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For more information, please contact [email protected]. be closed: BOG approves Rives' report President Stan Rives or Board of Governors Chancellor Thomas • The BOG approves State police find no improprieties Layzell, will receive a five-day sus­ requests for Greek UNIVERSITY PARK - An "no basis" for allegations that uni­ ITY PARK - After pension without pay, according to a Illinois State Police investigation versity officials were exchanging and $25,000 in legal written statement issued publicly by Court furniture and into an allegation of "job selling" at jobs for payoffs. estigation of alleged Rives at Thursday's BOG meeting.­ honorary degrees. Eastern has concluded that there are The investigation, which was under an Eastern vice The meeting was held at Governors no improprieties, according to a conducted by the Division of Crim­ lted Thursday in the State University. Page3 statement issued by Eastern inal Investigations, was sparked by one Eastern employ­ The BOG oversees Eastern, President Stan Rives Thursday. an anonymous allegation made in ange for another and Governors State and three other ed his qualifications and experi­ Rives public statement, which an interim State Civil Service audit policy recommenda- Illinois schools. ence" when applying for a job at was released after Thursday's BOG report. Rives will discuss the find­ Rives' public statement said the Eastern. meeting at Governors State Uni­ ings at 4 p.m. Friday in the Cole­ employee was being sanctioned BOG members were generally because he "purposefully overstat- versity, said the state police found man Hall auditorium. • Continued 011 page 2A nSion building eace talks continue into the night troops exchange fire at the border N, Saudi Arabia (AP) - From barrels and helicopter guns, the war thundered up and down a tense tie line Thursday, as hopes for uncertainly on a meeting in the s of the far-off Kremlin. -two British artillery pieces, and battery of U.S. rocket launchers, on targets deep in Iraqi-held terri­ e of the heaviest barrages of the percent to 15 percent of such equipment pter gunships streaked north of has been destroyed, far below the U.S. mil­ tier and blasted Iraqi guns and itary's estimate. vehicles, and American ground The uncertainty kept ordinary soldiers re venturing into Kuwait and Iraq on edge. Up on the northern sands, one naissance forays, the U.S. com- 82nd Airborne Division trooper, Pfc. Jerry Henderson, likened it to a space launch. while, seven Americans were "The countdown's been stopped before a helicopter accident. blast-off," he said. mmand said the allies' stepped-up The "countdown" stopped Thursday er activity was "shaping the bat­ while the world awaited Iraq's reply to a - in a prelude to an all-out ground Soviet peace plan. e to push Iraq's occupation army As Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz headed uwalt. to Moscow with the message from the Iraqi ait's exiled emir, Sheik Jaber al­ leadership, President Saddam Hussein went al-Sabah, issued a message to his on Iraqi radio to rally his people for a final orces declaring, "The hour of salva­ defense if the United States and its allies near." But there were signals reject the latest peace terms. y a major attack might not begin in "There is no path except the path that we tday or two. have chosen.... this path which Tariq Aziz ior Pentagon official said it "might has carried to Moscow," Saddam said. THOM RAKESTRAW/Photo editor hwhile" to continue a mostly air He acknowledged Iraq is ready to with­ Having a ball destroy more Iraqi armor and draw from Kuwait, but gave no clue to any Junior business major Deron Roche puts aside his hockey stick and tries his luck at tennis . The CIA, meanwhile, said only 10 _other Iraqi or Soviet terms for peace. Thursday evening on the courts outside of Thomas Hall. od drive collects 428 Rives delays start ts, within,46 of goal Missouri-Illinois blood region. of core until 1992 "The blood drive has been a won­ By CHARLA BRAUTIGAM of 1992. derful success no matter what, Senior reporter That means Eastern 's Council Red Cross collected 428 because there has been a tremen­ on Academic Affairs. whose of blood Thursday, bringing dous amount of blood collected," It's back to the drawing board members worked for more than a I number of pints collected said Roberts, who visits Eastern 's for what might be Eastern 's most year to approve courses for the spring blood drive so· far to blood drive every year. significant academic issue in the fall implementation date, will - only 46 short of the 1,500 The average blood drive in the people get involved." coming