.S. mail, charges the amount of mail that was investigation. Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. could be filed at the federal allegedly stolen or its value. Larson said police have been University Union. The menu offers a choice of level. Officials with the Coles receiving more reports from "Theft of U.S. mail is a feder County State's Attorney's Office + Continued on Page 2 • Continued on Page 2 al felony," said Larry Beaumont, said they won't know where the Friday, November 5, 1993 The Dall7 ED.8te:rn 1Wew11 . FROM PAGE ONE Program •From Page 1 1984 requiring public institutions to pay employees one-half of their unused accumu currently under "intensive review" by the lated sick days upon retirement or termina Board of Governors. The review status tion. allows a department one year to prove a tar Hodel said Eastern paid out $428,000 in geted program should not be eliminated. unused sick days in fiscal year 1993. He "Eastern focuses on undergraduate educa cited one Eastern faculty member who accu tion," Hodel said. "A number of the programs mulated 76 sick days for which he was paid ------------------------·I are no longer educationally and economical $21,029 after retiring from 24 years of ser We I ly justified." vice. DELIVER I Hodel said another item slated for discus Hodel said sick leave expenditures need "~ ~ ...-~~~~~~~~--. sion Monday is a report on sick leave and to be revised. The board will propose dock CHlllA 88 Friday & Saturday Night I vacation payouts for university employees. ing unused sick days faculty members have DINNERl tS I The state Legislature passed a law in accrued over a designated period of time. BUFFET 6 I Open Saturday I Concert for lunch for I Parents Weekend! I •From Page 1 by Eastern's Parents Club Few Good Men" will be shown from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Charleston/Mattoon roast beef, chicken breast or Parents can have a video Room of the Union. Admis glazed ham as the main button made of their visit to sion to the movie is $1. course. Eastem's campus. All parking lots will be Also on the Parents The buttons will be made open to guests for parking Weekend menu at the Union in the Union at different after 5 p.m. Friday. Visitors is a deli-box lunch from 11 times throughout the week will not be allowed to park in a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday end. handicapped parking spaces and a Sunday brunch offered On Friday, the movie "A or in fire lanes. •From Page 1 As a result of the theft reports, mail clerks in Greek Court are now working in Serving Charleston &.. Eastern Illinois University 426 W. Lincoln Greek Court residents who think their mail pairs to ensure that mail is distributed may have been stolen and that more properly. Mail boxes are being reinforced to IF~u;1.4:-.-;..-;;aFi\Mii" 8PociAL, arrests could follow as the investigation prevent individuals from reaching into mail progresses. boxes other than their own and the locks to "Let's say, for example, that we tie 15 the mail room that services the complex cases (of mail theft) to him (Vagena), and have been changed, said Lou Hencken, vice we find out we have 60 cases, well then, we president for student affairs.