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Eastern Illinois University The Keep February 1984 2-9-1984 Daily Eastern News: February 09, 1984 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1984_feb Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: February 09, 1984" (1984). February. 7. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1984_feb/7 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1984 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in February by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Dally . Thursday, February 9, 1984 will be partly sunny and warmer with highs in the mid to upper 40's. Cloudy and warmer tonight with a 50 percent chance of rain or snow. asternEastern Illinois University I Charleston, Ill. 61 920 I Vol. 69, No.News 99 /Two Sections, 24 Pages Hunt retains financial post w ,., by Scotti tRhyneh 384 votes Jeff Hunt was retained as student government financial vice president after Wednesday's special election, as he garnered close to 50 percent of the vote. Hunt, a senior who had been serving as the interim financial vice president, received 384 votes in the election. Senator Audrey Berman, election co-chairman, said graduate student Jack- Kelly received 197 votes and junior Ken Sj orslev received 173 votes. Hunt said, "I know that the other two candidates campaigned really hard and I felt that they were both good candidates. However, I am extremely happy with the results. · "My primary goals for the present are to get the budgets out early. Also, I plan to keep justification of the reserve account so it does not get too high or e Speaker Ron Wesel (Left) and Missy Bell tained Financial Vice President Jeff Hunt (Right) too low.. The projected enrollments will be able to print outs of students in the Old Ballroom in hands out campaign literature outside the union help me on that. I dori't plan to make any maj or ial election for Financial Vice President. Re- Wednesday. (News photos By Jeff Scott) changes-I just hope to keep things running smoothly,'' he added. Senate Speaker Ron Wesel said he was happy with · registration card the results of the election. w successfu/ President John Cole also expressed a favorable · Zurawski lack of time before the semester begins and when response to Hunt's election . of the 8,400 Eastern students that pre-enrolled students arrive on campus.'' "Having been the one who appointed Jeff, I have 1_984 spring semester, 809 employed the new Dave Sardella, assistant director of registration , a lot of confidence in him. I see that many groups are alternate course card, a registration official said after re-evaluating the card next spring, officials asking for incre�ses in their budgets. The key factor ednesday. should have some information which will help decide will be for Jeff to be able to negotiate these budgets tor of Registration Mike Taylor added that of whether to keep the cards. with the groups," Cole said. students who used the new cards, 673 Taylor said, "Our main goal is to do what is best Berman said that she was very pleased with the . s received courses they requested . for students. If that means continuing _ to use the results of the election. "We had a turnout of 775 special alternate request cards were provided special alternate card during the spring semesters, students. Compared to last semester's student first time during spring pre-registration then I'm not against it." government election, the turnout was really good. I up" to those students closed out of courses He added that the evaluation will determine if the feel things ran really smooth," she added . d pre-registered for who also had not received. students are benefiting from them and if the card will However, Dede Haut, election co-chairman said, 'mary or secondary alternate course requests. be employed permanently. "I was somewhat disappointed; I felt voter turnout dition, he noted that the special alternate In an attempt to ensure that more students use the could have been better." will be used again during the 1985 spring alternate course listings when they pre-register, Although no election violations were filed with the r, but not during the 1984 summer-and fall Taylor said, "We (the registration office) are going election committee Wednesday, Haut said, "Anyone rs. to promote the cards as much as possible." wishing to file a complaint may do so at the Student on't be used during summer because students However, Tayfor said pre-registration "wrap-up is Government office up until one week after the elec ve anytr ouble getting the classes they need,'' not the time for students to make alternate re tion." . "It won't be used du�ing fall because of the quests." ion co.ntracts allow men to clean girls' bathrooms "I think it's ridiculous that I am "We have to get away from men's Granville Justice, building service 1rmative Action regulations and paying so much money to go to school work and women's work and A work foreman of housing, added that contracts prevent "sweeping and I'm not able to use the bathroom and B work," he said. building service Workers look at a s" which would prohibit male when I need to," she added. Building service workers have a con building's layout, the type of tile, the from cleaning females' Russell said the Lincoln Hall janitor tract that allows workers with the most carpet and even the number of shower ms in residence halls, Eastern's cleans the bathroom between 7:30 a.m. seniority to bid for the building where stalls when bidding for job locations. director said Wednesday. and 8:30 a.m., when many residents they wish to work, Sawtelle noted. "Even the director or the type of ing Director Lou Hencken said are getting ready for early morning Workers generally choose the students could be a consideration," he 's long-standing policy allow classes. building they want to work in on the said. to clean females' bathrooms "I pay too much money to go to basis of such factors as the age of the However, Justice said building ser ult of a bidding policy which school and take classes man building and the -.york involved in to have a · vice workers post the hours when they janitors to choose the building cause me to be late,'' she added. keeping it clean, he added. clean bathrooms and "try to schedule they will work. However, Hencken said many "They are not looking at whether it so students can clean up and go to e union· has specific rules and we residents are "overlooking the other males or females live in the building," class. follow them," Hencken said. problems" involved when janitors are he said. ''All they look at is the square "Personally, there could be times have to respect the wishes of the assigned to various buildings. feet they have to clean and the type of when there are problems, but with who work for us just like we "If all of a sudden we try to change buildng it is." (seeUNION, page7) o respect the wishes of the people the way ·things have been for years, e in the residence halls.'' we'll have problems," he said. "If we practice of allowing janitors. to went to a policy were we'd only have bathrooms of the opposite sex male janitors in mens' dorms, I think lnSlde estioned by sophomore Bobbi we'd be breaking the law. Going places? Prep draft ll in a letter to the editor in "The unions are more powerful than · See this year's edition of the spr-. Eastern's football program, cur y's edition of we are," he added. · The Daily Eastern ing travel guide for information con· rently trying to replace 23 players, Ed Sawtelle, Eastern's personnel cerning group trips, travelers Wednesday signed 10 high school ll, a Lincoln Hall resident, said director, agreed that Affirmative Ac checks and the craze in Daytona. recruits and two junior college te the letter because she is "sick tion regulations. and union contracts See second section recruits to national letters of intent. to the bathroom and not being prohibit the university from Seepage12 to Co because there is a male designating job assignments on the "· ia there. basis of sex. 1 Thursday, February 9, t 984 The DaU U.S. ship blasts rebel positions BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)-The giant guns of guns-the biggest afloat-at 1 :25 �.m. a the battleship New Jersey pounded the rebel-held tillery shells began raining down on Ch hills beyond Beirut all day Wednesday in a east Beirut and arou1'd suburban Yarze, thundering barrage that brought the United U.S. ambassador's residence and Ge States in firmly on the government side in presidential palace. Lebanon's civil war. Reagan said the U.S. Navy would On Beirut's southern edge, meanwhile, 1,400 "naval gunfire and air support against an U.S. Marines waited for orders sending them fi ring into greater Beirut from parts of L e Desegregation decision upheld back to their ships offshore und r President controlled by Syria." He said such att Reagan's announcement Tuesday that they would "no longer have sanctuary from wh· ST. LOUIS-A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld would be withdrawn from their perilous position bombard Beirut at will.'.' the nation's most comprehensive voluntary metropolitan in the coming weeks. Until now, U.S.