Eastern Illinois University The Keep December 1979 12-14-1979 Daily Eastern News: December 14, 1979 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1979_dec Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: December 14, 1979" (1979). December. 10. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1979_dec/10 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 1979 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in December by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ·Weather Friday will be mostly sunny with highs in the upper 30s or lower 4.0s. Friday night will be .fair and warmer with lows in Eastern the upper 20s or lower 30s. a Friday, Oec. 14. 1979; Charleston, Ill. I Vol. 65, No. 74 I 24 ewsp ges, 2 sections Repeated complaints received by Regency by Jane Meyer the unit was on back order. Granan Complaints have been lodged once said Hamilton told them a few weeks again against Regency apartmenf later that the unit had been· sent to management concerning breach of Indiana. Later she reportedly told rnmmitments ranging from deaning them the unit had never been ordered. carpets to requesting extra money for Another complaint Grannan lodged clean-up after residents' parties. was Hamilton's failure to clean the Last year in May, a Student Senate apartment's carpeting after she had Housing committee began investiga­ promised to do so over the summer. ting Regency residents' complaints Grannan said she subsequently told against management. This included them the carpet would be cleaned over problems such as inadequate door · Christmas vacation. Grannan now said locks, lack of workable fire extinguish­ she told them the carpet will not be ers and management failure to finish cleaned. repairs. Complaints lodged by Yorkshire A letter signed by 156 residents of resident David Wheeler said the Regency Apartments cited instances of Regency management had "nickled management failure to comply with and· <limed them (the residents) to promises of fixing broken furniture death" for repairs and party cleanups. and doors within the apartments. The Wheeler echoed the complaints of peJition was started last Monday. other apartment residents that said the Fre�hman Dennis Grannan, who police are constantly being called to wrote the letter, said the petition was quiet the music and loud noise startedbecause he and his roommates although Wheeler said he didn't think were getting the runaround. the noise level was any different "We trusted them (the manage­ elsewhere. ment)," Grannan said. Other residents complained that "Every time we come to them with a doors leading to bedrooms and bal­ problem they have excuses." conies were never fixed or replaced. Grannan said he and his roommates Dan Brannan, a Lancaster resident, Let us feast! have been talking to Regency manager said he and his roommates had talked Those who wished to be taken back into the 16th century attended the Doris Hamilton throughout this sem­ to the management about replacing a opening night of the Christmas Madrigal Feast Thursday, where traditional ester about fixing the air conditioning missing door leading to one of the medieval costumes and a festive banquet dinner highlighted the feast. unit in their apartment. Grannan bedrooms in the apartment. "Right Vocal and instrumental songs added to the 16th century setting. (News photo alleges that Hamilton told him they now we have a blanket up but it by Bob Kasinecz) would have a new unit in a ·couple doesn't cut down the noise," Brannan weeks. She later allegedly told them (See REGENCY page 5) byOfficials Wiley Krapf claiinCook sa UBid. does weadded. .lldes ite deficitas the charge for John Houseman.' schools are having If the UB tried· to breapk even with Although the University Board is in Many other Performing arts activities have not the red, UB officials said the UB has problems with concerts too, Cook the coffeehouse, it would cost $2 to get met with much success this year, Cook done well this semester. added. in, he said. said. The UB is about ' '$2,600 to $2, 700 in He said he has talked to other state The coffeehouse has shown the most "I would say that the enthusiasm of the red," Don Cook, UB adviser said. schools and Eastern is one of the few significant improvement, of all the · the . campus has not been But Cook said although.attendances schools which is not in the red as far'as committees, Cook said. He attributed overwhelming this year," Cook said. have gone up in many areas, these concerts go. this to the improvement of the. Goodwin attributed this not to the areas are budgeted for deficit to save In other committees, "coffeehouse publicity committee. ability of the performers -but to the student's money. is doing twice and even three times the "We've totally revamped that com­ assumption