The Daily Egyptian, June 19, 1984

Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC June 1984 Daily Egyptian 1984 6-19-1984 The aiD ly Egyptian, June 19, 1984 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_June1984 Volume 69, Issue 159 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, June 19, 1984." (Jun 1984). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1984 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in June 1984 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Percy pledges aid for Crab Orchard cleanllp By Jim Ludema, August the situation at Crab and the health and safety of the per year. and Marion won't hit th~ water level, in the even Sta If W ~iter Orchard will have been community. that figure until the year 2001. tuality that Marion is allowed to declared a national priority. The Fish and Wildlife Service Butler also said that Gritman lI!';e the lake, Butler said. Sen. CLarles Percy said on Percy also addressed the hal> been "less than enthused told him that as far as he Monday thai a PCR water needs of Marion, and said with our request to use Devil's (Gritman) was cOi!cerned. contaminated dump site at ('rail that Devil's Kitchen Lake Kitchen Lake," Butler s1'id. there would be no pumping from Gus Orchard National Wildlife looked like the answer to Butler said that he was told by Devil's Kitchen Lake. Refuge will be placed on a Marion's problem. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Regional Gritman !laid that in order to CJJode federal study hst by August. Director James E. Gritman that .lse Devil's Kitchen Lake, Percy pledg('f'l his support of "We're not gl ing to let a city such use of the lake would cause Marion would have to first file cleanup effo!'ts of the former go without water when we've a decrease of the water level, an environmental impact Sangamo Electric Co. dump got the purest water in Illinois in which would result in drastic st:stement, which would site, and said that he hopes to Devil's Kitchen Lake," he said. effects on the water quality, the examine all other alternatives. obtain up to $800,000 for the "It's the most logical alter ecology of the lake and the "There are alternatives study after touring the area. native." recreational use of the lake. available to Marion besides Gus says Chuck will keep his Percy said that he has been Marion Mayor Robert Butler Butler said that he and his using Devil's Kitchen feet In the water until Crab assured of complete cooperation said his city has two concerns: staff were assuming that Lake,"Gritman said, Orchard's no longer a waste or from the Environmental The availability of Devil's Gritman was referring to a high Marion officials had proposed until November, whichever Protection Agency, and that by Kitchen Lake for the city's use, usage of about 4 million gallons. a limit be set on the decrease of comes first, Mace resigns; officials are 'surprised' 'Daily 'Egyptian 8y Anne Flasza Starr Writer Tuesday. June 19. 1984, Vol. 69, No 159 Southern Illinois University George Mac' , associate pro.fessor of pohtical science, surprised University officials by resigning from his position late last week, John Baker, executive directo.r of planning and budgeting said Tuesday. Mace, who served 3S vke Prison protesters pray president for University Relations fro.m 1975 to 1982, was By :\1ike :\Iajchrowitz unavailable for comment on the SlaffWriter Hunger striker move, which is reported to be effective immediately. About 30 people gathered 'in fine health' Benjamin Shepherd, vice outside the gates of the U.S. president for academic affairs Penitentiary at Marion to pray -SeePage 2 and research (planning), said and sing, hoping to bring at he has not yet received Mace's tention to what they allege is a written resignation, but said lack oi religious freedom in authoritie-; into a religious fast that he had been told of the federal prisons. by Peltier, Robert Wilson, also move by others in the depart The demonstrators were known as Standing Deer, and ment. largely supporters of im Albert Garza, a sephardic jew. John Foster, political science prisoned American Indian All three were taken to the U.S. department chairman, who Leonard Peltier. Although Bureau of Prisons Medical would have received the Peltier IS not currently in the Center in Springfield, 1'10., resignation. was also Marion facility, the demon where they began taking unavailable for comment on strators said they were praying nourishment on threat of being Tuesday. for the remainder of the inmates force fed. Baker said the administration as well as trying to draw at was surprised with the move. Leach justified the in Mace reportedly plans to take tention to a situation some tervention into the fast by the dsc~o.."