Eastern Illinois University The Keep February 1993 2-26-1993 Daily Eastern News: February 26, 1993 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1993_feb Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: February 26, 1993" (1993). February. 19. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1993_feb/19 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1993 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]. Classes to go on despite snowfall By JOHN FERAK Campus editor For the second time in less than two weeks. a powerful winter storm unloaded six inches of snow on Charleston Thursday, much of it in drifts, closing local schools and threatening motorists. Snow continued to fall into Thursday night wilh forecasts call­ ing for I.he precipitation to taper off sometime early Friday morning. Eastern President David Joms said classes will go on as scheduled Friday. Temperatures will hover around the 25-degree mark Friday and may rise into the 40s for the weekend. KEVIN IOLHOFFERIAsaoo. photo editor +'f'he storm will gradually ~ ndy Koch, a junior special education major, brushes the snow off her car Thursday morning in Stevenson Hall parking lot. The total snoMfall off around 2 a.m. Friday morning," expected to be between 6 and 12 inches. said Dalias Price, a longtime local weather observer. "It will continue its path to the northeast and will t. Governor backs BOG elimination eventually die out at sea." Price added be was not surprised ClilCAGO (AP) - Lt. Gov. Bob panel I.hat I.he boards' elimination that a storm of this size dumped on tra on Thursday stood behind a would not increase the universities' the area wilh such a large amount 9JJ>Osed change in how the state's autonomy. He said staff reductions of snowfall. lie universities are governed, would weaken their administration. "Our heaviest amounts of precip­ t members of the Board of There is no great advantage in having these "The task force offers little or i tation were south of us," Price vemors said they are not con­ nothing on improving the universi­ said. "It was hard to get a reading the plan will work. agencies in Springfield." ties," Layzell said. from this storm because I.here was Kustra, chairman of the gover­ Bob Kustra The Senate. he said, should real­ so much drifting going on." r's Task Force on Higher Ed­ Lt. Governor ize governance is not the only issue "I don't anticipate anything tion, presented his rccommen­ in school reform and also should being canceled for Friday." Jorns tions to the Senate Education ~~,, __ study education quaUty. said. "If students are to miss class nee. Members of the Education Com­ due to the weather. they should Kustra said the elimination of cracy and return power to the indi­ The task force also has recom­ mittee expressed support for the make arrangements with their e Board of Regents and the vidual universities," Kustra said. mended 1hat Sangamon Stale most part for the task force's instructors ahead of time." of Governors, which over­ "There is no great advantage in University in Springfield become recommendations. But some, like Despite the precipitation which eight universities, would abol­ having these agencies in Spring­ I.he third campus of I.he University Chicago Democrats Miquel del continued into early Friday morn­ a middle layer of bureaucracy field." of Illinois. Valle and Earlean Collins, said I.hey ing, the Coles County Sheriff's increase I.he accountability of Under I.he task force's plan, each Kus1ra said Sangamon State, were concerned about how the uni­ Department said thal no roads in ·versity administrators. school would be run by a board of where he once taugh1, has failed to versities would be funded. the immediate area, including state He said it also would give each unpaid trustees appointed by I.he focus on a mission, and it affilia­ Under the task force's plan, highways or incerstates, had been ·versity a board concerned main- governor and approved by the tion wilh I.he University of Illinois smaller schools that focus on closed. with I.he quality of that school's Senate. The boards would report to would provide direction. undergraduate education would be Sgt. Kevin Riddle with the ic programs. the Illinois Board of Higher Board of Governors Chancellor Tllinois State Police in Pesotum "It will decentralize the bureau- Education. Thomas Layzell told the Senate • Continued 011 page 2A said his clistrict's headquarters had received about 15 calls to investi­ gate weather-related accidents on onsolidation of colleges to begin Thursday alone. Riddle added I.hat only two or three accident victims end of this fiscal year." community are willing to make an effort to had reported minor injuries. College reorganization comes in the wake