Eastern Illinois University the Keep
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Eastern Illinois University The Keep February 1979 2-16-1979 Daily Eastern News: February 16, 1979 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1979_feb Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: February 16, 1979" (1979). February. 11. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1979_feb/11 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 1979 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]. Weather: Friday will be windy and very cold under partly sunny skies with the high ranging from 8 to 1 5 degrees. Friday night will ews be very cold under fair skies and a low 2 below to 1 0 below 79 Charleston, Vol. 64, No. 96 2 OPages, 2 Sections EasternFriday, Feb. 16, 19 I 111. I I zero. BOG resubmits budget for 1 980 by Dyna Col� If the resubmitted proposal is ap cause serious problems. not to implement a Board of Higher proved for a second time by the BHE it "I would hate to see the kind of Education auxiliary enterprise The Board of Governors decided will go to the state legislature for final . downstate versus Chicago-area school proposal in 1979. Thursday to resubmit to the Board of approval. rivalry for funds such a proposal could "Auxiliary enterprises will not cost. Higher Education its orginally Davis said the BOG had not had create," Davis said. students an additional fee in the 1979- proposed 1.04 billion budget for fiscal ti·me to examine the proposal an "(The Board) must have time to 80 school year," Davis said. year 1980. nounced Tuesday by Representative examine the proposal more closely to The auxiliary enterprise ·plan will The BOG also discussed a proposal Jim Edgar R-Charleston which decide its impact on the quality of eliminate state funding of university by an area legislator to reorganize the proposes to eliminate current state education in Illinois," Davis added. ·auxiliary n r ses years. governing system of Illinois univer e te pri o\ef the nextsix school systems including the BOG and Edgar said Tuesday his proposal sities which would eliminate the BOG. consolidate unhersitiesaccording to area. would improve the efficiency for the · Eastern President Daniel E. Marvin The proposed budget action follows governing system and save money. said Tuesday he would like to begir a recent cut in the BO G's higher He said the proposal to put all "I don't believe the plan would do imple�tingthe plan next fall at Pastern. education . funding request of $25 Chicago area schools under one Marvin could not be reached million by Governor James Thomp governing system and all downstate all it says it will do," Davis said. Thursday on son. schools under other systems could In other action, the BOG decided to oonlrmi.t theBex; decision. ' Dream comes true- jackpot' pays off in beer by Cathy George ...,..@,.. "Everybody dreams of things like that--it was a dream co me true," said Eastern sophomore Steve Schude after hitting the proverbial "jackpot" Tues day. Schude and two other Eastern students, Jim Shemroske and Ken Butzen, were returning to Eastern . • after the three -d ay weekend. About 10 miles out of Charleston , they spotted a forty-four foot semi-trailer truck on its side in the median of 1-57. The ri g was enroute to Sikeston, Mo. wi th a load of 1,800 cases of Mi ller beer. "The back doors had opened and there was beer all over," Schude said. They stopped their car and got out to investigate. No one wa s in sight, Schude .said. "There were so many beer cans and bottles laying around you couldn't see the sn ow underneath . them," he said. They noticed a state police plane circling overhead and decided it best to leave. However, the lure of 1,800 cases left unguarded and "eve n at the These Eastern .students enjoy the fruits of their labor. On left to right are sophomores Mike Bergman and Steve the Freed and freshmen Dave Mick and Steve Schude. (News proper temperature in th e snow ," was ir way back to school they helped unload a beer-filled too much to resist, Schude said. semi-tractor trailer that was tipped on its side. Seated Photo by Bob Kasinecz) After they returned to Eastern , Butzen said, "Nobody would believe they found a tow truck trying to pull one-sixth of the brew. "We were · In all, Schude, said they got about us when we told them ." out the rig. The driver of the truck had climbing in beer-knee-deep in beer," 43 cases of Mi ller and Miller Lite beers Undaunted the three looked around returned and Schude asked him if they Schude said. for their labor. So, what are they fora larger car and finall y convinced co :uld help unload the