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Eastern Illinois University The Keep February 1991 2-21-1991 Daily Eastern News: February 21, 1991 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1991_feb Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: February 21, 1991" (1991). February. 14. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1991_feb/14 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1991 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in February by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ·Double time Eastem~s basketball teams host lloubleneader. .,,£,. waits Case closed? ound o start BOG investigation , Saudi Arabia (AP) g world watched may end Thursday the bleak Arabian sday - Baghdad for By CAM SIMPSON ment in areas under Armstrong. , the desert for news Senior reporter Those allegations apparently are being scrutinized now by Jeff northern battlefront, The nearly three-month-old Cooley, Eastern 's internal auditor. · n men braced for the probe into allegations of nepotism Rives is also expected to respond to ir lives, probing and and unethical hiring practices under the charges of financial mismanage intensified. American an Eastern vice president may draw ment Thursday. ~arted off hundreds of to a close Thursday at the Board of BOG Chancellor Thomas rs after one action, and Governors meeting in south subur Layzell has said that voting BOG zeroed in on a U.S. ban Chicago. members may take or recommend other, kjlling one Eastern President Stan Rives will additional actions after Rives wounded seven. respond to "concerns" and "find responds to the Stanczak report. t-line bunkers to the ings of fact" raised in the report of Layzell also has said that he will David Stanczak, the Bloomington not release the Stanczak report to attorney hired by the BOG three the public, justifying it as a "per months ago to investigate allega sonnel exemption" under Illinois' tions of wrong-doing under Verna Freedom of Information Act. He Armstrong, vice president for has refused to grant access to it to administration and finance. news organizations, including The Rives' responses will come in a Daily Eastern News. closed executive session of the However, Rives will hold an BOO, which oversees Eastern and "open campus meeting" for faculty, four other- state schools. He will staff and students at 4 p.m. Friday 'dors of power, reports also present written responses pre in the Coleman Hall auditorium to flew of deadlines and pared by Armstrong, who will not respond to the report publicly and for the long-expected be allowed to attend the executive explain any actions taken at session. Thursday's BOG meeting. Rives nch lawmaker said the The meeting will be held at announced the meeting at allies would give Iraq Governors State University in south Tuesday's Faculty Senate meeting. ursday to respond to a Show stopper suburban Chicago. Some actions already have been e proposal, or face a taken by Rives in response to the A group of coeds from Pemberton Hall do their rendition of 'Bartman' Stanczak's report also deals with sive to drive its forces for a lip sync contest Wednesday night. See st01y, page 2A. allegations of financial mismanage- 't • Continued on page 2A more than ever," said reign Minister Roland ultimate decision rests Academics spared by budget cuts dam Hussein." Late y, Baghdad radio said By CAM SIMPSON many of the cuts hammered out last week by in the university were able to cut a total of about Saddam was sending Senior reporter deans and department heads were avoided, with $50,000 more than they had been asked to trim. Minister Tariq Aziz to academic officials learning of their budget All of that "surplus" went back to academic "soon" with the reply of Despite forecasts of gloom and doom, "reprieves" Wednesday. affairs to protect instructional programs, Colbert leadership to the Soviet Eastern 's academic programs have emerged "For (liberal arts and sciences) this has really said. ved to call for an uncon- from the painful world of state-mandated budget been a reprieve," said Jon Laible, dean of the Initially, academic affairs had anticipated a Iraqi withdrawal from cuts largely unscathed. college of liberal arts and sciences. $323,288 cut. With the "surplus" restored back upled with vague assur- Eastern deans and department chairs said Laible said he was told originally to trim to academic affairs from other areas, Kindrick t Saddam could stay in Wednesday they were pleasantly surprised to $105,000 from his college's budget to meet the ended up only having to make $273,470 in the Palestinian question find money returning to their coffers that had mandates set by Robert Kindrick, vice president reductions. tually be addressed. been slated for the chopping block after Gov. for academic affairs. The bulk of the cuts made to academic affairs