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[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 .