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The Farewell I Eastern Beth Spycher, Dally as ern Assitanr Birth of a Womens basketball Eastern lninois University MONDAY coach leaves nation July 6 ,1998 Charleston, Ill. 61920 Vol. 83, No. 159 Eastern Fourth of July weekend 8 pages ~inpictwes e s PAGE PAGES ''Tell the truth and don't be afraid" 8 IBHE discusses goals for education summary of education plan, the goal is to Among proposals provide lllinoisians with the training to keep pace with changing technologies at all levels of education. a goal to make • Extending access to higher education. The IBHE proposes that higher education public universities be more accessible to all people especially for "people previously unserved." more affordable According to the executive summary, lhe goal calls for public universities to offer By MATT ADRIAN more telecommunication classes and Editor-in-Chief service to a wider group of people. • Assuring college is affordable. The goal The lllinois Board of Higher Education proposes a partnership between state and will be meeting Tuesday to consider a federal governments. to provide the proposed "Citizen's Agenda" for individual with more options to paying for education. higher education. According to lhe IBHE. IBHE will be meeting to discuss the student financial aid for grants increased topic at a.m. at Northern Hlinois 9:00 63 percent during lhe last eight years. Unjversity. The IBHE will be discussing a • Enhancing Access and Success for plan with eight strategic goals aimed at member of underepresented groups. The making higher education more affordable goal proposes that universities rake greater while preserving educational standards. steps to recruit minority students. 'These goals. still in a preliminary stage According to the executive summary of development. will help us make higher report, public universities must improve education relevant and responsive to the recruitment of minority students and people of Illinois at a time when all trends faculty. tell us education will become increasingly • Improving quality of education. The goal vital to economic security and equality of proposes that higher education holds life of all citizens." said Keith Sanders. students up to a high standard along with executive director of the IBHE. The IBHE providing the proper tools for reaching will be surveying students, employers, lheir goals. faculty and administrators to help to shape • Enhancing responsiveness to students, lhe goals it has set. MATT ADRIAN/ Staff photographer The goals include: employers, communities and lhe state. The A member of the Bike-n-Hike exhibition jumps over three compatriots during the Fourth • lncreasing lhe educational attainment of goal calls for universities to provide ofJuly parade held in conjunction with Red. White and Blue Days in Charleston Illinois citizens. According to lhe executive See IBHE page 2 Holbrooke returns to meet Milosevic, praises Rugova throughout the day wilh Rugova police crackdown in February. and it was unclear whether Moscow·s refusal to talk directly PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - and representatives of all 16 Holbrooke, nominated to be Holbrooke's latest effort had with the KLA, which Russia and Kosovo's ethnic A lbanian ethnic Albanian political parties. lhe next U.S. ambassador to the narrowed the differences within Serbia have labeled a terrorist politicians Sunday to rally behind Absent from the meetings United Nations. has been shuttling the ethnic Albanian community. organization. moderate leader Ibrahim Rugova, were representatives of the between Kosovo's capital of "Rugova himself is going to Russia sees no reason to insisting he is the best choice to militant Kosovo Liberation Army, Pristina and lhe Yugoslav capital continue to seek a broader base negotiate with those who "kill speak for the province's embattled which is fighting for Kosovo's Belgrade since Friday. He is for his goal, which is a negotiated citizens who are loyal to Serbia," Albanian majority. independence from Serbia, the trying to convince all ethnic peaceful settlement to the Kosovo Afansyevsky said. The goal of Richard Holbrooke and largest of two rema101ng Albanian factions including the problem," Holbrooke said before U.S. and Russian mediation is to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister republics in Yugoslavia. KLA-to accept Rugova's returning to Belgrade on Sunday. help Kosovo's ethnic Albanians Nikolai Afanasyevsky drove that Hundreds of people have been leadership. Afanasyevsky also urged speak with a single voice in message home during talks killed in Kosovo since a Serb The KLA has so far refused, support for Rugova and repeated See KLA page 2 Orangemen launch 'battle of wills' in Northern Ireland PORTADOWN, Northern Ireland (AP) - as we are allowed our legitimate right to lhrew up