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Eastern Illinois University The Keep October 1991 10-18-1991 Daily Eastern News: October 18, 1991 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1991_oct Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: October 18, 1991" (1991). October. 14. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1991_oct/14 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1991 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]. , ..' , :.:· . ·-~:-: : Desert Storm general will be parade marshal By ANN GILL Staff editor This year's Homecoming will have a different meaning for Brigadier General Roscoe M. Cougill. Oen. Cougill, a Charleston native and 1963 graduate of Eastern, has been chosen grand marshal for Eastern 's annual Homecoming parade on Saturday as part of "America the Beautiful: EIU Salutes the Red. White, and Blue." As communications staff offi· cer to General H. Norman Schw­ arzkopf, Gen. Cougill spent eight months in Saudi Arabia while serving in Operation Desert Storm. Brig, Gen. Roscoe Cott8ill Currently. Oen. Cougill is the military such as the U.S. Navy to director of the Command and the marines. Control. Communications, and Gen. Cougill 's return for Computer Systems Directorate at Homecoming will also mark his U.S. Central Command at first trip back to Charleston in MacDill Air Force Base. Fla. over five months, Chris said. According to Chris Cougill. "He (the general) was back to ade preparations son of the general, the directorate see me right after his return home thards, juni01~ works on the construction of a flat bed float Tuesday. The float is sponsored by is the base for all the communica· (from Saudi Arabia)," he added. Chi Alpha ahd Delta Zeta and will be part of the Homecoming Parade, which will begin at 9:30 tions for satellites that link mes­ Gen. Cougill and his wife sages from different sectors of the t Continued on page 2A culty union president: A di~aster is coming ' • Faculty demon­ BOG continues Rives' evaluation strators say they COMB - Faculty mem· presenting five universi­ The Board of Governors has not officially fin· Rives and the four other BOG university pres· would support a ed the hallway outside the ished its evaluation of President Stan Rives ident11 met with board members Sept. 26 to strike. Page 3A. ae Room of the Western despite four hours spent in executive session undergo their annual performance reviews. Is University Student Thursday. Rives, who was the third of five presidents to b~ Thursday, where the "The board really wants facul· "It's still continuing,'' BOO Chancellor evaluated, was the only president to have his ty to have (better pay and bene­ of Governors was about Thomas Layzell said after the closed meeting. evaluation continued past that day. in Its monthly meeting. fits)," BOO spokeswoman Rives would only say. "No statement,'' after Since then, Rives has met privately with Michelle Brazell said Thursday. h of the more than 100 emerging from the meeting. He has before point· Layzell and BOO Chair Robert Ruiz, although y members held large "There's just no money.'' signs bearing slogans that ed out that details of personnel evaluations, specific topics of their discussions have not been During his address, Vogel Quality education needs including his own, should remain private. revealed. cited specific "disasters" related ty salaries'' and "Keep Layzell did not rule out the possibility that Brazell called Rives' evaluation a "difficult to lllinois' declining funding of ty professors." Mitch board members will continue their evaluation of situation." education during the last 1S , president of the BOO's Rives at their next regular meeting in early "There are some. difficult issues that both the years that have led to the current ty union. the University December or that the board will call a special president and the board arc trying to work standoff between the faculty asionals of Illinoiii, dis· meeting before then. through." she said. union and the board. d yellow buttons bearing "There is a possibility of a special meeting,'' ''We sincerely hope for a resolution to this sit· "There has been a 20 percent ssage. "We've been TOO he said. uation soon." Brazell added. decline in higher education's for TOO LONG" that However, BOO spokeswoman Michelle Thursday marks the second official postpone· share of the state budget. yet we testers placed on shirts. Brazell later told The News, "there are no sched· ment of the completion of Rives' performance ~re serving more students," he said. 1 and jackets. uled meetings at this point between the president review. 