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Eastern Illinois University The Keep October 1978 10-20-1978 Daily Eastern News: October 20, 1978 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1978_oct Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: October 20, 1978" (1978). October. 15. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1978_oct/15 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 1978 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in October by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Inside. Page 4: will be mostly Young woos in- and warmer. The dependents will be in the low 70s. Eastern News Page 12:. night will be fair and Panthers to face NMU with a low in the Section 2: 40s. Friday,_Oct. 20, 1 978 I Charleston, Ill. I Volume.64/ No. 37 I 20 Pages I 2 Sections Crossword puzzle beginb G opposes auxiliary proposal leefe tdents concerning possible compro Board of Governors lbursday mises. in opposition to an auxiliary approves Miller "If, afterour best efforts, it appears proposal by the . Illinois BOG that Furman will go ahead,'' the BOG ofHigher Education. will still hope for a "modification" of sal would eliminate ail to fill new_ veep post the auxiliary enterprise proposal, sidies to university auxiliary Eastern officially added a new President Daniel E. Marvin said Walters said. · s, which at Eastern are the administrator Thursday when the at the meeting. The BOG ''will tryto point out to the balls, the University Union Board of Governors approved Miller's duties will include �ntire BHE the basic flaws in th�ir ofLantz Building. George E. Miller as the first vice responsibility for:_ personnel and :'.>Ian," he· said. IJiesidents of the BOG schools president for administration an� employee relations, computer . The university presidents from tlie 1beir opposition to that of the finance. services, budget the Physical BOG schools all voiced their objections by voicing their individual Miller, who currently is vice Plant and service enterprises. · lO the BHE proposal during the BOG to the proposal at the BOG president for administrative af The position of vice president meeting. held here. fairs at Mansfield (Pa.) State for administration and finance Marvin said the BHE has not lsecutive Officer Donald College, was unanimously ap was formed under Marvin's re :onsidered the "impact of the study" · said the "official system-wide proved by the board members organization proposals.. on students. " on the BHE proposal is during their meeting here The new · post will combine The auxiliary enterprise p11>posal llative''. Thursday. some of the duties of the vice ''will mean significant increased costs "d he along with BOG univer He will begin Jan. 1 at a presidents for administrative af to students," he said. idents including Eastern $41,000 per year salary, Ea�tern fairs and for business services. He said that although some of the Daniel E. Marvin met earlier financial burden will be easecJ by th with BHE Executive Di He said Furman now_ ''will consider prises at each university would be -increased federal funds, the amount of .James Furman and "made a modifying the reporj:''. redistributed to the university where it Illinois State Scholarship Commission lyfersuassive case" for some Walters said the original proposal came from, Walters said. grants will not be raised. "se in the BHE'}>roposal. called for students to assume the As a result of the meeting, Walters "No matter how you cut the cake, has estimated the cost of the support of auxiliary enterprises within said Furman will "make sure that there is no ISSC, so it is an increase in osal at $89 per year for three three years, but may now stretch that some of the funds will remain at the students' costs at a time of declining to five or six years. universities where they came from." enrollments," Marvin said. said Furman "has at least The original proposal also gav� no But he added that Furman and the Leslie F. Malpass, president of to consider a compromise in assurance that the state money Wliich BHE have "made no commitment" to Wes tern Illinois University, said .was.u.Sed..to.subsidize-.a1lxiliuy enter- the BOG or individual university pres- (See BHEpage 3) Phone service-prqblef!Js to be ended by weekend by Paul Plndersld making local and long distance calls Telephone service disruption caused because they go through the new by the recent installation of a computer co�puter system, Pierson added. switching system in Charleston will be Pierson said the new system wou� cleared up by the weekend, an Illinois complete a higher percentage of calls, Consolidated Telephone company make maintenance service faster, and spokesman said Thursday. would be more energy efficient. Project coordinator