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Eastern Illinois University The Keep May 1983 5-6-1983 Daily Eastern News: May 06, 1983 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1983_may Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: May 06, 1983" (1983). May. 5. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1983_may/5 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1983 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in May by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Friday, May 6, 1983 will . be mostly sunny, windy and warmer with highs in the low 80s. Friday night will be partly cloudy, windy and warmer with a 40 per cent chance of showers and aste thunderstorms. Lows will be in the University rn News Eastern Illinois I Charleston, Ill. 61920 I Vol. 68, No. 153 /Two Sections, 20 Pages upper 50s to low 60s. Proposalmay drive students out of s·chool by Marc Pacatte Daily EasternNews Correspondent SPRINGFIELD-As many as 20 to 25,000 students may. be driven out of Illinois colleges and universities as a result of budget cuts, one· higher education offical said Thursday. Donald Walters, Board of Governors executive .director, said "serious consquences" are in store for higher education if the five BOG schools are forced to implement budget contingency plans. The board directed each ·BOG school to draw up provisional budget cuts at graduated levels of 2, 4, 6, and 8 percent in the event that Gov. Jim Thompson and the General Assembly slash the higher education budget by a proposed $100million .. Walters said the contingency plans developed represent "worst-case planning," which, if actually implemented, could mean the loss of 25,000 stud.ents from state schools. Two Greenup families blame A&F Materials Co. waste effects, the fammes have filed suit against BOG Chairman Dominick Bufalino said the "im for the headaches, nose bleeds and shortage of the company. (News photo by Dave McKinney) pact created by shrinking resources" would mean breath they have suffered from. Due to the toxic that an 8 percent budget cut "will actually be a 12 or 13 percent cut." "I may be thick-headed here, but it seems to me . Greenup fa�ilies suffer illn�sses; that if you lose a thousand students, you lose a thou sand tuitions," Bufalino said. Thomas Layzell, BOG deputy executive director neighbors discover toxic waste for administration and fiscal affairs, ·said at each by Dave McKinney Greenup location one year later, according to the graduation of the contingency, as staff was cut, the The' winters were the worst. There were nights suit. amount of students would also have to be reduced. when Beverly and Genf! Byrnes said they would Kenneth Ault, operator, part-owner and presi ''The question then becomes, can we raise tuition both wake up gasping forair . dent of A & F, said he developed a process which high enough;' to meet the revenue reduction created They said the unbearable, fume-laden stench allowed for an environmentally-safe reclamation 'by the loss of studenti;, Layzell added. that the couple's furnace drew into their Greenup of resources from industrial waste-oil and metal Currently, a $500 tuition hike is being discussed as home almost always prompted them to bundle up hydroxide sludges. a possibility to help reduce the budget shortfalls. and to sit outside on their front porch-just to "We thought we had developed something that He said such "hidden" budget reductions such as breathe. was a boon for mankind, and we proceeded to the additonal loss ·of students at each cut level would The neighbors to the east of them on think we could make a buck off it," he said. create a "cyclical effect" that could be disasterous to Fairground Hill, Max and Linda Niccum, said Consequently, it did not takelong for A & F to the BOG. they constantly had an abundance of headaches, amass a prestigious clientele which included the Bufalino added· that the two items coupled nose bleeds and skin rashes. Aluminum Company.of America, he said. together-a percent cut with reduced revenue from Both families agreed that the blame for their an According to the federal suit, ALCOA tuition-"would create a much worse situation than noying problems Hed with their neighbor across transported about 5 .2 million gallons of shown here." from them on Old Route 40. Tucked quietly in polychlorinated. biphenyl (PCB) tainted oil and Western Illinois University President Leslie woods was A & F Materials, a company with the sludge to the Greenup facility. A & F was Malpass said· if the upper percentage contingencies are implemented, Western would "not be able to aim of milking usable petroleum from toxic in reportedly paid $650,000· by ALCOA for disposal, dustrial waste. the suit states. handle the requirements of cutting back above 6 per The families organized and filed suit against A Also named in the suit were the Charleston AM cent" without experiencing financial exigency. & F Materials in June 1979 to stop operations. Bruning division of A-M International, Financial exigency is the point at which the fiscal Wh;tt began as a temporary injunction has spawn McDonnell-Douglas, Northern Petrochemical affairs of an institution become severe enough to ed into a still-pending civil case at the federal level Compc:tny, CAM-OR Incorporated and Petrolite release it from contractual and tenure obligations in which includes some of America's corporate Corporation. order.to ease the situation. · were developed giants. The suit alleges that all of these waste Walters said the contingency plans the "potential for A & F Materials, which began as a.corporation generators, excepting McDonnell-Douglas, paid A as a "drill" to be ready for _danger" if the governor and the General Assembly in Nevada in 1976, started operations at its (See NEIGHBORS, page 3) do not reach a compromise on Thompson's pro.posed tax hike package by the end of the current fiscal year to fight toxic waste suits on June 30. Hartigan Having the schools develop the plans was "an ex by Michael Kuo � $1.5 million, he added. tremely useful exercise, particulai:Iy if we have to face Attorney Qeneral Neil Hartigan recently "We need the resources to get rid of the cases the music in July," he added. testified to the Illinois House Appropriations on the books now," he said. "It would be shame on us," Walters said, "if we· Committee .his office neds $1.5 million in fiscal Hartigan's division chief for environmental af weren't prepared" for the possibility of the cuts. year 1984 to tackle current toxic waste litigation, fairs downstate, Reed Neuman, said that A & F Walters said, "Come July 1 when we know these an aide to Hartigan said Thursday. Materials, which · stored toxic waste in· Greenup, cuts will happen, we'll have to come to terms" with Hartigan's press secretary Jerry Owens said "really never intended to make a legitimate goal" the various cut levels, if the legislature does, in fact, even if the request is granted" the attorney of toxic waste dumping. make the implementation of the contingencies general's office may have trouble keeping up with A & F was sued by the Environmental Protec necessary. toxic waste suits. tion Agency, and the litigation is still pending. In Eastern President Daniel E. Marvin said develop Owens said the hazardous waste problem in Il the interim, a cleanup program has been im ing the plan was a "useful early alarm system that linois is "the most serious environmental problem plemented in Greenup. allowed a variety of people to understand what could a ever to face the state." However, Neumam c lled the cleanup project a happen." _ If the appropriation is not granted, "we won�t "band-aid job," and added the operations are on . Marvin developed Eastern's plan with the three be able to do our job the way it should be done for ly an interim project while the litigation awaits a vice presidents-Student Affairs Glenn Williams, the state," Owens said. verdict. Administration and Finance George Miller and Pro However, initiating new legislation on toxic The Illinois EPA "is still trying to determine the vost and Academic Affairs Stanley Rives-and the waste would be difficult even with the requested scope" of the cleanup project, Neuman said. 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