Eastern Illinois University The Keep August 1991 8-27-1991 Daily Eastern News: August 27,1991 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1991_aug Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: August 27,1991" (1991). August. 9. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1991_aug/9 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1991 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in August by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. .·"' , Cl~aning up Turbulence . L•. Jon Collins, supervisor of grounds, Panther opponent Lock~ is named supervisor of the year. Haven had a rough flight in 1990. Page Page 16 Rives lists priorities for upcoming year By CHRIS SEPER dents, Rives has also answered Staff writer the Faculty Senate's request for open communication. He has A stiff budget and hopes for scheduled monthly meetings better communication between with the chairs of the Faculty faculty and staff will be two of Senate and Civil Service the goals in Eastern President Council, the president and vice Stan Rives' personal priorities presidents of the student body. for the academic year. The Illinois budget crunch The list, which also includes will affect every area of the uni­ last year's goals of working on a verisity and the goal of an ade­ task force on cultural diver­ quate 1992-93 appropriation, sity/enhancing minority educa­ Rives said, since this year tional opportunity, the study of Eastern only received a 0.2 per­ graduate education and the cent or $11,000 increase over implementation of core general last year's appropriation from education program, was an­ the state. A 5 percent increase in nounced in last week's Univer­ tuition made up the difference in sity Newsletter. the lack of funds from the state. The addition of stronger com­ "That's very troublesome," he munication, according to Rives, said. "With the economic down­ was in part because of problems turn, the state hasn't had the caused by a Jack of communica­ sources (to aid Eastern). tion last year. "We'd be in much worse "Fundamentally, it is the shape if not for the surtax in response created from the prob- support of education," Rives 1ems in existence last year," added. "Practically every other ea pose_ Rives said. "I don't want to agency cut somewhere; some of nthers work on their routine Monday by the Tarble Arts Center. The Pink Panthers will pe1formfor imply that we haven't been them quite significantly." time this season when the football team hosts Lock Haven University at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. doing anything. We need to But Rives pointed out that interact with faculty and staff. I other state universities are also culty Senate to review Rea report think it's fortunate that we've struggling financially, but got Emily Bryson from the Eastern isn't as bad as some. CAMPBELL Eastem's vice-president for development. Board of Governors fellowship "If you look around with The investigation came about as the result of the to focus as an ombudsperson." other agencies, at least compara­ Faculty Senate's probing into the the actual process Bryson, a teacher from tive 1y, _we have not been cut acuity Senate will discuss Tuesday a report by which Rathjen was hired. Chicago State University and while many others have," Rives ·ng hiring improprieties under Stephen Falk, The report alleges that Stephen Falk, Eastern 's currently an intern for Rives, said. "The university's got many s vice-president for development. vice-president of development, disregarded will take the position of the needs; hopefully we can do impression of the (Rea) report is that it is affirmative action guidelines in hiring Rathjen by sympathetic ear to the faculty, much better next year." rough, but I think the recommendations not adverstising the openning for assistant vice-pres­ staff and students for the year. As for last year's goals. all o far enough," senate member Laurent ident for development. "When a faculty or staff three are well on their way to said. The report also indicates that because the position member feels they have a prob­ full implimentation, according somewhat impressed with the various testi­ was not advertised, Rathjen was the only candidate lem that's not been dealt with of the people questioned, but I'm kind of interviewed for the post. to Rives, with the task force on thouroughly, they will bring it to · ted that people (questioned) couldn't be a The BOG is the governing body of Eastern, cultural diversity ready to go. In honest with their testimonies," Gosselin Chicago State, Governors State, Northern Illinois the. attention of Emily," said addition, the integrated educa­ and Western Illinois. Rives. tion core program is set to begin port, compiled by Patricia Rea, the Board The senate recently requested that a copy of the While Bryson has already in the fall of 1992, and the study ors assistant vice-chancellor for legal scheduled a series of informal of graduate