11There has been a l S percent the BOO meeting opened. and the board before the next board meeting." - Staff report rotesters filed into the decrease in actual dollars in fac· ulty paychecks, yet faculty are , a number nearly filling "It is important that we differences. increased health care costs and vallable seats among the (protesters) be here; it is impor· ·Union members voted last access to an early retirement working harder than ever. ce and others standing in plan available to other state 11There has been a 400 percent tant you listen; and it is impor· Friday to authorize a strike vote. increase in tuition costs state· k of the room. tant you take some action or a Vogel has said the only step employees. when BOO Chair Robert "When your employees earn wide, with its concomitant bur· worse action will come our remaining before a faculty walk· den on our students.'' Vogel con· aave Vogel the opportunity way," Vogel told the board. out at Eastern, Western Illinois. on the average 1S percent less dress the board. the tinued. "A disaster is coming and is Northeastern Illinois. Oovernor11 than the average at other cam­ "The pension fund your uni· 1ters, still displaying the probably already here." he State and Chicago State univer· puses. they are subsidizing uni· , formed a half-circle versities with a 15 percent tax on versity employees must depend , · warned. sities is the completion of medi· on for their sustenance after 20 d the seated board mem· Eastern faculty. along with the ation between the two sides. their income." he said. 11 ... That 15 percent is in reality a tax or 30 years of loyal service is faculty of the four other BOG Vogel reiterated Thursday now on the verge of financial an address interrupted by universities, have been working what the union is seeking from upon the willingness of your fac· ent applause from the without a contract since Sept. 2, its contract negotiations: salary ulty and staff to stay with the disaster." ting faculty, Vogel told the and negotiations between the equity with faculty nationwide, Board of Governors. It is the Vogel then cited "more dispir· that it faced an "impend· price tag on commitment and iting'' developments of the past faculty union and the board have= maintenance of that equity once year. ster. failed to settle the two aroups' it is achieved, reimbursement for loyalty." - • Cantinuttd on l'<lf4e .?A 2A Friday, October 18, 199 L FROM PAGE ONE $2.75 PER TAN Desert t From page one Eastern)." tions for the 27th Communica­ Sallie, a 1966 Eastern graduate, According to Homecoming tions Squadron at Andersen Air Chair Brad Kirk, the Homecom­ Force Base in Guam, as well as -~ will spend the majority of their BUY A BUNCH! weekend in Charleston visiting ing committee first learned officer-in-charge of two operat­ with their son, Chris, a sopho­ about Cougill and his position in ing locations at DaNang and more pre-engineering major. Desert Storm after a call from Bein Hoa air bases in the "We really don't have much Cougill 's wife, who called to Republic of Vietnam. planned; he will get in late comment on a "spectacular" Cougill has also served in the Friday and is leaving on Sun­ theme for this year's Home­ Directorate of Command, day," Chris said. coming and how it related to Control and Telecommunica­ Aside from the parade, Gen. Cougill. tions at the Pentagon and in· Cougill will attend the Eastern After telling the Homecoming 1983 Cougill became executive Panther's football game against committee about the call, they officer of the Command, Con­ Illinois State University, Chris asked Gen. Cougill to serve as trol and Communications Di­ 1430 E Street Charleston • 345-215 said. grand marshall of the parade, vision, lnte'rnational Military "We came back (for Home­ Kirk said. Staff, Headquarters North At­ •Sale Good thru 10-26-91 coming) a few years ago but we "Cougill is a hero for Ea­ lantic Treaty Organization, in r---------------- didn't get to spend too much stern," said Blake Wood, parade Brussels, Belgium. MICROWAVE Photo Finishing time," Chris said. "We only co-chair. Following his retirement, POPCORN Throughout his 27-year mili­ Gen. Cougill and his family plan stayed along enough to watch Pillsbury 12exp 24exp the band; my dad was a member tary career, Gen. Cougill has to reside in a home on Sixth St. $219 $419 of the band (when he attended served in a number of key posi­ in Charleston. Plain or 5 J$1 oo tions, including chief of opera- Buttered 1· Good Thru 10-26 Faculty Reg. 59¢ each Bring Coupon with - • From page one ernment executive officers to speak to the board 5 foot .concerning President Stan Rives' ongoing evalua­ RAMEN NOODLES "Our governor has equated a 1.3 percent cut in tion, said student government is concerned about HALLOWEEN C funding with making higher education a high pri­ faculty salaries.

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