decade. have to submit a revised plan to oal. Missouri-Illinois blood region col­ "I think they're doing a great Eastern President Stan Rives Rives no later than Aug. 15. ly about 100 pints of blood lects 65 pints of blood. According job," said former blood drive chair­ Thursday rejected four of nine The four segments returned to collected in the first two hours to Roberts. that number ha.s man Steve Richards who has segments of the proposed general the CAA for further deliberation ursday, said Patrick Bradley. increased since the war in the Gulf worked at the blood drive for three education program that would include Quantitative Reasoning tant director of housing and started. "I wish people would show semesters. "Any time you get 1.500 have been implemented in the fall and Problem Solving. Human drive committee adviser. But support all the time." Roberts said. college students to do something of 1991. Behavior, Social Interaction and crowd picked up considerably "There are patients here who need like this. that's pretty good." As a result. the program. which Well-being. Cultural Experience later hours of the drive. · blood every day.'' The daily goal for Friday. the Rives has said is one of the most and Scientific Awareness. he goal is just a planning Roberts also thought that the final day of the blood drive. is 200 critical programs Eastern will CAA members were not happy ," said Paula Roberts. donor blood drive was very organized. pints. The blood drive will be open address in the next decade. won't when they heard about Rives· uitment manager for the "It's nice to see so many young from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. be implemented until the spring • Continued on page 2A ed over to the President's Council and several university to strengthen Eastern and alleviate potential problems Probe closes departments. And other actions, like the transferring of the BOG schools before they arise. planning and budget office away from Armstrong's control, But Layzell also said, "I don't want anyone to · • F1vm page 2A have already been taken as a result of the Stanczak report. new policies will mean no more problems ... (Eastern) satisfied Thursday with the official responses and policy rec­ Rives moved three weeks ago to transfer control of the to need to maintain some oversight for a certain peri ommendations given by Rives' during a 90-minute, closed office away from Armstrong. Layzell repeated a concern he raised at last mon executive session, Layzell said. Rives has declined to say why he made the move. However, ing: that officials show "sensitivity" in following the That follow-up report Thursday was in response to "con­ he did say Thursday that, "further reorganization of spirit of official procedures and policies. cerns" raised by special investigator David Stanczak, the (Armstrong's) area is not required." "I don't think it's OK to just say ' yes, I dotted all Bloomington attorney hired by the BOG to probe allegations The planning office is headed by Kimberly Furumo. crossed all the t's,"' Layzell said, adding, "yeah, I of nepotism, unethical hiring practices and alleged financial Furumo 's hiring and the hiring of assistant director Scott was some (insensitivity)" by Eastern administrators· mismanagement under Verna Armstrong, whose official title Walker, who is Armstrong's son, were investigated by ing the letter and spirit of official policy. was changed by the BOG Thursday. Stanczak. Questions surrounding their employment apparently Rives will hold an open meeting to discuss the th Armstrong, formerly known as the vice president for have been resolved in the BOG's mind, along with questions old ordeal at 4 p.m. Friday in the Coleman Hall administration and finance, will now be called the vice presi­ surrounding 22 other unidentified employees, according to He has asked all interested faculty, staff and studen dent for business affairs. Rives' statement and comments from Layzell. the meeting. Rives said the change was originally proposed by Furumo's and Walker's posts are now directly responsible to Some Faculty Senate members, who were investi Armstrong and was made because the new title, "is more com­ Rives. eral of the allegations behind closed doors before mo11ly used in higher education, is more consistent with the Allegations of alleged financial mismanagement in areas moved in, have said it will be difficult for them g titles of (Eastern 's other vice presidents), and will help to under Armstrong are now being scrutinized by Jeff Cooley, responses to the allegations without first seeing the avoid the impression that (Armstrong) is in charge of the Eastem's internal auditor.