education is in high examines the hiring of Arthur Rathjen, • Continued on page 2 meetings with the staff and stu- gear, Rives said. ssible rain may cool Dump site hearings continue to linger By KELLY SEIFERT Waste Disposal Facility Siting the event of radioactive releases. tering temperatures City editor Commission. Testimonies from both house," Drayton said, Members of the commission Bartelle and Hansen are expected Although some residence hall The hearings for a proposed include retired Illinois Supreme to continue this weekend. students are getting a break from low-level radioactive dump site Court Justice Seymour Simon, "It hasn't been one of those students could get a the heat with air conditioning in near Martinsville will continue University of Illinois engineering things that are easy to predict," m the heat Tuesday if their rooms, others are braving Friday morning after a one-week professor William Hall and field Thompson said of the progress of t are expected to pass the weather without air. Still, recess. arleston actually bring even students with air condition­ representative Carolyn Raffens- the hearings. and coolness. ing in their rooms are finding dis­ The proposed alternative site perger. Although Thompson had no ing to WEIC-radio advantages. hearings have slowly progressed "The slowness of the hearings financial figures available esday's forecast calls "It's really cold in our room, since late June. has come as a surprise to every- Monday on the amount of money shine and a chance of and the room two doors down is The hearings are to determine one," Thompson said. being spent each day to continue with temperatures really hot ... the air is not working whether a proposed nuclear stor­ Bartelle Memorial Institue of· the hearings, she said it has been reach 92 degrees. in that room," said Christine age facility can be built near Columbus, Ohio, and site con- costly because of the many 's temperatures reach­ James, a resident of Lawson Hall. Martinsville, which is located tractors from Hansen engineers expenses involved, including midaftern oon, and Students who thought going to about 25 miles southeast of of Springfield have continued to housing for out-of-state witness­ re expected to roll class - to air conditioned rooms - Charleston. present their research informa- es, lawyer fees and general daily s Monday evening. would bring some relief from the Patti Thompson, Illinois tion as the hearings continue. costs of holding the hearings. mperatures to start heat were in for a big suprise, Department of Nuclear Safety eek took a toll on since many buildings on campus Thompson said Bartelle repre- Thompson said more than $62 ents living both on aren't air conditioned. director of communication, said sentatives have testified on their million has been spent on the s. Students leaving home to go to that throughout the 24 days of findings of several ground low-level waste program by the house without air class found the heat unbearable. hearings held so far, only 10 wit­ drilling experiments, which con- IONS, including a three-year can be "deadly," "I almost passed out on my nesses have appeared before the elude that there is "minimal risk" . study of the Martinsville site, ·or Ann Drayton. Illinois Low-Level Radioactive to the Martinsville community in than blazes in this * Continued on page 2 ., Continued on page 2 2 Tuesday, August 2 7, t 99 t The Dally Eastern Ne FROM PAGE ONE Faculty senate Dump site •From page 1 were true, and that the affirmative action "From page 1 to Joe Boyer, president of Midwest Compact Co guidelines circumvented," member Gary which was conducted by People for Respons-ible sion, which oversee Rea report be made available to be read by the ~~~e Wallace s.a~d. Battelle Memorial Institute. Opportunities. region covered by the f public in Booth Library. In addition to discussmg the findmgs and "A vast amount of the "The hearings have been PRO received addit' "My feeling was that I wish the administra­ recommendations of the Rea report, the senate money went to the Martins­ slower than a snake," Boyer money from the Ill tion would look into some of the recommen­ will also be continuing it.s discussion of the ville site since it is one of the said. "It will be November League of Women Vo dations she (Rea) made," said senate member Study on Graduate Education and Res~ch. largest studies," Thomson before PRO will be able to The Compact Co Mariette Deming." The SGER was completed dunng the added testify and even later for awarded two grants Demming added that she felt the adminis­ Spring semester of 1991, and contains 133 Th~ 00-acre site in Clark Concerned Citizens for Clark Illinois League of Wi tration should comply with one of the recom­ 3 recommendations designed to improve gradu- County recommended by the County (the group opposing Voters for $150,000 mendations by publicly annoucing that there the dump site)." tribute for the g was wrongdoing invloved in Rathjen 's hiring.