Daily Eastern News: September 16, 1988 Eastern Illinois University
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Eastern Illinois University The Keep September 1988 9-16-1988 Daily Eastern News: September 16, 1988 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1988_sep Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: September 16, 1988" (1988). September. 10. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1988_sep/10 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1988 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in September by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. rty organizers im bash scandal someone else. And I know who that some one else is because he looks like me, " Ward added. Myerscough could not be reached for comment. s Fall Blow Out Bash was can Students for Charity, a group composed ursday afternoon and the organiz of Dinasso and two other students, planned it is a plot between Charleston to hold the Fall Blow Out Bash Friday at urray Choate and two prominent Springhaven Park. Along with n•merous to keep students in Charleston kegs of beer, the party organizers promised y. live entertainment, free food, a dunking ts for Charity has been organizing booth and shuttle bus transportation. Profits party for four months, and was from the event were going to be given to ursday by the Coles County Big Brother/Big Sister of Coles County. Office that they could not have the Dinasso and co-organizer Rodney ause they did not have a liquor Deneseus said the last-minute cancellation will cost the students about $1,200. · asso, one of the students, was Deneseus said costs incurred in planning ounty would overlook the liquor the event include: $300 for advertising in cause it was for charity, but he The Daily Eastern News and on WZZQ t say who gave him the informa- radio; a $350 non-refundable deposit on Springhaven Park; $100 downpayments on source, who Dinasso refused to the disc jockey and bands; $300 for flyers alleged that John Ward of Page which were distributed to Eastern, ern, 410 Sixth St. and Jerry Lakeland College and Indiana State 1508 gh of Jerry's Pub, Fourth St: University; "$50- in phone bills; and four ith Choate to cancel the event so months of planning. The party was going to go on as sched , Dinasso said. uled, Deneseus said, when he received a bar owners called and put up a call from the Coles County State's the charity event," Dinasso said. Attorney's officeinforming him that, "If we understand how this can happen had the party we were going to be arrested concerned students get together and all of the liquor would be confiscated." party for a good cause when the The group went to Choate early in the liquor to underage drinkers for planning stages to request a liquor license, gain." Deneseus said, but was turned down. "d late Thursday night, "I know · Choate said Thursday the city of nothing about it. I haven't even Charleston has no jurisdiction over Mayor Choate in three years. I Springhaven, which is in Coles County anything about the party. jurisdiction. know the kids or who they are "If they have an event out in the county e they have me confused with Early riser "' Continued on page 5 Alex Conforty plays during preschool recess. dent recruitment aims for more Jones said this doesn't mean variety the selor from Peoria Notre Dame university does not have quality High School said, "My calendar is students. full of appointments" (of visiting ent at Eastern can be "It's not that we don't have colleges within the next two to getting tired of one some good students, we just need months.) , said Johnetta Jones, a bigger variety," Jones noted. Western Illinois, Marquette, member on the Study The study said the student body DePaul, Bradley and Drake are duate Education. is "too homogenous in terms of just a few of the schools she ts sick of always eating ability, preparation and geograph scheduled to talk to her students. of bread, you need a ical origin." Eastern was not on the list. e, wheat and white," The enrollment at Eastern is The undergraduate study also . She is a member of increasing and the cutoff date for states that, "It is particularly dis ittee discussing the admissions is set earlier every R E c T M E N T turbing to note that faculty are t, admissions, orienta semester. almost never involved in the retention for the study, In response, Jones said it is impor PART ONE recruiting process. " stern President Stan tant to recruit special students. freshmen why they chose to said Pat Parker, Joilet West High However, it says exceptions tiated in the spring of "Since we have high admis attend Eastern. "The overwhelm School counselor. occur in a fewdepartments incud sions, it is necessary to recruit the ing majority listed size, location She added she encourages ing music, industrial technology, lected five committees right type of students and not wait and cost. Only nine indicated that Eastern to· her students because of home economics and foreign concerns and propose for the students to come to you," an Eastern recruiter had been the the feedback from graduates and languages. improve the quality of Jones noted. primary influence," the study above all, her own personal expe One purpose of the study is for tes' experiences. If the university wants those indicated. riences. the committees to propose ways y states the university "special students," faculty needs When students were asked how She did not feel college recruit to improve the quality at Eastern. to 'harvest' those stu to go out and get them to enrich they first heard of Eastern, the ment was that important of a factor The committee listed 18 recom list Eastern as the sec the college community, she said. mendations concerning recruit . majority credited friends, parents in the students' decision making. choice on their ACT She added a college campus is or other relatives with bringing She added the University of ment. where students explore ideas and Eastern to their attention. Thirty Illinois, Northern and Illinois The study says, one way to on to say the "result is a meet new and different people. If three listed their high school State were popular choices of improve recruitment is to follow or less homogenous, the campus does not meet that counselor as a primary reason for schools her students attend. She four groups of students who ed group of students expectation, "then how can true enrolling to the university. noted Eastern is also popular, but should be sought; academically focused purpose or education take place?" Jones High school counselors play an does not usually send a recruiter competent, geographically mixed, ons embarking upon asked. important role in influencing stu like the other schools do. culturally and ethnically diverse e careers." A smaller study asked 272 dents in which college to attend, Pat Capiteli, a guidance coun- and academically superior. 2A Fnday, September 16, 1988 State Board approves tuition incre DEKALB Ill (AP)-Th e reach $ 782 at Sangamon State m attention," Strand said. State Board of Regents on SpnngfielJ "It's message to the Thursda) approved a round 01 In an unusual move, the regents that they don't want to $125 mid-year tuition increases agreed to call the adjustments hikes being forced on for students at Northern Illinois "surcharges" rather than increas tional communtl) s1mpl angamon State and Illinois State es, said NIU spokeswoman Diane of a lack of funds," ad universities. Strand M cNeil, a spokes The in creases, which were ''The surcharge concept was Sangamon State in Spri adopted at a meetmg at Northern recommended by the three stu "Maybe rn three ll11onois' Dekalb campus, will dent regents on the board and a <>emesters they would take effect with the start of the couple of spokesmen for the surchages" if state fu spring semester in January and be Students Association,' she said. forthcoming, McNeil sai Relief supplies for Caribbean maintained until further notice "Thetr rat10nale is they're frus The last increases at KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP)-Prime Minister Edward Seaga estimat They will bring tu1tion�related trated and they think nobody is campuses came in Jan charges at Northern Ilhno1s State paying attention to them in Illinois State and North ed Hurricane Gilbert's damage in Jamaica at $8 million, and reliet sup plies began arriving Thursday for some of this Caribbean island m Bloomington-Normal to $857 a Springfield, and they think if they upped tuition by $1 nation's half-million homeless. semester per full-time undergrad change the label people will pay Sangamon State by $100 Sports stadiums, churches, government buildings and movie theaters uate <>tate resident. They will were used to house an estimated 150,000 people,the government said Seaga, who flew across the island to inspect damage Wednesday, said entire towns were wiped out and that the governments pnonty was Decomposed body found in wood to rebuild housing MIDLOTHIAN, Ill. (A P)-A Her partially decomposed body Thursday by the Cook 7-year-old reported missing from was found Wednesday in a heavi Medical Examiner's Offi her parent's home last weekend ly wooded section of Blue Island, "She died of strang FBI found sabotage of 0-rings wa s strangled and police said Ill., a few yards from an apart said Cook County medi SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-The FBI 1'> inve.,ugatmg a ea'>t one per Thursday they have several sus ment complex and about five iner Robert Stein.