(j as a culminating a position in private industry religious war. prison. "I think the First and leave the Southern Illinois Amendment rights of religio.us area. The Rev. Daniel Buford of the freedom have to be balanced Clergy and Laity Concern, a Mace was arrested on May 25 against the realities of in and charged with battery and New York City based carceration," Leach said. organization, likened religious aggravated assualt with a "Under Bureau of Prison handgun, after an altercation restrictionc; in federal prison.. to regulaticT!s we have an the activities of repressive with two SIU-C students in a obligation to provide for the campus restroom. Mace is regimes in Latin America. well-being of the priso_'lers. " "These are serious matters that accused of threatening the we would expect to hear from an Calling the Marion facility an students with a handgun fro.m oppressive regime in El "empire unto itself," Buford inside his car as he and the Salvador ," Buford said. said he doesn't believe it is students w,"re driviJ1g unique in religious restrictions, separately northbound on U.S. Dean Leach, a spokesman for but that the problem is a 51. the penitentiary, called the national concern. "Marion A hearing is set for June 29 In allegations "not accurate, not certainly isn't special. It's in Jackson Co.unty. substantiated, without merit." dicative of the entire penal According to Baker, no one "The position of this in system gone amuck," he said. from top University ad stitution is to encourage, within Another demonsh'atm', Archie ministration has spoken to Mace security concerns, the practice regarding the charges pending of an individual'S religion," Fire, also known as Chief Lame Deer, said prisons are not only Staff Photo by SCGU Sha" against him. Leach said. incarcerating the inmate's Shepherd said he was nc,t The controversy centers Lame Deer, right, held hands with another protester during prayer surprised by Mace's around intervention by prison see PRA Y. Page 2 held at the Marion Penitentiary gates Sunday_ resignatio.n. This Chinese teachers visit SIU, stress unity GMorning 8y Ed Foley President Albert Somit visited Staff Writer Lioaning Province last October Sunny, warm, less humid; and signed an agreement with high go,low 65-70. Ano.ther small step toward the the university that o.pens the "global village" was .aken last door for future cooperation, week as SIU-C was paid a return including student and faculty Young show visit by a group of o.fficials from exchanges between the in China's Lioani'1g University. stitutions_ An agreement was pure blu~s; 9 The delegation, which in also made at that time Oetween cluded thf.> university's the state of Illinois and Lioaning president, Feng Yuzhong, Liu n-ovince. Seat belt Qitao., "ice president and Acco.rding to. (o'eng, the ~wo professo;." of chemistry, and universities have much to gain law eyed; 11 Professor o.f Economics Chen from this kind of close contact. Jiasheng, is in town for a con "Whatever we have seen Green, Cubs ference with SIU-C officials that here, whatever we have heard partiCipants called the "second here, we will use to benefit our on track; 16 step of linkage" between the two. university," he said, "We universities_ Staff A group headed by SIU-C See CHINESE, Page! From left, Feng Yamong, Cben Jiasbeng and Liu Qitao. Fasting inmate taking fluids Wews GRoundup Court to decide on lethal injections SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - were transferred to the U.S said. adding that De Garza is in A Jewish inmate who began a Medical Center for Federal no need of force-feeding. WA~HINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday religious freedom fast at the Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., to decide whether states may continue to execute convicted federal pri!" II in Marion more last month. Taylor said Peltier, 39, also murd~rers by injecting them with deadly drugs even though than two months ago continues Attorneys fur the men have was in good shape. The there IS no proof the method is a "safe and effective" way to to drink a nutritional sUI>" said Wilson and Peltier resumed spckesman had not obtained kill people. plement, an official said eating May 25 when faced with pHmission from Wilson to The justices will review a federal appeals court decision Monday. the possibility of force-feeding. discuss his case with a reporter. barring lethal injections, permitted or required by 12 states' The inmate. Albert Lore De Paul Taylor, a spokesman for death penalty laws, without approval by the federal Food and Garza.

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