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Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC April 1990 Daily Egyptian 1990 4-11-1990 The aiD ly Egyptian, April 11, 1990 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_April1990 Volume 75, Issue 133 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1990 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in April 1990 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Daily Egyptian Southern lIiinois Un iversity at Carbondale Wednes(jay. April 11 , 1990, Vol. 75 No. 133,24 Pages Faculty Senate OKs tuition waiver By Brian Gross 'The big benefit is that it helps tuition waivers after slUdying the money for waivers for minority already implemented similar Staff Wrner recruit good faculty and brings costs and benefits in October. students. waiver programs. including some good students here," Philip 1989. "I don't think this would be Illinois SUIte, Northern Illinois Dependents of S IU employees K. Davis, chainnan of the budget Davis said the task force deter adopted without us knowing University and Sangamon SUIte. should receive at least partial committee, said. "With the smaU mined an approximate cost of where the money is coming In other business, the senate {uilion waivers, a resolution (proposed salary) increase, we S500,000 for fuJI tuition waivers from : Davis said passed a resolution declaring its passed Tuesday by the Faculty thought it was good timing to for aU employees. Davis said it is possible the opposition 10 the governor's bud Senate said. press ahead with possible faculty Several senate members asked tuition waiver may stan out as a get and supporting the Illinois The resolution declared the sen perks." where the funding for the waivers 50-percent waiver 10 see if it is Board of Hig~~ Education's bud- ate's suppon of a tuition waiver The personnel policy commit would come from and expressed successful. for aU full-time employees. tee task force recommer.doo the concern that this would take away He said many univr...."':itic ,; have S-SENATE, Page 5 Mass transit Lebane!'",e terrorists survey free three hostages moving on Mitterand thanks hostages to mark the Moslem By Nora Bentley holy month of Ramadan. Staff writer President Millerrand thanked ' Kadhafi for his Kadhafi Tuesday night for his On·campus student sur " detennining role" in freeing the veys for the mass transi t role in release hostages, the Elysee Palace said. feasibili ty study are being PARIS (UPI) Three Five gunmen in two cars flni shoo and household sur European hoswges were freed in dropped the three near the main veys will soon begin as the Beirut Tuesday by the Abu Nidal gate of the tree-shaded French qucst for input continues. extremist group and n ew 10 Paris, Embassy in Syrian-patroUed west Student volunteer work ending a drama that began as a Beirut shortly after daybreak ers began the student sur vacation cruise on the Tuesday. veys on April 2 to deter· Meditemmean 2 1{2 years ago. Hours ta te r, th e three were mine community atutudes The hustages, Jacqueline rushed to Beirut International about public transporwtion. Valente of France, 31, her Belgian Airport in a he3vily g uarded Workers include members boyfriend Femand Houtclcins, 42, French embassy convoy where of the American Marketing and their baby daughter Sophie, 2 they boarded the French Falcon Association and those gain. 1/2,who was born in captivity, 900 jet for Paris. ing credit through the SIU landed at a French miliUlry base Abu Nidal ' s Fatah C Community Development outside Paris abeard a special Revolutionary Council said it DeparunenL plane senl to Beirut for them by snatched Valente, two other Another sample of about the French govemmenL daughters and flv,," Belgians from 500 names will be pulled to Looking tired, the three a pleasure boal 011 the """"t of the reach the goal of 800 com· hosUlges were greeted by family Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip Nov. plete surveys, Linda members and dozens of reportelS. 