temporary roadblocks in the north retardant jumpsuits stood by, watching for Northern Ireland's two-century-old walk the road," said Portadown's senior and east of lhe city to signify lheir support any Protestants who might try to breach lhe Protestant fraternity launched a "battle of Orangeman, Harold Gracey. for the Orangemen. Police chief Ronnie barrier and head for the nearby Garvagby wills" Sunday with British security forces Some four hours after the start of the Flanagan insisted, however, lhat he would Road. Anny spotter planes and helicopters who blocked them from parading through standoff. two men broke from the crowd, enforce a decision by a government hovered overhead. Ibis town's main Catholic neighborhood. wiggled through an outer ring of barbed appointed commission barring the Orangemen Such showdowns have plunged At midday, more than 1,000 Portadown wire to cheers from onlookers, and were from marching down the road. where militant Northern Ireland into sectarian chaos the Orangemen and four accordion bands hauled off by riot police. Both were Catholics have converged the past three past two summers. Disagreement over this marched from their annual church service arrested, police said. summers to block the march. year's march has already triggered a round to the base of a 15-foot-high wall of iron, In nearby Portadown, 60 Protestant The four rows of coiled barbed wire that of arson attacks on Catholic churches and barbed wire and cement blocks erected by women and children carrying Ulster engineers built Saturday underscored that halls belonging to the Orange Order, the British army to prevent them from banners marched to British army resolve, turning the pasture flanking Northern Ireland's largest fraternal marching along the predominantly headquarters to protest curbs on the march, Drumcree Anglican church, the focal point organization. Catholic Garvaghy Road. which has taken place every year since of the Orangemen's annual parade, into a While s uch violence cannot unravel "I can assure her majesty's government 1807. no-man's land. April's multiparty peace agreement, it tests we will be staying here until such time In the capital of Belfast. Protestants Riot police in he lmets and flame- Su QRAHr,fMBI page 2 2 Monday, July 6, 1998 The Dally Eastern News TIME retracts nerve gas story SURPRISE 10111 IRIENDI NEW YORK lAP) Time mag- slory and apologize.'' Time quickly as possible and try to set azine has apologized for a slory Managing Editor Walter Isaacson the record straight. And lo say Place a BIRTHDAY AD with a jointly reported with CNN that said in a full-page statement in we're sorry. We are." claimed U.S. commandoes used the June 13 edition. Isaacson said results of an PHOTO AND MESSAGE nerve gas to kill American defec- "When we make mistakes, it's cxaminalion by Time matched tors during the Vietnam War. important to be open and honest those of CNN's earlier reinvesti- The Dally Eastern News "Like CNN, we retract the about them, get all the facts out as gation of the story. {Deadline: 2 Business O.ys Before Ad Is to run) IBH E from page one ...............~ ............... --------- education that is responsive to for remedial education at the col­ cause of poor academic prepara­ student needs and the needs of lege level. tion," states the executive sum­ employers. "The need for remedial courses mary. • Strengthening school-college is a symptom of the need to • Improving productivity of partnerships. The goal calls for ensure better prepared students. Illinois college and universities. increase cooperation between This problem will not be solved The goal calls for universities to higher education and elementary effectively by independent policy continue to plan spending accord­ 2 Pizzas education system. The increases actions at the post secondary ing to quality and productivity r. ;i 11• thin CI\N r!!:AS 1mh • wppmg of your <llo;c c cooperation will lower the need level that cannot address the root priorities. A2 Liter KLA from page one negotiations with Yugoslav undercul Rugova's moderate Rugovo claimed lhat fighting had President Slobodan Milosevic appeal. The Gennan news maga­ flared up again in a strategic min­ A Family Salad over the future of the province. zine Spiegel quoted KLA ing region that saw heavy fight­ Milosevic has expressed will­ spokesman Jakub Krasniqi as ing last week. It was not possible ingness to restore the autonomy saying his organization would to confirm the Serb or ethnic • for Kosovo he canceled in 1989. never accept Rugova as a leader Albanian reports independently. & Breadsticks While Rugova and others are because nonviolence had failed As part of the diplomatic \n mdrr Cll 'i sol Jnugn b~)11dt1 demanding full independence, to gain independence or hall the effort to curb the crisis, 11.ith yo or (holu rwm amor~ l,.!:!ll< C5 Rugova is considered the more crackdown.