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Eastern Illinois University The Keep February 1988 2-25-1988 Daily Eastern News: February 25, 1988 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1988_feb Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: February 25, 1988" (1988). February. 18. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1988_feb/18 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1988 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]. ally will support ov. Thompson's come tax hike "It will an executive be committee of student April 13 rally in government," Riordan said. · gfield to show support for "Anybody interested in helping income-tax increase out is welcome (to join)." is ently in the planning Organizational leaders are es, said Board of Gover currently being contacted s Representative Mike about joining the committee, rdan. he said. will be much like 'A Day Riordan said he has also t Action,"' Riordan said. "A talked to the Residence Hall y of Action" was a statewide Association and Interfraternity hying effort in October to Council about a writing suade legislators to allot campaign to gain uUpport for a re funds to higher tax increase. cation. He added he will also contact roups expected attend the Panhellenic Council about • to rally are college and the campaign. ondary students, faculty Riordan said these three administration and groups were chosen because d sibly civil service em they are a collection of a yees, he said. n um he r of smaller he Illinois Student organizations. ociation and University "Hopefullywe11 be ending up fessionals of Illinois will with one-to-one contact with nsor the rally. Riordan said students (in the groups will be contacting organizations)," he said. colleges and universities in Riordan said organizations b state. - · . like RHA will e asked to write tudent groups will .. be and send resolutions to licizing the rally on their legislators and letters to the campuses, Riordan noted. editors of local · newspapers. iordan said he and other Individual students will be dent government members asked to write letters to be forming a group called legislators, he said. Student Advancement The letters will be sent to mmittee, which will legislators in May and June blicize the rally at Eastern when they'll be most effective, sponsor the trip to Riordan said. 'ngfield. "The General Assembly e group will be formally won't be discussing a tax in Meta/mania anized "in about a week and crease until late May and early Katrina Rooney, a graduate ceramics major, went to the junkyard searching for scrap metal to lf ,"he noted. June," he said. shows her findings at a Mattoon junkyard. She use in her advanced sculpture class. Buddy Day' encourages friends to give blood donated Wednesday, put the Carthans, who was along for They agreed with Carthans and CRAIG EDWARDS third-day total for the drive at moral support and to give said donating blood was easy. unior Trina Brown, a pre 1,174 pints. blood for her second time, said "The worst part is when they acy major, has always Wednesday was set aside as she was extremely nervous the prick your finger," Turner said ted to give blood, but she Buddy Day and friends were first time she donated blood. "I after donating blood for her afraid to do it alone. encouraged to come together to know what she is going fifth time. Pierce, who has rown had the opportunity the drive to go through the through," Carthans said, donated blood seven times, said donate blood for the first donation process. adding that "it's a piece of she has never been calmer than e Wednesday at the spring "I always wanted to give cake." this time. drive, accompanied by blood but I didn't want to come Senior Kim Pierce, a fashion "We donate blood because we friend, sophomore Sheera by myself," Brown · said merchandising major, and feel we should do it," Pierce hans, a psychology major. Wednesday while she was junior Allison Turner, a -;;aid. "It helps other people and anxiously waiting start the marketing major, also donated eir donation of two pints, to (See BUDDY, page 7A) with the other 420 Qints donation process. blood tqgether Wednesday. ng B has extra $24,000 to allocate in student activity fees approved last year. "Because of that boards are: $77,000 for next year, the same as this coupled with the program boards' •AB-$29,968 in student activity year. The Apportionment Board has an asking for little more-and even less fees for Fiscal Year 1989, up $2,429 •Student Senate requested $18,970, imated $23,755.50 more to allocate money in the case of Sports and fromthis year's $27,539. down $110 from this year's $19,080. student activity fees for Fiscal Year Recreation, Student Senate and •Players requested $33,874 for next •University Board requested than the six program boards have Players-excess fees over the requests year, down $2,420 from this year's $136,845, up $1,400 from last year's 89 uested. have increased." $36,294. $135,445. AB Chair Craig Lange said at AB has an estimated $394,582.50 in •Sports and Recreation requested will deliberate the budgets AB ursday's meeting that the extra student activity fees to allocate. The $74,170, down $720 from this year's proposed Thursday-Sports and ney is due in part to the $4.75 in totaf of the requests was $370,837.. $74,890. Recreation, Student Senate andAB-at ase in student activity fees that was The requests from the six program •Student Publications requested its meeting next Thursday. CheCk inside for special Spring Break/Fashion Guide Special section features latest in casual fashions and sportswear 2A Thursday, February 25, 1 988 Press · jAssociated \ Reagan holds press conference; I State/Nation/World covers terrorism, Meese and Bush the president confirmed anew thing," was as strong Simon will skip Super Tuesday WASHINGTON (AP)-Presid a ent Reagan said Wednesday that Vice President George Bush as the president would WASHINGTON-Democrat Paul Simon, admitting night "we've never let up and we expressed reservations during he added quickly "there is no sense in my fooling myself," said Wednesday that never will" in efforts to win the Iran-Contra affair. But he evidence that e · his battered presidential campaign is skipping the Super th freedom for Amnerican hostages refused to say precisely what provoked an Israeli Tuesday primaries and caucuses to try to recover from four in Lebanon, and said if Bush had told him. crackdown straight defeats. Republican presidential con Reagan said he didn't want to taneous." Republican also-ran Jack Kemp vowed he, too, would tender Pat Robertson knew become involved in the GOP Asked to elaborate, press on despite an 0-5 record. Unlike Simon, the New anything of their whereabouts, it nomination fight, but he showed "We have had York congressman said he would take his chances in the informa was "very strange" that ''he kept plenty of zest when it came to there have been ce · clump of primaries in the South and elsewhere on March 8. it to himself." bashing the Democrats vying to suspected of being "I'm in this all the way to New Orleans" and the GOP . At a nationally televised news succeed him. To hear them, he outsiders coming convention in August, said Kemp i.n Beaufort, S.C. in and conference, Reagan also said he said, "we're an economic up the trouble in those "It is on to Atlanta" and the Democratic convention in in had "every confidence" in the slump" suffering from a variety On other matters, July, echoedSimon at a Washington news conference. personal integrity of embattled of ills. "At the moment none of Secretary of Simon, the Illinois senator, has yet to win a Democratic State Attorney Edwin Meese III. Byut those things are true," he said. Schultz had given event, watching Massachusetts Michael Dukakis ·and him said he could not comment on It was Reagan's first news couraging" report on Missouri Rep. Richard Gephardt split the early contests. reports of the investigation of conference in four months, and completed trip So he said he will skip the South and focus on his home to the Meese's role in a proposed Middle he passed up several invitations Union, and said he ho state primary on March 15, one week after Super Tuesday. East oil pipeline. to criticize Israeli action againt and Arabs would "rid "The campaign will begin anew after Super Tuesday, In a session with reporters that Arab protestors on the occupied of old ideas and s starting in Illinois," Simon said. blended international affairs West Bank and Gaza Strip. cannot work" and begin Money is the problem Simon sees in the South. with the domestic presidential "We don't support that sort of peace negotiations. "There is no sense in my fooling myself," the Illinois campaign swirling around him, Democrat said. 'We just don't have the money." YOUR M.S. 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