8, 1987. The group aceused the Gladson, member of the They left the base for a military captives of spying for Israel. mass transit advisory com hospital in central Paris where In D,cember 1988, Valente's mi llee and city planner, they will spend the night. They two other daughters, Marie-Laure said. The problem of wrong made no statemenL Betille, 6, and Virgin ie, 5, were numbers and no answers The release came after lhe released in Libya and rejoined has crc31cri the need for group run by the notorious terror their father, Pascal BetiUe. ist Abu !l:idal negotiated v. ith Valente told reporters inside the another sample. ApI showers mav tmg May nc-s bullhey alsO brought Gladson said it is expect Belgian and French officials. It embassj after her own release also came six days after Libyan Tuesday, "I kiss aU my relatives. cu a heaIhy shtMIng Of tm:ln!IIas n-tay morning bet*1d ed that workers will finish Fanr.rHal. with the original sample of leader Col. Moammar Kadhafi 1,200 by today. Currently, called for the release of Western See FREE, Page 5 455 responses have heen obtained. Household surveys will possibly begin April 17, Official expects big USG voter turnout Gladson Slid. The house hold surveys will include By RIchard Hund their student represenUltives from and Rochelle Goree; the Trojan Gus Bode 1,000 city residents includ Staff Wrner 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Student Pany, with' Michael Contile and ing off-campus students. eCOLer, the Recreation Center, Brian Hawkins; the Student Pany, The purpose of the survey More voters should tum out this Grinnell Hall in Brush Towers wiLh Lissa Kuethe and Ed is to gauge the al1itudes and year for the Undergraduate and Lentz Hall in Thompson Walthers; an ~ the United Student opinions from Carbondale Student Government election PoinL Alliance Pany, with Gregg Blake residents concerning the today because of greater aware The ballot includes presidential, and Brad Cole. need for a mass transit sys ness, Tami Todoroff, elecljon vice presidential and stude nt Three student trustees also are tcm. commissioner. said. trustee candidates as well as sena· on the ballot: Craig Jackson under The surveys ask for back uI ' m optimistic that we're torial seats for each student's resi the Progress Pany, Lisa Sproule ground information on going to have a higher turnout denLial area and college, Tami under the Student Pany and Bill where interviewees shop, if (this year)," she said, adding that Todoroff. election commissioner, Hall. they h •• e a driver's license, only 10 percent of the student said_ Todoroff said 60 people are how many veh icles are in body usually votes eacn year. "I Four parties are running for vying for senatorial sea IS, but stu think more people are aware of t IZG positions in the elcction: dents may also write JO candi- Gus says he should run for See TRANSIl; Page 5 what's going on this year." the Progress Party, with current something, since he'll !Jode Slud e n~s can vOle today fr f USG President Tim Hildebrand See VOTE, Page 5 well no matter what. This Morning Burris: Illinois economy sagged in '80s By Lisa Miller unc'llploymcnt rate was hi gher try, and the Illinoio economy span the employment rate peaked 'PrOof at Utah' SlaffWrner than the national unemployment lagg~!1 behiD!! the ns on during as high as 12.4 I m:cnL band to play bar rate, the number of jobs increased the rc£overy. During the same period, the Ulinois' fi nances in the 1980s, at a much slower pace than the "We' ve been behinY the coun country's unemployment rate -Pag~11 dubbed " uns pectacular" by national average and the ratio of try in the 1980s," Burris said. steadily deaeased from 6.4 to 5.3 economists, led to a decade of manufacillring-Io-service jobs "We mu~'l improve our economic percenL decline. the BIinois compU'olIer changoo dramatically. strategy to remain competitive in AI Manning, press secrewy for Georgerould go said. "lIIinois used to be known as the 1990s." Burris, said although the exact first in NFL draft A special report prepared by the the place to obtain a good, high Illinois began the 1980s with an fi6llres have yet to he compiled, Illinois Oftlcc of the Comptroller paying job," Burris said. "Now, unemployment rate of 6.6 percent Southern Illinois was hit the bard - ·Sports24 revealed that lIIinois compared that statement holds liUle truth." and ended the decade with a rate est economically in the 1980s. JDfavorably 10 the U.S. economy. He said the recession in the of 6.1 percenL The rate was Mt a "Unemployment figures for Con,ptroller Roland B~ sa!d early 198(\s was more sever. for significant change from heginning during the 19805 the JllIn."s illinois than the rc.ot of the conn- to end, but during .I/I.e 10-year Page 24 Daily EgyptiDn April 11 , 1990 Spo Eight players file suit against the NFL U niled Pre ~ International 28 learns violates foderal antitrust surprise. tackle Dave Richards of the San ers, making any other player laws and scc.ks \f.jJle damages for " Our atlOrneys will deal with Diego Chargers; defensive end under contract an unrCSUlcled free Gr< .n Bay Packers quarterback each of the eight playelli. it," the statement read. " We have NiXo Noga of the Detroit Lions; agent able to join any other team.