finalize decisions by the May deadline Coles County aulhorities said of $1.6 million worth of reallocations recom­ because the committee was chosen by groups that only four or five accidents had Eastern President David Joms said Thurs­ mended by the Council on University Plan­ representing the university. He also said if occurred locally because of the that restructuring decisions can safely be ning and Budget. Included in the recommen­ groups give preliminary models attention storm. despite the restricted time period given dation is the consolidation of Eastern's six when they are formed, there will be a suffi­ The storm that barreled through the Academic Area Restructuring colleges, which is intended to save the school cient amount of time for feedback. the region dropped about 10 inches ·uee. $300,000. Larry Ankenbrand. dean of the College of of snow on Carbondale. Belleville The committee has roughly two months to An foitial meeting by the 19-member com­ Health, Physical Education and Recreation, had about 9 inches of snow, while truct a reorganization model for Eastem's mittee is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on said he was concerned about the period of Benton, Harrisburg, Marion and colleges, release the model for feedback Monday. The objective for this meeting is to time available for making restructuring deci­ Metropolis reported up to 8 inches. finalize the model. A final model is due come up with a restructuring model ready to sions. Springfield got 3 inches, and y l. be sent out to faculty and staff for feedback. "The dollars have to be reallocated," Champaign County had 5 inches "The groups who are responsible for mak­ V ice President for Academic Affairs Ankenbrand said. "It's traumatic trying to get by5p.m. the decisions will be competent," Joms Barbara Hill said the committee will continue everything together in the amount of time we Charleston public schools clia­ "d. "We all regret the amount of time we with a "rigorous schedule" after the feedback. have. missed class at 10 a.m. 'l1andlJ e, but the university has to come up with Hill will serve as a facilitator for the group. and canceled Friday clusea u ugh money for next year's budget by the Joms said be thinks people in the campus " Continued on page 2A well. 2A Friday, February 26, 1993 The Dally Eastern Ne Psychology department receives rare gran By MELISSA ASHBY experience in teaching psycholo­ Eleanor Midkiff, a professor in shows that we take our work very grant," Midkiff said. Staff writer gy as a science. the psychology department said seriously and it also took a lot of Yaffe added that this is one The .. Formation of a Psy­ she hopes this grant will change work and perseverance on our the largest grants ever given to Eastern 's psychology deparc­ chology Institute" will begin on the way high school psychology part," said Fred Yaffe. another individual department. ment has received a $467 ,000 June I of this year and will con­ is taught. professor in the psychology The grant money will be grant from the National Science tinue over a three-year period. " I hope chey will begin to department. to provide room and board for Foundation. Eastern will be holding a series address the scientific aspect of "Receiving this grant is a great teachers during the work sh The grant was given from the of workshops for Illinois high psychology," Midkiff said. honor, not only for Dr. Yaffe and the purchase of new materials foundation's Division of Teacher school psychology teachers, Eastern is one of only three myself, but also for the psycholo­ lab experiments and the ove Preparation and Enhancement to which will present new advances universities in the country to be gy department and the university cost to the university for admi · aid in providing high school psy­ in teaching psychology at the awarded the grant. as well, because there were so tering the grant. chology teachers with practical high school level. "By receiving this grant ii few universities that received this Scholarships available to outstanding students By TODD FAKER Townsend-Hanks Scholarship. In addition All scholarship entries must be submit­ the Distinguished Professor in 1987. J.W. Staff writer to being awarded $250, the recipient will ted no later than 4 p.m. on March 19 to Oglesby was honored as the Distinguis be invited to visit both State Farm's Kathy Bennett, assistant to the dean of the A l umnus of the Lumpkin College o Two Eastern alumni and the daughter of I nsurance Corporate Headquarters in Lumpkin College of Business. Business and is currently serving as asso­ the contractor who constructed Old Main B loomington and one of the other 26 Scholarship applications may be picked ciate director of Coles County.