Soviet initiative was Jim Edgar announced 1 percent budget callbacks But Kindrick and his staff were able to find came from proposed renovation and remodeling by the U.N. secretary for public universities last week. other areas to trim, and cutbacks for instructional projects that totalled $78,000. Other cuts to aca avier Perez de Cuellar, as A total of $521,432 officially was cut from monies were avoided, said Charles Colbert, demic affairs came from emergency personnel · opportunity," and U.S. Eastern 's budget Tuesday by the Council on associate vice president for academic affairs. reserves, travel, postage and equipment budgets. also endorsed it. House University Planning and Budgeting. However, In addition, other non-academic departments Thomas S. Foley said that "' Continued on page 2A wal is unconditional, t know how (President Id fail to accept it." Bush Blood drive falls 32 pints short of daily goal blic silence on the issue y, a day after describing By JILL BAUTER mittee adviser. mittee is responsible for many as "well short" of U.S. Staff writer Although fewer donors meant aspects of the blood drive, includ ts. less waiting for students, mobile ing donor recruitment, promo gh Bush did not elaborate The spring blood drive fell 32 unit Supervisor Nancy Lederer tions, media relations, equipment, objections, Republican pints short of meeting its daily said she would like to see more and decorations. eader Robert H. Michel goal Thursday by collecting 318 donors at the blood drive. "It is Volunteers have also contribut e want to see conditions pints from Eastern students, fac usually busiest during the last two ed to the blood drive by helping in Iraq - that is, Saddam ulty and staff. hours of the day," she added. donors to register, taking temper Thursday's figure bring the Lederer is one of the many atures, and serving refreshments Baghdad's beleaguered total pints collected over the past nurses working at the blood drive at the canteen area. Many student ip kept the world waiting three days to 1,026. That means this week. Nurses and other medi" organizations such as the Res reply, its official radio the American Red Cross will tee. cal staff were provided by the St. idence Hall Association and the defiant. have to collect 294 pints In a positive note though, the Louis Bi-State Red Cross Chapter Black Student Union, have also 'ssing the alliance's strate Thursday and Friday to meet its American Red Cross reported 52 and the Effingham Red Cross volunteered time. an assault on Kuwait, the week-long $1,500 goal. new donors Wednesday. Chapter. The Interfraternity Council and lared, "Their paper plans "I'm disappointed about (Wed "We're hopeful for a good day In addition to Red Cross person the Panhellenic Council are nothing when the ground nesday), but I'm keeping things tomorrow (Thursday)," said nel, Eastern's blood drive com scheduled to register donors and .. positive," said Kellie Walters, co Patrick Bradley, assistant director mittee has put much effort and take temperatures at the blood chair of the blood drive commit- of housing and blood drive com- planning into the drive. The com- drive Thursday. 2A Thursday, February 21, 1991 'Black Velvet' act wins lip sync BY SHERRY SIDWELL she walked away with the $40 first Susan Burroughs and Lori Staff writer prize. She beat out a field of nine Strong won third place and $10 competitors in the Rathskellar at the with Madonna's "Express Your Milli Vanilli didn't make an Martin Luther King Jr. University self." Other acts ranged from "The appearance, but the show went on Union. Bartman" to Bryan Adams's "Kids as Erin Sanders won for her rendi "I first did it a year ago for a Wanna Rock" to the parody "Moo tion of "Black Velvet" in Residence fundraiser in Chicago," Sanders Moo, I Love You." Hall Association's "Do It Better said. The second prize of $20 went RHA member and chair of the Than Milli Vanilli" Lip-Sync 1991 to Steve Marth, Mike Morgan, Jim contest, Jessika Jenkins, said she contest Wednesday night. Carrol, Brian Matthews, and Jason was surprised with the success of A crowd of almost 170 was won Brett who performed the chore the contest because of earlier diffi over by Saunders' lip-sync of ographed disco hit "YMCA" as culties while organizing the show. Alannah Miles' "Black Velvet" as the Village People. FROM PAGE ONE BOG.. investigation · ·+ Fronfpage IA' ''° ':.- " Iii addition, the appointments of the office's director, report. They include: · · .. , ~ · · Kimberly Furumo, and assistant director, Scott Walker, • Undisclosed actions and "further inquiry" are being were both under BOG scrutiny. Walker is Armstrong's directed at three Eastern employees named in the son, and it was his appointment in October that origi Stanczak report, which covered a total of 23 appoint nally sparked allegations of wrong-doing surrounding ments.