tr uck. Th e drive r to ld th e students he could going to do with 1,0 32 cans and bottles Sop homore Steve Freed it was no joke, The foursome worked for approxi not afford to pay them for their labor of beer? "Have a party--a big one," Butzen added. About tw o .hours later matel y on e arxl one half ho urs, but but the y could take all the beer they Schude laughed. they returne d to the accident where Butzen said they had not unloaded wanted. U. S. helicopters rescue Americans in Iran · TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The United rejected Khomeini's call to turn in their Some of the guerrillas described helicopters . and six (2- 130 transport States readied helicopters and big jets arms, distributed or stolen during last themselves as communists. planes to an air base at Incirlik, m There are believed to be 7 ,000 southern Turkey, for possible use in Thursday for a massive airlift of weekend's bloody cli ax to the ·year- thousands of Americans from Iran, long anti-shah campaign. Americans left in Iran, down from a the evacuation. where anti-Americanism is running Some radicals have denounced the peak 6f about 45,000 one year ago. Two other U.S. transports were U.S. officials hope to - the high and the anti-shah revolutionary makeup of the 5-day-old government reduce standing by in Athens, Greece. alliance is splintering into hostile as not sufficiently leftists. number to about 2,000 with the Jlut U.S. officials in Wahington said these · used only in · a factions . "We cannot protect American lives evacuation. wou ld be n Bloody fighting raged for the third in Iran," said the U.S. Embassy's Those expected to remain include emergency. The evacuat.ion will begin Saturday straight day in the northwest city of announcement of the evacuation. skeletal staffs at the embassy and at l with at least two chartered . Pan Tabriz, where hundreds were reported "You are allowed one suitcase per some corporate . headquarters, about American World Airways jetliners that killed. person. Evacuation planes will begin 100 American journalists and many Americans married to Iranians. each can carry about 400 people, State Unconfirmed reports said rebels flying 17 February." Department spokesman Hodding seeking local autonomy were battling The announcement came one day Mehdi Bazargan, prime minister of Carter said. forces of the provisional government after scores of guerrillas stormed the the Khomeini government, directed that evacuees be given safe p ssage to Khomeini guerrillas invaded the of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeipi. embassy compound and briefly held a ' Tehran's Mehrabad International Moroccan Embassy and searched the In Tehran, Marxist gunmen attacked 102 Americans hostage. Airport and sufficient guards for the residence of Ambassador El Ghali an apartm,ent building where they said The Khomeini camp, whose fighters movement of 1 ,000 persons a day. Benhima, looking for SA V AK agents. agents of SA YAK, the shah's secret rescued the Americans, identified the Benhima said none was found and no service were holding out. attackers as communists and rightists Turkey gave .permission to the trying to discrec\it the new regime. United States to send five big one was hurt. These "urban guerrillas" have , N�ws.: 2 ..... .......••w.• The committee rejected by a 13- 12 Gasoline prices vote a proposal to eliminate the three fifths majority - or 107 votes - required may rise fast for approval of ERA and to instead News shorts reqlire aonly bare rngority,ort9 \Otes.. by The Associated Press The committee action, commg on Gasoline prices, already expected to the birthday of suffragette Susan B. rise by up to 12 cents a gallon within (JP) Anthony, followed by one day a two years, may go up faster if other oil milar refusal by the full Senate to Blumenthal had additional bad news two convicted murderers. si · Persian to pass. That producing nations follow two for Americans, saying further increas FBI Agents Joseph Giglio said make it easier for ERA ude oil Gulf countries in raising cr es in oil and gasoline prices are both authorities also were keeping tabs on ref I.Eal,ironically , cam:on Valentine'sDay . prices 7 percent. inevitable and necessary. reports from residents lest the escap A House floor fight over the isue is and The United Arab Emirates "I think,the .price of oil will go up for es, Al Garza and Ho ward Zumberge, expected next week. Qatar took advantage of the shutc;lown ·all kinds of re asons and should go up attempt to break into homes, steal cars their of Iran's oil fields by raising so that we conserve more ," Blumen on kidnap hostages.