John Pierson Pierson said the customers will said ''90 percent of the local trouble notice "a faster complet.ionof calls" in has been cleared up, and the rest the wake of the new system .. should be finished by the weekend." "When a Charleston ·customer calls Last weekend ICTC switched over to another customer by the new system, an elaborate computerized phone swi the called telephone will ring almost tching system, wh�ch took months to the instant the last digit of the · install. telephone number is dialed,'.' Pierson Howev�r, Pierson said that Charles said. ton customers had les� trouble during . Other improvements will include the the switch-over to the new system than quality of voice transmission, espe Mattoon did when their system w�s cially on long distance calls and new installed one year ago. customer calling fe�tures. The new system, a No. 2 Electronic There are four customer call fea Automatic Exchange (EAX), is "the tures that will be available on Nov. 1, latest in the state of the art," Pierson Pierson said. said. "Call waiting" is a feature designed Pierson said the $3 million system to notify a customer by calling a gentle contains two symmetric computers that tone, that another person is trying to provide better service to ICTC cus call. " tomers. , A second feature is having calls "While one computer is active, the forwarded to another local.phone. other computer is checking for main Another feature is three-way call tenance problems. The inactive com ing, where people at three different puter is also programmed to take over phones can talk to each other at the if the other computer breaks down same time. without losing· any calls," Pierson The last customer calling feature is said. speed calling. By enterin_g a code, a The new system will only affect person can dial an often called number campus calls to lines outside of by just dialing two numbers instead of Eastern because Eastern has its own the entire series. e internal phone system, Pierson said. Pierson said that this would all be ng, a candidat in the 53rd district, attended the Student Senate However, campus customers will possible through the flexibility of the l'hursday and left the meeting after senators declined to let him speak. • • · find 'better voice transmission when computers'. on page 3. (News photo by Jennifer Schulze) . •••f•r•••w•. Oct. 2 Friday, 20, 1978. ••••••••---·-- · I (JP) News sllorts Wa'9��• Cross County Mall Mattoon, II. Open 9·9: Mon.·Sat. 10%1 w._,.... :=;:() 10·5-Sun. ''"""W-. KEYS MADE lwolthorll ""'- Rhodesian·s attack base AT WALGREEllS l:llC• Peace agreement shaky WASHINGTON (AP)-lsraeli Foreign Minister-Moshe Dayan told President re Carter Thursday negotiations on an Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement have ,_ •••••• 95 encountered problems and chances of settling them are "very doubtful.�' You Pay Us 29 . IS. He said the talks had encountered problems, "and whether' we can obtain a Rebate 500 ---=� change of position through the delegations here is very doubtful. It's _not Camp � Da\id, 't\ith the heads of state present." Dayan, who did not say what the problems are, apparently referred to the fact that heads of state can be more flexible in making concessions than ministerial representatives, who generally arrive at a conference with strict instructions on what offers they can make. E Missing boy found d�ad - man wanted murder in Dallas JOLIET (AP)-Joliet police have arrested a for .•;for the young in heart• in connection with the death of an 8-year-old Joliet boy found dead Thursday. ' Police said the body of Willie E. Fox was founi;l in an 'apartment building shortly after dawn. The boy had been reported missing Wednesday by his mother, who found him gone when she came to wake him for school. Police arrested James McDaniel Jr:, 18, who ·lives in th� apartment and charged him with unlawft,tl restraint. Authorities said McDaniel is wanted in .Coles· County's Texas for murdering James Horan, 37, a former police officer who was shot Aug. _ 23 inDallas County. Largest.. Bicycle· Dealer . Get a piece of Chicago tomplete Servic�: & Facilif CHICAGO (AP)-You don't need clout to get a piece of the action. But you do need to be at the corner of State and Madison next week when the original State Street paving blocks will be unearthed and given away free. While paving the way for a new mall, the constr:uct�on company is also paving the way for history buffs or home redecorators to have original 1883 granite blocksas part of a new stylc-"Historic Chicago." The 1,000 or so grey blocks that formed one of the world's busiest co�ners were quarried 95 years ago in Wisconsin. The blocks will be dug up over the weekend and stockpiledon the corner, available for the asking.