that students are not The main UB problems have been business we did last year," Cook said. mittee,'' Cook said. particularly interested in classical with concerts, Cook said. ''A few of our coffeehouse attend­ Lectures are also not expected to performances. The UB lost $5,500 on Jay Ferguson ances- have been records," Jean break even, "but they have exceeded The performances have all been and $2, 758 on Harry Chapin, but a Goodwin, UB Chairman, said. our expectations on attendance," Cook · excellent and "I'd like to see the little over $8,000 was made on Steve Louise Dimicelli had the highest said. attendances go up," Cook said. There Allen, . Cook said, thus they nearly attendance ever for an opening coffee­ John Houseman cost the UB $1, 700 is no possibility of not losing money broke even on concerts. house act, Cook said. and 340 people attended. In order to though, he said. The concert problems are multiple, For a recent open stage 300 people break even, they would have to charge Most of the performances cost he said. For instance, Eastern does not attended, which was the highest more than the $1 admission price for $1,000 to $7,500 and Dvorak Concert the drawing power formajor acts, attendance for a tegular coffeehouse, students and $2 for non-students, have · · Hall only holds 660 people, Cook said. and Lantz Gym cannot accommodate lie said. Cook .said. Thus the entrance price would have to major acts as far as sound and lighting "We never have, tried to have Jean Kilbourne cost the UB $1,250 be raised substantially for the UB to go, h�said. coffeehouse on a break even basis," and 230 people attended, he said. break even, he said. Also, fewer groups are touring now, Cook said. It is a budgeted deficit, he The admission price was the same (See OFFICIALS, page 3) reacts warily to observation of hostages byUS The Associated Press· dependent observers to check on the 50 captives, bassy compound to determine the status and WASHINGTON - The United States reacted who .were seized on Nov. 4 when a militant Iranian treatment of all the hostages. wariiy Thursday' an Iranian agreement to have mob overran the embassy compound. But Powell said any outsiders admitted by the Otll.>ide -observers check on the condition of According to the report from Tehran, Khomeini Iranian militants should be . "internationally American hostages in Tehran, insisting such a told the militants holding the embassy that he recognized, impartial, neutral observers." He said delegation must be truly independent. would grant permission for independent observers they should see and talk to all hostages "regularly White House press secretary Jody Powell told to see the hostages " to confront the adverse U.S. and frequently," an9 that at least one observer · reporters \hat unless the observers meet a set of aggressive propaganda" about the condition of the should be a physician. criteria specified by the United States, the Iranian Amer:icans. He also said the observers should report to rhe move would be "another cynical attempt to divert U.S. officials have mainta.i·ned that the hostages families of the hostages, and to the world, on the international attention" from the illegal seizure of are being mistreated, are being held under condition of each captive. lhe U.S. Embassy and its staff. inhumane conditions and have pointed out that no If all these conditions are met, Powell said, "we Powell was reacting to a Tehran Radio an­ one has seen more than a few of the hostages. would consider it a step forward." 'Otherwise, he nouncement that revolutionary leader Ayatollah The Carter administration has continually called said, visits to the host a g es would not :iccornpli�h ·•a · · Ruhollah Khomeini has given permission for in- for outside observers to be admitted to the em- humanitarian objective." 2 Eastern News F riday, Dec. 14, 1979 News ________________________...;. ________ _.. __________________________________________________ British history, literature (JP) ived in summer course .News·shortS rel Schaefer became interested in by Carolyn Waller Convicted killer Joseph Carl Shaw won an indefinite stay Thursday from A walk through history and British walking long distances when he was in a federal appeals judge who said all issues should be considered before such an literature will be offered as a five-credit England on a Hayes-Fulbright teacher "extraordinary" event is carried out. class during intersession this summer. Exchange Scholarship.· Shaw, 24, who confessed to killing two teen-agers in 1977, had been John Schaefer of Eastern's physical He said he did a lot of walking, or scheduled to die in the electric chair at the Central Correction Institution in education department will take a group rambling as the English call it, on Columbia, S.C., at 5 a.rn.